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At least since last year the bourgeois - particularly east Asian - media speculates about the presenlty and future, mainly economically (but of course on that way also politically) influence by the PR China in the DPRK. The S.K. semi-official news agency Yonhap already published following (strange) stuff last December:
China may decide to engineer coup in N.K. next year
Participants in an unpublicized White House meeting, called by U.S. President George W. Bush himself, two months ago discussed the possibility that China may arrange a coup in Pyongyang to bring down the regime sometime late next year, the Oriental Economist reported in its December edition.
China was still oscillating between options, but participants generally agreed that Beijing's mood is changing toward the North's Kim Jong-il regime, "with Beijing gradually, somewhat grudgingly, concluding that some kind of 'regime change' may be needed," the monthly said.
There was also "explicit discussion in the meeting of the possibility that, sometime next year, after China's President Hu Jintao has further consolidated his power, that China may try to engineer a military coup in Pyongyang against Kim Jong-il," it said.
National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley arranged the meeting with Michael Green, the former Asia director at the National Security Council, on Oct. 25 with Vice President Dick Cheney also attending, according to the monthly.
White House chief of staff Josh Bolton and chief political adviser Karl Rove, who has special interest in East Asia, were also at the one-hour meeting.
Green took with him Bonnie Glaser, China specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Nicholas Eberstadt, a North Korea expert at the American Enterprise Institute.
Former Assistant Secretary of State Jim Kelly was invited but declined, the monthly said.
President Bush wanted to hear the assessments of what China was likely to do about North Korea, particularly how far Beijing is willing to pressure its neighbor and close ally to give up its nuclear weapons and programs.
The monthly said the participants emphasized the importance of keeping China engaged on North Korea issues.
Beijing's three options, as described by the participants, are that it can stay close to North Korea and help strengthen it; turn aggressive and intensify pressure; or maintain the status quo and accept North Korea as a nuclear arms state.
The notion of a China-engineered coup was discussed as a possibility, one participant was quoted as telling the monthly, "but it was very academic and hypothetical and speculative, and hardly the basis for a new policy at this point."
China is one of the key players in the six-party denuclearization negotiations that also involve South and North Korea, the U.S., Japan and Russia. It hosts the multilateral forum and mediates talks between Pyongyang and Washington.
http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20061225/610000000020061225092456E6.html
Some of the recently published (and a little more serious) articles/reports about that issue:
☞ (Chinese) Firms venture into North Korea (Asia Times, 3.12))
☞ More and More North Koreans Fantasizing About China (DailyNK, 3.06)
☞ Chinese Merchants in North Korea .. (3.07)
☞ Investment Opportunities, Chinese Merchants.. (3.12)
BTW.. Kim Jong-il promised for this year a strengthening of DPRK's economy. But with its own "power" the DPRK isn't able to achieve this goal - not at all. So they must, at least economically, open NK's society. Especially for foreign trade, investments..
But if the DPRK is opening for this, much more of the Chinese capitalism (mainly as privat initiatives) will flood the DPRK (just see the example of the last 15 years in the east Siberian/Russian regions where the Chinese , mainly economically influence in extreme increasing..). And by this way it will also change the DPRK's society fundamentally!
Kim Jong-il's "creative" way how to solve the permanently lack of oil/gasoline in the DPRK:
Kim Jong-il orders Japanese cars confiscated
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has ordered most Japanese cars in the communist (blabla, b..sh..!!) country seized in a sign of his growing discontent with Japan imposing severe sanctions after the North's detonation of a nuclear bomb last October, informed sources said Monday.
"After he paid tribute to the Kumsusan Memorial Palace on Jan. 1, he saw a Japanese car that wasn't working blocking the road and gave a National Defense Committee edict to seize Japanese cars," a source familiar with the North Korean situation said, asking to remain anonymous... (Yonhap, 2.19)
http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20070219/430100000020070219090018E5.html
Haha~ The most of the (still very few) cars on DPRK's streets are used automobiles from Japan!! So, no cars - no need of gasoline anymore!!
