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N. Korea: Kim Jong-il fears coup, strips military of power
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| 03/12/08
Posted on 03/15/2008 3:49:14 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...
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posted on
03/15/2008 3:49:51 AM PDT
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TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: Alas Babylon!; American_Centurion; An.American.Expatriate; ASA.Ranger; ASA Vet; Atigun; Ax; ...
MI ping
DPRK board
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posted on
03/15/2008 4:01:17 AM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul politicians. The Ship of State needs a good scrubbing!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I guess the best way to deal with a large number of armed men who you find threatening is to cut off their funding.
Yeah, that'll work.
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posted on
03/15/2008 4:07:51 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: TigerLikesRooster
psssst Kim....look!
Kim..look over there..
that plant moved...
Kim...pssst Kim...
ya better watch that gold fish, he has big eyes...
Kim....psssst Kim
damn Kim....that mop is big, get rid of it...
Kim...psssst Kim...remember that Train wreck and explosion?
ya better tear up all railroad tracks...
Kim....pssst Kim
that toilet tissue looks new,...better have a serf use it first
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posted on
03/15/2008 4:09:53 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: TigerLikesRooster
More communist secret police, that must make the citizens fear what will happen in the future.
Thanks for the ping.
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posted on
03/15/2008 4:24:29 AM PDT
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nw_arizona_granny
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1886546/posts?page=4972#4972 45 Item Communist Manifesto)
To: TigerLikesRooster
The voices are getting louder now...
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posted on
03/15/2008 4:26:39 AM PDT
by
truemiester
((If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years))
To: TigerLikesRooster
Now THIS is interesting. Didn’t some similar power maneuvers happen shortly before Jong Il’s death?
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posted on
03/15/2008 4:41:09 AM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(I will criticize Obama as much and as often as I want.)
To: truemiester
"The voices are getting louder now..."Must be getting hard for him to hear anything over them.
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posted on
03/15/2008 4:43:08 AM PDT
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cake_crumb
(I will criticize Obama as much and as often as I want.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
![](http://gizmodo.com/images/2006/04/phs.jpg)
The walls have eyes too.
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posted on
03/15/2008 4:57:55 AM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
(The world WILL be cleaner, safer and more productive without Islam.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Lil Kim! Watch out for the “daily Dong-a Ilbo.”
To: TigerLikesRooster
Kim Jong Il has ordered the military to transfer its foreign operations"Foreign operations?" Interesting term, because hardly anybody gets out of that hellhole. Is "foreign operations" the group which plots invasions of S. Korea, or is it the outfit which peddles nukes to the Muzzie terror states?
This affair is reminiscent of Stalin's purge of his military.
To: hellbender
Maybe he plans on sending his secret police through the tunnels next time around.
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posted on
03/15/2008 5:30:27 AM PDT
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cake_crumb
(I will criticize Obama as much and as often as I want.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
—A North Korean government source says a major shift is underway in North Koreas military-first policy. Decisions are overturned and funds for the armed forces are cut by 30 per cent to prevent the generals from taking over. Secret police is strengthened.—
This happened in Romania many years ago. The dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu did not trust the regular Army, so he kept its funding on a shoestring and lavished money on his loyal Securitate (uniformed secret police—used to put down “internal” threats) which were loyal to him. This was a foreshadowing of decay in Romania; are we seeing the same thing in the PDRK?
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posted on
03/15/2008 6:00:31 AM PDT
by
paleorite
("Oy vey, Skippa-San" The immortal words of Fuji, formerly America's favorite POW.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Perfect time for an INVASION.. The Army is in chaos..
OR a civil War no doubt much of the secret police despise the dear leader also.. Actually who wouldnt..
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posted on
03/15/2008 6:17:03 AM PDT
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hosepipe
(CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Sounds like a bad idea to get rid of 30% of your military when your country sucks to begin with....
To: TigerLikesRooster
the power of the Communist regimes army is reduced in favour of the Ministry of Peoples Kim Jong Il's Security.
To: TigerLikesRooster
According to the source the shift shows how much Kim Jong-il is afraid of the power vacuum that his death might cause, OK, I guess pretty much everybody figures Kim is worried about his own impending death, not the path of succession.
Is there any known or suspected reason he might actually fear a NATURAL impending death and thus actually care about succession?
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posted on
03/15/2008 7:18:22 AM PDT
by
Sal
(We The People ARE the government. We elect pols as our servants, not our masters.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Hmmm, if a revolution takes out the DPRK and the Koreas reunite, guess the Chinese will have to find another volunteer to proliferate nuclear technology to terrorists.
Pssst! Hey, wanna borrow a knife?
To: Sal
Is there any known or suspected reason he might actually fear a NATURAL impending death I suspect he knows he's not a strong swimmer.
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posted on
03/15/2008 7:33:58 AM PDT
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ASA Vet
(Do we want Huma answering the red phone at 3 a.m.?)
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