[TigerLikesRooster]

Gen. O also commands N. Korean equivalent of old Soviet Union's "KGB Alpha Team." It is said to be 2,000 strong, and Kim Jong-il reportedly boasted that he can do anything he wants as long as he has this unit. He is a military go-to man when regime is at risk.

Several years ago, there was an intense search by Japanese authorties for a supposedly N. Korean man holed up in American naval base in Yokosuka. At the time, U.S. was said to have picked up a son of General O, O Se-wook. It was said that he had either the rank of colonel or junior General at the time. He was in charge of running drug(for Japanese Yakuza) and supernote operation on his father's behalf, but he got addicted to drug and was a trouble-maker of sorts. Since his father is so powerful, he mananged to get off with a slap on a wrist. He eventually bailed. According to S. Korean and Japanese media, he arranged a meeting with a foreign ship for doing his usual deals(probably drug for Japanese mobs) in the open sea, and board the ship and escaped to Yokosuka, Japan. I suppose he is in U.S. now if the report is true.

Gen. O Kuk-ryol

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[martin_fierro]

Huh. Looks like a regular party animal.

[ketelone]

Oh Cookie Orios.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

North Korea is a Gangster Regime.They are also involved in drug production(heroin and methanphetamines),counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals on top of illegal arms selling

[gaijin]

The role of the Yakuza is a puzzling one: while they are clearly nativist and right-wing, they have remarkably consanguinous ties to Koreans and Korean organized crime. I hate to use the word, but they are ethnically more DIVERSE than at first it would would appear.

In some cases it was found that North Korean embassy personnel were using supernotes for cash purposes immediately after getting them and that they barely took detection countermeasures.

Really great post.

[SevenofNine]

MAN he look like silent movie star I know of LOL!