And later (IF the "report" is true - harrharr) - I'm sure - that the cars will be sold very soon to Vladivostok.. ^^
That's the final proof that Kim Jong-il is the wisest leader (at least) in the universe: Solving the oil problem and making (some) additionally money! Yeah, just a really great idea!!^^
Related stuff:
☞ Order of Car Confiscation Issued in North Korea (DailyNK)
"ANARCHY"(??) IN NK
IF the last day's reports about some latest developments in the DPRK are true (but who knows if..??), it seems that more and more people there are searching for alternatives, a piece of freedom - even it might be perilous.
Just check out - for example - following stories:
☞ 20 N. Korean Border Guards Flee to China (K. Times, 2.05)
☞ 1 Platoon of Border Guards Escape North Korea (DailyNK, 2.05)
☞ 120 Prisoners Escape NK Political Concentration Camp (DailyNK, 2.06)
KPA soldiers near the border to China..
But not only the "ordinary" people in the DPRK are looking for an alternative life..
Last week it became public that Kim Jong-nam, one of Kim Jong-il's sons - actually his most "famous" son - is becoming a migrant (^^) in China/Macau!
☞ North Korean heir gambles with his future (Asia Times, HK/China, 2.06)
☞ Kim Jong-il’s Son Living Life of Riley in Macau (Cholsun Ilbo, 2.02)
One US Soldier In Pyeongyang
"Joe Dresnok could be the ultimate runaway. Growing up an orphan in Virginia, he kept running away from abusive foster homes. Then, as a soldier serving on the DMZ between North and South Korea, Dresnok did the unthinkable: in 1962, he ran through a minefield and defected into North Korea, where his unthinkable act led to an unimaginable life..", like that a CBS report (1.28) about the last and only US soldier residing in the DPRK was introduced.
The entire (really) unbelievable story here:
☞ Joe Dresnok: An American In North Korea (CBS, 1.28)
Watch: Last U.S. Soldier In N. Korea
Last year - I think - a new web site was established: "Pyongyang Chronicles - The Voice of the Citizens of Pyongyang" (www.pyang.su). Actually the content was just a lot of f.. b..sh..
Anyway, since before y'day, or so, you can just see following on the entrance page:
This website is currently unavailable.
Korean Workers' Party
What, the f.. hell, is Hanguk Nodong-dang? I know only Chosun Nodong-dang..
There are three possibilities for this "confusion":
The people who are/were operating this site don't know nothing about N.K. ..
..or it's simply trash..
..or a new tried anti-"communist" propaganda coup by the NIS(^^)
???
DPRK: Is (or perhaps only: was) there any organized left/socialist opposition?
Anti-Seongun poster revealed in a market of Dancheon in 2006:
"The Military first policy makes poeple starve." (according to DailyNK)
Following report was published last week (1.18) in DailyNK:
"An.. anti-regime activity occurred in 1989 in Pyongyang..
An unknown number of students put posters and disseminated leaflets criticizing the Kims. They argued that the regime to be a feudal one rather than socialism, and asked for a real socialist society based on Karl Marx’s teaching.
One day in September 1989, people gathered around Laklang Movie Theater in Pyongyang’s Laklang district. They were watching a number of posters on the theater building, titled “Our Fight.”
Posters read: “North Korea is not a socialist country. It goes contrary to Marx-Leninism. While people are forced to live in despair, only Kim Il Sung and party bureaucrats are well-fed and well being. We want a society in which everybody is equal.”
Writers quoted works of Marx and Engels. And based on original communist texts, they condemned the regime to be Kim dynasty rather than serving for proletariats. More surprising was bystanders’ reaction to the poster. It seemed nobody had tried to get rid of the obviously dangerous pieces of papers on the wall until security officers arrived. The reaction was interpreted as passive agreement by those who saw and read the posters.
