North Korea: a rebellious angsty teenager
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Looks like war may escalate between North Korea and UN, US over nuclear testing issue.
North Korea just reminds me of Singaporean gangsters... always creating problem for us.
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Gates to Discuss North Korea's 'Potential Game Changer' at Singapore Conference
Washington
27 May 2009U.S. officials say North Korea's recent moves will be a key topic for Defense Secretary Robert Gates as he heads to Singapore late Wednesday, arriving Friday morning, to attend an annual regional defense conference.
Maybe the regions could possibily send Ah Kim some DVD so that he don't play too much of the buttons.
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Kim Jong IL will be assasinated soon and China should turn the other way around and pretend they dont know what is happening
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angsty teenager armed with a nuke.
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Originally posted by january:
Looks like war may escalate between North Korea and UN, US over nuclear testing issue.
North Korea just reminds me of Singaporean gangsters... always creating problem for us.
I wish u r accurate in your comments but it's more complex than that.
Being nuke positive is to keep up with the Joneses & it all boils down to one thing - military might.
Whether it's for defence, deterrence or mad (mutual assured destruction) or a combo, the issue of nuclearization will always be argued, quarrelled & threatened.
Logically one can ask this question: "why u can have it & I cant?".
Militarily the answer is: "You cant because we dont want too many to have nukes"
Logically: "Is that equitable? - a more sensible thing is all should not have it at all".
For ordinary folks like many of us, we should tell all these f..xx.kkbas..taks: "Please dont play play with humanity!"
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It is unforgivable and a crime for the political leadership of any country to spend its meagre resources and wealth to develop the nuclear weapon, while letting the population to rot in famine and economic backwardness.
Should the World Community come to the aid of the North Koreans - with food, material and money - when the successive North Korean governments have ignored the plights of their own citizens, and also ignored the voices from the World ?
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Originally posted by Atobe:
It is unforgivable and a crime for the political leadership of any country to spend its meagre resources and wealth to develop the nuclear weapon, while letting the population to rot in famine and economic backwardness.
Should the World Community come to the aid of the North Koreans - with food, material and money - when the successive North Korean governments have ignored the plights of their own citizens, and also ignored the voices from the World ?
1. If that is the case especially "population to rot in famine & economic backwardness", why are they still around as a country?
2. What ever it is they are still doggedly going on with or without "the World Community come to the aid of the North Koreans ................ and also ignored the voices from the World?" as can be seen by the latest nuclear test & missile launches.
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N. Korea is mad!
They have withdrawn from the armistice signed in 1953 in the war with S.Korea which means both States are at war now!
And what do nuclear power states do when they go to war? Application of nukes, not just one, to cause destruction on a massive scale. Perhaps the mad leader is aware that he cannot survive a nuke war, so what the hell - threaten to send one to beijing, send one to jap, and to hell with S korea with their remaining 3 nukes
Better start getting your refund for the june holiday trips to Japan and korea or Beijing.
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North Korea: a rebellious angsty teenager
Kim Jong Il is not teenager.
Looks like war may escalate between North Korea and UN, US over nuclear testing issue.
At least they didn't kill people in other countries.
Israeli air strikes' in Sudan killed 119 people
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=96093
USA Strikes in Afghanistan Kill 100, Mostly Civilians
North Korea just reminds me of Singaporean gangsters... always creating problem for us.
DPRK in what way creates problems for us?
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N. Korea is mad! They have withdrawn from the armistice signed in 1953 in the war with S.Korea which means both States are at war now!
They're not mad, it's just tactics.
Just tactics.
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Originally posted by richong 3216:
1. If that is the case especially "population to rot in famine & economic backwardness", why are they still around as a country?
2. What ever it is they are still doggedly going on with or without "the World Community come to the aid of the North Koreans ................ and also ignored the voices from the World?" as can be seen by the latest nuclear test & missile launches.
A country can exist even with famine - but what is the quality of life for the citizens when the politics of the country takes precedence over the people's well-being ?
Yes, with or without "the World Community coming to the aid of the North Koreans" - they will doggedly and blindly support their Leader who has been promoted to pop star status by their propaganda machinery.
If the humanitarian sense of the World Community did not intervene during the harsh periods in the early 1990s, and again in early 2001 - the North Korean political system would have imploded, as their traditional allies in China and Russia have both already adopted the market economic system.
Try digesting the following articles to get an insight of the North Korean politics.
‘The Politics of Famine in North Korea’
‘North Korea’s Kim-made famine’
‘Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform’
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Originally posted by Ah Chia:
They're not mad, it's just tactics.
Just tactics.
I hope you are right. Currently, the US and S Korea inspects ships plying the N Korean route for carrying nuke material. N.Korea has officially stated that any further such actions will be deem acts of war.Words had been officially stated and stands made. All it takes is just one more search and the whole thing goes BOOM!
Another Perry of Japan or gulf of tonkin incident awaiting to happen? You think US is gonna back down and be threatened or bullied by this nuthead, stop their searches and let nuke material be further supplied to make more bombs?
Either nutcase Kim fires first or US will simply just drop a few nukes to end their nuclear capabilities. Furthermore, what do you think the N korean spies/commando sleeper cells in S Korea will do when war is re-activated? Sleeping will be the last thing that they do.
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Either nutcase Kim fires first
He nutcase, long time ago nuke USA already.
Long time ago end truce already.
Long time ago invade South Korea already.
Don't have to wait until now.
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You think US is gonna back down and be threatened or bullied by this nuthead, stop their searches and let nuke material be further supplied to make more bombs?
