26-Yr-Old Son of Kim Jong-Il Now Controls Secret Police; Fate of 2 US Liberal Journalists (Breaking)

Donga Ilbo South Korean newspaper (Link in Japanese) ^ | 24 June 2009 | Jiji Tsushin Press (Translation)

[AmericanInTokyo]

This link is just to the Japanese report, but it is emerging that since March a) Kim Jong Un, the 26-year-old heir apparant/son of Kim Jong il, has essentially been given administrative control of the North Korean Secret Police (국가안전보위부); b) that this also soon puts him in de-facto control of the 10,000 man strong border forces which will be put under control of the DPRK Secret Police next month. Further, Dong-A Ilbo daily newspaper in South Korea (from which the JIJI Japanese report (link) is based) says for all intents and purposes, c) the fates and current handling of the 2 captured liberal American journalists (Lee and Ling from Al Gore's outfit in San Francisco) are directly in the hands of heir apparant Kim Jong Un.

Developing.....

[LeoWindhorse]

the world needs to be re-taught that lesson

We need to be lead by warriors , not lawyers

[arthurus]

We need to be led by warriors, not lawyers.

[LeoWindhorse]

sheesh.....thanks

I am very uneducated ;^)

[ketelone]

I like how so many things are called “Dong” in North Korea. Its especially ironic that their two missiles systems are called “No Dong”, and “Type O’Dong”. :)

I suspect all this rage stems from some certain basic inadequacies.....

[nonliberal]

They are not worth it. They are liberal journalists from The Goron’s network. Would you seriously risk the lives of US soldiers to “free” a couple of journalists?

[eleni121]

we used to think that being an American meant that the world had to treat you fairly.... it meant something

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not any more.
Because once we believed that we were defined as those opposing totalitarian Communism atheism.

That is no longer true.

We are the world's leading moral relativists and economic statists-—at least we are being led by them.

NO moral or economic high ground any more -— not an ounce or inch left.

[Mount Athos]

dong means east/eastern

[Niuhuru]

I don’t know how this is going to be recieved, but I saw a photo of him that was in color, at a different angle, and he’s actually pretty cute.

[Niuhuru]

Nope. I think that’s why constitutional monarchs have always been successful rather than absolute ones.

No one other than God Himself has the right to express his wishes and he does it through the saints.

All monarchs that rule (absolutism) have always had sticky ends.

[Niuhuru]

“The old buzzard has not croaked yet and of course sonny boy, nor Jang Su Taek who runs him, would plug him or spice up his steaks with secret sauce at this time”

Not until they are fully ready to take over. Then he’ll be offed.

[Broker]

It was late in 1983 when Ninoy Aquino was executed by F. Marcos military thugs on the tarmac of Manila Intl Airport.. Ninoy on a high profile return to the Philippines after years of exile in Boston Mass. Then and there all Expats in the PI realized their royal made in USA hides were expendable. It was a year of living very dangerously for me.

[SevenofNine]

I was wonder what going happen to those American journalists now getting bad there in NK

[LeoWindhorse]

if I were on of those soldiers and I were asked if I would go
on such a mission to free captive American women , I would go.

unfortunately I am not such a soldier .
God bless them all

[AmericanInTokyo]

As journalists (particularly investigative--and one whom in the eyes of the North Koreans terribly slandered the Great Leader Kim Jong il through a National Geographic documentary recently), with an unmistakeable mission to tell the outside world about nasty things that are hidden by men, if they have spent even one hour in one of those DPRK labor-reform camps and witnessed things with their own eyes, they are as dead as meat. They CAN NOT be released to tell the story. They will be either be drugged and brainwashed into Manchurian Candidates, or will somehow meet mysterious, unconfirmed deaths. I think this is what the families of these two women must now consider. I urge them to contact the families of Japanese who have had their relatives there for 15 or 20 years, to give them perspective. "Just because they are Americans" does not mean they move to the front of the line under that regime and get out in a couple of weeks with a deal cut by Bill Richardson. This is alltogether a different thing up there.

[2harddrive]

What about their dreaded new ICBM missle - the Long Dong? LOL.

[2harddrive]

The following joke was posted on Yahoo yesterday:
Q: Why is Obama going to let the North Korean missile hit Hawaii? A: Because then he can say that THEY destroyed his Birth Certificate! LOL.

Upon posting, comments were made that this was a racist effing joke, that the poster was a racist mother-effer, and that he should get the eff off Yahoo.

I saw no racial component to the joke at all, and it was WAY funnier than David Letterman’s about Sarah Palin’s daughter. What do YOU all think?

[AmericanInTokyo]

I think this joke is way past overkill now and is being posted too much. That’s what I think.

[Callahan]

One can only guess at this kid’s psychological state. Fruitcake dictators don’t make the best parents.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Mr. Jeeves]

...if they have spent even one hour in one of those DPRK labor-reform camps and witnessed things with their own eyes, they are as dead as meat.

That's why I don't think they have. They are probably being held in a police office building somewhere until their trade value to the US government can be established.