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North Korean leader's 007-style secret escape tunnels revealed by defector(1000 ft underground)
The Times (UK) ^ | 12/08/09 | Richard Lloyd Parry

Posted on 12/08/2009 6:29:07 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

December 8, 2009

North Korean leader's 007-style secret escape tunnels revealed by defector

Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia Editor

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, has a network of 300 metre (1,000 ft) deep emergency escape tunnels connecting Pyongyang with key sites around the country, a top-level defector claims.

The tunnels, reminiscent of the lair of a James Bond villain, are reported to contain railway lines, a water supply and even vegetation. According to Hwang Jang Yop, formerly North Korea’s chief political philosopher, they connect areas as far as 30 miles (50km) away from Pyongyang, enabling the country’s leaders to escape the capital and ultimately sail to China via a West coast port.

“There were fresh water and grass growing within an underground tunnel that linked Pyongyang to a nearby mountain,” Mr Hwang told Radio Free Asia, a station supported by the US Government, which broadcasts into North Korea for three hours a day. “In particular, an ultra-deep underground tunnel was built to connect one of Kim’s residences in Pyongyang to [the then port city of] Nampo.”

Mr Hwang said that the tunnels also connect to Yeongwon, the site of a mountain villa, where Kim Il Sung, Mr Kim’s father and North Korea’s founding president, died of a heart attack in 1994. They also travel to Suncheon, north of Pyongyang, which is reported to be the site of a uranium mine.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hwangjangyop; kimjongil; nkorea; tunnel

1 posted on 12/08/2009 6:29:08 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 12/08/2009 6:29:36 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Wouldn’t surprise me. The North Koreans get caught with a tunnel into the South every once in awhile.


3 posted on 12/08/2009 6:31:41 AM PST by vladimir998
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All these elaborate and expensive precautions - and his people continue to starve or remain without the basic comforts of life.

I hope Kim Jong-Il rots in hell. I really do.


4 posted on 12/08/2009 6:33:57 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Sounds like a good use for some stimulus money.


5 posted on 12/08/2009 6:35:21 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"There were fresh water and grass growing within an underground tunnel...."

Makes sense. I read a while back that the Norks were running PSA's for their citizens insisting that grass is a staple food source.....

6 posted on 12/08/2009 6:36:41 AM PST by Thermalseeker (Stop the insanity - Flush Congress!)
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Makes sense. I read a while back that the Norks were running PSA's for their citizens insisting that grass is a staple food source.....

Well, think about it - you eat cows, and cows eat grass. Why not just cut out the middle man?

Perfectly rational thinking from the Exalted Leader!

7 posted on 12/08/2009 7:05:55 AM PST by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

As if the North Korean leadership needed to look any more like rats.


8 posted on 12/08/2009 7:15:28 AM PST by dog breath
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To: dog breath
Wobbly fat rats scurrying along web of tunnels when the surface was overrun by enemies or angry mobs. Pretty stressful experience is waiting for them.:-D)
9 posted on 12/08/2009 7:20:16 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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I wonder if same lair that Team America expose LOL!


10 posted on 12/08/2009 8:52:57 AM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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Sounds like a good use for some stimulus money.

They're getting that cash from moving a decimal point: North Koreans in misery as cash is culled

Coming soon to the USA?

11 posted on 12/08/2009 8:57:59 AM PST by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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Find the line he’s on and pump in the sarin.


12 posted on 12/08/2009 12:12:17 PM PST by tanuki (The only color of a leader that should matter is the color of his spine.)
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BTTT


13 posted on 12/08/2009 2:53:56 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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They are also hiding in these tunnels munitions,gasoline and food for a North Korean invasion of the South


14 posted on 12/08/2009 4:09:39 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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Since 1974, the South has discovered four tunnels crossing the DMZ dug by North Korea. This is indicated by the orientation of the blasting lines within each tunnel. North Korea claimed that the tunnels were for coal mining; however, no coal has been found in the tunnels.Some of the tunnel walls have been painted black to give the appearance of anthracite.


15 posted on 12/08/2009 4:59:05 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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