North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator Kim Kye Gwan
Posted on 06/11/2007 10:46:44 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
North Korean nuke envoy moves to luxury village: report
Posted: 11 June 2007 2053 hrs
North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator Kim Kye Gwan |
SEOUL : North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator has moved into an elite luxury housing development, according to a report Monday, in a sign of his growing influence with leader Kim Jong-Il.
South Korea's Dong-A Ilbo newspaper said Kim Kye-Gwan has reportedly moved to Eundokchon near Pyongyang, used by military heavyweights and the leader's closest associates.
Dong-A said each of the six-bedroom households can be accessed only by an elevator and is tightly guarded by a company of police.
The village has its own electricity supply which is generated at the nearby Taedong River Guest House, one of Kim Jong-Il's villas, it added.
The paper, which gave no source for its report, said the development was originally built for nuclear and missile scientists in 1992 on Kim's orders.
"If the report is true, it shows the envoy has joined the ranks of Kim Jong-Il's most trusted confidants," Lee Ki-Dong, a researcher at the Institute for National Security Strategy, told AFP.
"Kim Kye-Gwan appears to have won trust and praise from Kim Jong-Il for his successful handling of the BDA (Banco Delta Asia) issue at six-party talks."
The envoy has deftly led his team at international talks aimed at scrapping the communist North's nuclear weapons programmes in return for economic aid and diplomatic and security guarantees.
Under a key February 13 agreement, the North agreed to disable its atomic programmes in return for aid and diplomatic benefits.
The first stage, the shutdown of the Yongbyon reactor, was to have been completed by April 14. But the North refuses to make a start until it receives 25 million dollars frozen in the Macau-based BDA at US instigation.
The United States, which initially said the BDA freeze was unrelated to denuclearisation, later undertook to try to settle the problem but it remains unresolved.
The six-party talks group the two Koreas, China, the United States, Russia and Japan.
Guess it is to much to expect for the rabidly ignorant Bush Hater types to bother to actually read their own story.
Side point.
“...elite luxury housing development...”
Most of the country is starving to death and its leaders are living in luxury.
Isn’t Communism wonderful?!
Houses his highest military officers and closest associates? One daisy cutter should just about do the job on the entire complex.
Its more or less what the Clintons had in mind.
Bump and Ping.
“...elite luxury housing development...
Most of the country is starving to death and its leaders are living in luxury.
Isn’t Communism wonderful?!”
This is where Islam also resembles Communism beyond the rule of the masses by the select top. While hundreds of thousands (close to half a million) children starve in the streets of Islamic Iran’s capital Tehran, the top guys salt away billions and send billions more to other countries to fund terrorism and pay billions to Arab mercenaries within and outside the country.
http://alanpetersnewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2007/06/poverty-in-iran-increased-by-regime.html
Yup. Another form of oppression.
Less chance of a revolt if your people are starving to death or extremely poor — no free time to question your lot in life and then blame the leadership.
more target rich, target richer ?
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