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CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................... S-1 A. Introduction....................................................................................................... 1 B. Remote, Peculiar, and Miserable ...................................................................... 2 C. North Korean Society ....................................................................................... 3 D. The Elite in General.......................................................................................... 5 E. Sources of Information ..................................................................................... 6 F. North Korea’s IT Era ........................................................................................ 8 G. Diplomats: Licit ................................................................................................ 11 H. Diplomats: Illicit ............................................................................................... 11 I. Bureau 39.......................................................................................................... 14 J. Entrepreneurs Back Home ................................................................................ 15 K. Reaching into North Korea ............................................................................... 17 L. Means of Communication................................................................................. 18 M. Impediments to Communication....................................................................... 19 N. Some thoughts About Lengthening Our Reach ................................................ 20 O. Conclusion ........................................................................................................ 24 V-iii
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INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES Nort
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INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES IDA
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CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY & INTROD
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To write accurately about North Kor
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technocrats, provincial and county
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PREFACE This paper will examine in
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ABBREVIATIONS AGI CCSKA COMSEC DoD
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information streams, and from him t
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within the hands of a few individua
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and whether or not he will embarras
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to the lowest-levels of the KPA. As
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strengthening of all armed forces,
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esearch institutes and “think tan
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The primary missions of the Reconna
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communication that generally fall o
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of the State Security Department or
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maintaining strict control over the
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agencies in the ROK and Japan began
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The Guard and Security Commands, wh
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eports that are funneled up through
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Complicating the entire “Kim-cent
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Within the military, this dynamic c
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him that all significant orders and
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Until the 1990s, the electronic med
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II. THE NORTH KOREAN LEADERSHIP: SY
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TABLES 1. Key Family Members in the
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The factional struggles in North Ko
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A. INTRODUCTION By definition, a to
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C. THE TECHNOLOGY OF POWER A Party
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document control bureaus in each mi
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Originally implemented in 1994 and
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Table II-1. Key Family Members in t
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of associates who trace their relat
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September 9, 2003, showed a change
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Chart II-2: Secretariat 5. Kye Ung-
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Members 1. Yi Ul-sul 4. Yi Yong-mu
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Table II-6. Kim Chong-il’s Princi
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Table II-7. Kim Chong-il’s Person
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chance to unfold. In terms of syste
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domestic policy arena, the split is
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At the second echelon of power, Kim
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D. FLOW OF INFORMATION George Kenna
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about things that affect their care
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(ID) and External Liaison (ELD) dep
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For the rest of the North Korean le
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the focus for not only a significan
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At the 11 th Supreme People’s Ass
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There is little doubt that one of t
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decision-making process. Moreover,
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III. THE WELL-INFORMED CADRE RALPH
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY DEFINITIONS AND A
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greater access to first-hand inform
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The first question addressed by thi
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But this lack of enthusiasm is prob
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as the 1950s. 16 The security organ
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Another way to look at divisions wi
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Because the Kim regime governs acco
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guess is that anyone who rises in t
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But even though the media serve as
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Newspapers The DPRK’s premier new
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motivation in its readers through m
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Page 2: • Kim Jong-suk’s develo
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This selection of news items presen
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in the wake of the U.S. propaganda
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the general audience in a two-step
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also countries surrounding the Kore
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that the war in Iraq was “a test
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and transform us internally through
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eceived with little thought and has
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outside world than the ordinary wor
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cognitive dissonance, particular ca
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IV. INSIDE NORTH KOREA’S BLACK BO
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The North Korean
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A. BETTER, MERRIER, MORE HOPEFUL LI
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In contrast, the optimists believe
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to the throne. The State Council us
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1976-1977, 4 and in 1986-1987 (see
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Bulgarian Trade Unions, after which
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Second, the principal objective of
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Page 223: APPENDIX B TONGIL STREET FREE MARKE
Page 227: V. REACHING INTO NORTH KOREA DAVID
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Page 249 and 250: Like the illicit diplomats, Bureau
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Page 253 and 254: Other specific sources of informati
Page 255 and 256: At a time when South Korea is repor
Page 257 and 258: described by Kongdan Oh. Allied dip
Page 259: VI. CONCLUSIONS KONGDAN (KATY) OH H
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Page 268 and 269: E. INSIGHTS FOR U.S. POLICY MAKERS
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Page 275: APPENDIX B BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES
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Ambassador David J. Smith is Chief
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The author made a trip to Tokyo, Be
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esolution to the North Korean nucle
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and behaviors. A case in point is t
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