http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-45_LiberatorThe CIA should drop these into NK by the thousands
Posted on 10/21/2006 10:55:19 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
The Sunday Times October 22, 2006
Kim tested by rise of armed resistance
Michael Sheridan, Far East Correspondent
AN underground resistance movement in North Korea, capable of smuggling out videos of executions and staging violent acts of defiance, has emerged as the Kim Jong-il dictatorship faces international sanctions for testing a nuclear bomb. The latest evidence of North Koreans willing to risk their lives to tell their story is a video showing the execution by firing squad of a woman convicted of murder committed in the course of stealing food last July.
Captured by a bystander with a tiny camera, it shows the victim being tied to a stake, watched by other convicts, in a field next to the Juyi River in the north.
There are sounds of people muttering in Korean, “See, that’s how they blindfold them,” as three executioners prepare to fire. Shouted commands are then heard.
As a ragged series of 12 shots resounds, blurry clouds of smoke break out around the distant figure, which slumps in its bonds. The body is then wrapped in what appears to be a plastic bag for burial.
The video was aired by Japan’s Asahi Television, which said the dead woman was named Yoo Bun Hee, but gave no details of how it obtained the pictures. North Korean exiles said they believe it is authentic.
The footage provides a clue to an unexplained series of border incidents earlier this year which North Korean officials blamed on a shadowy “resistance”.
In one clash North Korean border guards confronted three men creeping at night across the frozen Tumen River from China. In the ensuing fight the intruders stabbed several soldiers and escaped, leaving a bag containing three guns, ammunition, a video camera and a phone.
On the same night in late January men opened fire on a frontier post at the town of Huiryeong, causing an unknown number of casualties before escaping.
Chinese witnesses and foreign diplomats say there have been repeated outbreaks of gunfire, usually at night, along the mountainous barren borderlands. Lim Chun Yong, a former North Korean special forces officer who has defected, claimed that four or five groups of an “armed resistance” were in the area.
“The people say among themselves that the regime is worse than the Japanese colonists,” he told South Korea’s Dong-A Ilbo newspaper.
The constant traffic of traders and escapees along the 850-mile border has eroded totalitarian controls to the point where clandestine goods and ideas now thrive in the frontier provinces. Smuggled mobiles allow North Koreans to make calls on Chinese networks by capturing their signals at the border.
Because there are no barriers to calling South Korea or the United States from China, they can talk to family members and enemies of the regime.
The latest video is proof that Chinese currency and DVDs are in circulation, because some witnesses to the execution had been forced to watch as punishment for possessing such things.
People smugglers and black-marketeers are rife. Chinese sources said some North Korean border guards could be bribed to turn a blind eye.
When the rivers freeze or dry to a trickle, it is almost impossible to seal the frontier. Chinese travellers report that in some areas North Korean officials are too nervous to go out at night and military reinforcements have been brought in from politically reliable units.
Experts on the regime do not expect it to fold quickly or easily. The exiled Hwang Jang-yop, 83, who was the chief ideologue in Pyongyang before his astonishing defection to the South in the late 1990s, says only the overthrow of Kim Jong-il could end its nuclear ambitions.
Kim could also easily withstand the envisaged United Nations sanctions, he added.
The next step in the crisis is still in doubt after Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, cast doubt on reports that Kim had expressed regrets and promised no more tests. Instead, she said, North Korea seemed bent on escalation.
What could happen is that China may encourage such operations, by looking the other way. Then armed resistance can secure important sanctuary in remote border region of China. If successful guerrilla operations can be done regularly against local authorities in N. Korea, it will erode state control, and embolen people to rise up. Especially if food can be smuggled into this rebel region, unimpeded by N. Korean regime.
Creating Timisoara of N. Korea is the second best option, next to surgical removal of Chia Head.
Ping!
But everybody is happy in the workers paradise of DPRK. (sarcasm off)
Then again, maybe these 'guerillas' are really just pro-Beijing types. Or maybe this story is largely a myth. WHo knows?
So far they did not amount much. It was pretty much one-time affair. Its future largely depends on China. Of course, China would prefer pro-China types.
I was saying that this could be one of China's options.
Or US Special Forces.
Send in John Effing Kerry to feed the hungry.
He has enough rice in his ass to feed several thousand hongry souls.
I sense a disturbance in the Joy Brigade...
OOHH That be goodd
Somebody need take Chia Pet out of North Korea misery
The most difficult of options but if achievable, by far, the best. The coup team then needs to be 'flippable' to the West, if not fully then at least some kind of modified modern Chinese mode, although unification with ROK under pure Western multiparty democracy would be the best of all worlds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-45_LiberatorSingle shot, short ranged, need to get up close and personal to use it? M-3A1 would be a better option, built so they can use a round available in NK.
Solar powered radios would be a better idea. China has no intention of enabling an uprising, the most they may do is encourage a General's coup. China wants a totalitarian state on their border and faces internal unrest of their own that they want to discourage.
And they could also be Russian Spetsnaz or Chinese Quin bao units. China and Russia have almost lost their patience with Kim John Il, like the Russians did with Nicole' Cicerau in Romania in the late 1980's
And they could also be Russian Spetsnaz or Chinese Quin bao units. China and Russia have almost lost their patience with Kim John Il, like the Russians did with Nicole' Cicerau in Romania in the late 1980's
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