Although the National Security Agency promptly started investigation, it was almost a year later in August 1990 when a group of suspected college students were arrested. All of them were students of North Korea’s most prominent universities including Kim Il-sung University, Kim Chaek Industrial University, Pyongyang Foreign Language University and Pyongyang Commerce College. Interrogators of the NSA were surprised by the suspects’ family background; most were children of senior officers in Korean People’s Army.
While the public was prohibited to read original Marxist books in libraries, the students were permitted to borrow the texts thanks to their parents’ high position. And shortly after, those young intellectuals seemed to have realized vast gap between Marx's teaching and what was going on in North Korea in reality.
After a short, secret trial, they were shot to death. Soon rumors spread to tell how brave and defiant the students were during interrogation.."
http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk01300&num=1565
Of course actually it's not clear if the report is true or not..(!!)
But so or so, in my opinion - if there would be still a organized socialist/progressive opposition in N.K. - in the case of any kind of regime change, especially it comes from the power of the own people, these kind of opposition will have/get no chance to carry out their ideas.
For example in the GDR/East Germany in the time of "regime change" (1989) there were also several left/socialist opposition groups active. But because the majority of the "ordinary" people/citizens connected the "socialism"/"communism" only with the daily reality in their country under the rule of the "Real Existing Socialism" they were - and some acted - complete in opposition with any idea of socialism or communism. They just wanted to get "freedom" and "prosperity", i.e. the (f******) ordinary capitalism.
And even today, after nearly 17 years of capitalism, incl. mass unemployment - in some parts of the east about 20 per cent have no jobs - massive social destruction, etc., there is NO serious left opposition/alternative to the system (according to recent polls a majority of the people there is complete dissatisfied with the current society - many of them even don't trust the "democracy" anymore)!
KCNA - The World's No. 1 Trash Magazine
♦ 'The music-based politics of the Workers' Party of Korea has brought about a great turn in the development of the Korean revolution..
There are many famous songs including.. "All Servicepersons and People Will Become Human Bullets and Bombs."'
☞ Great Vitality of Music-based Politics
Wow it must be really great to wake up in the morning with beautiful songs like that on the lips..^^
♦ 'In the postwar period the President (Kim Il-sung) set forth the slogan "Hold a rifle in one hand and a sickle and hammer in the other!""
☞ Songun, Life and Soul of Korea
Well, it might be very effective if the Koreans had/have at least four (4) arms and hands, but...^^
FAT GERMAN RABBITS TO FEED THE POORMonster Bunnies For N. KOREA
An east German pensioner who breeds rabbits the size of dogs has been asked by the DPRK to help set up a big bunny farm to alleviate food shortages in the communist country. Now journalists and rabbit gourmets from around the world are thumping at his door.
It all started when Karl Szmolinsky won a prize for breeding Germany's largest rabbit, a friendly-looking 10.5 kilogram "German Gray Giant" called Robert, in February 2006.
Images of the chubby monster went around the world and reached the reclusive communist state of North Korea, a country of 23 million which according to the United Nations Food Programme suffers widespread food shortages and where many people "struggle to feed themselves on a diet critically deficient in protein, fats and micronutrients."
Szmolinsky, 67, from the eastern town of Eberswalde near Berlin, recalls how the North Korean embassy approached his regional breeding federation and enquired whether it might be willing to sell some rabbits to set up a breeding farm in North Korea. He was the natural choice for the job.
Each of his rabbits produces around seven kilograms of meat, says Szmolinsky, who was so keen to help alleviate hunger in the impoverished country that he made the North Koreans a special price -- ?80 per rabbit instead of the usual ?200 to ?250.
"They'll be used to help feed the population," Szmolinsky told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "I've sent them 12 rabbits so far, they're in a petting zoo for now. I'll be travelling to North Korea in April to advise them on how to set up a breeding farm. A delegation was here and I've already given them a book of tips."
