Posted on 08/31/2004 7:50:40 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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"We are instructed to put comrade (Kim) Jong-chol into 6-month training at Advanced Party Academy after he finishes his internship at Organization Guidance Dept. of the Party."
While it has been confirmed that Ko Yong-hee(age:51), a wife of N. Korean leader Kim Jong-il, died of heart failure on the dawn of Aug. 13, (Japanese) weekly news magazine Aera, published by Asahi Shimbun(a major Japanese daily,) reported on its latest edition(dated Sept. 6) that it had obtained (N. Korean internal) documents which indicate that Kim Jong-il's second son, born from Ko Yong-hee, was designated as his successor in late last March.
The magazine refused to disclose how it got hold of the documents. It featured the daily log(s) written by the Secretaries' Office of Kim Jong-il, along with its(their) picture(s).
Quoting a knowledgeable source on the inner workings of N. Korean Organization Guidance Dept., Aera reported, "40 years ago, Kim Jong-il himself started to work as an inspector at Organization Guidance Dept. in his 20's after graduating a college. As far as I know, Jong-chol assumed a senior post at the department in April of this year. According to him, this implies that Jong-chol almost certainly consolidated his position as Kim Jong-il's successor."
He conveyed that (Kim) Jung-un, four year junior to Kim Jong-chol (and his younger brother), seems to be studying in Russia.
According to the source, there is an organization called Secretaries' Office which personally assists Kim Jong-il.
The head of Secretaries' Office is Kang San-choon. He never shows up in public. He is an old friend of Kim Jong-il and went to college together.
Under Kang Sang-choon, there is a post called "Daily Log Section Chief." His main task is to record what Kang reported to Kim Jong-il, what went on at major meetings, and direct instructions by Kim Jong-il himself. Instructions about Kim Jong-chol were part of a pocket book recorded by the Daily Log Section Chief, which was smuggled out of N. Korea.
On its (front) cover, it is labeled "Operation Notebook", and on its back cover, the name of the section chief is written. Records were from the first half of last year. Since it is written in hand-writings, some writings are unintelligible. Still it showed what goes on inside N. Korean leadership, which outsiders could not have peered into.
An entry on Japan on Jan. 27: "Instruction to Director Oh Kuk-ryol. Personnels associated with Japanese affairs should be selected from those not exposed to public/ unofficial members of Liaison Office should prepare for the reception of Dear General (Kim Jong-il.)"
Oh Kuk-ryol is the Vice Director of Operations Dept., which is one of the Party's (covert) operation outfits called 'No. 3 Building.' He used to be the Chief of Staff and is a four-star general. He is a son of a 'Revolutionary Hero' who fought as a communist partisan under late President Kim Il-sung. He has been a friend of Kim Jong-il and Kim's drinking buddy. He enjoys full confidence of Kim Jong-il.
Since '89, the Operations Dept. headed by Oh had been deeply involved in the kidnapping of Japanese.
It is the covert ops outfit of all covert ops outfits. It infiltrates its agents into S. Korea and Japan for sabotage operations.
The '97 murder of Lee Han-young in Seoul, who was a relative of Kim Jong-il's former mistress, Sung Hye-rim, is known to have been carried out by the Dept.
Kim Jong-il promised to Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro during his visit to N. Korea in Sept, 2002, that he would no longer send his covert ops to Japan. However, according to an entry of Jan., 2003 in the record, it shows that the Operations Dept. still continued its Japan operation.
"Our overseas outfits should be thoroughly investigated. According to the Secretariat, they made up many bogus reports."
According to Mar. 18 entry titled ' Words of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong-il/shorthand', Kim Jong-il ordered that senior officials of overseas outfits should be recalled. Everybody who is a bureau chief or above should be investigated, and No. 7 Dept. of Party's Central Committee should do the on-site inspections.
"I intend to thoroughly examine the dealings of overseas outfits. The special attention should be paid to China and Hong Kong outfits. There are definitely problems there."
Four days after the date of the entry above, Lee Je-kang, the vice director of Organization Guidance Dept and one of the closest associate of Kim Jong-il, received the reports at the conference of senior party officials on "A few problems whose nature the party must correct.' Lee Je-kang is a man with considerable clout who had maintained a senior post in charge of personal affairs at the Organization Guidance Dept. for more than 20 years.
Lee Je-kang reported, "Recent reckless incidents not only do damage to the honor and authority of the Party and the state but also cause ideological corruption. Operations of earning foreign hard currency are out of control. They recklessly conduct the sale of heroin, resulting in arrests. During one year period, there were 13 instances of getting caught at Sino-N. Korean border. Among those, 9 instances were the result of unsanctioned operations." The conclusion based on these reports was to consolidate foreign currency-earning outfits and step up their supervision, and "to make 1st Section of No. 39 Office the only outfit dealing with heroin."
No. 39 Office is the foreign currency-earning outfit under the direct control of General Secretary(Kim Jong-il). It leads to the conclusion that the organization managing his private fund, 'the Purse of General Secretary', exclusively deals with heroin.
In addition, Aera also reports the records which say, "In particular, children of senior party officials listen to foreign broadcasts using transistor radios, and soldiers using radio communication devices. People in border area watch foreign TV broadcasts. We must do another registration (of radios) in order to fix (radio's reception) frequencies. The possession of unregistered radios is to be severely punished as political crime."
[Yonhap News]
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Ping!
God...I cant believe archaic govt like this are still functioning... God help those "citizens".
Jung-Il probably intentionally released this info so that the subjects would have a script to follow when the time comes. I can't believe that one of his inner circle would risk his neck just to leak this.
Lil' Kim's dead Dad, Kim Jong-Il is still the official President in North Korea. I mean, the go the Rats one better. Here the dead can only vote, there the dead can still be President.
Oops, I mean Kim il-Sung.
That very weird Tiger
I wonder is this same guy who write North Korea news agency priasing little Kim if so this guy should be writer for NY Times
That's what I thought too: intentional leak. But anybody who tries to figure out NK.....
Why is his whole family named Kim?
He won't have to worry about a successor, that government will be defunct by then.
Pyongyang? What Pyongyang?
You recall the German doctor's group tried that, but were roughed up and arrested. Should be ways to infiltrate more radios into the DPRK. They are panicking and this is a good signal for us to go on the offensive, to reach the "tipping point".
I agree.
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