Posted on 12/18/2017 7:06:37 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Asahi: N. Korean Official in Charge of Nuclear Facilities Purged
Write : 2017-12-19 10:03:57 Update : 2017-12-19 10:39:51
A Japanese daily says that an official in charge of construction of North Korean nuclear facilities is believed to have been purged.
Quoting a North Korean defector, Japan's Asahi Shimbun reported on Tuesday that the chief of Bureau 131 of the North's ruling Workers' Party might even have been executed.
The paper said that the bureau chief was recently removed from the post and purged for allegedly leaking military secrets.
Bureau 131 is known to be responsible for building the North's key military facilities including portals for the Punggye-ri nuclear test site and facilities for the Dongchang-ri missile launch site.
The report said that the official might have been purged for a delay in the North's sixth nuclear test and collapse of underground tunnels at the Punggye-ri nuclear site.
A source said that the official was probably purged after the nuclear test scheduled for spring was delayed to September.
Bump
Relying on defectors can be tricky.
Where do they get people educated in these areas?
Where do they get people educated in these areas?
I wonder what the method of execution was? Probably something creative. Any ideas?
Handcuffed to the next a-bomb test. Like in Goldfinger.
There could be occasional technical consulting from these countries, too.
kinda like the Schindler's list engineer for bad concrete.
The bureau chief was recently removed from the post and purged
But then it says....
‘believed’.....to have been purged.
‘might’........have been purged
‘probably’.....purged
‘might’ even have been executed.
Sounds like our media! They really don’t know...
“I wonder what the method of execution was? Probably something creative. Any ideas?”
beaten with reactor rods?
drink the reactor water?
When Soviet Union fell their nuclear scientists etc. needed a job so N.Korea took some of the on....I suspect they taught them but also knew the underground and peoples to stay connected with them since that time....
Also Iran’s in bed with N.Korea.
Being a defector to the NORKs can be tricky - was stationed in Korea when PFC White’s body was recovered after a “swimming accident” - when the streets downtown were a foot deep in solid ice.....
Somebody's got to help with the rocket testing...
Is this verified? Was it Pak In-yong?
Something different:
It seems that the Russians assisted with the kidnappings as they were transported via the Russian border https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea%E2%80%93Russia_border
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8w_IPjIa-M
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