When it comes to North Korea, USA usually backs down.
They have nukes after all.
Unless someone in USA is a nutcase.
Iraq and DPRK, you attack who?
One has nukes, the other no nukes.
USA is not a nutcase, although they like to pretend.
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So is Israel also a nutcase?
Israeli minister threatens Iran
"If Iran continues with its programme for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it. The sanctions are ineffective," Mr Mofaz told Yediot Ahronot.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle
Netanyahu: If Israel Doesn't Take out Iranian "Threat", No One Will
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22707.htm
A tribute to the tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans who have died in these US wars.
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Backing down is one thing.
But the crux of the whole excercise is to get aid. N.Korea, just like every nation is Earth, is most definately hurting from the present crisis. Hunger, poverty and starvation may be worse.
In the past, US can afford to be generous, but NOT anymore. They have their own people to feed. So who can afford to feed the N.Koreans? China? with problems of their own?
Perhaps the rich middle east? Doubt so, their mentality would rather N. Korea get its nukes so that they too will get some, hell if the koreans starve. Other treasury rich nations such as Asean members? No way will any of us support using our own wealth to feed foreigners! We have our own mouths to feed.
So what is N. Korea is suppose to do? Best course of action - rob S.Korea to feed its people or let war kill off millions of hungry mouths for better utilisation of its resources.
I may be wrong, but it seems this is the gameplan.
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I may be wrong, but it seems this is the gameplan.
You are wrong.
Their target is USA.
I think you read too much propaganda from USA pundits.
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*Points middle finger at NKorea govt
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Originally posted by xtreyier:
N. Korea is mad!
They have withdrawn from the armistice signed in 1953 in the war with S.Korea which means both States are at war now!
And what do nuclear power states do when they go to war? Application of nukes, not just one, to cause destruction on a massive scale. Perhaps the mad leader is aware that he cannot survive a nuke war, so what the hell - threaten to send one to beijing, send one to jap, and to hell with S korea with their remaining 3 nukes
Better start getting your refund for the june holiday trips to Japan and korea or Beijing.
Hey I am going to Singapore in June but you know what? When the shit do hit the fan it wont miss a spot and the little red dot could be the next little brown dot. -
Why don't have a change and switch to DPRK propaganda pundit?
Everytime propaganda from USA pundit also sian right?
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*Points middle finger at NKorea govt
Why?
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Originally posted by xtreyier:
N. Korea is mad!
They have withdrawn from the armistice signed in 1953 in the war with S.Korea which means both States are at war now!
And what do nuclear power states do when they go to war? Application of nukes, not just one, to cause destruction on a massive scale. Perhaps the mad leader is aware that he cannot survive a nuke war, so what the hell - threaten to send one to beijing, send one to jap, and to hell with S korea with their remaining 3 nukes
Better start getting your refund for the june holiday trips to Japan and korea or Beijing.
We are all arm chair political pundits giving our take on the likely unfolding developements over the Korean penisular but I am almost sure that the North will not be so trigger happy as to start a nuclear war - the worst case scenario will be a conventional war and the current situation is more of sable rattling by your so called nut head.
You may say he is mad but I dont think he is mad enough not to know of the nuke induced mad (ness).
So, all you would be tourists go ahead & enjoy your holiday.
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Alleged Kim Jong Il's Candid Talk Caught on Tape
Wolgan Chosun: This is a transcript of Kim Jong Il's conversation with Huh Jong Man and Suh Man Sul, two top leaders of the General Association of the Koreans Resident in Japan (Chongryon), a pro-North organization.
The conversation took place in the evening of April 25, 1998 at Kim Jong Il's villa.
We obtained this document from a Japanese intelligence agency concerned with North Korea. On the surface, Kim is critical of the United States, Japan, and South Korea and praises the socialist system of North Korea, but deep in his heart, he is envious of capitalism and wants to learn from it. Kim is candid about the difficulties in North Korea and unintentionally points out some of the weaknesses of the North Korean system.
Some of the highlights of Kim's conversation are:
Kim Dae Jung is unusually mean-spirited. Kim Young Sam is a dirt-bag. Kim Ja Jung is the evilest of all South Korean capitalists. We need superior seeds for our crops. Bring here Japanese factories when they are closed down. The United States is our mortal enemy and at the same time, our teacher. We sent in the army to save the Hwanghae Steel Mills from the thieves who ran it. I admire the capitalist legal systems. The law exams in Japan and South Korea are exemplary.
The United States is enjoying the Asian financial crisis.
I
would like to discuss various issues concerning Chongryon with you comrades on
this occasion. First, I would like to briefly touch upon the current
situation and the world economy. Today on the international area, we
see sharp conflicts between socialism and imperialism, self-determination forces
and domination forces. Photo: Kim Jong Il in a jovial mood.
The imperialists and reactionaries are in the way of the struggle of progressive people to be free of foreign domination. They are hell-bent on maintaining and expanding their hegemony.
The Yankee devils act as if they have the solution for the current financial crisis in Asia, but what they really want is domination of Asia. And, they are succeeding. More and more Asian nations are falling in the US camp. Comrade Huh Jong Man said that the Japanese economy has been down for so long that it would be difficult for it to bounce back. Well, it appears that the Yankee devils will pocket the Japanese economy.
Hashimoto became Japanese prime minister at the worst time possible. I hear his approval rating has dropped to 35% Has the high-speed train tracks, damaged in the earthquake, been fixed? They claim that they have recovered from the earthquake, but I believe people's livelihood and personal wealth will feel the finch for some time to come in a major way.
