Posted on 07/10/2004 12:15:47 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
N. Korea fires security chief
Yomiuri Shimbun
The North Korean security minister has been replaced with a senior military general, the Korean Central News Agency said Saturday. It gave no reason for the new appointment, but it is extremely unusual for a minister in charge of domestic security to be dismissed only a year after assuming the post.
According to KCNA, the Standing Committee of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, in its government ordinance dated Friday, relieved People's Security Minister Choe Ryong Su of his position and appointed Ju Sang Song, a general in the country's People's Army, to replace Choe.
Choe was appointed security minister in last July to succeed Paek Hak Rim. He was selected in September last year as member of the nation's national security committee.
The Tokyo-based Radio Press news agency reported that there was a possibility that the train explosion on April 22 at Ryongchon Station in North Pyeongan Province, in the northeast of North Korea, about 15 kilometers from the border with China, was behind the personnel change.
The blast occurred nine hours after a special train carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Il passed through the station after Kim and his aides returned from a visit to Beijing. It claimed the lives of a large number of civilians and destroyed houses and buildings near the station.
Some reports have said the explosion was an attempt to assassinate Kim. Since the explosion, North Korean official media have not reported on Choe's activities.
Some observers said North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly might have dismissed Choe over the blast and to strengthen security measures in the wake of the disaster.
Ping!
Choe Ryong Su
Services Wednesday.....
Check this out..
Certainly piques the curiosity.
More confirmation coming in, I guess.:)
OH OH Somebody going get whack shortly afterward what is Korean for BUSTED IT
Velly intelesting. Hmmm.
When the end comes, the North Korean "leadership" that does not escape to the French Riviera will he disemboweled by the long enslaved population of this evil liberal/socialist hellhole prison of a nation.
There are so many unknowns-that will likely remain so for some time into the future-about Abdul Qadeer Khan's shady business dealings with these folks.
Even if we discount whatever information we've been able to glean from Libya as dubious, what about the other 40 or so states/stateless, possibly terrorist, groups that had dealings with Khan?
I'm still waiting to see how all this plays out, especially now that George Tenet is no longer around to kick the can to someone else.
If the explosion happened nine hours after Kim passed through and is suspected to be an assassination attempt, someone's in serious need of some new wristwatches or timing devices.
There were two identical decoy trains. It is possible that somebody hit the decoy train or that Kim was traveling in a train which was thought to be a decoy and barely escaped.
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