Posted on 10/28/2003 3:52:09 AM PST by OahuBreeze
A source familiar with the Korean Peninsula revealed on 27 October that the son of Hwang Chang-yop, former secretary of the Workers Party of Korea, who defected to South Korea, was moved to P'yongyang after breaking his leg in an "accident" in a coal mine, Aoji, in northernmost North Korea. The seriousness of the injury is unknown. On the same day, Hwang arrived in New York to testify before US government officials regarding the Kim Chong-il regime. It is possible that the information was a threat to Hwang by North Korea.
Hwang, a former top-ranking official of North Korea, left a son and two daughters in North Korea when he defected. The injured 43-year-old man is his only son. The source said that Hwang's son was injured in a recent accident and was moved to P'yongyang from a rural area. Chances are high that the whereabouts of the son are already reported to the South Korean side by the power center of North Korea, and Hwang was also informed [of the accident] before his departure for the United States. "The eldest son is a hostage to shut the mouth of Hwang, who is currently visiting the United States. It is obviously a threat against Hwang, telling him not to talk too much," said the source.
Hwang's visit to the United States was realized at the invitation of the "Defense Forum Foundation," a US non-governmental organization. During his approximately 10-day visit, Hwang will meet with US government officials, such as Undersecretary of State John Bolton and Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly, and influential legislators. The NGO group has closer ties with the US Government, and the former WPK secretary's testimony is drawing much attention in the United States.
Hwang served as a teacher of General Secretary Kim Chong-il from Kim's childhood and, as former WPK secretary, is acquainted with Kim's work. He is known as a person who knows most about the general secretary among former senior North Korean officials who escaped the country. Hwang is also wellacquainted with the power structure of North Korea, as he was at the center of power. Under these circumstances, North Korea has been extremely wary of Hwang's US visit and has reportedly applied pressure in various ways on the South Korean Government in order to stop him from visiting the United States.
Because he was the highest-ranking defector, Hwang had been under "special protection," which requires personal protection by an intelligence agency, until this July. Currently he has the status of "general protection," which is under the control of the police, but he has been under protection 24 hours a day.
Despite these conditions, North Korea has attempted to contact Hwang in various ways and reportedly had direct contacts with him several times by phone over the last six years.
Hwang sought refuge in the South Korean embassy in Beijing in February 1997 and defected to South Korea. A plan of his US visit has surfaced since just after his defection, but the former Kim Tae-chung administration did not give him permission, citing "personal protection" as a reason, in view of its "sunshine policy" adopted since 1998 to reconcile with North Korea. In effect, Hwang has been under house arrest. However, under the new No Mu-hyon administration, prodded by public opinion saying, "It is wrong to shut Hwang's mouth anymore," his US trip has finally come true.
When will this end? How much longer are we going to tolerate the FREAK, Kim Jong Il....
Don't know what else to say and am really really tired of talking about Minime the FREAK!
Here's some highlights of this lovely father and son team who are in desparate need of "security guarantees." (these only document a few of their atrocities against foreigners and do not address the daily nightmare North Korea inflicts on their own people -- complete text may be found at: http://www.usembassy.it/pdf/other/RL30004.pdf
01/1968 — A 31-member commando team, disguised as South Korean soldiers and civilians, infiltrated within striking distance of President Park Chung Hee’s office/residence complex (The Blue House) before they were intercepted by South Korean police; 29 commandos were killed and one committed suicide; one who was captured revealed that their mission was to kill President Park and other senior government officials. Two South Korean policemen and five civilians were killed by North Korean infiltrators.
01/1968 — Two days after the commando attempt on President Park, North Korea seized the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo with a crew of 83 officers and men off Wonsan in international waters outside the 12-mile limit claimed by North Korea; the crew was finally released in December 1968 [not all were released: US Navy Petty Officer Duane Hodges was killed in action defending the vessel -- the others were released after 11 months of torture in captivity...], but not the vessel.
10/1968 — One hundred and thirty sea-borne commandos infiltrated the Ulchin and Samchok areas on the eastern coast of South Korea; 110 were killed, 7 were captured, and 13 fled.
04/1969 — North Korean MiG jet fighters shot down an unarmed U.S. EC-121 reconnaissance plane over the Sea of Japan, about 90 miles off the North Korean coast, resulting in the loss of 31 lives.
08/1974 — South Korean President Park Chung Hee’s wife was killed during another attempt on his life. An agent of a pro-North Korean group in Japan who entered Seoul disguised as a tourist fired several shots at Park at a major public function; Park escaped unhurt, but the First Lady was hit by stray bullets and died several hours later. The agent, Mun Se-gwang, was tried and convicted, and executed.
08/1976 — A group of North Korean soldiers, wielding axes and metal pikes, attacked a U.S.-South Korean tree-trimming work team in a neutral area inside the DMZ at Panmunjom, killing 2 U.S. army officers and wounding 4 American enlisted men and 5 South Korean soldiers. In a message to UN Commander General Richard G. Stillwell, North Korea’s Kim Il Sung described the incident as “regrettable,” without admitting North Korean responsibility for what the U.S. government condemned as a “vicious and unprovoked murder” of the officers.
10/1983 — The explosion of a powerful bomb, several minutes before South Korean President Chun was to arrive to lay a wreath at the Martyr’s Mausoleum in Rangoon, Burma (Myanmar), killed 17 senior South Korean officials and injured 14 who were accompanying President Chun, then on the first leg of a six-nation Asian tour. Among the killed were: presidential chief-of-staff and another senior presidential assistant; deputy prime minister/minister of economic planning; three cabinet members including foreign minister; 3 deputy ministers; and the South Korean ambassador to Burma. The explosion also killed four Burmese nationals and wounded 32 others. President Chun stated that the killings were “a grave provocation not unlike a declaration of war,” and warned the North that “should such a provocation recur, there would be a corresponding retaliation in kind.”18 North Korean leader Kim Il Sung dismissed Chun’s statement as “a preposterous slander.”19 Two suspects were arrested and tried in the Rangoon Divisional Court: North Korean army major, Zin Mo, and captain, Kang Min Chol. Captain Kang Min Chol confessed to the bombing and gave details of his training in North Korea and transport to Burma on a North Korean freighter. He also disclosed that after the arrival of his assassination team in Burma, the team stayed in the home of a North Korean embassy councillor. On November 4, Burma broke off diplomatic relations with North Korea.20 In February 1984, the Burmese Supreme Court sustained the death penalty handed down by the lower court.
11/1987 — A bomb planted by two North Korean terrorists on a Korean Airline Boeing 707, with 20 crew members and 95 passengers aboard, exploded in midair over the Andaman Sea off the coast of Burma. The plane was en route from Baghdad to Seoul. Kim Hyon-hui, one of the terrorists who was arrested in Bahrain and confessed to the crime, was tried and convicted in a Seoul court. The sabotage bombing was reportedly a North Korean warning against those planning to take part in the Seoul Olympics. (In January 1988, Kim, the self-confessed agent, stated that she had been trained for two years to pass as Japanese by a Japanese woman of Korean descent, Yi Un-hye,who Japanese police believe had been kidnaped by North Korean agents).
I hear that the Chia Fruit fears that he may die like Ceaucescu. He deserves it several dozen times over.
They cannot go to Cuba, or at least they face high penalties.
What is WRONG with this picture!!??
When are we going to eliminate contradictions in our foreign policy?
When are we going to get a team in place and take him out? Enough.
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