Posted on 03/03/2008 1:55:25 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
[2008-03-03]
[N. Korean authorities gave an order of shoot-on-sight, and dispatched liquidation squad to China]
In late February, three high-ranking officers of N. Korea's State Security Department escaped all at once, putting N. Korean authorities under great strain.
On Feb. 27, Mr. Hwang(lieutenant colonel,) a section chief at Overseas Counterintelligence Directorate(2nd Directorate) of State Security Department, Mr. Oh(colonel,) and Mr. Park(lieutenant colonel) had escaped from N. Korea, according to the information conveyed on Mar. 2 by our local correspondent in China.
According to him, these three senior officers were under investigation for leaking state secret, and escaped from State Security Department exploiting lax security. They reportedly left Pyongyang on Feb. 24, and escaped through Shinuiju, Hyesan, and Rajin-Sunbong respectively.
The correspondent said that State Security Department put the entire organization on alert in order to capture them and blocked off all expected route for their escape, but only the one escaping through Hyesan had brief altercation with a security platoon near Baek-am before escaping into Jang-bai, while the other two were able to escape undetected.
The escape from N. Korea of three senior security officers all at once is unprecedented. Fearing enormous intelligence damage if they were to talk, State Security Department reportedly call off the prior order of their arrest and issued the new order of shoot-on-sight.
The local correspondent in China said that security agents from State Security Department and their reinforcement from local security department of N. Hamkyong and Yanggang Provinces are now in border areas of China, zealously tracking down the escaped officers, and they will (publicly) send out leaflets on the escapees.
Cho Seung-woo, the local correspondent in China
/begin my translation
Three High-ranking Security Officers Escaped to China; N. Korean Authorities on Alert
Kim Dae-sung /end my translation
Ping!
Hilarious to see it reported, not as a defection, not as desertion, but an “escape”.
BTTT
How successful will they be in “liquidating” the officers, while in a foreign country?
Here’s hoping they make it to a safe house and get spirited out of China to be debriefed.
This will involve under-the-surface covert diplomacy between N. Korea and China, which is less cordial than the official version. Especially when it comes to spook-related stuffs.
Nodding.
” security agents from State Security Department and their reinforcement from local security department of N. Hamkyong and Yanggang Provinces are now in border areas of China, zealously tracking down the escaped officers “
I can’t imagine China having a “hot pursuit” agreement with NK (or anyone else) — so wouldn’t this be, technically, an ‘invasion’??
Has N.Korea ever returned the trains carrying aid from china?
Without aid from the west and the chi-coms the north Korean cult would wither and die.
Latest reports indicate that the liquidation squad has now escaped from North Korea!
LOL! Only to be pursued by yet another squad to figure out what the heck is going on.
Just an observation. The images available on Google Earth of the infamous Camp 22 in Haengyong seem either intentionally obscured, or the camp was dismantled. The Global Security photos released a few years ago show baracks, motorpools, roads, and other facilities that now appear on GE as a peculiar uniform airbrushed green. The conspiracy nut inside of me says “hmmm”.
Coordinates are:
42 32’ 08.71’’ N
129 56’ 06.63’’ E
centered on the southern prisoner housing area which appears as a blackish rectangular blob for the curious.
Exactly,
I don’t know about you but If I try to help someone and they take and then steel then send someone to your home to kill I don’t think I’ll be helping again any time soon.
Lil Kim. The last person left in N. Korea, considers escaping.
I wonder why they didn’t wait until after the Clapton concert?
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