N.Korean Rulers Worried Over Devaluation Backlash; Military Put On Sub-War Level Alert (Breaking)

Chosun Ilbo News, Seoul, S. Korea (original in Japanese) ^ | 7 December 2009 Pearl Harbor Day | Anh Yon Hyon, Reporter

[AmericanInTokyo]

OK, this is confusing: but this is the LINK to the original Japanese language article from the conservative/trustworthy South Korean "Chonsun Ilbo" daily newspaper website in Korean which reported from a Russian news agency just a little while ago.

The headline is 北朝鮮デノミ：「住民騒乱を懸念、軍が戦闘準備」 ("North Korean Currency Devaluation: Worries Over Uprising By North Korean People; North Korean Army Goes on Sub-War Status")

[rdl6989]

Post of the day winner!

[Moe Tzadik]

[AmericanInTokyo]

One report from the conservative, large daily "Sankei News in Japan" this morning is that the hidden intent of the North Korean authorities may also be to get people into banks and government offices to exchange the notes, and then go through their tax returns and smack them with unpaid tax claims as well.

Sankei describes it as a smoldering tinderbox about ready to explode. (鬱積（うつせき)

[AmericanInTokyo]

Oh yeah. THOSE guys.

[mkjessup]

Post of the day winner!

Thanks RDL, for the kind words but I must decline, as the 'Post of the Day' surely has been made by our fellow Freeper Moe Tzadik, and I take my hat off to Moe!

WELL DONE MOE!

[AmericanInTokyo]

To heck with the inept, charlatan US media on fast breaking stuff like this.

I am telling you.

Especially on a weekend, during a crisis and ANYTHING to do with Asia-Pacific.

It is either through incompetence, or design, but they are very very slowly, and initially very inaccurate.

Stay with FR. I guarantee you. Heads above those idiots in the State Sponsored Media in the eastern seaboard of our country. The world does not revolve around Washington, D.C., New York City or Atlanta, I am telling you. (They will be the last to know).

[Quickgun]

I’m just hoping we don’t find out what it is like to live under that kind of suppression.

[Liberty Valance]

Interesting developments. Thanks for posting AIT.

[2harddrive]

Let the festivities BEGIN!!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yes. For doing such, you would be automatically an "enemy of the state".

You will either be executed, or sent to a North Korean labor camp, probably along with most of your family who had nothing to do with such a currency defacement incident.

Both punishments result in death. One quickly (hopefully) and one very slow and painful and grieviously horrible.

I swear when international journalists walk through those DPRK political prison camps when they are finally opened to the world, and hear the stories, and see the human bones and the crematoriums (confirmed by satellite photos), what are those libs going to say? It is going to be like Edward R. Murrow walking through Buchenwald. I guess we just needed to reason with them a little more over these past 60 years. /sarc

[agrace]

NK just breaks my heart in pieces. Thank you so much for the reporting and translating you do for us from that region.

[Brilliant]

Too bad the peasants don’t have guns.

[Lurking in Kansas]

That has to be the worst designed website I've seen in about 15 years.

It's straight from the internet, about 1993.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yep. That would have put an end to it a long time ago, if they had a version of the Second Ammendment. Only thing that could be hoped for now I think is average servicemen in the Army who have guns, who had THEIR and their family’s savings wiped out, to turn them (guns) on the secret police and local party officials and start making their way toward Pyongyang to get that little 5-foot-2 son of a b*tch. That’s a long shot. A very, very long shot, in that kind of society with layers of security and deep people control. But some things could set it off. You know these things can more quickly. It might only be good to pray at this time. Particularly considering who the US President is at this time.

[GOPsterinMA]

Let’s be positive!!! Remember, Nicolae Ceausescu learned his lession back in December, 1989.

[mkjessup]

I swear when international journalists walk through those DPRK political prison camps when they are finally opened to the world, and hear the stories, and see the human bones and the crematoriums (confirmed by satellite photos), what are those libs going to say? It is going to be like Edward R. Murrow walking through Buchenwald.

And what is most shameful is our prior President, beating his chest about that horrible 'Axis of Evil', consisting of Iraq, Iran and North Korea, chose to do NOTHING about the murderous regime in Pyongyang when he had the opportunities (and there were many!), instead George W. Bush sold the North Korean people up the river by choosing to 'engage' the KJL dictatorship with the absurd 'Six Party Talks' that have produced absolutely NOTHING except for a nuclear capable North Korea.

And of course Iran too, is on the brink of obtaining a nuclear device, although George W. Bush proclaimed in December 2008 that America "would not permit" Iran to acquire a nuclear capability.

As the old saying goes, "it's easy to talk the talk, but can you walk the walk?"

And in this instance, the ones who will suffer for all that talking are the North Korean people.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yes, but we had Bush 41 in office, with an eight year of Reagan legacy just completed, and general WILL in the West to topple things.

Things are very different 20 years later. There is not a single anti-communist/pro-freedom corpuscle in the political body of this Current US Administration. We are in total APPEASEMENT AND PROP-UP MODE. So the North Korean People I think will have it many- fold more difficult than the Romanians had it, it would seem. Very sad.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yes, sadly too. GWB also did no good for this cause of freedom in North Korea in the last 2 to 2.5 years of his Administration. It (with Chris Hill at State at the helm) became virtually indistinguishable from Madeline Albright and Bill Clinton. I am afraid, not a soul on FR can challenge us on this historic point, mkj. This is where history will not be kind to "W" IMHO. We wrote about it at so much length on the FR threads about North Korean from two, three years back, didn't we.

[SevenofNine]

Can’t wait till Pyorngang Patty to faint when she see Obama LOL!

[Moe Tzadik]

Thanks. And in a similar fashion let me congratulate AiT for his outstanding work.