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Posted: 10/2/2014 11:13:33 PM EDT
An elite group of exiles from North Korea gathered in September in the Netherlands to discuss the state of the regime they used to serve. The conference included top diplomats, an ex-senior official of the Ministry of Security, and a high-ranking military officer, but the keynote address was given by Jang Jin-sung, formerly a key member of Kim Jong-il's propaganda machine. Included in Jang's speech was a surprising assertion: North Korea is in the midst of a civil war.
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https://news.vice.com/article/former-top-official-says-kim-jong-un-is-no-longer-in-control-of-north-korea?utm_source=vicenewstwitter

Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:15:15 PM EDT
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It's happening?
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:19:02 PM EDT
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If only I had a fuck to give. . .

Nope, all outta fucks.

Let me know when he's eaten alive by a grizzly bear or something interesting like that.
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:19:23 PM EDT
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Steve Herman ?@W7VOA  27m27 minutes ago
No evidence of this. MT @vicenews: Former top official says KJU no longer in control of #DPRK:

Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:19:54 PM EDT
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How does that country make money? I'm serious. What do they export?
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:20:16 PM EDT
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The big un's cankles rebelled?
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:20:31 PM EDT
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Junior fed one too many underlings to the dogs?
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:21:01 PM EDT
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Opium.
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Nothing. They make money by threatening to build a nuke if we don't pay them.




I take that back. I think they sell weapons to the Arabs.

 
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Weapons
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:22:53 PM EDT
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They threaten to export artillery shells to South Korea.
Then we send them money.
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They print their own US greenbacks. An economy could be self sufficient without exporting anything. NK is not, but a country can be. They're propped up by China too.
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:23:21 PM EDT
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I don't know if this rumor is true but I would not be surprised.  Wacking his uncle and others like that probably was not a good idea.  I believe he was in a weak position to begin with considering his age and other factors.  It was only a matter of time before some of the elites moved on this increasingly weak and unstable dynasty.
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:23:34 PM EDT
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Just what the world needs.
Instability or a true civil war in a nuclear armed country run by a mad man.
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:24:00 PM EDT
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I've heard that they have a large foreign currency counterfeiting operation.
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:24:31 PM EDT
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Nuclear material and counterfeit currency.
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:24:42 PM EDT
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I wonder what a "elite group of exiles from North Korea" would consist of.
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I've heard that they have a large foreign currency counterfeiting operation.


It's extremely successful as well.
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:24:57 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:25:22 PM EDT
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I hope it's true.

I hope they got the rest of that family, too.
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Nuclear material and counterfeit currency.
And crystal meth and heroin.  They traffick it through their embassies.





Also counterfeit luxury goods like clothing and purses.

 
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:27:06 PM EDT
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Counterfeit currency, methamphetamine, financial crimes, a little bit of everything.
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:27:29 PM EDT
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  Nothing. They make money by threatening to build a nuke if we don't pay them.

I take that back. I think they sell weapons to the Arabs.
 
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  Nothing. They make money by threatening to build a nuke if we don't pay them.

I take that back. I think they sell weapons to the Arabs.
 


They already have nukes, unless they used the only ones they had for tests, which I doubt.
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:30:17 PM EDT
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It's like a Tom Clancy novel, but with bulgogi.
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Just what the world needs.
Instability or a true civil war in a nuclear armed country run by a mad man.
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HA!
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:32:08 PM EDT
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They export quite a bit: drugs,counterfeit cash of remarkable quality,weapons,lots of products that end up getting labled as made in China. You've probably watched cartoons animated by Norks actually.


 Nobody really knows WTF is happening. His aunt used to be exceptionally powerful,until her husband was executed and now nobody knows where she is; for one example.

As for having a civil war and nobody knowing,the west didn't know how bad the Cultural Revolution in China was until so many bodies were being washed down rivers. So long as its factions of generals and party leadership killing each other and the bulk of the army waiting to see who the new boss is,it'd be impossible to know
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Just what the world needs.
Instability or a true civil war in a nuclear armed country run by a mad man.
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What you did there.  Few see it.  






Well played.
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:35:24 PM EDT
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Wonderful , a civil war with loose nukes as the prize . . . . . unleash the stupidity.





What would ISIS pay for a few nukes . . . . they could scrounge a few hundred million from their booty-sack. And they might come in handy for Iran or Israel or .....us

Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:35:51 PM EDT
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A North Korean Officer that can read and write to the level of an average FSA's child that's in the 1st Grade.
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:36:06 PM EDT
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He's dead Jim.
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:36:49 PM EDT
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Is this a good thing or a bad thing?  

