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| Kim Jong-un 'Masterminded Attacks on S.Korea' |
| 2011-08-03 |
| A North Korean document supports the conclusion that North Korea attacked the Navy corvette Cheonan and Yeonpyeong Island last year to whip up domestic support for the succession of leader Kim Jong-il's son, Jong-un. The document, which the Chosun Ilbo obtained from a source in China on Tuesday, claims that Kim junior was deeply involved in both attacks. Titled "Lecture Materials," the document was apparently drawn up for military propaganda officers early this year. According to its wording, Kim Jong-un told military leaders that the inter-Korean situation "will become very tense in February and March." He made the comments around the end of January last year, two months before the attack on the Cheonan. The document claims South Korea and the U.S. "concocted a plot about the sinking of the Cheonan, but it failed." The source, who claims to do frequent business with trading companies under the North Korean Workers Party, said that propaganda officers have been indoctrinating North Korean soldiers to show absolute loyalty to Kim Jong-un based on those materials. "They even have to take a test after their indoctrination classes," he said. Whether or not Kim junior anticipated the tensions resulting from the attacks, it is clear that the regime is determined to make political capital from assigning the responsibility to him. As for the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island, it read: "As the South made a fuss about defending the Northern Limit Line [the de facto maritime border], [Kim Jong-un] stressed the need to kick the enemy in the teeth." "He made sure that multiple rocket launchers and coast artillery batteries would be mobilized and a torrent of shells would pound waters near Baeknyeong and Yeonpyeong Islands several times," the document added. The North fired a barrage of shells in the waters near the east of Baeknyeong Island in late January of last year. Ten months later, it shelled Yeonpyeong Island in a similar manner. The document apparently acknowledges that sailors were wounded aboard a North Korean patrol boat that was partially destroyed as a result of bombardment by a South Korean Navy patrol boat in a skirmish near Daecheong Island in November 2009. Immediately after the skirmish, Kim Jong-un ordered the North Korean Navy to take steps to evacuate and treat the wounded, the document claims. "You must save their lives at all cost so that they can take their revenge. This is my order," he is quoted as saying. At the time, the regime kept quiet about the casualties in the humiliating defeat. The document attempts to present the younger Kim, who is in his late 20s and has no military experience, as a warrior figure. "We must lay down the South Sea at the feet of the leader [regime founder Kim Il-sung], who rests his head on Mt. Baekdu," the document quotes him as saying. "I'll drive a tank to Seoul myself." A Beijing-based North Korea expert said the regime made an all-out effort to establish a record of military achievement for Kim junior, and the document evidently aims to show that he masterminded the attacks. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 ION KOREA TIMES > BEIJING TOOK WRONG FOREIGN POLICY [Policies = Political, Military] WID PYONGYANG. ARTIC = DPRK worried about merits of post-KorWar "Blood Alliance" wid China due to latter's failure to overtly ot strongly affirm same on the same level as the US does wid its Regional Allies [ROK, Japan, etc.]; + A NUMBER OF CHINESE SCHOLARS HAVE CALLED FOR CHINA TO FORMALLY SCRAP SAID "BLOOD ALLIANCE" WID PYONGYANG + TREAT NORTH KOREA AS A "NORMAL COUNTRY". versus * INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > CHINA VOWS TO CRUSH ETIM TERRORISTS TRAINED IN PAKISTAN. Prolly a combo, i.e. Chinese demand for Pak to take strong unilater action agz the ETIM + covert PLA-led raids, selective assassinations agz hardline key ETIM, UIghur Leaders??? * PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > JAPANESE WANT TO ENCIRCLE CHINA WID US, JOINT ASEAN. * SAME > HOW NORWEGIAN KILLER BREIVIK DESCRIBES CHINA + ITS PEOPLE. * CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > CHINA LASHES AT MANILA OVER ISLAND CLAIMS [South China Sea at UN Building]. * SAME > [Yomiuri Shimbun]JAPANESE NEWSPAPER SAYS CHINA HAS DESIGNED AN INDIGENOUS AIRCRAFT CARRIER. Its first wholly of Chin design, + wid same to be built in Shanghai. * WAFF > CHINESE "LONGSWORD"-10 [CJ-10 LACMS] POSES THREAT TO US AIRCRAFT CARRIERS. > SHORE-To-SHIP VERSION rumored to already be in possess wid the PLA. > CJ-20 = Upgraded version. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-08-04 00:07 |
| #2 Sunk a South Korean corvette on his first try? Is like that how Daddy hit seven holes in one his first round of golf? |
| Posted by: gromky 2011-08-03 09:21 |
| #1 "rests his head on Mt. Baekdu." ...while he was busy "masterminding." " stressed the need to kick the enemy in the teeth." and "pound the waters near Baeknyeong and Yeonpyeong Islands." steely-eyes and wearing his Movado. Does anyone ever still just call them Gooks? You could have fooled me. |
| Posted by: de Medici 2011-08-03 04:52 |