Posted on 12/15/2004 1:40:53 PM PST by derheimwill
http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm is the link to the first article.
Compare these two articles.
From a communist NK source:"
U.S. Urged to Rebuild Groundwork of Six-party Talks
Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- The United States is these days misleading public opinion to shift the blame for the delayed resumption of the six-party talks on to the DPRK, far from rebuilding the groundwork of the talks which it destroyed itself. Commenting on this, a Rodong Sinmun analyst Tuesday says: -snip-
Second Article:
Top general's son defected to U.S. base in Japan, then disappeared
Special to World Tribune.com EAST-ASIA-INTEL.COM Wednesday, December 15, 2004
SEOUL The only son of one of North Korea's top generals has defected with his family and is in the hands of U.S. intelligence officials, according to secret reports from the Japan Defense Agency.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm is the link to the first article.
U.S. Urged to Rebuild Groundwork of Six-party Talks
Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- The United States is these days misleading public opinion to shift the blame for the delayed resumption of the six-party talks on to the DPRK, far from rebuilding the groundwork of the talks which it destroyed itself. Commenting on this, a Rodong Sinmun analyst Tuesday says:
U.S. Deputy State Secretary Armitage during his recent junket to Japan uttered the rigmarole that it was like compensating to misbehavior to show a positive gesture, though symbolic, to north Korea and that would be little short of sending a wrong signal.
The U.S. is letting loose such nonsensical blast to shift its responsibility for the deadlocked six-party talks onto the DPRK while persistently charging the DPRK with nuclear development.
The DPRK's stand to seek a negotiated settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. remains unchanged. It is its stand to step up the process of the six-party talks in such a manner as to help toward the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
It is not the aim of the talks to keep them go on for the mere form's sake.
It is useless to hold talks, even a hundred times, without producing any substantial results. As already made clear by the DPRK, it intends to follow with patience the course of policy-shaping by the second-term Bush administration. We think this is a wise act.
It is a clumsy and nasty deed for the U.S. to try to mislead public opinion in an effort to create the impression that it is interested in the resumption of the six-party talks and the peaceful solution to the nuclear issue while remaining indifferent to the restoration of their groundwork which it destroyed.
The DPRK-U.S. contact in New York showed that the U.S. is seeking to exploit the process of the talks as a lever for forcing the DPRK to renounce first all its programs including peaceful nuclear development, not showing still any willingness to make a switchover in its policy toward the DPRK. Should the U.S. persist in this wrong stand, it would be hard to resume the talks .The U.S. rectification of its hostile policy toward the DPRK is neither a gift nor a reward to the DPRK but is a key link in solving the nuclear issue.
If the U.S. continued to force its confrontational hostile policy toward the DPRK that would result in prompting it to redouble its deterrent force, much less solving the nuclear issue.
The U.S. should take a confident-building attitude, clearly understanding the principled and consistent stand of the DPRK regarding the U.S. policy switchover as the key to the settlement of the nuclear issue.
Second Article:
Top general's son defected to U.S. base in Japan, then disappeared
Special to World Tribune.com EAST-ASIA-INTEL.COM Wednesday, December 15, 2004
SEOUL The only son of one of North Korea's top generals has defected with his family and is in the hands of U.S. intelligence officials, according to secret reports from the Japan Defense Agency.
U.S. officials in Seoul are denying any knowledge of the defection.
A Japan Defense Agency operative in the North Korean industrial port of Chongjin reportedly saw Oh Se-Uk, who holds the rank of brigadier general, board a speedboat with a group of Koreans of Japanese ancestry who had earned the trust of North Korean authorities.
According to the report from the Japan Defense Agency, Oh, his wife and other family members were transferred in international waters to another boat that took them to the huge U.S. Navy base at Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, the center of U.S. naval activity in Asia.
The report was corroborated by contacts at Chosen Soren, the organization controlled by North Korea that represents Koreans living in Japan.
Analysts here view the younger Oh's defection as a sign of the gradual weakening of Kim Jong-Il's regime. Sons and other relatives of Kim Jong-Il have been engaged in a power struggle in which relatives have reportedly been purged.
Korean sources say Oh, 43, was spirited out of North Korea at the end of last year. It was not clear, however, if he remained at Yokosuka, was installed in a CIA "safe house" in Japan or was sent to the United States.
