Den nordkoreanska regimen har många verktyg för att hålla medborgarna i schack. En beprövad metod är avrättningar. De delas ut frikostigt även för struntsaker, är ofta offentliga, och flera fall visar att de mäktiga och berömda inte ska känna sig säkra.
Flera fall visar även att vi inte ska känna oss säkra på vad vi får höra. Information från Nordkorea är nära nog en motsägelse. Nästan allt är propaganda, rykten eller lösa påståenden, omöjligt att direkt bekräfta eller dementera, och sällan rekommendabelt att konsumera ofiltrerat. Och ibland går även experterna på nitar.
Hyon Song-wol är en uppburen sångerska som dödförklarades 2013. En makaber detalj som gav nyheten extra spridning var att hon skulle ha avrättats med kulspruta medan bandmedlemmarna tvingades se på. Icke desto mindre dök hon upp vid OS 2018.
Ma Wong-chun är en hög militär som 2015 rapporterades ha avrättats, eller åtminstone ha dött; i en version sades han ha dött av skräck sedan Kim kallat till möte. Men några månader senare dök han upp, med en stjärna mindre på axelklaffarna men vid full vigör.
Ri Yong-gil är en hög militär som 2016 rapporterades ha avrättats. Några månader senare dök han upp vid en stor partikongress, livs levande och därtill befordrad. Källan som rapporterat om hans död konstaterade i en minnesvärd formulering att "we came to believe that he was not executed".
Uppgifter om höga nordkoreaner som avrättats kan förvisso stämma men behöver inte göra det. Osäkerhet är det normala. Detaljer om exakt hur folk bragts om livet (kulsprutor, hundar, pirayor? etc) bidrar till att påståendena sprids och sätter sig i huvudet, men även där är det som regel omöjligt att veta.
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2019-06-11
2017-12-22
Blodrenande klockor från Nordkorea
1) Kim Jong-Uns födelsedag är inte angiven. Farfar Kim Il-Sungs 15 april kallas "solens dag" och är givetvis allmän helgdag, pappa Kim Jong-Ils 16 februari kallas "den skinande stjärnans dag" och är också helgdag, men "den store efterträdarens" födelsedag (som förmodligen är den 8 januari) är inte ens markerad. Vad det nu kan betyda?
2) Bland andra nordkoreanska kvalitetsprodukter som skor, läsk, elektronik och rengöringsmedel hittar vi en hälsoklocka. Försedd med "naturliga polariserande kalkspatsprismor" med förunderlig kraft:
The product, pictured on the September page, is reportedly "designed to improve blood circulation and strengthen the the whole body's immune system".- North Korean calendars show no birthday for Kim Jong-un, BBC 21 december 2017
It purports to do this by "using sunlight that passes through the hole on the right side of its face".
Perhaps ironically, the hole is exactly where the calendar function might be on an analogue watch.
Hugade kunder kan införskaffa en egen kalender för 27 imperialistdollar plus frakt på North Korea Books.
Men det blev riktigt spännande när jag hittade ännu en magisk blodrenande hälsoklocka från Nordkorea. Vad är grejen?
Making use of light polarization of specifically processed gem, the wrist watch is efficacious for purifying blood, keeping human body in normal state and preventing and treating various disease.Finns det något liknande utanför Nordkorea? Har man i arbetarnas paradis lyckats skapa en helt egen bransch?
Treatment effects: Improvement of blood circulation in the brain and heart, treatment of soring limbs and insomnia, relieving of mental and physical fatigue, preventing of diabetes and easing of stress.
2017-08-20
Nordkoreas trepartisystem
Trodde du att Nordkorea bara har ett parti? Fel fel fel! De har tre.
- Koreas arbetarparti är det parti man tänker på. Det är det som är staten, som har Kim Jong-il som evig generalsekreterare, med mera. De har 607 platser av 687 i Högsta folkförsamlingen (riksdagen); många, men långtifrån alla.
- Koreanska socialdemokratiska partiet ansluter sig, på papperet, till en nationell socialdemokratisk politik som passar landets "historiska förutsättningar och nationella drag". Men den politiken har de inte drivit längre tillbaka än 1980-talet. Utifrån Proletärens intervju med partiledaren förefaller det att ha varit Nordkoreas folkpartister eller kanske moderater, med "många ättlingar till företagare, men också en del tjänstemän och chefer". Att de stödjer arbetarpartiets linjer och politik behöver man dock inte betvivla. De har 50 platser i Högsta folkförsamlingen.
- Chondoistiska Chongupartiet är Nordkoreas kristdemokrater. Chondoismen (som skrivs "chendoism" i sydkoreanska sammanhang) uppstod på 1800-talet som en ny-konfuciansk rörelse med inslag av bland annat koreansk schamanism. Det metafysiska arvet är inte särskilt tungt. Till exempel tror man inte på ett liv efter döden. Däremot torde deras religiösa syn på Ledaren som himlen personifierad vara lätt att förena med de högtravande hedersbetygelser som är standard även i officiella sammanhang. Det stödjer helhjärtat arbetarpartiets linjer och politik. Partiet har 22 platser i Högsta folkförsamlingen.
Se även Proletären i Nordkorea 5: Tre politiska partier – total enighet för helt oironisk skildring av diktaturen med tre partier. Liksom bilköer, fria frisyrer och patrioter överallt.
2014-09-07
Källa: Nordkoreansk vänskapsförening
Trots att dess medlemmar döms ut som naiva av Nordkoreaexperter, och deras bild av landet anses gå på tvärs mot vad internationella organisationer och bedömare rapporterar därifrån, vinner vänorganisationen nya anhängare varje dag.- Johan Nylander (TT), Västerlänningar som älskar Nordkorea, DN 1 september 2014
Elementär källkritik: Eftersom det bara är Korean Friendship Association som vet hur många medlemmar de har och får så måste uppgiften om den daglig tillströmningen komma från dem.