What is the ratio of hydro-electric power to thermal electric power generation in Japan? There are more than 30 nuclear power stations in Japan and so nuclear power generation is greater than hydro or thermal power generation. There are many rivers and water sources in Japan and the Japanese don't know what a drought is. Japan has many tall mountains with high volumes of water, and it would be easy for Japan to build dams. The Japanese government owns power companies but I hear private companies are now allowed to generate and sell electricity at will.
How is bbazzinko (Japanese slot machines) business? It is controlled by the police, and it is nearly impossible to get a permit to start a new shop. Because of the slow economy, I would think people would spend less money at slot machines. According to Japanese devils, slot machines take in over three hundred billion yen annually. This is about 250 billion in US dollars. This is a big business. About 70% of the slot machine workers are Koreans and about 33% of the Koreans belong to Chongryon. Thus, this is the primary business of Chongryon.
What is the business tax rate in Japan? It is about 50% and even the bonuses paid to employees are taxed. The individual employees bear the brunt of this heavy tax. It is natural then that many businesses and tax payers cheat and avoid paying taxes. Due to the poor economy in Japan today, all sorts of crimes are being committed. High school kids kill their teachers with a sword, and so on. Crime waves are rampant and the people fear for their life for the first time in Japan.
I decry the socialist state in which the guests must pay and kowtow.
Looking
through Japanese product catalogues, I have noticed that they allow monthly
installment payments. How long have they been using this method of
payments? Even shoddy products are being sold on a payment plan. It
appears that the payment plan is due to slow sales.
Photo: Left to right, Huh Jong Man, Jung Tae Wha, and Suh Man Sul, on the occasion of Jung's visit to Tokyo on August 23, 2000.
Our socialist system is people-centered and we say that we serve the people, but the truth of the matter is that our economic system is not quite like that. In a capitalist society, customers are catered to and their pockets are picked clean in every possible way.The socialist system is ice-cold and indifferent to the customers/consumers. In our country, our store workers take the attitude that they don't care of the customers buy anything or not. Instead of servicing the customers and trying to sell something, they would rather that patrons did not show up so that they won't have to do anything.
In a capitalist nation, service is everything. When our people visit Japan, they are courted everywhere with "Welcome, welcome, please come in". Japanese eateries have managers who supervise the servers, and any service boy in trouble with a patron is severely reprimanded or punished. In our country, our servers are never fired for poor service. On the contrary, the patrons are expected to pay and bow to the servers for the privilege. It should be that those who receive money should thank the givers, but alas, here in this country, it is just the opposite.
Capitalism has been around over one hundred years now and it tries all sorts of things to stay alive. As I have told Secretary Kim Ki Nam earlier, there are many things that we must do some research on. The Japanese devils are not creative. They are good at copying other people's creations and then modifying them. Our Leader Kim Il Sung said that the Japanese devils have no creation of their own. Every product they have, they have borrowed or stolen from other people.
Kim Ja Jung is the evilest capitalist in South Korea.
The real ruler of South Korea is the United States government. Today, South Korea is in a turmoil, politically and economically. Seoul officials are trying to restore economic stability but I doubt they will make it.Kim Dae Jung is caught between a rock and a hard place. He has problems with the National Intelligence Agency, Cheju-do, the broadcast service sector, and so on. He is desperately trying to find his way out. He is not going to fix the economy. I have been reading up on the news from South Korea and see that the South Korean devils are screaming in pain deep in a financial bankruptcy.
Photo: Kim Ja Joong, the former chairman of the Daewoo Group was fingered by Kim Jong Il as the most evil capitalist of South Korea.
The South Korean devils prospered for about ten years starting in 1988 but now they are broke and dirt poor. I hear they are writing to their Chongryon relatives for money to tide them over. The South Korean devils fear that their defense industries may go kaput and are pouring money to shore them up. It may be for this reason that their defense industries are still robust.
Among the capitalists of South Korea, Kim Ja Joong is the most evil. The Daewoo Group is the worst. Daewoo has monopoly on defense contracts. Kim Ja Joong is a trickster, sly as a fox. He has no ethics. The third-generation capitalists are fairly honest bunch, but this Kim fellow is a leech sucking up to whoever in power and lines up his pocket. Much of his money has been squirreled away in foreign banks and his fortune is less affected by South Korea's economy. Kim has government contracts on building submarines and other defense projects and so, he is not affected by the economic crisis.
Kim Dae Jung's bad temper is unusual, Kim Young Sam, whe refused to attend Leader Kim Il Sung's funeral, is a dirt-bag
Kim
Dae Jung has been victimized by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). He limps
thanks to NIA It was NIA that labeled Kim Dae Jung a pro-Communist during
his presidential election campaign. Kim Dae Jung is a nasty person and he
is not going to forgive NIA so easily. Master Oh Ik Je (former head of Chungdo-Gyo of South Korea, defected to North Korea) knows Kim Dae Jung quite well. Oh tells me that Kim Dae Jung has many peasant-like attributes and humble in some ways but he can be quite nasty.
Photo: Kim Young Sam, former president of South Korea, is a dirt-bag according to Kim Jong Il.
Kim Young Sam is a filthy dirt-bag. One thing I feel sorry for him is that he surrounded himself with bad advisors. When Leader Kim Il Sung passed away, Kim Young Sam could not attend the funeral because of his advisors. I hear Kim himself regrets having had bad helpers.
When Leader Kim Il Sung died, I discussed with Secretary Kim Yong Soon what to do if Kim Young Sam wanted to attend the funeral, and made a detailed plan to receive him. But he did not come, and we were very upset with him. If he had any wisdom, he would have come to the funeral. If he had come, he might have taken over North Korea and become president of a united Korea. What an idiot!
