Posted on 07/31/2016 12:14:53 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
[Exclusive] N. Korean General Defects Seeking Political Asylum
Write : 2016-07-29 08:54:16 Update : 2016-07-29 14:15:08
Anchor: A general who was in charge of managing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's overseas slush funds is said to be in China after escaping from his country, and is seeking political asylum with two other North Koreans in a country other than South Korea. A source said that the three were separated from a diplomat from Pyongyang, who is seeking his own defection to another country. Here is Kim Bum-soo with KBS' exclusive report.
Report: It has been made known that a general escaped from North Korea and is seeking political asylum in a country other than South Korea.
A source in China, who works in collaboration with Seoul government officials, on Thursday revealed the recent defection of the general, a diplomat and two others.
The source said that the North Korean military officer was in charge of managing Kim Jong-un’s slush funds in Southeast Asia.
The general was in China on a business trip when he was joined by the three other North Koreans on July 12th.
The diplomat is known to have parted ways with the group and is seeking political asylum in a country other than South Korea, while the other three are staying in China, making their own plans to defect to another country.
The latest escape marks the first known case of a North Korean general's defection from the reclusive regime. Last year, a North Korean colonel defected to the South.
The source said the four didn't choose to defect to South Korea partly because of a petition by the Lawyers for a Democratic Society filed last month for habeas corpus relief of 12 North Korean restaurant workers in China who defected to Seoul in April.
The source said that the four North Koreans decided to leave their country due to their dissatisfaction with the Kim Jong-un regime and pessimistic views about the future of the country. Kim Bum-soo, KBS World Radio News.
Aren’t we Americans still shipping metric tons of grain to North Korea? At least their military will have bread.
It is true that confirmation is not easy when it comes to things happening inside N. Korea. If there was a public execution watched by many people, we could have confirmation from multiple sources. It will take time, though. However, it was indeed reported in major news media:
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2016/07/29/0301000000AEN20160729002500315.html
Pyongyang publicly executed 6 officials responsible for April defection: sources
SEOUL, July 29 (Yonhap) — North Korea publicly executed six officials in charge of supervision of its workers overseas in May following the defection of 13 workers at a North Korean-run restaurant in China a month earlier, a local Pyongyang watcher said Friday.
“North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered six officials, including intelligence officials, to be executed publicly on May 5 due to their lack of control over overseas (North Korean) workers,” Choi Seong-yong, chairman of the Abductees’ Family Union, claimed, citing people familiar with the matter.
Eighty public officials and 100 people who have their family members working overseas were forced to watch the execution, he said.
In early April, a group of 12 women and one man fled from a North Korea-run restaurant in China’s eastern port city of Ningbo and defected to South Korea. In the following month, three female workers at a North Korean restaurant in the midwest city of Shanxi reportedly defected to the South.
“North Korea locked the families of the defectors up and forced them to take ideological education at a training facility in Myohyang Mountain, in the northern part of the communist country,” Choi said.
The North Korean authorities have argued the workers didn’t defect to the South but were kidnapped by the South Korean government.
I’m sure a lot more was done to the families of those who escaped than just re education.
How did they make it all the way through north korea to Souh Korea?
They worked in China. I dont have a map in front of me but is there any part of China that is closer to South Korea than the rest?
북한 현역 장군, 김정은 비자금 450억 가지고 탈북
(translation of the title: N. Korean general in active duty, defected with 45 billion Won($40 million) for Kim Jong-un's slush fund)
북한군 인민무력부 소속 현역 소장(한국군의 준장급)이 가족 2명을 데리고 7월 중순 탈북할 때 김정은에게 상납할 거금을 가지고 탈북한 것으로 알려졌다.
29일 KBS 보도에 따르면, 이 인물은 동남아와 중국 남부 지역의 북한 식당과 건설 현장에서 벌어들인 외화를 김정은의 비자금을 관리하는 노동당 39호실로 송금하는 업무를 해온 것으로 전해졌다.
