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

[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).

[Amelia]

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.

Best theory I've seen so far.

[Erasmus]

It's time we flew over them in the Enola McLuhan and bombed them with levis and copies of "The Naked Lunch".

Bomb bay doors open and swingin', baby.

Groovy!

[BOBTHENAILER]

and bibles, all outlawed by North Korea as a threat to socialist order

"Let there be Light"

Just now read this. Great job in posting this. Sure does point to a lot of answers concerning their recent actions.

[AndrewC]

Thanks for your links and pictures. Pretty stark demonstration of a dark age nation that soon might have the big one. Following txradioguy's link I found a loop sequence. It clearly shows how really dark N. Korea is.

North Korea stays in the dark

[jodorowsky]

Come on North Korea, take the Ceaucescu Challenge!

[Henk]

Hey! This thread was linked by Instapundit.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

A "Heads on Pikes" bump back at ya!

[Jabba the Nutt]

The best analysis I've read about NKor is from the USS Clueless. Den Beste basically argues that NKor doesn't want war, because that will be the end of their regime. They're lose to a SKor/US alliance. The problem is that NKor is strong enough to do a lot a damage to Seoul and kill tens of thousands of SKoreans.

The SKors don't want to pay this price naturally enough. The US strategy is predicated on the idea that time is on our side. NKor wants to create a crisis condition and they insist on only dealing with the US as the only source of money that they can extort. The US is saying that there is no crisis, that this matter should be brought to the UN Security Council, where France, Germany etc, will want to talk everything to death. That eats up more time and weakens the NKors.

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #1

Thanks for your post. I considered myself doing it based on a Korean newpaper report. But yours is more detailed than what I saw in that paper.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks for the ping and the link. Awesome picture. (^;

[cyclotic]

There is a missionary group called Voice of the Martyrs. (the founder was pastor in Romania who was jailed for 10 or 15 years for preaching the word)

VOM has printed the Gospel on Mylar balloons. When the wind is right, they float them over the DMZ and northward. They have "assets" in country who report great success in spreading the Light in this manner.

[concerned about politics]

people are increasingly being 'poisoned by these capitalist diseases of thought.'

Geeeez. We thought the facist liberal thought police were bad in America. We'd better stop them now, before we become NK II!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Thanks. Is it out there on the Korean press, too? Hadn't caught that. I have now seen the video of FNN on this report. They zoomed in on the cover sheet as well as the 'internal/Party use only' classified stamp, etc. Pretty interesting report.

[Rebelbase]

THAT IS A COOL LINK! Did you notice all the fishing boats moving around in the sea of Japan?

[Husker24]

Can you IMAGINE the stuff that is going to come out after this regime collapses.

[AmericanInTokyo]

It may be an interesting study in human nature, to see after the barbed wire comes down and they have buried the remants of Kim Jong il, whether the newly freed North Korean people turn to Bibles or Porno. What a vacuum to fill in the national mentality. They will be quite upset for the years of deprivation and brainwashing. I hope they go the Christian, civilized route, and not into a route of abject disorder, crime, petty theft, alcoholism, prostitution, etc. which could easily be eeked on by East Asia organized crime, just frothing at the mouth to get into that place.

Post Soviet Russia might be instructive.

[rintense]

Incredible, AiT! You've done it again. This is some serious stuff. Hasa anyone forwarded it onto FNC?

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #173

It is on the paper edition of today's newspaper (Joongang Ilbo). It was a medium size article in the back page. I am not sure it is on the internet edition.

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #173

It is on the paper edition of today's newspaper (Joongang Ilbo). It was a medium size article in the back page. I am not sure it is on the internet edition.

[AmericanInTokyo]

It may be an interesting study in human nature, to see after the barbed wire comes down and they have buried the remants of Kim Jong il, whether the newly freed North Korean people turn to Bibles or Porno? What a vacuum to fill in the whole national mentality. They will be quite upset for the long years of total deprivation and abject terror and brainwashing. I hope they go the Christian, civilized route, and not 'flip out' and go into a route of total disorder, endless retaliation, crime, petty theft, alcoholism, prostitution, etc. which could easily be eeked on by the omnipresent East Asian organized crime (Japanese/S. Korean/Russia yakuza), just frothing at the mouth to get into that place.

Post-Soviet Russia societal shifts might be instructive case study.