Posted on 07/31/2016 12:14:53 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
[Exclusive] N. Korean General Defects Seeking Political Asylum
Write : 2016-07-29 08:54:16 Update : 2016-07-29 14:15:08
Anchor: A general who was in charge of managing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's overseas slush funds is said to be in China after escaping from his country, and is seeking political asylum with two other North Koreans in a country other than South Korea. A source said that the three were separated from a diplomat from Pyongyang, who is seeking his own defection to another country. Here is Kim Bum-soo with KBS' exclusive report.
Report: It has been made known that a general escaped from North Korea and is seeking political asylum in a country other than South Korea.
A source in China, who works in collaboration with Seoul government officials, on Thursday revealed the recent defection of the general, a diplomat and two others.
The source said that the North Korean military officer was in charge of managing Kim Jong-un’s slush funds in Southeast Asia.
The general was in China on a business trip when he was joined by the three other North Koreans on July 12th.
The diplomat is known to have parted ways with the group and is seeking political asylum in a country other than South Korea, while the other three are staying in China, making their own plans to defect to another country.
The latest escape marks the first known case of a North Korean general's defection from the reclusive regime. Last year, a North Korean colonel defected to the South.
The source said the four didn't choose to defect to South Korea partly because of a petition by the Lawyers for a Democratic Society filed last month for habeas corpus relief of 12 North Korean restaurant workers in China who defected to Seoul in April.
The source said that the four North Koreans decided to leave their country due to their dissatisfaction with the Kim Jong-un regime and pessimistic views about the future of the country. Kim Bum-soo, KBS World Radio News.
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This general is a big fish unlike restaurant attendants or high school math prodigy who defected earlier. It is more politically sensitive. So it is not clear if Chinese will let him go as in earlier cases. It all depends on China whether he makes it out to another country or is sent back to N. Korea.
A capitalist!! :)
If he gets sent back, mamma mia!
How does one take $40M with them?
Those are executed for the earlier defection of 13 N. Korean restaurant workers in China. With this new incident, there will be more executions, and elites in Pyongyang will be further rattled.
Like Norton did on the Honeymoonres. You cut up fake money to make sure it fits into the suitcase before you take it :)
I think if he has 40 million with him, China will be more than happy to take him. If we had a leader who was strong, this general would be on a first class flight to DC to be debriefed, given a new identity and citizenship in any western country he chooses.
Especially when said country has a 230 percent debt to GDP ratio!!
The asian economies are hurtin!!
It’s beginning to sound like the rats are really beginning to abandon a sinking ship. I wonder what shape this summer’s crops are in for next winter’s hungry time?
pity this guy’s family, assuming he has some.....
do you think there is a link to these articles?
maybe the general had some financial interest in a restaurant on the border.
the news coming out of NK can be sketchy w/details & you never get the full story.
$40M equals about 80% of North Korea’s GDP!!
Something I’ve never understood about NK is its obvious dependency on Communist China. Let’s call it that. In all these years I’ve never heard of anyone making it from NK to China, that is is Communist China, but here we are now. I think this is something new. It’s going to be a challenge for the President of the United States, Barack Obama, to make it disappear.
lol
Not through China.
“$40 Million = 80% of NK GDP!” That should be sad, but it’s funny. Kim Jun Un, like most fascists, is not a good manager.
See Venezuela and Zimbabwe for other examples. Extreme inflation, Currency that resembles Play Money, the vast majority of citizens long term unemployed and ultimately unemployable.
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