[N. Korea] Kim Jong Un orders abduction of S.Koreans: local media

NKnews ^ | June 24th, 2016 | JH Ahn

[TigerLikesRooster]

Kim Jong Un orders abduction of S.Koreans: local media

Experts point to North Korean precedent, though say chances of abduction low

JH Ahn

June 24th, 2016

Kim Jong Un reportedly ordered the abduction of South Korean citizens, local newspapers wrote on Friday.

While dubious of the original report, three experts told NK News said that while chances the odds of seeing an abduction are low, there is some precedent.

“It would be very hard to officially confirm (the report’s claim). We are in the process of confirming it but do believe the chance exists,” a spokesperson from Ministry of Unification (MoU) said during a Friday regular briefing.

The news was first reported by Yonhap, with the article later spreading among other local news agencies. But the original piece failed to give out any credible source for the claim, only quoting an “informed source in North Korean matters.”

In the article, the anonymous source told media on Friday that Kim Jong Un, angered by the April mass-defection of the North Korean restaurant workers to the South, ordered a “retaliation terror attack” on South Koreans.

The major targets of Pyongyang’s retaliation are reportedly regular South Korean customers of North Korean restaurants abroad, Yonhap said, adding the employees are planning to lure South Koreans into the enclosed reception rooms to knock them out with anesthetic drugs and abduct them.

“For this purpose, many North Korean restaurants operating in China are increasing the number of enclosed reception rooms,” the anonymous source said.

[oldvirginian]

So the greater the feeling of inadequacy, the bigger the hat?

Looking at that tight coat I refuse to image what blubber boy must look like in the bath tub.

So fat his cheeks are headed south and can’t find a coat big enough.
Add the fact that he probably hasn’t seen his “little buddy” in years and you have one large tub of lard.

Meanwhile the North Korean alley cat has replaced the Nigerian chicken as the most endangered critter in the world.

Absofrigginlutely ridiculous.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Oooffff. And the hats of his military brass only seem to grow larger. Strange, that.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

The Japanese military have the samevhuge hats. Probably the Chinese too.

[AdmSmith]

A North Korean agent arrested by Chinese authorities earlier this month for circulating counterfeit $100 banknotes in Dandong was a former member of the Operations Department responsible for major espionage missions against Seoul, a source with knowledge of North Korea exclusively told the JoongAng Ilbo.
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=3020492

The Chinese are not pleased.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Supernotes were picked up in Dandong and Hong Kong recently. Unsuspecting Chinese businessmen went to N. Korea and came in possession of them. Apparently, many dollar bills circulating inside N. Korea are also supernotes. It is said that they can evade ordinary machine to detect counterfeit bills. Chinese ran their dollar bills through such a machine and they passed.

[AdmSmith]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar

Long informative article
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/magazine/23counterfeit.html