Japanese sources say Oh may have been sent the U.S. for interrogation by CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officials. Japanese officials, however, have been hunting for Oh near Yokohama amid reports that he may be living in a safe house run by the CIA's Unit 500.
"The Japanese police now are looking for everything," said a source with close ties to the North Koreans. "The Americans are not cooperating. They are silent about him."
Both the State Department and the U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, Chris Hill, have denied any knowledge of Oh's defection.
If true, this is SPLENDID news! Never mis-underestimate the talents of our intelligence agencies.
I have a sense that major events in NK will happen much faster than anyone thinks..
Here's one for Frank G-.
ping
Splendid, perhaps, but News, not. It was at the end of LAST year. So any gains offered by his defection have already been realized.
No Christmas bonus for dad this year...
Bump for later
"That firthy traitor to grobar reftist cause of inernationar riberation! Send out the kidnapping squads! I wirr feed him and his famiry to sharks in tank!
"I'm so ronery..."
So-so movie. Perfect portrayal of the Ronery One. LOL!
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Top general's son defected to U.S. base in Japan, then disappeared
SEOUL The only son of one of North Korea's top generals has defected with his family and is in the hands of U.S. intelligence officials, according to secret reports from the Japan Defense Agency.
U.S. officials in Seoul are denying any knowledge of the defection.
A Japan Defense Agency operative in the North Korean industrial port of Chongjin reportedly saw Oh Se-Uk, who holds the rank of brigadier general, board a speedboat with a group of Koreans of Japanese ancestry who had earned the trust of North Korean authorities.
According to the report from the Japan Defense Agency, Oh, his wife and other family members were transferred in international waters to another boat that took them to the huge U.S. Navy base at Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, the center of U.S. naval activity in Asia.
The report was corroborated by contacts at Chosen Soren, the organization controlled by North Korea that represents Koreans living in Japan.
Analysts here view the younger Oh's defection as a sign of the gradual weakening of Kim Jong-Il's regime. Sons and other relatives of Kim Jong-Il have been engaged in a power struggle in which relatives have reportedly been purged.
Korean sources say Oh, 43, was spirited out of North Korea at the end of last year. It was not clear, however, if he remained at Yokosuka, was installed in a CIA "safe house" in Japan or was sent to the United States.
Japanese sources say Oh may have been sent the U.S. for interrogation by CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officials. Japanese officials, however, have been hunting for Oh near Yokohama amid reports that he may be living in a safe house run by the CIA's Unit 500.
"The Japanese police now are looking for everything," said a source with close ties to the North Koreans. "The Americans are not cooperating. They are silent about him."
Both the State Department and the U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, Chris Hill, have denied any knowledge of Oh's defection.
" "The Japanese police now are looking for everything," said a source with close ties to the North Koreans. "The Americans are not cooperating. They are silent about him." "
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WTH is the Japs problem?
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"A Japan Defense Agency operative in the North Korean industrial port of Chongjin reportedly saw Oh Se-Uk, who holds the rank of brigadier general, board a speedboat with a group of Koreans of Japanese ancestry who had earned the trust of North Korean authorities."
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Interesting...
After all those years of deprivation, he and his family will be turned loose in that monstrous U S Navy Exchange at Yokosuka. And just before Christmas!
Ya just never know, do ya?
The Japs don't want anymore ICBMs flying over Tokyo.
Thanks. I forgot to grap the Japanese source.
That got my attention, too.
I know.
What do you think of this?
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"...a group of Koreans of Japanese ancestry who had earned the trust of North Korean authorities..."
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Let the NorthComm racial profiling begin!! /s
That doesn't seem wise to put out for the Koreans of Japanese ancestry (numbering many) STILL IN NK...
OK. We go to table but, no happy-happy an' you keep dem Japs on udda side o' room!
That got my attention, too.
Did you ever wonder why Japan puts up with Chosensoren? It isn't out of the goodness of their heart; in my estimation, it's shot through with counter-intelligence, and is waiting to be rolled up.
The Kempeitai were among the best (and among the most brutal) in human intelligence, and that thoroughness that they brought to the capture of master spies like Sorge didn't just disappear at the end of the war.
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