The primary objective of the United States in Asia is to box in China. The Yankee devils yak about US-China friendship or alliance, but their long-term intent is to stop China from becoming a superpower, and all of their activities in Asia are geared to their ultimate goal. Clinton's popularity rose after the Tienanmen Massacre. Clinton is doing well in the White House. Jack Kennedy tried to make a name for himself but he was rubbed out before he had the chance. This Clinton fellow is only 52, but he got elected to the White House twice. He is quite a guy.
We have many South Koreans working on construction projects at Kumho. They are lazy and the work is progressing at a snail's pace. At the rate they have been working, their great-grand children will be working on the projects. These South Korean devils are the proverbial hired hands whose job it is to drag their feet as long as they can. Japanese companies in the United States are all failing - except Sony, which supplies parts to the US defense contractors. The United States awards defense contracts to Japan's Sony, Germany's Benz, and Swiss companies.
When we get our oil production going, we won't need to work the farms.
We have untapped oil fields and once we develop our oil fields, our economy will change dramatically. Once we get the oil flowing, we won't need to work our farms. We will sell our oil to the Japanese devils and buy their rice. Our oil will be like a nuclear weapon for us.
Taiwan is unaffected by the current economic freeze. Taiwan's foreign currency reserve is the largest in the world. Deng Shiaping told Leader Kim Il Sung that there were four unsinkable carriers: South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan. Of these, Taiwan is still floating. All others have sunk. Hong Kong is no exception. Some of our people thought that we might benefit from Hong Kong, but Hong Kong is in no shape to help anyone.
To be honest, we like the current financial meltdown in Asia. Some of our people in charge of our economy had harbored some illusions about emulating the capitalist economy of Asia, but now the current crisis made them realize how wise Leader Kim Il Sung's policy of self-reliance is. It was a rude awakening to these people.
KEDO allotted South Korea a large fraction of the light-water reactor construction costs. With the economic crisis in South Korea, KEDO is saying that we should accept thermal electric power stations instead of the nuclear reactors as promised. KEDO says it can deliver thermal power stations right away - a nonsense. We don't have enough coal to fire up our existing thermal power stations and building additional thermal power stations would be lunacy. What KEDO wants is to delay the reactor project as long as possible to bring us down.
The Yankee devils has been going slow building the reactors and at the current rate, we won't see the reactors completed in our generation. The Yankee devils had agreed to build the reactors on paper but the reactors won't be finished anytime soon for one excuse after another. We have the right to break the Agreed Framework if the rectors are not inished on time. The Yankee devils are under pressure and we will deal with them sternly.
In our life, we don't get an unbroken string of misfortunes and we get lucky now and then. I would like to tell you comrades about a heart-breaking story.
We must get Western-style steel mills at all costs
In late 1960, Great Leader Kim Il Sung had our people negotiate a contract with an Austrian company for a complete steel mill. The price tag was ten million pounds, about ten million US dollars. Lee Ju Yun, vice premier at the time, told the Leader that we had no money to pay for the mill. What could the Leader do without money? No money, no Austrian steel mill.Photo: the Kim Chaik Steel Mill.
Vice Premier Lee proposed to the Leader that we should negotiate with the Soviet Union for a steel mill. That is how we got the Kim Chaik Steel Mill. The Soviets, too, dragged their feet and the mill was not completed until 1970. We have the furnaces working now but we don't have cold steel rolling machines installed. If you look at the trams in Pyongyang, you will see how rough their outer bodies are.
The Austrian devils got angry and demanded compensation when we had to cancel our contract because we did not have the money. When we did not respond to their demand, they sold the steel mill to South Korea at a discounted price. The South Korean devils got a steel mill at a bargain price and began to make weapons to fight against us If we had tightened our belt a little tighter and bought the Austrian steel mill, we could have avoided all the tribulations we had to endure with the Soviet mill. Our people in charge of trade were so incompetent in those days that our nation could not afford even ten million dollars.
Send us high-yield seeds
Chongryon must provide assistance in our socialist construction and economy. Chongryon must contribute to our agricultural development. What we need the most in our agricultural sector are higher-yield seeds. We need to bring in new seeds across-board. Many nations of the world harvest large crops with better seeds.
Suh Kwan Hee (Chosun Editor: Suh was executed for failing North Korea's farms. He was accused of being an American spy.) failed to introduce higher-yield seeds and distributed non-existent fertilizers to our farms. This traitor ensured that our farms failed to produce enough food for our people.
Our people in Yang-gang Province obtained potato seeds from a foreign nation. With the new potato seeds, they claim we can produce 40-50 tons of potatoes per 100 acres. If this is the case, Yang-gang will be covered deep in potatoes. There must be high-yield seeds in use by the Japanese farmers and Chongryon ought to send some to us. In particular, we need better seeds for vegetables and fruits from Chongryon. Most of the seeds used in Japan are also suitable for Korea, weather and soil wise. I hear vegetable yields are much higher in Japan than in our country. One thing you should bear in mind is that we are short on fertilizers and we need vegetables seeds that do not require a great deal of fertilizers.
We want to renovate our animal husbandry and produce more meat for our people. We are introducing better livestock - cows, pigs, chickens, ducks, and other animals - from other nations. We have the know-how to raise these animals. What we are lacking now is the feed. We have a stock of cows that grow to 700 kg within six months from birth. We would like Chongryon to send us better animal stocks from Japan.
