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).

[Indy Pendance]

Here's a thread:

Alleged North Korean spy held in L.A.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yep, lazy American press (in many cases). Charlatans and Johnny Come Lately's w/ tony hair styles, to the core, many of 'em.

[ken5050]

LOL...I just spewed soda all over the keyboard....actually, could be try and get PETA to open a chapter in NK....that, above all, would convince them to surrender

[AmericanInTokyo]

Gee, thanks, but I hope my translation was better than "Systran".

Sounded like Yoda. I have a headache after reading that!

[knews_hound]

I just wanted to drop you a line to say, on behalf of myself and many other Freepers...

Thank you

Your posts, often from unusual sources give us a great view of the world beyond the confines of AP/UPI/CNN ect.

Cheers,

knews hound

[AmericanInTokyo]

Thank you. You and many others are very kind.

Now, let's go get 'em!

[Dark Wing]

ping

[headsonpikes]

LOL!

That looks like raw Debka feed.

Wait a minute...

[livius]

Your translation was great!

Thanks for the information. I hope this is filtering out to our lame "news sources" here in the US. If they're smart, they've got somebody lurking on FR to get the real news first, and we'll see more on this soon. But you were first!

[okie01]

Outstanding post. Thanks for your efforts.

Yet another FR "scoop". To be a FReeper, it would seem, is to be very well-informed, indeed...

[nicmarlo]

Bookmarked for later read. BTTT

[AmericanInTokyo]

I was long from 'first', beg to different. but thanks just the same.... really, the 'first' person on this probably risked his or her life getting across the Yalu with this in the knapsack...then it went to the NGOs probably, then to Sankei, to Fuji, from me, to all...

[areafiftyone]

WOW - you did it again!! Fantastic work - As usual!!!

[Southack]

The North Koreans want us to believe that they are ultra-desperate, crazy, and about to explode; under the belief that we will grant them concessions rather than go to war against people so insane (especially as we get closer to going to war against Iraq).

This document would seem to fit in well with their aim, whether it is true/real or merely a "plant".

[debg]

AIT, your translation is infinitely better...just thought a little substantiation would be superfluous (even if Systran doesn't recognize paragraphs!)

Thank you most kindly for your bringing the Japanese news/viewpoint to FR. I lived in Japan for many years and my heart is with them.

[McGruff]

Good job there freeper.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Thanks. In part, these various posting/translating efforts are to raise the visibility and credibility and powerful nature of FR worldwide; and to hopefully help in a small way to take this site way past and out of the reach of the claims of dispondent, whining liberal detractors who (try to) paint FREE REPUBLIC as simply a 'hang out for extreme right whackos'. We'll show them a thing or two about journalism, intelligence, credibility, integrity, and truth.... and pretty soon, many people from different political persuasions and walks of li will indeed regularly come HERE (http://www.freerepublic.com) to get it quickly and clearly. It's also fun to bypass the mainstream media which sits on these stories for so long, then stumbles across them, and then somehow tries to claim they are bringing us 'news' when it is weeks or months late, and incomplete at that.

[Indy Pendance]

I had to do that with spanish documents ;)

[AmericanInTokyo]

The societal situation alluded to in this internal report is confirmed by eyewitnesses who have defected, and Japanese journalists who visited DPRK, and others which report things are really at a strain and the govt. is getting restless.

Recent official DPRK documents published as public notices in open forum in North Korea, also tend to show their concern, what with the nature of their dictates. As a result, I respectfully dismiss this as 'disinformation', as you may have suggested.

[Indy Pendance]

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