2014-03-09
Nordkorea går till val
Idag är det spänning i luften: Den demokratiska folkrepubliken Korea går till val.
Resultatet kungörs imorgon. Någon valvaka verkar inte förekomma. Insatta bedömare gissar på stora framgångar för "Demokratiska fronten för fosterlandets förening", som jag inte förrän nu visste var vad den nordkoreanska politiken kallas. I denna koalition ingår flera partier - jodå, det finns mer än ett - som Nordkoreanska socialdemokraterna, det religiösa Chongu-partiet (som i val efter val får 3,2 %) och Koreanska arbetarpartiet. Och det var visst allihop.
Valdebatten har hittills varit tämligen sval. Lyckas inte hitta mycket alls faktiskt, mer än att landets författarförbund gjort poesi av det hela:
"'Oh, Our People's Republic', 'We Will Vote for You', 'We Go to Polling Station', 'Our Deputy' and other poems show well the will of the electors to demonstrate the true picture of Korean-style socialism and consolidate the people's power by voting for the candidates."
KCNA - sidan i Nordkorea
News from KNCA, DPRK - statliga nyhetsbyråns engelska sida i Japan
Wikipedia: North Korean parliamentary election, 2014
2013-12-18
En förrädare erkänner
Denna långa text finns på den officiella nyhetsbyrån. Jag lägger ändå ut den i sin helhet. KCNA är kanske inget man kollar så ofta, hemsidan är lite besvärlig att använda och länka till, och sist men inte minst vet man aldrig hur länge sådana här saker får ligga ute. Vad som är sant? Ja, det är ju inte så lätt att veta i nuläget. Om någonsin.
Pyongyang, December 13 (KCNA) -- Upon hearing the report on the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the service personnel and people throughout the country broke into angry shouts that a stern judgment of the revolution should be meted out to the anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional elements. Against the backdrop of these shouts rocking the country, a special military tribunal of the DPRK Ministry of State Security was held on December 12 against traitor for all ages Jang Song Thaek.
The accused Jang brought together undesirable forces and formed a faction as the boss of a modern day factional group for a long time and thus committed such hideous crime as attempting to overthrow the state by all sorts of intrigues and despicable methods with a wild ambition to grab the supreme power of our party and state.
The tribunal examined Jang's crimes.
All the crimes committed by the accused were proved in the course of hearing and were admitted by him.
A decision of the special military tribunal of the Ministry of State Security of the DPRK was read out at the trial.
Every sentence of the decision served as sledge-hammer blow brought down by our angry service personnel and people on the head of Jang, an anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional element and despicable political careerist and trickster.
The accused is a traitor to the nation for all ages who perpetrated anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional acts in a bid to overthrow the leadership of our party and state and the socialist system.
Jang was appointed to responsible posts of the party and state thanks to the deep political trust of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and received benevolence from them more than any others from long ago.
He held higher posts than before and received deeper trust from supreme leader Kim Jong Un, in particular.
The political trust and benevolence shown by the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu were something he hardly deserved.
It is an elementary obligation of a human being to repay trust with sense of obligation and benevolence with loyalty.
However, despicable human scum Jang, who was worse than a dog, perpetrated thrice-cursed acts of treachery in betrayal of such profound trust and warmest paternal love shown by the party and the leader for him.
From long ago, Jang had a dirty political ambition. He dared not raise his head when Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il were alive. But, reading their faces, Jang had an axe to grind and involved himself in double-dealing. He began revealing his true colors in the period of historic turn when the generation of the revolution was replaced, thinking that it was just the time for him to realize his wild ambition.
Jang committed such an unpardonable thrice-cursed treason as overtly and covertly standing in the way of settling the issue of succession to the leadership with an axe to grind when a very important issue was under discussion to hold respected Kim Jong Un in high esteem as the only successor to Kim Jong Il in reflection of the unanimous desire and will of the entire party and army and all people.
When his cunning move proved futile and the decision that Kim Jong Un was elected vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea in reflection of the unanimous will of all party members, service personnel and people was proclaimed at the historic Third Conference of the WPK, making all participants break into enthusiastic cheers that shook the conference hall, he behaved so arrogantly and insolently as unwillingly standing up from his seat and half-heartedly clapping, touching off towering resentment of our service personnel and people.
Jang confessed that he behaved so at that time as a knee-jerk reaction as he thought that if Kim Jong Un's base and system for leading the army were consolidated, this would lay a stumbling block in his way of grabbing the power of the party and state.
When Kim Jong Il passed away so suddenly and untimely to our sorrow, Jang began working in real earnest to realize his long-cherished greed for power.
Abusing the honor of often accompanying Kim Jong Un during his field guidance, Jang tried hard to create illusion about him by projecting himself internally and externally as a special being on a par with the headquarters of the revolution.
In a bid to rally a group of reactionaries to be used by him for toppling the leadership of the party and state, he let the undesirable and alien elements including those who had been dismissed and relieved of their posts after being severely punished for disobeying the instructions of Kim Jong Il and kowtowing to Jang work in a department of the Central Committee of the WPK and organs under it in a crafty manner.
Jang did serious harm to the youth movement in our country, being part of the group of renegades and betrayers in the field of youth work bribed by enemies. Even after they were disclosed and purged by the resolute measure of the party, he patronized those cat's paws and let them hold important posts of the party and state.
He let Ri Ryong Ha, flatterer, work with him since the 1980s whenever he was transferred to other posts and systematically promoted Ri up to the post of first vice department director of the Party Central Committee though he had been purged for his factional act of denying the unitary leadership of the party. Jang thus made Ri his trusted stooge.
Jang let his confidants and flatterers who had been fired for causing an important case of denying the unitary leadership of the party work in his department and organs under it in a crafty manner in a few years. He systematically rallied ex-convicts, those problematic in their past careers and discontented elements around him and ruled over them as sacred and inviolable being.
He worked hard to put all affairs of the country under his control, massively increasing the staff of his department and organs under it, and stretch his tentacles to ministries and national institutions. He converted his department into a "little kingdom" which no one dares touch.
