Posted on 02/02/2017 8:14:09 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
N.K. leader sacks chief of spy agency: sources
2017/02/03 09:31
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sacked the chief of the country's spy agency on suspected abuse of power after the ruling party conducted surveillance on the ministry, sources said Friday.
Kim Won-hong, 72, was dismissed from the head of the Ministry of State Security after the party's audit late last year found his agency had abused its authority, according to the sources familiar with North Korean affairs.
His military rank may have been demoted to lieutenant general from full general, they said.
North Korea's security ministry has powerful authority as it screens so-called reactionary elements in society, supervises political prisoners' camps and arrests those who attempt to flee the country.
Known as one of heavyweights in North Korea, Kim became the head of the spy agency in April 2012 after Kim Jong-un took office in late 2011.
He is also known to have spearheaded the move to execute Jang Song-thaek in December 2013, the once-powerful uncle of the North's young leader.
A local report said that Kim might have been dismissed for abusing his position and on corruption charges, adding there is a slim chance for him to be reinstated.
South Korea's intelligence agency said that it cannot confirm whether he was dismissed from his post.
North Korea's leader is believed to have executed more than 100 government and military officials as he seeks to consolidate his oppressive rule.
This is more or less an established path for a henchman of a brutal dictator. He carries out his master's order dutifully. In the process, he is having so much blood in his hands. Then his master turns around and gets rid of him because his growing power would challenge him. In the process, he gets credit for removing an universally hated figure. The master will claim that his henchman went rogue and committed atrocities behind his master's back. The expectation is that people will be grateful to their leader who did the right thing and they venerate him even further.
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Well, President Park Chung Hee’s “spy leader” assassinated him over dinner, so maybe the bloated baby Kim has his reasons...
Sounds like Lavrenti Beria.
Mattis lands in Seoul to show resolve about North
Arriving in a Boeing E-4B Advanced Airborne Command Post, more commonly known as the “Doomsday Plane” because it was designed to enable Washington’s highest-level military officials to stay in command during a nuclear crisis, Mattis kicked off a two-day trip in Yongsan District, central Seoul, at the headquarters of the U.S. military forces in South Korea.
One does have to wonder how the wives of people in the North Korean government come home from work one day and say: Honey, I just got a promotion!!!
That he did not get executed IS the news
Yet !
Plus Yagoda and Yezhov “The Poison Dwarf”.
If N. Korea does test an ICBM soon, do you know if we have capabilities (AEGIS etc.) in the region to shoot it down? That would be a fantastic response, for Pres. Trump to announce “today N. Korea launched a test ICBM, and on my orders the missile was intercepted and destroyed.”
It is highly likely we have already interfered with NK launches. Some accomplished only a fraction of their expected range.
He’ll probably get a grenade shoved up his butt.
Golden parachute time.
That is a well pressed suit.
...and those fake medars rook so rear.
Demoted...but still sucking in oxygen and taking down nourishment.
What’s Sean Hannity doing next to Kim Jong Prefix on the flag lapel pin.
Some theorize that Beria poisoned Stalin when he caught wind of Stalin’s next purge, for which Beria was to be one of the victims.
Sacked. Fat Boy has more than one way of saying you’re fired.
we don't ( know if) that will happen or not.
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