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FReeper Gets Internal N. Korea Documents via FNN; Concern Now Is Over Public-Order Collapse (Hot!)
Fuji TV Network from Sankei Shimbun from Internal DPRK Sources (in Japanese) ^
| 6 February 2003
| AmericanInTokyo
Posted on 02/05/2003 3:16:30 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo
[Sensitive Documents From North Korea the Japanese Recently Obtained]
As a service to Free Republic (and the cause of Truth, Freedom, and National Security) it is my pleasure to synopsize-translate-comment, link to the original report, and pass on to you a quite interesting report today from Tokyo, Japan. This comes through the services of Fuji Television (FNN News). It has to do with internal Communist Korean Worker's Party government documents smuggled out of North Korea which seem to show an increasing level of internal concern and nervous tension over a break up of public order (i.e. 'loss of control') and decline in socialist thought-control over average North Koreans. This may explain exactly why Kim Jong-il appears to be acting uncharacteristically bold these days, and that brinksman North Korea seems intent to "go for broke" as perhaps there seems to be few options left for the cruel despots clinging to state-terror power.
Please read on, below (from the original Japanese-languge web report).
TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dprk; fujinewsnetwork; internaldocs; kimjongil; northkorea; nukes; regimecollapse; socialorder
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To: AmericanInTokyo
You Da-Man!
To: Diddle E. Squat
Imagine if Ceausescu had had nukes and missiles to project them.If he did, the Soviets would have shot him before the Romanian people did. They knew he was nuts.
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posted on
02/05/2003 5:51:26 PM PST
by
Timesink
(My name's Harley Earl. And I've come back to build you a great tampon.)
To: Steel Wolf
And all are useless. These militias and the regular army are just a prison camp without walls. Their mission is to not overthrow the government. Military effectiveness is not a factor.
143
posted on
02/05/2003 5:51:49 PM PST
by
Thud
To: Amelia
They don't have the petroleum, oil and lubricants to invade. That possibility ended when the USSR died. The most the NKPA can do is bombard the Seoul area from border fortifications. Whether they can do even that now is open to question.
144
posted on
02/05/2003 5:53:24 PM PST
by
Thud
To: AmericanInTokyo
145
posted on
02/05/2003 5:53:59 PM PST
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
(Clearly, Saddam Hussein and his regime will stop at nothing until something stops him.- Colin Powell)
To: Thud
The militias are set up to defend against attacks from the rear, coasts, and from airborne / airmobile attacks. North Korea had a lot of trouble in being outflanked and cut off in the Korean War, so Kim Il Sung made the idea of an 'impregnable rear' one of his twelve guiding military principles.
That having been said, their militia would be little more than cheap, ineffective cannon fodder. They'd be of marginal use in defending NK from an attack, and no use in supporting an advance south. I was just pointing out to another poster that the populace is by no means disarmed.
To: AmericanInTokyo
Thank you, thank you, thank you.....................for reporting on things that our media here in the US has not reported on.
This is another example of why Freepers are the MOST informed bunch on the web.
147
posted on
02/05/2003 6:06:04 PM PST
by
DoctorMichael
(Liberals SuK; Liberalism SuX)
To: JimVT
North Korea is Dark
South Korea is bright, North Korea is dark. This amazing image is included in the standard US Department of Defense briefings on North Korea. It was mentioned in a news briefing on 23 December 2002 by Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, who stated that "If you look at a picture from the sky of the Korean Peninsula at night, South Korea is filled with lights and energy and vitality and a booming economy; North Korea is dark."
148
posted on
02/05/2003 6:06:08 PM PST
by
Rebelbase
(Rock with Celtic roots at http://www.sevennations.com)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl; All
149
posted on
02/05/2003 6:06:58 PM PST
by
txradioguy
(Doing my part to keep the country free)
To: Rebelbase
You and I are thinking alike! One of the websites for the military camps in S. Korea used to show the difference between day and night.
150
posted on
02/05/2003 6:08:05 PM PST
by
txradioguy
(Doing my part to keep the country free)
To: AmericanInTokyo
bump for later
151
posted on
02/05/2003 6:13:14 PM PST
by
knak
To: Steel Wolf
All these militias are a Communist regime characteristic, for political control. The concept originated in Stalin's USSR prior to WWII and such militias appeared in Russian-occupied eastern Europe prior to 1950. The only Communisit militias I'm aware of which were even intended to have military utility were in Tito's Yugoslavia, for obvious reasons.
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posted on
02/05/2003 6:13:17 PM PST
by
Thud
To: Rebelbase
Excellent.
That is pretty close to the image I mentioned.
The pix you displayed shows the southern tip of Kyushu and Honshu, Japan at the lower right of the screen,
then the Japanese island of Tsushima and the Korean Island of Cheju Do just under the South Korean peninsula.
Seoul is the bright light on the west coast of South Korea then it's LIGHTS OUT at the 38th parallel.
153
posted on
02/05/2003 6:28:46 PM PST
by
JimVT
To: AmericanInTokyo
Arigato gozaimashita. I can't help but feel that the North Koreans are goading Bush, desperately hoping that he'll do something that will enable them to deflect blame for their country's utter desolation, and give their incredibly long-suffering people an external focus. It's a temporary solution at the very best. Although I see no obvious signs if imminent social revolution from here, I didn't in Albania, either, or Romania...when it hits it will hit very fast. The question is, will the Chinese, who are in a much better position to intervene than we are, do so in order to maintain their last socialist neighbor?
To: ken5050
We could send Michael Jackson on a concert tour...... But first, let's send in Michael Moore. The starving N. Koreans will know what to do with that fat f***.
To: Billthedrill
That would require them to make a decision.
"The question is, will the Chinese, who are in a much better position to intervene than we are, do so in order to maintain their last socialist neighbor?"
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posted on
02/05/2003 6:40:53 PM PST
by
Thud
To: Steel Wolf
Nuclear weapons are much more reliable. Well, yes, but they have 2 problems: (1) they render the area struck unlivable, and (2) will lead to certain annihilation of the North.
Or does Kim see that?
157
posted on
02/05/2003 6:44:56 PM PST
by
Amelia
(Who's sending missile parts to Iraq?)
To: Steel Wolf
Nuclear weapons are much more reliable. Well, yes, but they have 2 problems: (1) they render the area struck unlivable, and (2) will lead to certain annihilation of the North.
Or does Kim see that?
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posted on
02/05/2003 6:45:00 PM PST
by
Amelia
(Who's sending missile parts to Iraq?)
To: Thud
The most the NKPA can do is bombard the Seoul area from border fortifications. Whether they can do even that now is open to question. That would be bad enough, in terms of casualties.
Of course, it would be a net loss for the North....but not good for our side either.
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posted on
02/05/2003 6:47:29 PM PST
by
Amelia
(Who's sending missile parts to Iraq?)
To: AmericanInTokyo
Very interesting stuff, AIT. Thanks.
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posted on
02/05/2003 6:48:22 PM PST
by
Diver Dave
(Because He Lives, We Can Face Tomorrow)
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