He was so impudent as to prevent the Taedonggang Tile Factory from erecting a mosaic depicting Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and a monument to field guidance given by them. Moreover, Jang turned down the unanimous request of the service personnel of a unit of the Korean People's Internal Security Forces to have the autograph letter sent by Kim Jong Un to the unit carved on a natural granite and erected with good care in front of the building of its command. He was so reckless as to instruct the unit to erect it in a shaded corner.
He committed such anti-party acts as systematically denying the party's line and policies, its organizational will, in the past period. These acts were a revelation of deliberate and sinister attempt to create extreme illusion and idolization of him by making him appear as a special being who can overrule either issues decided by the party or its line.
He went so rude as to take in the middle even those things associated with intense loyalty and sincerity of our army and people towards the party and the leader and distribute them among his confidants in an effort to take credit to himself for doing so. This behavior was to create illusion about him.
Due to his persistent moves to create illusion and idolization of him his flatterers and followers in his department and organs under it praised him as "comrade No. 1." They went the lengths of denying even the party's instructions to please him at any cost.
Jang established such a heterogeneous work system in his department and the relevant organs as considering what he said as more important than the party's policies. Consequently, his trusted henchmen and followers made no scruple of perpetrating such counter-revolutionary act as disobeying the order of the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army.
The revolutionary army will never pardon all those who disobey the order of the Supreme Commander and there will be no place for them to be buried even after their death.
Dreaming a fantastic dream to become premier at an initial stage to grab the supreme power of the party and state, Jang made his department put major economic fields of the country under its control in a bid to disable the Cabinet. In this way he schemed to drive the economy of the country and people's living into an uncontrollable catastrophe.
He put inspection and supervision organs belonging to the Cabinet under his control in defiance of the new state machinery established by Kim Jong Il at the First Session of the Tenth Supreme People's Assembly. Jang put all issues related to all structural works handled by the Cabinet under his control and had the final say on them, making it impossible for the Cabinet to properly perform its function and role as the economic command. They included the issues of setting up and disorganizing committees, ministries and national institutions and provincial, city and county-level organs, organizing units for foreign trade and for earning foreign money and structures overseas and fixing living allowances.
When he attempted to make a false report to the party without having agreement with the Cabinet and the relevant ministry on the issue related to the state construction supervision organization, officials concerned expressed just opinion that his behavior was contrary to the construction law worked out by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. Hearing this, he made the reckless remark that "the rewriting of the construction law would solve the problem."
Abusing his authority, he undermined the work system related to the construction of the capital city established by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, reducing the construction and building-materials bases to such bad shape little short of debris in a few years. He weakened the ranks of technicians and skilled workers at the units for the construction of the capital city in a crafty manner and transferred major construction units to his confidants so that they might make money. In this way he deliberately disturbed the construction in Pyongyang.
He instructed his confidants to sell coal and other precious underground resources at random. Consequently, they were saddled with huge debts, deceived by brokers. Jang made no scruple of committing such act of treachery in May last as selling off the land of the Rason economic and trade zone to a foreign country for a period of five decades under the pretext of paying those debts.
It was none other than Jang who wirepulled behind scene Pak Nam Gi, traitor for all ages, to recklessly issue hundreds of billions of won in 2009, sparking off serious economic chaos and disturbing the people's mind-set.
Jang encouraged money-making under various pretexts to secure funds necessary for gratifying his political greed and was engrossed in irregularities and corruption. He thus took the lead in spreading indolent, careless and undisciplined virus in our society.
After collecting precious metals since the construction of Kwangbok Street in the 1980s, he set up a secret organ under his control and took a fabulous amount of funds from a bank and purchased precious metals in disregard of the state law. He thus committed such anti-state criminal acts as creating a great confusion in financial management system of the state.
He let the decadent capitalist lifestyle find its way to our society by distributing all sorts of pornographic pictures among his confidants since 2009. He led a dissolute and depraved life, squandering money wherever he went.
He took at least 4.6 million Euro from his secret coffers and squandered it in 2009 alone and enjoyed himself in casino in a foreign country. These facts alone clearly show how corrupt and degenerate he was.
Jang was so reckless with his greed for power that he persistently worked to stretch his tentacles even to the People's Army with a foolish calculation that he would succeed in staging a coup if he mobilized the army.
He fully revealed his despicable true colors as a traitor for all ages in the course of questioning by uttering as follows: "I attempted to trigger off discontent among service personnel and people that the present regime does not take any measure despite the fact that the economy of the country and people's living are driven into catastrophe. Comrade supreme leader is the target of the coup."
As regards the means and methods for staging the coup, Jang said: "I was going to stage the coup by using high-ranking army officers who had close ties with me or by mobilizing armed forces under the control of my confidants. I don't know well about recently appointed high-ranking army officers but have some acquaintances with those appointed in the past period. I thought the army might join in the coup if the living of the people and service personnel further deteriorate in the future. And I calculated that my confidants in my department including Ri Ryong Ha and Jang Su Gil would surely follow me and had a plan to use the one in charge of the people's security organ as my confidant. It was my calculation that I might use several others beside them."
Asked about the timing of the coup and his plan to do after staging the coup, Jang answered: "I didn't fix the definite time for the coup. But it was my intention to concentrate my department and all economic organs on the Cabinet and become premier when the economy goes totally bankrupt and the state is on the verge of collapse in a certain period. I thought that if I solve the problem of people's living to a certain measure by spending an enormous amount of funds I have accumulated under various names after becoming premier, the people and service personnel will shout "hurrah" for me and I will succeed in the coup in a smooth way."
Jang dreamed such a foolish dream that once he seizes power by a base method, his despicable true colors as "reformist" known to the outside world would help his "new government" get "recognized" by foreign countries in a short span of time.