To be honest, Chongryon has been sending us things that are of little use to us. You are throwing away money. What we need from you are advanced technology and better seeds. It seems the leaders of Chongryon are not well acquainted with the situation here. What Chongryon needs is a Mun Ik Jum movement. Moon Ik Jum is the patriot who smuggled cotton seeds from China and planted them all across Korea. All overseas Koreans, not just Chongryon, should become Mun Ik Jum and bring foreign technology and goods to Korea.
Today, scientific technology is advancing rapidly in China. Our compatriots in China can easily copy these advances to our nation, but they are not doing that. One thing Chongryon has done well is the establishment of micro-organic fertilizer plants. This is the kind of thing we need. We don't need your symbolic flags any more. We have no more rooms for them. Microbe production technology, yeasts, and facilities from Japan will help not only our agriculture but also our industries, medical sector, environmental protection, and many others. By the fall of this year, Chongryn has sent us 115 microbe fertilizer plants. These plants should produce fertilizers for 100 to 150 million acres (one jongbo = 99 acres). We cannot rely on chemical fertilizers alone and we must use more microbe fertilizers.
In operating microbe fertilizer plants, our most pressing problem is the shortage of molasses. I hear that Chongryon people have found a way to reduce molasses usage from 80% to 20%. This should solve our molasses shortage. With microbe fertilizers, rice crop yields would jump to about 12 tons per 100 acre. That would really help us.
We have been using weed killers extensively. Consequently, birds and microbes have all but gone away from our farms. We need to refresh our soil with new microbes. If we have to, we ought to import additional microbe fertilizers from Japan and South Korea. We must stop relying in chemical fertilizers alone.
Bring here machines from the Japanese factories that go kaput.
It would be nice if Chongryon would send us surplus goods and used machines. These can be bought dirt cheap in Japan and sold to us. Tile manufacturing plants and rolling facilities would come handy. The Japanese economy is down and it should be easy to acquire and send these here. Chongryn can really help us here.
Of course, we can obtain these through normal trades. But how can we save our face and ask the Japanese devils for cheap used merchandise? Our trading people are reluctant to negotiate such deals, and Chongryun should step in and help us out here.
At present, economy is down in nations like Japan, and many small to medium companies of good products are going bankrupt. Chongryun could buy up at bargain prices the machines and goods from bankrupt companies in Japan and ship them here. We will pay Chongryon, of course. One thing we must avoid is to buy only parts of a factory and try to fill the missing parts with things made here. We want complete working factories ready to go even if we had to pay extra. Getting parts of factory in order to save some money ends up costing us more money.
There have been many instances of our trade workers having bought incomplete factories. Most of the imported factories that are not doing well are those partial plants that our trade workers bought trying to save a few bucks. Those plants that we bought in toto are all working fine.
I cannot bear seeing people shivering in cold
During my 1983 visit to China, Hua Kuofeng and I visited the Bosan Thermal Power Station. It was imported from another country. China is technologically advanced enough to build its own power plants, but it decided to buy the plant abroad. I asked Hua why? He said that China could have built the station but the foreign plant was better. In contrast, our people reason differently. Their idea is to buy only those parts that we cannot make and the rest we build here. This kind of attitude has led to many costly failures.
Look at the Pyongyang Thermal Power Plant, which we bought from the Soviets. They had switched over to heavy oil thermal production and gave us their obsolete coal burning power plant. We are paying dearly for our mistakes. The power plant stop working often and the people of Pyongyang are freezing. I cannot bear watching them suffer like that. I have made my mind that once we start producing our own oil, we will shut down the obsolete coal power stations and replace them with heavy oil power stations.
Even if we started producing oil now, we have no oil storage facilities or oil refineries and so, we want to use our crude oil to generate power.
The Soviets refused to help us with any degree of honesty because we refused to join the Soviet block economic coop and also, we were not subservient to them. They helped us when we were nice to them and refused to help when we did not agree with them. The Soviets gave nuclear power stations to Cuba and other socialist nations except us and Albania. Our Leader Kim Il Sung began to implement his self-reliance at the time and could not accept the Soviet domination. Consequently, we have lost many opportunities.
If we had known that the mighty Soviet Union would fall apart so suddenly, we would have bought a nuclear power station from the Soviets even if we had to crawl before them. But we did not. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russians are starting to work with us.
The United States is our military's "mortal enemy" but our trade workers' "teacher"
Japan depends on the United States for computer technology. Awhile ago, the Japanese prime minister visited the United States and asked for the circuit design of the latest computer, but he was turned down. The United States doesn't mind sharing old technology but it keeps its latest technology to itself. Japan may be manufacturing fancy computers now but their computers are not on the cutting edge of computer technology, and they will remain so.
Now South Korea is trying to get Japan to share its computer technology, even though it is not up-to-date. Japan, of course, refuses to share its computer design with South Korea. Today, South Korea brags about its computers on TV commercials but the South Korean computers don't even come close to American computers. We have to butter up to the Americans and get the best they have.
Our People's Army regards the United States its sworn enemy but our people engaged in trades address the Americans with much respect. This is called the principle of 'hard inside, soft outside'.
Chongryon should bring us factories to process our raw materials. In the 1960s, Chongryon workers brought us many factories in a patriotic movement. But all these factories have shut down. The reason is that these factories were not for processing raw materials we have here. These factories required raw materials that had to be imported from Japan and other countries. The Chongryon workers were good-intentioned but they did not understand the situation here and kept on sending factories that could not work here. It was a waste of money and time.
