***VIDEO***N. KOREAN DEFECTOR [FORMER GUARD] RE-ENACTS BRUTAL METHODS USED TO KIDNAP JAPANESE

FNN (Fuji) TV Network, Tokyo Streaming Video ^ | 11 September 2003 | FNN News Network Streaming Video

[AmericanInTokyo]

Graphic and instructive streaming video lasting several minutes, tonight on Japanese TV, showing the training that defector and former North Korean prison guard Mr. Ahn and a team of other North Korean commandoes received to carry out kidnappings of civilian Japanese at night, along Japanese seashores, abducting and forceably taking them to North Korea to serve as language instructors, translators or spy trainers. Some Japanese who resisted were murdered on the spot using martial arts.

300K Windows Media (cut and paste and view from this URL):

http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20030911-00000433-fnn-soci-movie-001&media=wm300k

56K Windows Media (cut and paste and view from this URL):

http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20030911-00000433-fnn-soci-movie-001&media=wm56k

[AmericanInTokyo]

Defector Ahn demonstrates to Japanese TV various training methods of professional work ordered by "Room 35" and the "Operation Division" of the Korean Workers Party (Communist Party) headquarters in Pyongyang: distracting, neutralizing, gagging/tying and abducting (in large sacks) a number of Japanese civilians, usually dating couples, along the seashore in Japan at late night, under order from Kim Jong il in the 1970s and 1980s.

Eye opening.

[AmericanInTokyo]

ping.

another video re: North Korea.

that little dictator in Pyongyang is a MONSTER

[Leroy S. Mort]

The Koreans (North and South) hate the Japanese, and for historical reasons...

[Byron_the_Aussie]

hello AIT,

could you please add me to your DPRK ping list? Thanks, B

[yonif]

They probably use these tactics on DPRK citizens as well.

[B-Chan]

The sooner we lance the Pimple of Pyongyang, the better for everyone.

[Warren]

Geeeezzz, why are they complaining, they have jobs,
Korean Civil Servants.

[First_Salute]

Same room can be found in Philadelphia.

[AmericanInTokyo]

OK, I will add you to [growing] ***NORTH KOREA PING LIST***

[Eaker]

North Korea will be settled by a war.

Good post, thanks!

[Eaker]

Ok, those were not difficult attack moves and the binding was excessive. I can tie you up with twelve inches of fishing line in 15 seconds such that you cannot escape.

Believe me no offense is intended, but this is not ninja stuff.

I am pinging some scary guys to see if they agree with me or not.

Once again, I mean no offense.

[Travis McGee]

I'm not going to load the video, but I can say that there's nothing to snatching an unsuspecting civilian fishing or strolling near the shore.

It's just an evil bully trick, no harder than grabbing an untended toddler walking home from the playground.

[The_Media_never_lie]

that little dictator in Pyongyang is a MONSTER

Not only that, he looks like a damn fool in that jump suit with the unkempt hair among all those impecably dressed military and business men. I'm not afraid to tell him, God Bless the U.S.A.

[Steel Wolf]

Snatching unsuspecting civilians walking alone or in small groups is not terribly difficult. In the southern Philippines, several kidnap-for-ransom groups such as the Abu Sayyaf have gotten very good at hitting specific wealthy and guarded targets, getting them into vehicles and to waiting speedboats. They usually have to wait for a while until they think their target's guard is down, but execute quickly. Their success rate is fairly good, and they're a bunch of terrorist wannabe amatuers.

North Korean infiltrators, depending on the level of support from expatriats in Japan, would not be overly challenged by this task. The trick for them would lie less in the extraction than actually locating targets. Since it doesn't matter who they find so long as they're not compromised, any help from the target area would speed the process greatly, as far as possible objectives, times, areas where they could hide their boats, intel on the Japanese Coast Guard, etc. It would be preferrable to snatch them in a quick raid, rather than land the boat and hide out for a few days stalking targets, but either course of action is within their capability.

[AmericanInTokyo]

He toned it down for the cameras so they would air it in the first place. A real demonstration would have been more violent than that. Remember, this is Japanese TV.

[AmericanInTokyo]

The URL links still work today (Thursday).

[OahuBreeze]

I think the biggest thing about the video is the continuing effect it will have to pour salt on the wound in Japan -- I think that's cool -- NK is a lunatic state, and it's normal for the Japanese to be really p... angry at the atrocities which have been committed against them by peewee and friends, and the atrocities that continue to be committed against them -- the touch-feely people in Japan are fighting an uphill battle to "sooth" sentiments against common-sense outrage. Well, it's all good.

[hasegawasama]

They're jealous of Japanese