Saddam and all...
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:39:40 PM EDT
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I'm sure China is keeping a very very close eye on it, if they ain't involved already. They want no part of Nork refugees...
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:40:49 PM EDT
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LOL
Good one.

Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:41:50 PM EDT
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However remote, there is a possibility that key players have come together to overthrow Mr. Pillsbury and replace his rule with some sort of power-balancing government. It'll be interesting to see what happens, regardless.

«tc2k11»
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:42:51 PM EDT
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They export quite a bit: drugs,counterfeit cash of remarkable quality,weapons,lots of products that end up getting labled as made in China. You've probably watched cartoons animated by Norks actually.


 Nobody really knows WTF is happening. His aunt used to be exceptionally powerful,until her husband was executed and now nobody knows where she is; for one example.

As for having a civil war and nobody knowing,the west didn't know how bad the Cultural Revolution in China was until so many bodies were being washed down rivers. So long as its factions of generals and party leadership killing each other and the bulk of the army waiting to see who the new boss is,it'd be impossible to know
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I'd say that about sums it up. The execution of his uncle was the red flag that shit is going sideways over there.
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:43:29 PM EDT
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Nothing. They make money by threatening to build a nuke if we don't pay them.




I take that back. I think they sell weapons to the Arabs.
 


Low GDP, maybe 100M, correction 12B



 
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Don't they run huge counterfeiting operations with some old money presses they got from us?
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 11:46:18 PM EDT
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I'm sure China is keeping a very very close eye on it, if they ain't involved already. They want no part of Nork refugees...




China will move in to stabilize if things get too out of hand. They don't want 20 million starving people swarming Manchuria.


The last time there was turmoil in the DPRK China moved a quite large force near the border.


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China will move in to stabilize if things get too out of hand. They don't want 20 million starving people swarming Manchuria.


The last time there was turmoil in the DPRK China moved a quite large force near the border.


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I'm sure China is keeping a very very close eye on it, if they ain't involved already. They want no part of Nork refugees...




China will move in to stabilize if things get too out of hand. They don't want 20 million starving people swarming Manchuria.


The last time there was turmoil in the DPRK China moved a quite large force near the border.




Exactly.
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Black market guns, counterfeit USD
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Nothing. They make money by threatening to build a nuke if we don't pay them.




I take that back. I think they sell weapons to the Arabs.
 


Low GDP, maybe 100M, correction 12B

 




 
Also labor for the Russians.






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I doubt the accuracy of this report.

However, some day - someone is going to put a round behind that little runt's ear.


Link Posted: 10/3/2014 12:02:16 AM EDT
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I foresee a coupé in a few years.


Kim's rule is way too liquid still. Two years in and he's still shaking people around? Yeah no.

Too many bodies. One of them is going to be his soon.
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Room temp works for me.
Link Posted: 10/3/2014 12:14:13 AM EDT
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China will move in to stabilize if things get too out of hand. They don't want 20 million starving people swarming Manchuria.


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China will move in to stabilize if things get too out of hand. They don't want 20 million starving people swarming Manchuria.


The last time there was turmoil in the DPRK China moved a quite large force near the border.




And if we suddenly see an "exercise" near the border, we'll know something is up. To be honest I hope they nuke themselves, and I hope the video of the blast ends up on live leak.
Link Posted: 10/3/2014 12:20:01 AM EDT
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Well, maybe diabetes won't take that fat fuck out.



Link Posted: 10/3/2014 12:22:37 AM EDT
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Anyone seen Dennis Rodman lately?

Wormed his way in and will soon be armed with shitty nukes.
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I named my ISR "Diabetes".
Link Posted: 10/3/2014 12:28:01 AM EDT
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I guess that would depend who the other faction is.
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Article is 5 years old but still valid
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/09/office-39-200909#



As pointed out they also farm out very cheap labor to far eastern Russia,essentially providing mining and wood cutting slaves for rent.
They also rent their military. Assad is using Nork pilots and they've been used quite a bit in Africa ,from Mugabe using them for ethnic cleansing in the early 80s to Laurent Kabila trading uranium for troops in Congo.


 They supply the bulk portion of Asia's meth. Use is very high there,afterall how do you  keep people working without sufficient food?

http://articles.latimes.com/2014/jan/27/world/la-fg-north-korea-meth-20140127


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Misery, drugs, counterfeit currency, slave labor, knock-off goods, nuke technology.
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