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 Koreas chief political philosopher, they connect areas as far as 30 miles (50km) away from Pyongyang, enabling the countrys 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 Kims 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 Kims father and North Koreas 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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Ping!
Wouldn’t surprise me. The North Koreans get caught with a tunnel into the South every once in awhile.
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.
Sounds like a good use for some stimulus money.
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!
As if the North Korean leadership needed to look any more like rats.
I wonder if same lair that Team America expose LOL!
They're getting that cash from moving a decimal point: North Koreans in misery as cash is culled
Coming soon to the USA?
Find the line he’s on and pump in the sarin.
BTTT
They are also hiding in these tunnels munitions,gasoline and food for a North Korean invasion of the South
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.
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