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| NorK Orders DiplomatsÂ’ Children Home |
| 2013-09-20 |
| Worried about possible threats to regime stability from North Korean children educated abroad, Pyongyang has ordered its diplomats and state trading company officials stationed overseas to send their children back to the North, an expert on the secretive regime says. Kansai University Prof. Lee Young Hwa said the order was the first of its kind passed under the NorthÂ’s young leader Kim Jong Un, according to information he received from a North Korean trading official in China. The order, with a deadline set for the end of September, allows only one child per household to stay with each official abroad. Earlier this week, South Korean and other media reported that the teenage daughter of a top public security official in Pyongyang had defected to the South via a third country. The reports said the girl, who was studying at a university in Beijing and was identified only by her surname Han, was now undergoing screening in Seoul by intelligence authorities. The case drew attention as a defection by a member of North KoreaÂ’s privileged elite is rare. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #4 Essentially. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-09-20 20:06 |
| #3 He taking hostages now? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2013-09-20 18:55 |
| #2 I was going to suggest that Soylent Kimchee is diplomat's children, but I think JM has a better line on the situation in #1. Not gonna be pretty. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-09-20 12:56 |
| #1 IMO it has more to do wid overlord China's still-expanding escalations agz JAPAN, + also the PHIL + INDIA. When the shooting between Beijing + Tokyo begins, new US Ambassador to Nippon CAROLINE KENNEDY will be in the forefront of something more dangerous to the US than Syria or even Iran. Not since Mao-led China's Yalu intervention back in 1950, + NO AMOUNT OF CONTEMPORARY "RUST" = OPERATIONAL DEFICIENCY(S) IN THE POST-YEAR 2000, POST-9-11 PLA WILL STOP THE FIGHTING UNTIL "POST-US" CHINA ACHIEVES ITS OBJECTIVES IN EAST ASIA + PACIFIC. Again, HIGH = PROHIBITIVE PLA CASUALTIES does NOT compute wid Beijing. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-09-20 00:53 |