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Senior N.Korean Official Purged for Corruption
Chosun Ilbo ^
| Aug. 31, 2015
Posted on 08/31/2015 11:22:57 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Senior N.Korean Official Purged for Corruption
The deputy head of North Korea's United Front Department and vice chairman of the Asia-Pacific Peace Committee has apparently been purged over allegations that he took bribes from a foreign organization.
Radio Free Asia on Friday cited unnamed sources saying Won Tong-yon was among several senior North Korean officials who were purged after being accused of corruption involving business deals with North Koreans living abroad.
RFA said the purge was triggered by the arrest of Korean-Canadian missionary Lim Hyeon-soo in Pyongyang in January of this year.
Won has not been seen in public since he attended talks with South Korea in November of last year. A Unification Ministry official said, "We are focusing on Won's whereabouts since he has not been spotted for some time."
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nkorea; wontongyon
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S. Koreans expected this guy to show up as one of N. Korean representatives at the high-level talks about a week ago. He didn't. Inter-Korean affairs is his area of specialty. They were a little surprised to say the least.
To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; endthematrix; ...
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posted on
08/31/2015 11:23:21 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Purged = Executed?..................
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posted on
08/31/2015 11:27:44 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: Red Badger
And if the latter was there creative new technique used?
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posted on
08/31/2015 11:29:06 AM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
To: TigerLikesRooster
Won is Lost?...............
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posted on
08/31/2015 11:29:08 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Another one bites the dust. Seems to have been a number of these over the last few years. You’d figure all of N.Korean leadership are fearful they are next at this point.
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posted on
08/31/2015 11:29:21 AM PDT
by
Marko413
To: Red Badger
Yup..as in made to ingest a gallon of Drano..
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posted on
08/31/2015 11:29:29 AM PDT
by
ken5050
("Hillary Clinton is the NY Jets of American politics"......Salena Zito)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Is getting “purged” in N Korea sorta like a visit to Ft Marcy Park?
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posted on
08/31/2015 11:29:48 AM PDT
by
TruthWillWin
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: Gamecock
Strapped to the front of a 105mm howitzer?.............with a really long lanyard?.............
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posted on
08/31/2015 11:30:15 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: ken5050
Without the water............
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posted on
08/31/2015 11:30:57 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: TruthWillWin
These days, it is very close.
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posted on
08/31/2015 11:30:59 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Won Ton-Yung was spotted last week:
To: TigerLikesRooster
A few days ago we learned that Bill Clinton wanted to give a speech for Mega Dollars in North Korea.
Today we learn that a senior official was purged for taking a bribe from an unnamed foreign source.
Are the two stories connected?
To: TigerLikesRooster
“Purged”
remove, get rid of, expel, eject, exclude, dismiss, sack, oust, eradicate, clear out, weed out, disassemble.
Squash, dead. Disassemble, dead. Disassemble...! Purge, DEAD!!
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posted on
08/31/2015 11:37:39 AM PDT
by
Autonomous User
(During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
08/31/2015 11:39:45 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: TruthWillWin
Is getting “purged” in N Korea sorta like a visit to Ft Marcy Park? It is indeed sir, but anti aircraft guns make a bigger mess.
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posted on
08/31/2015 12:00:18 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(Heaven, where the only thing there that's been made by man are the scars in the hands of Jesus)
To: TigerLikesRooster
And in what exotic manner was he “purged”?
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posted on
08/31/2015 12:02:38 PM PDT
by
Vesparado
(The American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard --- HL Mencken)
To: TigerLikesRooster
And in what exotic manner was he “purged”?
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posted on
08/31/2015 12:02:38 PM PDT
by
Vesparado
(The American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard --- HL Mencken)
To: JoeProBono
The appropriate subject to purge!
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posted on
08/31/2015 12:05:11 PM PDT
by
TruthWillWin
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Sound like Chia Chub went Stalin on this guy
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posted on
08/31/2015 12:05:53 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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