Comrade Lee Jin Gyu tried to keep the factories going by importing raw materials from Japan but it was of no use. To be honest, our nation is so isolated from the rest of the world and communication with outside world is not smooth. Therefore, Chongryon workers should look for factories that match our needs and that can be reassembled and expanded with ease.
As I mentioned earlier, Chongryun workers should buy up factories from bankrupt companies in South Korea and resell them to us.
I have read on a Japanese magazine that Japanese scientists have come up with drugs that kill off flies from fields and mountains. Please find out where these drugs are being made.
We need more Pungsan dogs from South Korea
Chongryon has a soccer team. Do you have a basketball team? You could select some promising athletes to be trained here. Basketball players must be tall and young in age. If you would send us three or so tall young men, it would be nice. I hear an American basketball team wants to come here for a friendly game. The team would come here mid-August. It would have about 60 people including 20 athletes.
We have two basic breeds of dogs: Pungsan and Jindo. Do they sell Punsan and Jindo dogs in Japan? Pungsan is in Yanggang but it has come to the end of progeny and we must find a breeding stock of Pungsan dogs. We don't want our own native dogs to die out. We must make sure that Pungsan and Jindo dogs prosper and propagate. Our people are quite indifferent to the future of our dogs. That is wrong. These dogs belong to Korea and we must preserve them.
If there are no Pungsan and Jindo dogs for sale in Japan, then you must acquire them in South Korea and introduce them to Japan. I hear South Korea has Pungsan dogs. Someone told me about a fight between a Pungsan and a Jindo. He said Pungsan was the winner.
Our people don't know how to save money for rainy days. The Japanese are good at saving. They are also very frugal probably because they live on islands. They are good at making a living, too. We encourage arts and sports. In order to maintain our revolutionary optimism, we need the whole nation active in arts and sports. Arts and sports are open to all in our country.
During the February festivities, the Kumgang Art Troupe came, and recently, I heard that local music groups came here to perform. Next time they come here, I would like to attend their shows. The last time I watched a Chongryun show was about two years ago.
Suh Kwan Hee, the former Party secretary for agricultures, became a traitor in 1950
Next, I would like to tell you about some realities here. Comrade Huh Jong Man told me that Chongryung could not serve the nation adequately because the Chonryong leaders were not well informed of the situation here. He is quite right. The Chongryon leaders live in a hostile nation and read news papers that are hostile to us. Therefore, they don't know what is going on here.
The hostile news reporters pick up a story and embellish it with fancy lies to sell newspapers. About 80% of what they publish are lies. It may be that our news organs are not working effectively but the Japanese devils and the South Korean puppets are spreading false rumors of military coup in our nation.
I must let you know the truth about Suh Kwan Hee, who had sabotaged our agriculture, and the incident at the Hwanghae Steel Mill. I must tell you that Suh was an enemy spy. Under the cover of Juche research, Hwang Jang Yup was actively sabotaging us in the political arena and Suh Kwang Hee was wrecking our farms under the cover of a Party secretary.
Suh was a long-time Party member and did everything he could to ruin our agriculture. For a long time, Suh refused to send a farm delegation to Japan using one excuse after another because he feared that they might receive better seeds from Chongryun. Better seeds would have worked counter his plan to starve us slowly.
Suh became a traitor in 1950. He would hardly do anything at the Party meetings for discussing farm problems. Even when he was the Party secretary for agriculture, he had precious little to say about farming. He was a filthy traitor loyal to his masters to the very end.
The 6th Army Corps 'coup' is a lie and the army take-over of the Hwanghae Steel Mill is true
You have most likely read or heard about the so-called coup attempt of the 6th Army Corps in the North Hamgyong Province on Japanese news papers, magazines and radios. It was a baseless lie. There was no such attempt. What really happened was that we found some defects in the political indoctrination program of the Corp and had to remove some officers after self-criticism meetings. Contrary to the published reports, neither the Corps commander nor the political commissar was executed.
The joint chief-of-staff, who was the Corps commander in question, is here today. After the so-called coup attempt, he was promoted to the joint chief-of-staff. Now the enemy propagandists claim that the political commissar was behind the coup and that it was he who was executed. The truth of the matter is that the commissar was relieved because of his stomach cancer.
I will tell you what really happened at the Hwanghae Steel Mill. The incident at the Mill was first reported by some Koreans resident in China. We spent three years mourning the death of our Leader Kim Il Sung and coincidentally, were hit with natural disasters. We found ourselves in a dire situation and could not provide enough electric power to the Hwanghae Steel Mill.
The Mill had to stop operation. Some bad elements of our society in cahoots with the Mill management began to dismantle the Mill and sell its machines as scrap metals to Chinese merchants. By the time we got wind of what was going on, more than half of the mill had been stripped away. For nearly a year, the thieves took over the Mill and stole people's properties at will. They bought out Party leaders and security officers, and consequently, no one had informed us about their thievery.
Everybody was in the take at the Mill and we had to send in an army to retake the Mill. The army surrounded the Mill and arrested the thieves. The army recovered people's properties from the thieves. Some of our trading people were involved in this massive fleecing of the Mill.
The enemy reporters claimed that an army unit mutinied and took over the Mill. A Taiwan new organ went so far as to claim that the coup was led by the joint chief-of-staff. Mun Myong Ja (a Korean-American reporter) heard about the army 'coup' and rushed here to find out the truth. Miss Mun found that no such event had occurred.
The enemy news organs seem to track every move made by the joint chief-of-staff. If he is not seen in public for several days, they wonder what he is up to. You comrades have families and know that family life goes through many events. Our joint chief-of-staff, too, has a family to take care of. The basic problem is that the Japanese and South Korean bastards have dark shady motives and assume that we have dark shady motives, too. They see the events here through their colored glasses. Those people from hostile nations who visit us are shocked when they see the real truth here.
