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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: SERIOUS WAR TALK: North Korea (fwd)
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>>Subject: SERIOUS WAR TALK: North Korea
>>
>>>In case you missed it since I did not see any mention on tonight's
>>>network news, attached is a disturbing wire service article.
>>>
>>>Darren
>>
>>
>>>
>>>Defector Issues New Warnings of War in N.Korea
>>>
>>>Copyright 1997 by Reuters / Thu, 10 Jul 1997 14:30:55 PDT
>>>
>>>SEOUL, South Korea (Reuter) - A top Pyongyang defector warned Thursday that
>>>North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had rejected reform in his hunger-stricken
>>>nation and was plotting a lightning war against the South as his only
>>>escape.
>>>
>>>But Hwang Jang-yop, a leading Communist theorist before fleeing to Beijing
>>>in February, conceded he had no proof for an earlier claim that the North
>>>could launch a nuclear attack.
>>>
>>>``The North's war preparation is beyond imagination,'' he told his second
>>>news conference since arriving on April 20 via China and the Philippines.
>>>
>>>But pressed to back up his earlier assertion that North Korea could
>>>``scorch'' South Korea, and even Japan, with nuclear arms, Hwang conceded:
>>>``I don't really know.''
>>>
>>>``It is common knowledge they do have these weapons, but there is no means
>>>to verify that.''
>>>
>>>Meanwhile, a U.N. agency stepped up efforts to save tens of thousands of
>>>North Korean children from starvation by launching a new appeal for $46
>>>million in food aid.
>>>
>>>The United States, trying to coax the North into peace talks, said it was
>>>seriously considering the appeal.
>>>
>>>On Wednesday, the World Food Program appealed for $46 million in food aid
>>>to boost supplies the United Nations is sending to 2.6 million children
>>>aged under six. This was on top of an earlier appeal for $96 million.
>>>
>>>U.S. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns told reporters: ``We're
>>>going to give this very serious consideration.'' Other U.S. officials said
>>>a contribution was all but certain.
>>>
>>>The United States and South Korea are trying to entice North Korea to
>>>four-way peace talks with China to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War that
>>>was halted by a truce.
>>>
>>>Hwang said Kim knew that protracted war would destroy his regime and was
>>>waiting to catch South Korea and its U.S. ally off-guard with a blitzkreig
>>>attack.
>>>
>>>Hwang dismissed suggestions of a split in North Korea between hard-liners
>>>and moderates, saying: ``It is a country of one-man dictatorship.''
>>>
>>>But he hinted at dissent when asked if all North Koreans supported Kim.
>>>
>>>``Why are hundreds of thousands of people dying in off-limit areas?'' he
>>>replied, in an apparent reference to internal exile, or concentration
>>>camps.
>>>
>>>Western intelligence officials had cast doubt on whether Hwang, the author
>>>of Pyongyang's guiding ``juche'' ideology, was in a position to reveal
>>>North Korea's nuclear secrets.
>>>
>>>He has spent the past several months being debriefed by South Korea and
>>>U.S. spy operatives.
>>>
>>>Hwang predicted Kim would formally take over as general secretary of the
>>>the all-powerful Workers' Party after the hot summer, when celebrations
>>>could be more easily arranged, and become president this year or next.
>>>
>>>North Korea Tuesday declared an end to a three-year mourning period for
>>>Kim's father, ``Great Leader'' Kim Il-sung, paving the way for the younger
>>>Kim to assume top posts.
>>>
>>>A senior intelligence official said Thursday a hunt is under way for North
>>>Korean spies in the South after Hwang told Seoul investigators that an
>>>extensive network of moles regularly sent intelligence reports to Kim
>>>Jong-il.
>>>
>>>``Although Mr. Hwang Jang-yop had not worked in anti-South intelligence
>>>units, he had gathered informaton about their operations while serving as a
>>>high-ranking official in the North,'' Eom Ikk-joon, a vice director of
>>>Seoul's Agency for National Security Planning told reporters.
>>>
>>>Hwang had offered names of South Koreans and others he met in Pyongyang and
>>>elsewhere before seeking defection, Eom added. But he denied local news
>>>reports that Hwang had said more than 50,000 spies operated in the South.
>>>
>>>Hwang told reporters Thursday the moles not only passed on secrets but
>>>tried to foment social turmoil in the South.
>>>
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