[AdmSmith]

More info about Kim Kyok Sik

He has a Syrian connection as well:

In the 1970s he served as a military attaché in Syria. Kim likely managed instructors and other training support for the ELF (in Ethiopia) and the Turkish Workers’ Party (PKK, my comment) which the DPRK provided in the early 1970s, in coordination with Syria. http://nkleadershipwatch.wordpress.com/leadership-biographies/gen-kim-kyok-sik/

[AmericanInTokyo]

Thanks! Yep!

[AmericanInTokyo]

If you ask me, it will probably be Jong Myong Hak, Choe Chan Gon, and maybe even Pang Yong Uk and others who eventually turn “turncoat” against Kim Jong-Eun and “Fishlips” and “Black Eyes”, his designated mentors and minders at the moment. But its anybody’s guess right now, and things are very fluid.

[AdmSmith]

Acquiring actionable, high-quality intelligence from North Korea, including from the highest echelons of the Korean People’s Army, requires human intelligence sources —actual spies placed in critical posts inside the North Korean deep state. Considering the elevated geopolitical significance of the Korean Peninsula, it would be foolish to suggest that South Korean and other foreign intelligence agencies have been unable to penetrate the North Korean government. But the astonished reaction by Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo, at the news of Kim Jong-Il’s death on Monday, would seem to indicate that, for the time being, Pyongyang’s powerful inner circle of state apparatchiks remains shielded from outside penetration.

http://intelnews.org/2011/12/21/01-891/

[TigerLikesRooster]

http://www.nksis.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=b01&wr_id=67

Kim Kyok-sik's Profile (per nksis.com)

• 1940: birth
• 1971: military attache at NK Embassy in Syria
• 1992: promoted to a lieutenant general
• 1994: Commander of 2nd Corps
• 1997: promoted to a full general, commanded marching units of military parade at the 65th anniversary of N. Korean Army
• a brother of Kim Dae-sik, the Chief of Reconnaissance Bureau of N. Korean military, who orchestrated the submarine infiltration operation in Kan-neug, S. Korea, in 1996
• 2007: Chief of Staff
• 2009: Commander of 4th Corps
• 2010: thought to have orchestrated the Cheonan's sinking and Yeonpyeong shelling
• 2011: military adviser to Kim Jong-eun (speculation: downsized but still in the loop)