State funeral list in N. Korea triggers purge speculation

AFP ^ | Nov. 9, 2015

[TigerLikesRooster]

State funeral list in N. Korea triggers purge speculation

A state funeral in North Korea has sparked another fresh round of purge rumours after one of Kim Jong-Un's most powerful aides was omitted from the official funeral committee list.

Marshal Ri Ul-Sol, who died of lung cancer at the weekend, is to be given a state funeral on November 11, and the list of 170 names published on Sunday -- headed by leader Kim Jong-Un -- is an official Who's Who of the top political and military hierarchy.

A notable absentee, however, is Choe Ryong-Hae, a member of the ruling party's politburo standing committee and seen as one of Kim's closest confidantes.

Even if unwell, Choe would normally be on the list and experts said the omission of someone of his stature could not be put down to oversight.

"It's almost impossible that this happened unless Choe ... was removed from key positions," said Cheong Seong-Chang, an analyst at the Sejong Institute think-tank in Seoul.

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[Don Corleone]

Hitler and Stalin routinely had lists like this. It is a basic necessity for dictators everywhere.

[Celtic Conservative]

Ruh-Roh, someones on the “outs” with L’iL KiM!

CC

[PAR35]

was removed from key positions

The only question appears to be how he was removed. Pack of wild doges? Antiaircraft guns?

[AdmSmith]

Is (was) Choe Ryong-hae too close to Putin?
http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2014/11/21/mistrust-runs-deep-in-north-korea-russia-ties/

[dfwgator]

When Lenin died, Stalin gave the wrong date of the funeral on Trotsky’s invitation so that he wouldn’t show up to the funeral.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[TigerLikesRooster]

This may be a news to many. The family motto of Kim family, handed down from grampa Kim Il-sung, is, “Never ever trust Chinese.” Kim family find Chinese most devious and dangerous: not Americans, South Koreans, Japanese, or Russians, with whom NK has either frosty or openly hostile relationship in public. While Russians may not be in cordial terms, due to the long history of misbehavior, Russians are not the ones N. Koreans are wary of.

[armydawg505]

Kim Jong Un would make even his father and grandfather blush at his barbarism. How long with the military allow its senior leaders to be murdered or disappear?

[OLDCU]

Adios.

[AdmSmith]

Yes, NK is worried about China, for instance this:
China is increasingly willing to accept Korean unification under Seoul's control
https://www.nknews.org/2015/10/would-china-prop-up-a-collapsing-n-korea/

Russia and NK seems to have been coordinating cyber attacks, but was Choe too close to China or Russia, or is it just a family feud?

[SevenofNine]

That right wait till next portrait with Chia Chub with General you will see who is on the out list on Chia Chub regime LOL!

[TigerLikesRooster]

I came across a new development on this matter. A latest news report said that Choe is “in probation” due to his failure to turn China's attitude around. However, there are many possibilities. Only time will tell which of them is true, or how much trouble he is actually in.

[rdl6989]

Forced to sit on an artillery shell which is then detonated?

[PAR35]

There are worse ways to go in North Korea.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I interviewed a US Air Force crew chief who spent nearly three years in a NK prison camp during the Korean War.
He said the Chinese ran the camps and the NKs were the clerks.