Greedy Rabbits
Szmolinsky knows what he's talking about. He has been breeding rabbits for 47 years. The 12 bunnies he sent can produce 60 babies a year -- if the North Koreans find enough food to feed them properly. "I feed them everything -- grain, carrots, a lot of vegetables. At the moment they're getting kale," said Szmolinsky.
"One rabbit provides a filling meal for eight people. There are a variety of recipes such as rabbit leg or rabbit roulade. No one buys rabbit fur anymore though, I just throw that in the bin," says Szmolinsky with chilling dispassion.
He breeds between 60 and 80 rabbits per year and manages to stay emotionally detached enough to send the furry, innocent-looking, huge-eared creatures to slaughter. Asked if he has any pet bunnies he could never part with, he said: "You can't hang on to them, if you did you wouldn't be able to breed them."
Szmolinsky's North Korean connection has attracted media attention from around the world, and he seems to be getting tired of it. "I'm getting ambushed by camera crews," he said, adding that he was booked up with interview appointments for days. "There's a Japanese crew flying in from Paris later."
Potential Chinese buyers have also expressed an interest. Szmolinsky doesn't know how many more rabbits he will be sending to North Korea and said he definitely wouldn't be increasing his own production to satisfy growing demand from Asia.
"I'm not increasing production and I'm not taking any more orders after this. They cost a lot to feed," he said.
Der Spiegel, 1.10
☞ Robert der Rammler goes East
☞ Riesen-Kaninchen fuer Nordkorea
First of all: Today's Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (the Sunday edition of THE MAIN bourgeois German daily FAZ) maintained that the paper has evidence that the "supernotes" - i.e. the falsified/faked 100-$-notes - were produced in CIA printing offices (to finance CIA undercover activities/operations) and not in the DPRK (Stammen die „Supernotes” von der CIA?).
Anyway.. here's a kind of collections of last week's articles, reports and comments about/from the DPRK:
"On January 4 on Kim Il Sung Square, Pyongyang, 100,000 citizens hold a rally,
vowing that they will follow the direction sought by the government’s New Year’s
joint editorial, which was published in three state-run newspapers.
This year’s joint editorial emphasized the country’s "military-first" policy
and economic recovery as the top agenda items."
(Korean Central News Agency, Yonhap, Hankyoreh)
"The New Year's Day of Juche 96 (2007) has come. From the early morning,
streams of the Korean people visit statues of the great President Kim Il Sung,
the eternal sun of Juche... to make a New Year's bow to him" (KCNA)
I Will Be the Highest Leader till 90 Years (DailyNK)
Reports Indicate N. Korea Plans New Test (AP)
North Korea accuses US of conducting practice aerial strikes (AP)
North Korea on Saturday accused the US of carrying out aerial exercises to practice strikes on targets in the country.
The North's Korean Central News Agency said the exercises were conducted over South Korea, but were meant as practice runs for possible aerial attacks against North Korea. "Strategic bombers of the US imperialist aggression forces staged a DPRK-targeted madcap air strike exercise" on Friday, KCNA reported, citing an unidentified military source..
U.S. warns N.K. against another nuclear test (K. Herald)
The Book A Year in Pyongyang, written by Andrew Holloway, was already published in 2003, but - in my opinion - it is still very interesting to read it.
^^(*)
Chapter 1
There are times in life when even the dullest and most complacent among us feel the need to make a change. It was at such a time in my life that a friend drew my attention to a job she had seen advertised on a Leeds University notice board. It was an unusual job in a little known country. The remuneration was not extravagant, but I estimated it would be sufficient for me to meet my ongoing commitments and save enough to tide me over on my return until I could find another job.
The country was the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, better known in the west as North Korea. The job entailed raising translations into English that Koreans had made of the works of their President, Kim Il Sung, his son and heir apparent Kim Jong Il, and sundry other propaganda...
Please read the entire book (23 chapters!!) here!
* source of the pic(the t-shirt):
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