All facts go to clearly prove that Jang is a thrice-cursed traitor without an equal in the world as he had desperately worked for years to destabilize and bring down the DPRK and grab the supreme power of the party and state by employing all the most cunning and sinister means and methods, pursuant to the "strategic patience" policy and "waiting strategy" of the U.S. and the south Korean puppet group of traitors.
The hateful and despicable nature of the anti-party, anti-state and unpopular crimes committed by Jang was fully disclosed in the course of the trial conducted at the special military tribunal of the DPRK Ministry of State Security.
The era and history will eternally record and never forget the shuddering crimes committed by Jang Song Thaek, the enemy of the party, revolution and people and heinous traitor to the nation.
No matter how much water flows under the bridge and no matter how frequently a generation is replaced by new one, the lineage of Paektu will remain unchanged and irreplaceable.
Our party, state, army and people do not know anyone except Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un.
Our service personnel and people will never pardon all those who dare disobey the unitary leadership of Kim Jong Un, challenge his absolute authority and oppose the lineage of Mt. Paektu to an individual but bring them to the stern court of history without fail and mercilessly punish them on behalf of the party and revolution, the country and its people, no matter where they are in hiding.
The special military tribunal of the Ministry of State Security of the DPRK confirmed that the state subversion attempted by the accused Jang with an aim to overthrow the people's power of the DPRK by ideologically aligning himself with enemies is a crime punishable by Article 60 of the DPRK Criminal Code, vehemently condemned him as a wicked political careerist, trickster and traitor for all ages in the name of the revolution and the people and ruled that he would be sentenced to death according to it.
The decision was immediately executed. -0-
- KCNA, Nordkoreas officiella -- enda -- nyhetsbyrå.
Relaterat på bloggen: De röda kejsarna, vari bl.a. poängen med berget Paekdu/Baekdu förklaras. Och naturligtvis klassikern Kim Jong Il spelar golf.
Pyongyang, December 13 (KCNA) -- Upon hearing the report on the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the service personnel and people throughout the country broke into angry shouts that a stern judgment of the revolution should be meted out to the anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional elements. Against the backdrop of these shouts rocking the country, a special military tribunal of the DPRK Ministry of State Security was held on December 12 against traitor for all ages Jang Song Thaek.
The accused Jang brought together undesirable forces and formed a faction as the boss of a modern day factional group for a long time and thus committed such hideous crime as attempting to overthrow the state by all sorts of intrigues and despicable methods with a wild ambition to grab the supreme power of our party and state.
The tribunal examined Jang's crimes.
All the crimes committed by the accused were proved in the course of hearing and were admitted by him.
A decision of the special military tribunal of the Ministry of State Security of the DPRK was read out at the trial.
Every sentence of the decision served as sledge-hammer blow brought down by our angry service personnel and people on the head of Jang, an anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional element and despicable political careerist and trickster.
The accused is a traitor to the nation for all ages who perpetrated anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional acts in a bid to overthrow the leadership of our party and state and the socialist system.
Jang was appointed to responsible posts of the party and state thanks to the deep political trust of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and received benevolence from them more than any others from long ago.
He held higher posts than before and received deeper trust from supreme leader Kim Jong Un, in particular.
The political trust and benevolence shown by the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu were something he hardly deserved.
It is an elementary obligation of a human being to repay trust with sense of obligation and benevolence with loyalty.
However, despicable human scum Jang, who was worse than a dog, perpetrated thrice-cursed acts of treachery in betrayal of such profound trust and warmest paternal love shown by the party and the leader for him.
From long ago, Jang had a dirty political ambition. He dared not raise his head when Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il were alive. But, reading their faces, Jang had an axe to grind and involved himself in double-dealing. He began revealing his true colors in the period of historic turn when the generation of the revolution was replaced, thinking that it was just the time for him to realize his wild ambition.
Jang committed such an unpardonable thrice-cursed treason as overtly and covertly standing in the way of settling the issue of succession to the leadership with an axe to grind when a very important issue was under discussion to hold respected Kim Jong Un in high esteem as the only successor to Kim Jong Il in reflection of the unanimous desire and will of the entire party and army and all people.
When his cunning move proved futile and the decision that Kim Jong Un was elected vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea in reflection of the unanimous will of all party members, service personnel and people was proclaimed at the historic Third Conference of the WPK, making all participants break into enthusiastic cheers that shook the conference hall, he behaved so arrogantly and insolently as unwillingly standing up from his seat and half-heartedly clapping, touching off towering resentment of our service personnel and people.
Jang confessed that he behaved so at that time as a knee-jerk reaction as he thought that if Kim Jong Un's base and system for leading the army were consolidated, this would lay a stumbling block in his way of grabbing the power of the party and state.
When Kim Jong Il passed away so suddenly and untimely to our sorrow, Jang began working in real earnest to realize his long-cherished greed for power.
Abusing the honor of often accompanying Kim Jong Un during his field guidance, Jang tried hard to create illusion about him by projecting himself internally and externally as a special being on a par with the headquarters of the revolution.
In a bid to rally a group of reactionaries to be used by him for toppling the leadership of the party and state, he let the undesirable and alien elements including those who had been dismissed and relieved of their posts after being severely punished for disobeying the instructions of Kim Jong Il and kowtowing to Jang work in a department of the Central Committee of the WPK and organs under it in a crafty manner.
Jang did serious harm to the youth movement in our country, being part of the group of renegades and betrayers in the field of youth work bribed by enemies. Even after they were disclosed and purged by the resolute measure of the party, he patronized those cat's paws and let them hold important posts of the party and state.
He let Ri Ryong Ha, flatterer, work with him since the 1980s whenever he was transferred to other posts and systematically promoted Ri up to the post of first vice department director of the Party Central Committee though he had been purged for his factional act of denying the unitary leadership of the party. Jang thus made Ri his trusted stooge.
Jang let his confidants and flatterers who had been fired for causing an important case of denying the unitary leadership of the party work in his department and organs under it in a crafty manner in a few years. He systematically rallied ex-convicts, those problematic in their past careers and discontented elements around him and ruled over them as sacred and inviolable being.
