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| Kimmie fears CIA bribing of underlings, a la Sammy |
| 2005-04-20 |
| North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has long said he does not fear any external threats as the communist country's 1.1-million military is ready to "crush" any invaders. But Kim is actually concerned that he may be assassinated or removed from the post by the United States, according to a North Korean secret military document. Sounds like a reasonable concern to me. Makes sense. The 39-page booklet, published by the North Korean Peoples' Army in 2004, states that "the heart of the revolution" is the prime target of the enemies, in clear reference to Kim Jong-Il. The document, obtained by Seoul's intelligence agency, says the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has told the Pentagon to make North Korea's military leadership, not nuclear facilities, the chief aim of efforts to end the nuclear crisis. Sounds like a plan. "The United States has founded new terror information organizations and is infiltrating spies and terrorists into our country," the document claims. That is a tough one. I hope that we are making headway. The document, created for general-level officers, calls for senior officers to step up ideological indoctrination campaigns for soldiers and urged servicemen to safeguard Kim Jong-Il at the cost of their lives. Turn up the gain on the Propagandatron. "Officers must teach their soldiers in great detail about the U.S. concentration of advanced murder weapons and psychological warfare on North Korean operations," it said. Good. The more they learn, the worse off they will will be. It is like learning about lightning. The military document also calls for the military's "unswerving loyalty" to Kim Jong-Il at a time when "the situation gets tense, noting that Iraq's Saddam Hussein regime collapsed as its key troops were dispersed by U.S. psychological warfare. That's the fact, Jack. Bwahahahahaha! "Saddam's 100,000 soldiers had pledged loyalty to their leader, but abandoned the president as the enemies' psychological warfare reached a peak," the document says. This can happen to you, too. "Benefiting from bribery in Iraq, the United States has been trying to use the same tactic toward the republic [North Korea]. The main targets of such bribery operatives are our military officers," it says, warning the North Korean secret service about propaganda and possible bribery attempts by foreign agents. "Here, Comrade. Have a candy bar." The document also called for the military to brace itself for economic sanctions, which it said were "aimed at weakening national solidarity behind the command post of the revolution." A January edition of North Korean monthly magazine, Public Education, recently obtained in Seoul, also said the United States was plotting to kill senior North Korean officials and to bribe them to gain information from inside the communist country. "If ya can't bribe 'em, just kill 'em. Note of caution: do not get this statement backward. "The United States recently plans to conduct a massive operation to bribe and buy off our officials," it said. It called on North Korean teachers to make their students aware of the dangers of what it described as the U.S. imperialists' cunning ploy. South Korean intelligence officials and experts said the documents appeared genuine. "The document shows the North Korea leadership was shocked and frustrated by the fall of Saddam Hussein's Iraq," said Chung Young-Tae, a North Korea specialist at South Korea's state-run Korea Institute for National Unification. The program of Shock and Frustration. Kim vanished from public view for six weeks when the U.S.-led war began in Iraq in March 2003, sparking speculation he was hiding in a bunker for fear of attacks. "I'm heading to the bunker. Do not contact me until everything settles down." "North Korea reinforced Kim Jong-Il's security after Saddam's capture," a South Korean intelligence official said. With Hussein ousted, North Korea and Iran are the two remaining members of what President Bush called the "axis of evil." Kim's concerns were fueled as some in Washington called for regime change or at least regime transformation to end North Korea's nuclear drive. Justified fears, I might say. The country's 1.1-million-strong armed forces, the world's fifth largest, are the backbone of Kim's iron-fisted rule. Kim rules the country in the capacity of the top military officer under his "army-first" policy. Army first, people and food, a distant second. |
| Posted by:Alaska Paul |
| #5 I sure hope he doesn't find out that the US has managed to infiltrate his most trusted inner circle and the leadership of his military. It would be really disastrous if he found that out that the people he trusts most - are out to get him. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2005-04-20 11:18:30 PM |
| #4 Sounds like they need to double the rations of Juche. |
| Posted by: Brett 2005-04-20 11:17:06 PM |
| #3 But Kim is actually concerned that he may be assassinated or removed from the post by the United States, according to a North Korean secret military document. We're working on it. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-04-20 10:27:35 PM |
| #2 If only there were a chance that the CIA really is trying to get to one of Kim's underlings. Unfortunately, CIA is so comprehensively incompetent these days that I'd be surprised if they even knew how to get close enough to offer a bribe, much less successfully pass one. |
| Posted by: Jonathan 2005-04-20 10:01:21 PM |
| #1 I wonder if he'll name his trusted horse the leader of the government. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-04-20 9:39:15 PM |