Currently we are poor and our life is hard, but you won't see any people on Earth that is as united as we are. You Chonryun people hear and read the hostile news stories every day and so, it will be good for young Chongryun workers to visit here and refresh their faith in us. We have a Chongryung cadre training school at the foot of Mt. Yongak and young Chongryun leaders should spend sometime there learning our Party doctrines.
We purposely cut back the rations in Pyongyang
We continue to ask the World Red Cross for food assistance, because we are in fact short of food; but the main reason is that our seeds have degraded thanks to Suh Kwang Hee's treachery. Our production has declined steadily because of the bad seeds. We are replacing them with better seeds but it will take about three years to fully recover. We need food aids to tide us over during this transition period.
You may have received letters from your relatives living here about the food shortage. The situation is not as bad as it may appear. We make sure that the Army has enough to eat and the farmers and government workers get less food. The residents of Pyongyang receive many benefits from the government and they live better than the people in the rest of the country. For this reason, we cut back rations to the Pyongyang residents and at the same time, upped rations for the rest of the people. Ignorant of this, some people panicked and wrote you that our nation had only week's supply of food left, and so on.
Last year, the whole army was mobilized to grow food. The main finding of the army is that the seeds must be replaced, and we have began to bring in better seeds. But it will take about 2-3 years at the least to replace the old seeds with the new. Until then, our food shortage will persist.
We have been on a forced march for several years now and we are finding a number of structural problems. Had we held a Party Congress or the Supreme People's Council before the end of the three-year mourning period after Leader Kim Il Sung's death, we would be facing food shortages for ten years or more. The lesson learned is that you need to know who is who. Today, all of the senior leaders are old revolutionaries who had worked with Leader Kim Il Sung. We have to ensure that they stay on for a long time to come.
Sad stories made up for foreign aids
Our enemies report almost daily so many millions have starved to death and so forth, and do all they can to defame and demonize us. You comrades are here to witness the truth and report what you have seen here when you are back in Japan. That is why I took you along on my onsite guidance trip to the armament factory in a remote village. I wanted you to see how the factory workers lived and how they differed from the residents of Pyongyang. I wanted you to see if there were people dying on the roadsides from hunger.
As you have seen from your auto trip, there were no starving people on the roadsides and the factory workers are healthier than the people in Pyongyang. I hope that you saw the might of our nation and the optimism of our workers. We have to study how best to let you know of the true situations of our nation. As I have said earlier, our situation is not as grave as our enemies would have you believe.
To be frank with you, we want to right our economy by educating our people better. Previously, only our foreign service people cried for help but now all people do so. Thus, all of us tell foreigners about this shortage or that shortage, and take them to the worst place for them to see. In the past, foreign visitors were taken to the best show places and people were taught to say that they were living well. But now faced with the economic isolation forced on us by our enemy, we need foreign aids and present sad pictures to foreign visitors.It is true that the shortage of electricity is indeed acute here. We had ample electricity when Leader Kim Il Sung was alive. You may wonder why is it that we are short of electric power now? The reason is simple. We had natural floods several years in a row, which was unprecedented in our history, and our coal mines got flooded. We could not dig enough coals to keep our thermal power plants going. That is why we are short of electricity and our people are suffering. Our economy is suffering for lack of electric power because our coal mines are flooded.
Our nation is the cleanest in the world
Our country has an excellent political system and beautiful rivers and mountains. The South Korean devils are dying to lay their hands on our rivers. Ironically, our people are so used to our rivers and mountains that they don't appreciate what they have. Someday they will learn that water is more precious than heavy oil.
We have students from China attending our schools. The Chinese students are impressed by how clean Pyongyang and the adjacent towns are compared to places in China. The Chinese students say that China used to be clean until about ten years ago when industrial reforms and fast expansion began to pollute the environment and destroy scenic places. The Chinese people are belatedly trying to reverse the trend.
We are not isolationists but we want to keep the status quo. We don't want hordes of tourists to come here and spread AID and pollute our land. Some Chongryon traders came here via Beijing. They say Beijing is no place to live. I don't think there is any country that is as unpolluted as our nation is. Our people don't appreciate it but people from other nations who come here appreciate what we have here. Once we get on own feet and start harvesting enough rice for our people, we would have nothing we would want from other nations.
We admire the capitalist legal system
In a capitalist nation, people abide by the law from cradle to grave. All persons must obey the law and the law is enforced universally. Our people have incorrect understanding of how our laws should work. In a socialist country, Party organs, government officials, and social groups are keen on political indoctrination but little attention is paid to the laws of the land. Revisionists utilize this weakness and weaken socialist systems by over-emphasizing laws and ignoring political indoctrination. Gorbachov brought down the Soviet Union using this tactic. Today, the Chinese leaders are on the same path.
As you comrades know so well, having lived in a capitalist nation for so long, people in a capitalist society must obey the law no matter where they live. Chongryon, too, must obey the Japanese laws, otherwise the Japanese police will crack down. Civil laws are stronger than Party rules but we have no civil laws here. Some people in our country claim to be socialists but they commit criminal acts. This is a glaring weakness of our system.
In a capitalist nation, police go around wielding clubs and give the impression that people fear the police. The truth is that it is the prosecutors that people fear the most. Our people don't know which is which, they don't know who has more authority. This is one of the shortcomings of a socialist nation.
