North Korea insider reveals plan for war
Tags: HWANG Jang Yop; INTERNATIONAL relations
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- THE SPY WHO GOT LEFT IN THE COLD. Lane, Charles // New Republic;09/01/97, Vol. 217 Issue 9, p17
Deals with the U.S. government's lack of response on the defection of Hwang Jang Yop, member of the North Korean Workers' Party central committee, a leading theoretician of the North's crackpot brand of autarchical communism and a former tutor of North Korean leader Kim Jong II, in 1997. Reason...
- A shaper of North Korean defects, bringing secrets. Barr, Cameron W.; Baker, Michael // Christian Science Monitor;2/13/97, Vol. 89 Issue 55, p1
Reports that Hwang Jang Yop, a North Korean official filed for asylum in at South Korea's embassy in Beijing, China, and left the country. Highest-ranking official to try to defect since the Korean peninsula; Uncertainty of why Yop took the step; How the defection affects North Korea.
- Defector casts doubt on US approach to N. Korea. Barr, Cameron W.; Baker, Michael // Christian Science Monitor;2/21/97, Vol. 89 Issue 60, p1
Looks at how the defection of top North Korean official Hwang Jang Yop to South Korea is expected to affect both countries. What the United States has to consider; Details of letters written by Hwang which were publicized since his defection; Background information on Hwang; Detailed information...
- Truth shock awaits North Korean defectors. Baker, Michael // Christian Science Monitor;3/19/97, Vol. 89 Issue 78, p1
Reports on the plans of Hwang Jang-yop, chief ideologue of the North Korean communist system, to defect to South Korea. Need for Jang-yop to protect himself from assassins; Details on his defection; Information on the living conditions in North Korea; Other North Koreans who have defected.
- Seoul man? A defector's scrutinized. Kitfield, James // National Journal;5/03/97, Vol. 29 Issue 18, p876
Analyzes North Korean leader Hwang Jang Yop's possible motives for defection to South Korea. Credibility of defector's statements; Political implications of the defection; Reference to food problem in North Korea.
- Defection in Beijing. Bartholet, Jeffrey; Liu, Melinda // Newsweek;2/24/97, Vol. 129 Issue 8, p46
Reports the defection of Hwang Jang Yop, a top North Korean official, to South Korea in February 1997. The power he wielded in North Korea; His role in crafting the juche, or self-reliance, philosophy in North Korea; Possible damage Hwang could do to the North Korean government if he told what...
- How to Deal With Kim. // Newsweek (Atlantic Edition);8/11/2003, Vol. 142 Issue 6, p26
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- Inside North Korea - N. Korean defector reveals tunnel system with elaborate escape routes for Kim Jong-I. // East-Asia-Intel Reports;12/19/2009, p9
The article reports that North Korea has built a series of underground tunnels that would allow ruler Kim Jong-Il to flee the capital. This was stated by defector Hwang Jang-Yop, formerly North Korea's chief political ideologist, who said the shafts are 980 feet deep in some places. The tunnels...
- East-Asia-Intel.com: Kim uses up 20 percent of N. Korean budget to fund lifestyle, defector says - April 14, 2010. // East-Asia-Intel Reports;4/14/2010, p5
The article offers information on the ruler of North Korea, Kim Jong-Il. According to defector Hwang Jang-Yop, who earlier worked with him, one fifth of the state budget is spend on Jong-Il and his family. Jong-Il reportedly gives expensive gifts to his loyalists. He stated that on public...