He worked hard to put all affairs of the country under his control, massively increasing the staff of his department and organs under it, and stretch his tentacles to ministries and national institutions. He converted his department into a "little kingdom" which no one dares touch.
He was so impudent as to prevent the Taedonggang Tile Factory from erecting a mosaic depicting Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and a monument to field guidance given by them. Moreover, Jang turned down the unanimous request of the service personnel of a unit of the Korean People's Internal Security Forces to have the autograph letter sent by Kim Jong Un to the unit carved on a natural granite and erected with good care in front of the building of its command. He was so reckless as to instruct the unit to erect it in a shaded corner.
He committed such anti-party acts as systematically denying the party's line and policies, its organizational will, in the past period. These acts were a revelation of deliberate and sinister attempt to create extreme illusion and idolization of him by making him appear as a special being who can overrule either issues decided by the party or its line.
He went so rude as to take in the middle even those things associated with intense loyalty and sincerity of our army and people towards the party and the leader and distribute them among his confidants in an effort to take credit to himself for doing so. This behavior was to create illusion about him.
Due to his persistent moves to create illusion and idolization of him his flatterers and followers in his department and organs under it praised him as "comrade No. 1." They went the lengths of denying even the party's instructions to please him at any cost.
Jang established such a heterogeneous work system in his department and the relevant organs as considering what he said as more important than the party's policies. Consequently, his trusted henchmen and followers made no scruple of perpetrating such counter-revolutionary act as disobeying the order of the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army.
The revolutionary army will never pardon all those who disobey the order of the Supreme Commander and there will be no place for them to be buried even after their death.
Dreaming a fantastic dream to become premier at an initial stage to grab the supreme power of the party and state, Jang made his department put major economic fields of the country under its control in a bid to disable the Cabinet. In this way he schemed to drive the economy of the country and people's living into an uncontrollable catastrophe.
He put inspection and supervision organs belonging to the Cabinet under his control in defiance of the new state machinery established by Kim Jong Il at the First Session of the Tenth Supreme People's Assembly. Jang put all issues related to all structural works handled by the Cabinet under his control and had the final say on them, making it impossible for the Cabinet to properly perform its function and role as the economic command. They included the issues of setting up and disorganizing committees, ministries and national institutions and provincial, city and county-level organs, organizing units for foreign trade and for earning foreign money and structures overseas and fixing living allowances.
When he attempted to make a false report to the party without having agreement with the Cabinet and the relevant ministry on the issue related to the state construction supervision organization, officials concerned expressed just opinion that his behavior was contrary to the construction law worked out by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. Hearing this, he made the reckless remark that "the rewriting of the construction law would solve the problem."
Abusing his authority, he undermined the work system related to the construction of the capital city established by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, reducing the construction and building-materials bases to such bad shape little short of debris in a few years. He weakened the ranks of technicians and skilled workers at the units for the construction of the capital city in a crafty manner and transferred major construction units to his confidants so that they might make money. In this way he deliberately disturbed the construction in Pyongyang.
He instructed his confidants to sell coal and other precious underground resources at random. Consequently, they were saddled with huge debts, deceived by brokers. Jang made no scruple of committing such act of treachery in May last as selling off the land of the Rason economic and trade zone to a foreign country for a period of five decades under the pretext of paying those debts.
It was none other than Jang who wirepulled behind scene Pak Nam Gi, traitor for all ages, to recklessly issue hundreds of billions of won in 2009, sparking off serious economic chaos and disturbing the people's mind-set.
Jang encouraged money-making under various pretexts to secure funds necessary for gratifying his political greed and was engrossed in irregularities and corruption. He thus took the lead in spreading indolent, careless and undisciplined virus in our society.
After collecting precious metals since the construction of Kwangbok Street in the 1980s, he set up a secret organ under his control and took a fabulous amount of funds from a bank and purchased precious metals in disregard of the state law. He thus committed such anti-state criminal acts as creating a great confusion in financial management system of the state.
He let the decadent capitalist lifestyle find its way to our society by distributing all sorts of pornographic pictures among his confidants since 2009. He led a dissolute and depraved life, squandering money wherever he went.
He took at least 4.6 million Euro from his secret coffers and squandered it in 2009 alone and enjoyed himself in casino in a foreign country. These facts alone clearly show how corrupt and degenerate he was.
Jang was so reckless with his greed for power that he persistently worked to stretch his tentacles even to the People's Army with a foolish calculation that he would succeed in staging a coup if he mobilized the army.
He fully revealed his despicable true colors as a traitor for all ages in the course of questioning by uttering as follows: "I attempted to trigger off discontent among service personnel and people that the present regime does not take any measure despite the fact that the economy of the country and people's living are driven into catastrophe. Comrade supreme leader is the target of the coup."
As regards the means and methods for staging the coup, Jang said: "I was going to stage the coup by using high-ranking army officers who had close ties with me or by mobilizing armed forces under the control of my confidants. I don't know well about recently appointed high-ranking army officers but have some acquaintances with those appointed in the past period. I thought the army might join in the coup if the living of the people and service personnel further deteriorate in the future. And I calculated that my confidants in my department including Ri Ryong Ha and Jang Su Gil would surely follow me and had a plan to use the one in charge of the people's security organ as my confidant. It was my calculation that I might use several others beside them."
Asked about the timing of the coup and his plan to do after staging the coup, Jang answered: "I didn't fix the definite time for the coup. But it was my intention to concentrate my department and all economic organs on the Cabinet and become premier when the economy goes totally bankrupt and the state is on the verge of collapse in a certain period. I thought that if I solve the problem of people's living to a certain measure by spending an enormous amount of funds I have accumulated under various names after becoming premier, the people and service personnel will shout "hurrah" for me and I will succeed in the coup in a smooth way."
Jang dreamed such a foolish dream that once he seizes power by a base method, his despicable true colors as "reformist" known to the outside world would help his "new government" get "recognized" by foreign countries in a short span of time.
