Sunday, December 8, 2013

Porno-ops in the DPRK

For the Juche republic of North Korea, there is perhaps no figure to be held in higher regard - besides Kim Jong-un - than Ri Sol-ju, the wife of the dear leader. Her honor has of late come under assault, however, as the South Korean group Blue Union has launched porno rumor balloons into the DPRK...

KoreaBANGBalloons Carry News of Ri Sol-ju’s ‘Porno’ to North Korea

This was after it was reported that members of the Unhasu Orchestra and Wangjaesan Art Troupe, the former of which Ri Sol-ju was a singer, were executed for scandalous behavior, including the shooting of a porno film...

Asahi ShimbunKim Jong Un orders 9 executed to protect wife from scandal

Two recent stories in the DailyNK raise the question of whether the sex scandal is now engulfing the secretive kingdom...

Why Has Ri Been Gone for 48 Days?

Ri Sol Ju, the wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong Eun, has not made any public appearances for 48 days, since it was reported that she attended a concert performed by a Russian orchestra in Pyongyang on October 16th.

That appearance was 24 days after a sex scandal indirectly implicating her broke in September. A Japanese daily reported that nine performers from both Unhasu and Wangjaesan art troupes had been publicly executed for their roles in sexually explicit videos....

Fear Arrives as Top Cadres Recalled

A Daily NK source has revealed that municipal and provincial Chosun Workers' Party secretaries and cadres from judicial and security organs have been summoned en masse to Pyongyang. Regional heavyweight officials are being kept in the dark about the details of Jang Sung Taek’s elimination in distant Pyongyang, but rumor inside North Korea already is that the staff recall is designed to weed out elements loyal to “the aunt’s husband” and instill fear throughout society.... 

“According to what the Upper (North Korean authorities) is saying, they have called people in for ‘drugs and watching illegal videos,’ but absolutely nobody actually believes that,” the source went on. “There is talk about there being a personal problem with the ‘aunt’s husband’ (Jang Sung Taek), that some of his close associates have been executed, and that his traitorous accomplices are now being rounded up.”... [our emphasis]

Given these recent developments, the reader may want to revisit the comments of Hank Crumpton included in our post: Al Qaeda and DPRK Officials Love Porno...

"I never met a North Korean that did not like pornography."

[Thanks to LF for the tip]

Update - December 12

AP: North Korea executes leader's uncle as a traitor

KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY of DPRK: DPRK People Determined to Remain Loyal Only to Kim Jong Un

A sledgehammer blow should be delivered at anyone who goes against the single-minded unity of our people around supreme leader Kim Jong Un...

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