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| 2010-10-29 |
| North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's best-known sons -- his eldest Jong-nam and his third son and heir Jong-un -- barely know each other, insiders say. A South Korean government source on Thursday said the conclusion was drawn from the time the two spent at school or living abroad and from intelligence reports. "They've hardly met," the source added. Jong-nam, who was born in 1971, was at school in Switzerland when his younger half brother Jong-un was born in 1983 or 1984. In 1980, Jong-nam left for Moscow with his mother Song Hye-rim and stayed in the Soviet Union and Switzerland until the late 1980s. Song died in 2002. Kenji Fujimoto, Kim Jong-il's Japanese cook between 1987 and 2001, said in a recent interview he never met Kim Jong-nam in person but lived with Kim senior's second and third sons Jong-chol and Jong-un, who were born of the same mother. Kim Jong-un went to school in Bern, Switzerland between 1993 and 1998. Kim Jong-nam has lived in virtual exile in Macau and Beijing since he was effectively expelled from Pyongyang after he was caught attempting to enter Japan on a forged passport in 2001. A North Korean source said when Kim Jong-nam returned in Pyongyang after his father had a stroke in August 2008, "We paid attention to whether all three brothers would get together, but it seems Jong-un and Jong-chol were staying at Kim Jong-il's villa in Wonsan and a guest house near Pyongyang and didn't get a chance to meet Jong-nam." "There can't be much brotherly love between them, so nobody knows what'll happen when their father dies," the source added. Rumors have been circulating since last year that Kim Jong-un's aides attempted to assassinate Jong-nam. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #12 WAFF > JAPAN ACHIEVES THIRD [successful] BALLISTIC MISSLE INTERCEPT USING RAYTHEON'S STANDARD MISSLE-III [RSM/SM-3's]. Again , CHINA = BEIJING, CPC is linking its self-perceived "Manifest Destiny" as a US-STYLE OR POST-US GLOBAL SUPERPOWER ON ITS ABILITY, SUCCESS IN OVERCOMING THE GEOGRAPHIC + GEOPOL OBSTRUCTIONS, ETC. OF THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" + GAIN UNILATER "GREAT POWER" DEEP/FAR ACCESS INTO THE PACIFIC + INDIAN OCEANS. Failure to do means that RISING CHINA will remain a MAJOR REGIONAL POWER [land], BUT NOT A GLOBAL ONE [Land-Air-Sea-Space], LET ALONE DE FACTO LT SUPERIORTY OVER THE US. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-10-29 22:25 |
| #11 No casualties repor along the inter-Korean DMZ. * OTOH, NEWS KERALA > CHINA REFUSES TO RESUME NEGOTIATIONS WID JAPAN OVER SENKAKUS ISLANDS DISPUTE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-10-29 22:06 |
| #10 PRAVDA > NORTH KOREAN TROOPS FIRE AT SOUTH KOREAN MILITARY UNIT [along DMZ near Hwacheon, ROK]. ROK's fired back, |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-10-29 19:14 |
| #9 You mean somebody who's not actually IN North Korea cares which of Kimmy's retarded-looking offspring is offered up for the ritual slaughter? |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-10-29 14:36 |
| #8 Probably making a bunch of hubub to try to fool people into thinking they are doing their job. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-10-29 13:40 |
| #7 Case in point, Breaking news: Several UPS planes are in quarantine, including a report that one is suspected of having radioactive cargo. Fox: Authorities are investigating a suspicious package found on a UPS plane that arrived at Philadelphia (also Newark) International Airport Friday. A crew member arriving on a UPS flight from Paris notified authorities of a suspicious package on board describing a potential radiological component, a local CBS affiliate reported. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-10-29 11:36 |
| #6 I find it interesting, as I think NK is as dangerous, if not more so, than Iran. They have the tech know-how and readily supplied it to who-knows-who. And few seem to pay attention to the Asian threat to the US, with container ships continually entering not just ports, but transported inland. A major Korean importer of petty junk such as the prizes distributed through Mickey D's, is in debt to Harrah's to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars; he could import contraband for $$$$$, although it is beyond me why the casinos extended him such high dollar credit. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-10-29 11:08 |
| #5 Kim dynasty dynamics are interesting to some, just as Kremlin-watching used to be ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2010-10-29 07:52 |
| #4 I was referring to the media's choice of a story. |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-10-29 02:26 |
| #3 ION WMF > US PRESSURE TO EXPAND GUAM BASE [US$12.0Bilyuhn Mil Buildup] ULTIMATELY FOR STRATEGIC OFFENSE, OR STRATEGIC DEFENSE AGZ CHINA? * SAME > CHINA'S CONTINUING IMPROVEMENTS TO ITS LR NUCLEAR, CONVENTIONAL STRIKE CAPABILITIES HAS VOIDED THE ADVANTAGES OF THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" AS PER US BASES IN JAPAN, OKINAWA, SOUTH KOREA + TAIWAN. FEAR OF LOSS OF "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" TO PLA NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION HAS CAUSED THE US TO PULL BACK FROM JAPAN/OKINAWA + EXPAND ITS GUAM BASE. LT LOSS OF US TECHNOLOGICAL SUPERIORITY AGZ CHINA WILL INDUCE THE US TO RETREAT AGAIN FROM GUAM BASE TOWARDS HAWAII + "THIRD ISLAND CHAIN", CONUS. * SAME > JAPAN: DAOYUS [Japan = Senkakus] IS A 30-YEAR-OLD, "MILITARY LIVE FIRE RANGE" UNDER THE PERMANENT OPERATING CONTROL OF THE USDOD AS PART OF THE US-JAPAN SECURITY ALLIANCE. USDOD [US Govt]. AS A THIRD-PARTY INTERVENOR ON SOVEREIGN CONTROL OF THE DAOYUS. IOW, IIUC TOKKYU/TOKYO is trying hard NOT to say that the SENKAKUS/DAOYUS are akin TO CUBA'S GITMO" IN JAPAN, i.e. is a DE FACTO "PERMANENT"? US SOVEREIGN ENCLAVE ON OTHERWISE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN SOIL. Japan has no real say on anything related to the Daoyus under Treaty widout US = USDOD consent??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-10-29 01:55 |
| #2 Perhaps you could find and post something more interesting, gromky? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-10-29 00:16 |
| #1 Filler story, eh? Slow news day. |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-10-29 00:14 |