All facts go to clearly prove that Jang is a thrice-cursed traitor without an equal in the world as he had desperately worked for years to destabilize and bring down the DPRK and grab the supreme power of the party and state by employing all the most cunning and sinister means and methods, pursuant to the "strategic patience" policy and "waiting strategy" of the U.S. and the south Korean puppet group of traitors.
The hateful and despicable nature of the anti-party, anti-state and unpopular crimes committed by Jang was fully disclosed in the course of the trial conducted at the special military tribunal of the DPRK Ministry of State Security.
The era and history will eternally record and never forget the shuddering crimes committed by Jang Song Thaek, the enemy of the party, revolution and people and heinous traitor to the nation.
No matter how much water flows under the bridge and no matter how frequently a generation is replaced by new one, the lineage of Paektu will remain unchanged and irreplaceable.
Our party, state, army and people do not know anyone except Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un.
Our service personnel and people will never pardon all those who dare disobey the unitary leadership of Kim Jong Un, challenge his absolute authority and oppose the lineage of Mt. Paektu to an individual but bring them to the stern court of history without fail and mercilessly punish them on behalf of the party and revolution, the country and its people, no matter where they are in hiding.
The special military tribunal of the Ministry of State Security of the DPRK confirmed that the state subversion attempted by the accused Jang with an aim to overthrow the people's power of the DPRK by ideologically aligning himself with enemies is a crime punishable by Article 60 of the DPRK Criminal Code, vehemently condemned him as a wicked political careerist, trickster and traitor for all ages in the name of the revolution and the people and ruled that he would be sentenced to death according to it.
The decision was immediately executed. -0-
- KCNA, Nordkoreas officiella -- enda -- nyhetsbyrå.
Relaterat på bloggen: De röda kejsarna, vari bl.a. poängen med berget Paekdu/Baekdu förklaras. Och naturligtvis klassikern Kim Jong Il spelar golf.
2012-01-17
Kim Jong Il spelar golf
Med sådana amatörer behövs inga proffs
"Dear Leader Comrade General Kim Jong Il, whom I respect from the bottom of my heart, scored two on this hole," said the course professional, Park Young Man.
Clearly, the mysterious 52-year-old son of the late "Great Leader" Kim Il Sung is a hero of the golf course as well as of the nation.
Mr. Park, who confessed to having never heard of Arnold Palmer, explained that the Dear Leader shot a 34 over 18 holes, including five holes-in-one, and did no worse than a birdie on any hole.
"He is an excellent golfer," Mr. Park said.- Keeping Dear Leader's Score, New York Times, 19 oktober 1994
Det där är, såvitt jag funnit, upprinnelsen till den allra mest slitstarka uppgiften om den käre ledaren: att han på sin första (enda?) golfrunda slog en rad hole-in-ones och krossade banrekordet med en obeskrivlig marginal. Golfbanan i Pyongyang har par 72 – räkna själva. Världshistoriens bästa golfrunda, helt enkelt; en Rookie of the Year som en sorglig skepnad som Arnold Palmer inte vore värdig att bära klubborna åt, och så vidare.
Men är uppgiften "sann"? På så sätt att den framförts av det nordkoreanska propaganda-maskineriet, snarare än att ha hittats på av icke-nordkoreanska filurer? Källforskningen är sällsam (påminner mest om när jag skulle leta "fakta" för UFO-kapitlet i Tredje rikets myter); det är just ingen hejd på de märkligheter och rena mirakel som inträffat kring De röda kejsarna jag tidigare tagit upp. Men om golfrundan förekommit i pressmeddelanden, texter från den statliga nyhetsbyrån KCNA eller den officiella biografin eller så, så borde den vara lätt hittad. Eftersom ingen hittat något sådant, så har andra dragit slutsatsen att den är påhittad utanför Nordkorea. Att ingen tillfrågad nordkorean känts vid uppgiften förstärker den teorin.
Vad vi känner till så har detta inte rapporterats på KCNA eller skrivits i någon biografi av Kim Jong Il. Flera av våra medlemmar har dock tagit upp detta rykte när de varit på besök i DFRK och koreanerna har funnit detta påstående lika löjeväckande som vi.- Svensk-Koreanska föreningen svarar på min fråga, 10 januari 2012
Sanningen ligger, som så ofta, mittimellan. Uppgiften kommer alltså från en nordkorean, som väl inte vågade annat än prisa den för övrigt då helt färske ledaren (Kim Il Sung dog sommaren 1994), men verkar aldrig ha infogats i den officiella hagiografin. Gott så.
Denna bild från Pyongyang Golf Company verkar visa en annan golfbana med 9 hål. Hur som helst.
2011-12-30
De röda kejsarna
Varje nordkoreansk fackbok inleds med ett citat av Kim Il Sung, för att understryka hans expertis på varje område. Propagandans hävdande av Kim Jong Ils excellens inom såväl sport som mode är vida känd runtom i världen. Medeltidens koreanska kejsare skulle känna igen sig i den nordkoreanska kulten kring ledardynastin.
- Historiskt arv grund för kult av diktator, SvD 28 december 2011
Sista tiden har man uppmärksammat den käre ledarens liv, verk och död; när han slog en hel klase hole-in-one på sitt livs första golfrunda [källa: New York Times 19 oktober 1994], hur såväl mänsklighet som djur och själva naturen sörjer hans död, osv.
Inte för att det är något nytt. Visste ni att hans födelse hälsades av en dubbel regnbåge? Och en ny stjärna. Grejer. Dessutom föddes han, enligt uppgift, på berget Baekdu vid den nordkoreansk-kinesiska gränsen. Det är helt i samklang med den halvt eller helt religiösa synen på de kommunistiska kejsarna, då berget sedan mycket långt tillbaka varit heligt hos folk runtomkring.