It is important that Chongryon study the Japanese laws and take advantage of them. At the same time, Chongryon must embrace fellow Koreans of all social strata and new generations of Koreans, and educate them effectively. I hear that our cruiseship Mangyong 92 has to cater to Japanese businessmen and bribe the police with large sums of money in order to get anything loaded. In our country, a few hundred dollars are enough to bribe some security officers. This shows in a way how bad our judicial system is in comparison to that of a capitalist nation.
In our nation today, people are at the center of the society and enjoy free creative living. But we must make our nation into a nation governed by laws. Today, Party cadres and security officers operate outside the law without exception. Party members are citizens of our Republic and they too must obey the laws.
In a capitalist nation, money talks and everything involves money. We don't want this aspect of a capitalist system. But one thing we admire in a capitalist system is the law, which all citizens obey and and which maintains the social order. Recently, some Western devils came to China on joint ventures. After a few months in China, they left complaining that the Chinese laws changed so often that it was impossible to do business in China. In China, there are layers of legal entities that pass laws: thus, the Beijing city government passes a law, a few days later, the Chinese joint venture partners make changes in the agreement, and on top of these, the central government in Beijing issues a new law. The laws are then revamped within a year. A Swiss textile company was so exasperated with the Chinese laws, it abandoned its investments in China and left in disgust. The Swiss partner asked our ambassador to China - :"What's so great about socialism?"
In a capitalist nation, even the prime minister and the president are prosecuted if they break the law. We must study how to strengthen our legal system. Japanese police fear the prosecutors. Who do the prosecutors fear? Do they fear the police? You said that the police will go after any prosecutor who breaks the law. Few prosecutors have been arrested in Japan. The main reason is the strict selection process of a prosecutor. Law graduates take tough exams to become lawyers, judges or prosecutors. Thus only the best get to become prosecutors or judges.
People who know nothing get top jobs and order people around
Any graduate of middle school can become a cop but one must pass an exam to become a prosecutor. Therefore, cops and prosecutors are miles apart in qualifications. In our nation, any college graduate can become a prosecutor, if the college so wishes. Because of this, prosecutors in our nation carry no special authority. In a capitalist nation, prosecutors are sworn to uphold the law and defend the nation. Tanaka Kakuei, a former Japanese prime minister, was arrested by a prosecutor.
Law graduates must pass a special exam in order to become prosecutors, and only the best qualified people should become prosecutors. Currently, prosecutors are appointed just like other jobs and they stay chummy with their former classmates. It is tough to wield any authority for prosecutors in this kind of system. Today, college graduates are assigned to Party offices and government ministries although they have little to no work experience. We must institute a qualification exam system.
In our foreign ministry, workers are classed 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and so on. But other ministries have no such ranks. In organs like the Foreign Economic Cooperation, anyone who knows Kim Guk Tae can join his outfit. We need to change this and require specific knowledge of foreign trades of all workers of the Cooperation. There ought to be qualifying exams and only those who pass them should work there. I hear the Chinese are implementing this kind of exams.
If you look at the workers in our economy sector, you see many greenhorns sitting at the top telling seasoned workers what to do. The people under them are not happy about taking orders from people who have no idea what they are doing. Once I had the son of Kim Man Jung, who was in charge of Chongryon business in the Iwade Prefecture, placed with the Foreign Economic Cooperation. I thought that since he had lived in Japan for so long, he would know something about foreign trades. But he didn't. He knew nothing about foreign trades.
For the time being, until we train our own people, we must bring in overseas Koreans with expertise in foreign trades and give them responsible jobs. In China, one of Deng Shioping's great feats was to send 2000 or so students abroad annually to study and upon their return, they were given important jobs. In achieving economy reforms, Deng realized that China did not have enough trained people to pull it off, and he had to have people trained by foreign experts.
We have people at the top who don't have even the vaguest idea on how to get our economy moving. All they are able to think about is how much pay they are getting. Such is our sad situation and we must change it fast. Many of our workers have poor or no concepts of money. They are completely in the dark on making profits. They know about meeting production quota but they have no idea how to sell the products and make profits.
As I mentioned earlier there are several things we must learn from capitalist nations. First of all, we must learn to abide by the law; secondly, we must learn to use the best products ourselves and sell inferior products abroad - we do just the opposite, we sell our best products and keep inferior ones.
In Japan, export goods are inferior to the goods consumed in Japan. This is true of cigarettes and other merchandises. I had a Sony recorder of the best quality bought in France and another Sony of the same type in Japan. The one bought in Japan was much superior to the one bought in France.
American computers made in the United States work better and last longer. But the Macintosh sold to foreign customers are assembled in Ireland and other nations and they are of poor quality and break down often. For a year or two, we thought the machines had no difference and bought them from Ireland. Later we bought some machines from the United States and found that they were different. Even the keyboards were different.
We suck on our fingers to kill our hunger pain and sell the best of our local products. As if this were not enough, we sell our sands, water, and other natural resources. Some people tell me that in the future water will become the most important commodity. You can live without crude oil but we cannot live without water. I would like to tell people that our water resources are more valuable than our oil reserves.
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I wish the US or some other powers just parachute in some assasins to take Kim Jong il out. I am not a pro-killing person, but some people in the world deserves to get either shot, drowned,poisoned or throat slit. Maybe his liqour and caviar rations are running low, thats the reason for all his angst.
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Achilly there are some inside people in the Military in close contact with the CIA waiting to get rid of him only problem is have to wait long long for these Generals to start growing testacles for them to act.Should follow Israeli style and rocket living shit out of the whole neighborhood as soon as his location is confirmed in Satelite.Sure beats having an all out nuclear confrontation.