Posted on 06/24/2009 12:20:55 AM PDT by 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.....
I understand. Thanks for all you do here.
What is crappy is that when the North Koreans moved the USS Pueblo from the port of Wonsan on the East Coast, to the Taeddong River in Pyongyang, this was in 2004 I think (either way, under the Bush Administration), we did NOTHING, and it went through international waters. It is OURS. We could have seized it or at least bombed it. This country is a p*ssy, sometimes, under both Democrat AND Republican Administrations. I guess knee deep in the crap in Iraq at the time was more important.
You are very welcome, Freeper PghBaldy.
“Rescuing” two leftist journalists is a waste of ordnance.
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