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.
Good God!!! Dont they have real fishing vessels? Ships?
I guess not. How horrific.
Yet they can afford nukes somehow. Boggling.
Reminds me of Snowden, Assange, and Hillary.
Yeah but they keep dissing us and showing our “dingy homes” on THEIR tv.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2TDZSHhRlw
(1) Manufacturing and trafficking drugs: It started with heroin. Then they move to meth which is manufactured at their large chemical factory, which is said to be high-grade. Meth is smuggled to China, S. Korea, and even Japan. These days people are said to build their own meth lab and cook their own meth to sell. People use heroin and meth to treat their medical problem. It does not cure anything, but medical care basically collapsed in N. Korea, and there are few real hospitals stocked with proper medicine. So people resort to readily available drugs as substitutes. It is said that people developed casual attitude toward meth, and nobody really raises their eyebrows if they see somebody doing drug. It is especially prevalent in North Eastern part of the country where they have thriving cross-border smuggling operation and meth production facilities are concentrated.
(2) Printing sophisticated couterfeit currencies such as U.S. dollar and even Chinese Yuan.
Less known examples:
(3) Illegal trade of banned items such as ivories (in Africa.)
(4) Running online-gambling sites which is said to be lucrative.
(5) Smuggling out ancient artifacts, which should be destined in museums.
Probably has a job waiting with the Clinton Foundation.
Maybe he has a phobia of anti-aircraft guns.
I am sure there are other errors, but this one caught my attention.
You are correct on every point you make & everything you have stated is true.
I’ve read articles where young NKorkers who escape thru China to SKorea wind up very culturally overwhelmed and confused and many still do meth as a matter of routine.
I want to add this link to youtube because it’s been their latest hit for quite a while.
But look at it- it’s pure propaganda but it’s like soooo long ago.... compared to mill workers here in the US.
yeah- an actual mill worker who goes from bobbin to bobbin at a very fast pace like a galloping horse- (!) aaaahhhhhh....just another propaganda song LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT1pYisainw
At present, there are an estimated 25 million North Koreans. It’s remarkable enough that the population is supposedly growing with the scarce food resources. The horrors one would find would likely include cannibalism, as what else would one be reduced to when the alternatives are eating grass or stripping bark from trees. We’ll never get explicit truth from the media, because they don’t want the world to know the horrors of leftist regimes and the mass casualties they incur.
Imagine such people becoming an instant and permanent underclass in a newly reunited Korea, mentally ill-equipped to deal with new realities of this age (whereas before their sole duty was #1, paying absolute deference to their God-Dictator Kims 1, 2 & 3 and told what to think, how to dress, how to wear their hair, et al; and #2, trying to find a bare minimum of food to get through the day. Education ? Whatever horror indoctrination presents their God-Dictator as the provider of everything and anything and being grateful that he allows the sun to rise and to set. The kind of propaganda we saw from our own media during Zero’s 2008 campaign, epic-level Satanic sicko stuff, “Second Coming”, et al).
Assimilating people of Stone Age mental capacity into the modern era, ones whom have worshipped a deranged Eric Cartman-esque cartoon character as absolute God, with little to no critical thinking skills or other positive attributes are likely a future drain on a United Korea and perpetual welfare cases as well (and also probably a powder-keg for future violence/crime when they cannot cope with being thrust into the modern era, let alone able to compete with their Southern cousins, and acting out as a result).
China knows this has all been going on, but are probably content to keep NK as a bulwark against a free South Korea. They could’ve marched into the NK decades ago and taken it over, but were content to keep it as an ally, as they weren’t much different than China (pre-Nixon’s visit). It’s more of a headache for them today, and they’d not want to deal with the logistics of a takeover and the nightmare of what to do with the impoverished and subjugated population.
somehow they got the dope to make nukes
of course, illegally.
who sold it to them?
somebody sold them the dope
He’s a big fish because he’s sequestered 40mil? oe he has ties to the West?.
Question here tho, how is this situation “more politcally sensitive”?
You state there are earlier cases with the Chinese- could you provide some information on this person you have brought to
the forefront with your post on FR? and provide links?
sorry I cannot Korean, please provide translation.
NK IS dark from the sky-that’s because they turn off the electricity because there’s no money to run it. And besides , it’s all done in the name of Dear Leader if you’re in town.
If you’re not town then you’re in a prison camp.
China may think they are engaged in cold realpolitik. On the other hand, they are not good at making decisive changes. They could be brutal but their leadership runs on inertia. They are kicking the can down the road, exacerbating the problem.
There is some consensus in S. Korea which is that the border(DMZ) should be maintained even after N. Korea has become part of S. Korea. N. Korean defectors(refugees) themselves acknowledge that it is really hard to adjust to S. Korean society. They speak the same language and share same heritage, but in reality, S. Korea is as alien as America. Two groups are culturally segregated. So it may be good for both groups to stay inside their region for a while. S. Korea may have to relocate all their outsourced factories to N. Korea. They could provide cheapest labor in the world. It will keep them productive and raise their living standard. It is better that way than coming to S. Korea and finding themselves completely useless.
Plus what is there to spend $40 million on in North Korea?
That’s a lot of fish heads.
Big fish, very high ranking general (is he a blood relation to the current regime?)
If he is this big & high ranking in charge of oversease hard currency ops this fellow certainly must have connections to the West of some sort-one does not go thru life w/o networking or friends (whom one might support)
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