그는 김정은에게 상납해야 할 4000만 달러(한화 약 450억 원 가량)를 갖고 탈북해 중국 내에서 제3국행을 원하고 있는 것으로 알려졌다.
That language makes no sense.
In a few cases, N. Koreans escape via sea. These are usually group defections. Multiple family members hop on a boat and sail to S. Korea. Some others escaped to Japan taking long voyage from N. Korean coast. Some years ago, there was an attempt by escaped N. Koreans to charter a boat in China to reach S. Korea, which did not succeed as far as I can remember.
Contributions for the Clinton Foundation?
Wow. Thanks for the info. Yeah, there’s no love lost between some of those countries and China, right? So I suppose they would send them to S Korea.
N Korea to Japan in a not so great boat is a long trip, no?
http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2016/07/31/2016073100580.html
That’s pretty horrible.
And some dumb punk on Fox last week quoted Cuba as a successful example of socialism. I wanted to crack his head in.
White kid, maybe 18.
No way these little kids can play like this- because their fingers are too small- it’s dubbed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtjvVgNMPtI
here’s another sad example of some half-starved child who can hardly hold up the accordion for a “debut”\
Good grief this kid is skin & bones & if you watch his face-
there’s nothing there-it’s just about all getting thru it as a automaton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOd2sUSAL14
These are just two simple examples of kinder-brainwashing within NK.
There’s not much you & I can do unless you have any suggestions.
I’ll bet he has done that-the NKorkers are not unfamiliar with Swiss Banking Laws.
In fact if you’ve done your research Lil’ Kimmy was raised in Switzerland- you can find this on the web-it’s there.
I get the feeling these NorKers don’t like chit-chat amongst themselves , esp., on who “gots what” & who don’t.
A lot of the insider’s money is made by drug trafficking profits,too.
Aren’t they famous for their meth, heroin, cocaine,etc.... along with a multitude of other high priced drugs even used in hospital settings?
And as I’ve touched on before, most of the population of NK has been subjected to malnutrition since the ascendance of Lil’ Kim’s grandpap. It’s become such a problem that it has clearly effected brain development and even the size of the citizenry. You look at the Norks, the military people, and they look physically the size of emaciated 10-year old children playing dress-up in adult clothing.
Compared to South Koreans, the latter are well-fed, larger, taller and better mentally developed than their counterparts as their hardships and deprivations ceased after the war. If Kim was brought down today, it would be almost impossible to assimilate the present population into South Korea. The Norks would remain intellectually and physically stunted and unlikely to substantially intermix with their South cousins, who are as far removed from them across the board as imaginable. The cultural and social impact would be a disaster.
If anyone ever wanted to point to the impact a perfect, totalitarian leftist state can have on a group of citizens over a period of 70 years, North Korea is just the place. Retarded, placid and fearful, more like animals than human beings. What the left wants to do to all people (except for the ruling class, of course).
There have been Japanese press reports of dozens of wooden boats from North Korea showing up on the West coast of Japan in the last couple years, most of the corpses appear to have been dead at least two or three months. Normally too cold and stormy a sea route for defectors. So the most likely theory that the military has been sending soldiers out onto the sea to fish but without training they quickly get lost or run into severe weather. Very unfortunate that a focus of the world on nukes and rockets too often overlooks an ongoing human tragedy.
Of course it has to go ! but do you think the illicit drug trade from NK & China will be stopped by the US?
as a cynic I say no it won’t. but Lil’ Kimmy can only fool around for so long. Who’s going to stop this? The US gov’t.?
On the human rights issue- if you have been keeping up with the news South Korea is trying to make their inroads for peace using their own ethnic Korean approaches & there’s documentation for this-
Horrifying and accurate and an brings up facts I have never considered.
If the full light of day could shine on NK finally, what horrors would we find? What manner of people would we see on a large scale basis?
If there’s no food for adults, then there’s obviously no food for children, which would devastate development.
How does such an isolated country get the money and knowlege to build nukes and a semi decent artillery system?!?!?!
They say at night, NK is almost completley dark from the sky.
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