Även pappa Kim Il Sung hälsades, enligt uppgifter, med dubbla regnbågar, exalterad fauna m.m. vid sin födsel, och givetvis sörjde såväl djur- som växt- och mineralriket hans död.
Nog har diktatorer varit föremål för överspänt hyllande även på närmare håll, men det förgudligande som vi ser i Nordkorea är historiskt sett en sorts rest av en riktigt gammal tradition. Jämför den gule kejsaren som kanske bygger på en faktisk människa, kanske inte, men som även i det förra fallet skulle ligga i samma klass som dynastin Kim.
De flesta människor i USA har svårt att förstå det koreanska folkets sorg och västerländska medier valde att till stora delar förlöjliga sorgen. Det är trots allt otänkbart att föreställa sig att döden av någon amerikansk president eller annan ledare skulle frambringa en enhällig sorg från det amerikanska folket. Trots detta kan även de hårdaste kritikerna inte förneka uppriktigheten i det koreanska folkets tårar, både i DFRK och utomlands, inför Kim Jong Ils bortgång.
- Svensk-koreanska föreningen återger en artikel (här) publicerad på www.fightbacknews.org (här)
Det som i ett historiskt perspektiv sticker ut är att de gamla traditionerna bildat en otippad syntes med en politisk strömning av betydligt yngre datum. I Karl Marx arbeten letar man trots allt förgäves efter tecken som skulle kunna leda fram till vansinnigheter som den evige presidenten, svensk-koreanska föreningen med mera.
Det är sådant som gör Nordkorea till världens kanske mest intressanta land just nu. Jag skulle gärna ta en titt, ifall jag fick.
Uppdaterat - en missuppfattning korrigeras av sanningens källa:
Den högsta makten går inte i arv, utan ledarna utses efter sin allmänna kompetens och lämplighet av de politiska instanserna, ytterst av den folkvalda Högsta Folkförsamlingen. Att Kim Jong Il ansågs mest lämplig som efterträdare till sin far, president Kim Il Sung är inte märkligt eftersom han hela sitt liv vuxit upp i den politiska kampen, i nära samverkan med sin far, och haft olika politiska uppdrag som han anses ha skött på ett föredömligt sätt. Att far och son efterträder varandra på ledande politiska befattningar är inget unikt för Nordkorea, det förekommer i många länder. Se på USA till exempel, där George W Bush blivit president liksom sin far. Också i den svenska regeringen finns ministrar som följer i sina föräldrars spår.
- Svensk-koreanska föreningen: Frågor och svar
- Historiskt arv grund för kult av diktator, SvD 28 december 2011
Sista tiden har man uppmärksammat den käre ledarens liv, verk och död; när han slog en hel klase hole-in-one på sitt livs första golfrunda [källa: New York Times 19 oktober 1994], hur såväl mänsklighet som djur och själva naturen sörjer hans död, osv.
Inte för att det är något nytt. Visste ni att hans födelse hälsades av en dubbel regnbåge? Och en ny stjärna. Grejer. Dessutom föddes han, enligt uppgift, på berget Baekdu vid den nordkoreansk-kinesiska gränsen. Det är helt i samklang med den halvt eller helt religiösa synen på de kommunistiska kejsarna, då berget sedan mycket långt tillbaka varit heligt hos folk runtomkring.
Även pappa Kim Il Sung hälsades, enligt uppgifter, med dubbla regnbågar, exalterad fauna m.m. vid sin födsel, och givetvis sörjde såväl djur- som växt- och mineralriket hans död.
Nog har diktatorer varit föremål för överspänt hyllande även på närmare håll, men det förgudligande som vi ser i Nordkorea är historiskt sett en sorts rest av en riktigt gammal tradition. Jämför den gule kejsaren som kanske bygger på en faktisk människa, kanske inte, men som även i det förra fallet skulle ligga i samma klass som dynastin Kim.
De flesta människor i USA har svårt att förstå det koreanska folkets sorg och västerländska medier valde att till stora delar förlöjliga sorgen. Det är trots allt otänkbart att föreställa sig att döden av någon amerikansk president eller annan ledare skulle frambringa en enhällig sorg från det amerikanska folket. Trots detta kan även de hårdaste kritikerna inte förneka uppriktigheten i det koreanska folkets tårar, både i DFRK och utomlands, inför Kim Jong Ils bortgång.
- Svensk-koreanska föreningen återger en artikel (här) publicerad på www.fightbacknews.org (här)
Det som i ett historiskt perspektiv sticker ut är att de gamla traditionerna bildat en otippad syntes med en politisk strömning av betydligt yngre datum. I Karl Marx arbeten letar man trots allt förgäves efter tecken som skulle kunna leda fram till vansinnigheter som den evige presidenten, svensk-koreanska föreningen med mera.
Det är sådant som gör Nordkorea till världens kanske mest intressanta land just nu. Jag skulle gärna ta en titt, ifall jag fick.
Uppdaterat - en missuppfattning korrigeras av sanningens källa:
Den högsta makten går inte i arv, utan ledarna utses efter sin allmänna kompetens och lämplighet av de politiska instanserna, ytterst av den folkvalda Högsta Folkförsamlingen. Att Kim Jong Il ansågs mest lämplig som efterträdare till sin far, president Kim Il Sung är inte märkligt eftersom han hela sitt liv vuxit upp i den politiska kampen, i nära samverkan med sin far, och haft olika politiska uppdrag som han anses ha skött på ett föredömligt sätt. Att far och son efterträder varandra på ledande politiska befattningar är inget unikt för Nordkorea, det förekommer i många länder. Se på USA till exempel, där George W Bush blivit president liksom sin far. Också i den svenska regeringen finns ministrar som följer i sina föräldrars spår.
- Svensk-koreanska föreningen: Frågor och svar
2010-10-15
Den evige presidenten
Under det koreanska arbetarpartiets ledning kommer den demokratiska folkrepubliken Korea och det koreanska folket att hålla den store ledaren kamrat Kim-Il Sung i högsta ära som republikens evige president.
