Posted on 10/08/2005 9:31:58 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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/begin my translation N. Korea: Nine N. Korean Defectors to U.S. Since '97 |
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(Seoul, Yonhap News) Kim Nam-kwon = It is now revealed that there are 9 N. Korean defectors in total, who escaped N. Korea and took political asylum in U.S..
Assemblyman Kwon Young-seh, a lawmaker of (opposition) Hannara Party, citing documents submitted to National Assembly by National Intelligence Service(NIS: S. Korean intelligence agency) during a closed-door session of (annual) congressional audit , disclosed, "From '97 up to this year, 27 N. Koreans applied for a political asylum, of whom 18 had their application rejected, and only 9 had it approved." Assemblyman Kwon said,"Of those nine defectors, NIS knows the identity of only one defector, Chang Seung-kil, the former N. Korean ambassador to Egypt, while we have no idea of who the rest are, because U.S. did not provide any information on the remaining eight figures." He added, "NIS was only able to find out indirectly from reports U.S. State Dept. submitted to U.S. Congress. This proves that there is a breakdown of intelligence sharing with U.S."
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One of them could be Oh Se-uk, the son of general Oh Keuk-ryol, one of the top military figure and close confidante of Kim Jong-il. There were news about him originating from Japan last year which said that he and his company boarded a ship in international waters and snuck into Yokosuka, Japan, and presumably defected to U.S.(note: a special N. Korean military unit conducts hard-cash earning illegal international trade, and they make contact with their foreign counterpart in international waters. Oh Se-uk might have defected while he was out on such a mission.) I think that U.S. are sheltering some high value N. Korean defectors who can provide great inside information. They could serve as useful cards when dealing with N. Korea. This is the part of the U.S.-N. Korean dealings completely off the public view. one of the missing pieces of puzzle called "N. Korean nuclear crisis."
Ping!
OH WOW rack it Hey Tiger I hope we get nice North Korean top general talk about what Chia Pet up too beside bedding down Russia whores and update his live journal LOL!
Very interesting.
I wonder how much we really know about what's happening inside N. Korea.
Gee..If there *hadn't been a "breakdown" i guees
he'd be blabbing *all* their namees to the
press for the benefit of Kim Jong Il and
his killers.
Correction:
and her brother husband also defected to U.S
I wonder if any S. Korean congressman is going to publicly ask how many high-level defectors does S.Korea have that the U.S. does not know about.
Since the "sunshine" policies of Kim Dae Jung, I think that the U.S. has had the feeling that there is a lot that S. Korea govt is not telling the U.S.
Mutual suspicion is a two-way street; and I think the U.S. feels that S.Korea has moved into a mode of actual appeasment and not simply non-confrontation with the north.
NK is sooooooo weird, I half expect to read that Kim hisself is defecting...
"I wonder how much we really know about what's happening inside N. Korea."
The people are without food. One father spent the day gathering grass for his family to eat. It sounds unbelievable, but another man was shot for eating corpses."
I wish we had a bigger army, for North Korea and for Iran.
Indeed, S. Korean authorities leaned on defectors not to divulge highly incriminating information on N. Korea. After some defectors revealed that N. Korea's chemical weapon's research using live human subjects for experiment got out to Western media, the authorities restricted their freedom to travel abroad, and pressured them to talk about it any further.
It is possible they keep certain defectors in isolation away from media scrutiny. You never know, as you said.
Thank you for pinging me.
"Mutual suspicion is a two-way street; and I think the U.S. feels that S.Korea has moved into a mode of actual appeasment and not simply non-confrontation with the north."
They have.
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