Paranoia seen motivating Kim's secret China visit Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 216.155.203.223 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 X-Yahoo-Post-IP: 85.18.136.86 From: "gwen831" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Yahoo-Profile: gwen831 Sender: osint@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list osint@yahoogroups.com; contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list osint@yahoogroups.com List-Id: <osint.yahoogroups.com> Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:49:54 -0000 Subject: [osint] Reply-To: osint@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
http://www.geostrategy-direct.com Paranoia seen motivating Kim's secret China visit U.S. officials say the secret visit to China by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il shows that the communist ruler is growing increasingly paranoid over his personal safety. Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, and North Korea's Kim Jong Il, left, toast during a banquet at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Jan. 18, in a framegrap from Chinese television. AP Photo/Kyodo News Published reports disclosed that Beijing supported Kim's secrecy. A Chinese government spokesman, asked about the visit, told reporters, "there is at present no substantive endorsement for me to release the news to you." Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan also referred questions about the secret visit to the CPC International Liaison Department, a sign that China's Foreign Ministry does not address issues related to foreign communist parties and that China values and places party relations between the CPC and the DPRK's Worker's Party above state-to-state ties. Kim traveled by train from North Korea to northern China. According to intelligence sources, Kim is extremely cautious about his personal security and rarely stays in one location for more than one night. He travels frequently between some eight or nine locations in North Korea. Kim believes the United States will target him with precision guided missiles or bombs in an effort to decapitate the leadership in a conflict or a preemptive attack. -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