- Tillägg till den nordkoreanska konstitutionen, den 5 september 1998
Kim Il-Sung dog 1994. Icke desto mindre är han, den dag som är idag, Nordkoreas president och nominellt högste ledare. De högsta poster som innehas av levande personer är alla underordnade presidenten. Landet är sålunda, åtminstone på papperet, världens enda "nekrokrati", land som styrs av en död man.
Det koreanska arbetarpartiet torde även vara det enda som har en död ledare:
Ändringsförslagen framhöll Kim Il Sung som partiets högt värderade ständige ledare samt de lysande bedrifter som Kim Il Sung och Kim Jong Il åstadkommit för revolutionen och för att stärka och utveckla partiet.
- Referat från partikonferensen den 28 september 2010
Denna text lades ut häromveckan. Sällsam läsning, på denna sida murens fall.
- Tillägg till den nordkoreanska konstitutionen, den 5 september 1998
Kim Il-Sung dog 1994. Icke desto mindre är han, den dag som är idag, Nordkoreas president och nominellt högste ledare. De högsta poster som innehas av levande personer är alla underordnade presidenten. Landet är sålunda, åtminstone på papperet, världens enda "nekrokrati", land som styrs av en död man.
Det koreanska arbetarpartiet torde även vara det enda som har en död ledare:
Ändringsförslagen framhöll Kim Il Sung som partiets högt värderade ständige ledare samt de lysande bedrifter som Kim Il Sung och Kim Jong Il åstadkommit för revolutionen och för att stärka och utveckla partiet.
- Referat från partikonferensen den 28 september 2010
Denna text lades ut häromveckan. Sällsam läsning, på denna sida murens fall.
2009-02-27
Kim Jong Fejk
Den käre ledaren med några av sina soldater. Fast vad har hänt med den där linjen i bakgrunden? Hm! Man kan tänka sig att någon photoshoppande nordkorean fått skit för det här. Om bilden var avsedd att visa att Kim Jong Il är i prima skick så fick den plötsligt helt motsatt effekt.
Att retuschera är en gammal tradition i socialistiska länder. Den mest kända bilden är väl den med Lenin i talarstolen - som förresten är ett riktigt bra porträtt på honom - med Trotskij intill. När den senare blev icke önskvärd, försvann han också ur bilden. På samma sätt gick det med Nikolaj Jezhov på bilden ovan, chef för NKVD (KGB:s föregångare) under Stalins stora utrensning. Så småningom blev han utrensad själv, bildligt som bokstavligt.
Denna obetalbara semesterbild är faktiskt betydligt bättre gjord än den ovan. Inte för att Pyongyang någonsin skulle släppa igenom något sådant. Tyvärr.
The Huffington Post: Kim Jong Il Photoshop Error Betrays Leader's Health Problems?
Mike Hick, University of Minnesota: Falsification of history
Wikipedia: Photo manipulation
2008-12-01
Lördagsfråga: Good luck!
Det var i januari 1968 som USS Pueblo, som idkade s.k. signalspaning utanför Nordkorea, blev inringat av nordkoreanska fartyg och eskorterad in till hamn. Huruvida det befann sig på nordkoreanskt eller internationellt vatten har varit föremål för en förutsägbar och tämligen låst debatt. Besättningen på 82 man togs tillfånga, minus en som dödades. Därefter följde 11 månader i nordkoreansk fångenskap. Då är man inte så karsk! - Men snart fann männen en oväntad möjlighet att sända ett meddelande hem till USA via de tydligen ovetande koreanerna. Det hela började med propagandafilmerna:
The film about the soccer team began with the North Korean team arriving in London and driving through the streets in a bus festooned with flags of the DPRK. As the bus drove down the street one proper English gentlemen complete with derby and umbrella spotted the bus and flipped it off. The man must have been a Korean War vet and he was giving the bus the finger. Whoever was taking the pictures zoomed in on it. A murmur went through the crew, the KORCOMs ["Korean Communists"?] didn't know what the finger meant.
This was further demonstrated in the second film in which a US Navy Officer flipped off the cameraman. They left it in. We now had a weapon! Back in our rooms we were elated, this was one more thing we could use to discredit the propaganda we were being forced to grind out. Several crew members expressed caution, but the general attitude was use it. We had been captured, but we never surrendered. Damn the Koreans, full fingers ahead!- Stu Russell: The Hawaiian Good Luck Sign, usspueblo.org
Så närhelst en kamera dök upp, där poängen givetvis var att visa folket i USA hur väl de imperialistiska lakejerna behandlades, så råkade långfingren sticka ut här och var. Vid åtminstone ett tillfälle fick de byta fångdräkterna mot uniformer för att se särskilt välbehållna ut - med långfingren på plats. Man kom även överens om att om någon korean skulle bli nyfiken, så skulle de förklara gesten såsom varandes "the Hawaiian good luck sign".
Det var inte förrän i oktober som tidningen Time förstörde det hela med en bildtext: "In this class-reunion picture, three of the crewmen have managed to use the medium for a message, furtively getting off the U.S. hand signal of obscene derisiveness and contempt."
Chief Goldman told the five admirals on the court that the North Koreans were furious over the finger gesture. "I told them it was the Hawaiian good luck sign, and they told me not to lie, they knew what it was," said the sailor, an Arkansan who has served 18 years in the Navy. [Senare:] I had blood coming from my right ear.- New York Times, 25 februari 1969
Som exempel på civilkurage i en ohyggligt pressad situation tycker jag att "the Hawaiian good luck sign" är något alldeles extra. Det, samt en påminnelse om att även signaler som är aldrig så välkända bland oss kan vara mer begränsade än vi anar.
Not: I skrivande stund ligger USS Pueblo kvar i hamn i Pyongyang. Eftersom det aldrig blivit bortfört ur flottans rullor, så är det även det enda av USA:s krigsfartyg i tjänst som befinner sig i fientliga händer.
Tack till Hans som tipsade om denna fascinerande händelse.
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