Category: North Korea

October 8, 2022

How North Korea Launders Money using Cryptocurrency to Evade Sanctions

2022-10-8, Tara O North Korea launders money via cryptocurrency to circumvent the banking system, according to a former National Intelligence Service (NIS) official who recently left the NIS. He initially...

Categories North Korea/Sanctions

August 21, 2022

[Exclusive] Shocking Testimony of a Senior NIS official: NIS Under Moon Bought a Villa, Yacht in Preparation for Kim Jong-un’s Potential Visit

September 2022 Issue, Choi Woo-seok, Chosun Monthly [TRANSLATION] ⊙ “Around June 2019, the NIS bought a ₩1,600,000,000 (~$1.37 million) villa in Paju, where his party would stay during his reciprocal...

Categories Defectors/Moon Jae-in/North Korea/Sanctions/Translation of Korean News/Whistleblower

July 12, 2022

Intelligence on the Civil Servant Killed by North Korea Deleted from Defense Ministry’s Network, the 2 Defectors Sent back to North Korea After the Blue House Abruptly Halted Investigation, Former Intelligence Chiefs Park Ji-won, Suh Hoon, Others Charged

2022-7-12, Tara O On July 6, 2022, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) filed criminal charges against Park Ji-won and Suh Hoon, NIS directors in the Moon Jae-in administration, for violating...

Categories Abuse of Authority/Defectors/Dictatorship/Human Rights/Intelligence/Moon Jae-in/North Korea

May 18, 2022

Questions about the Incidents in May 1980 in Gwangju:  Toll Road Ambush, Stealing Military Vehicles and Weapons, Rigging TNT in the Provincial Building

2022-5-18, Tara O Raising a different version of events than the current narrative about what happened in Gwangju beginning on May 18, 1980 (“5.18”) or even questioning the account can...

Categories 5.18/Demonstrations/Disinformation/History/National Security/North Korea/Psychological Operations/South Korea

February 2, 2022

Moon Jae-in Government’s Daydream for “Peaceful Unification through Conversation”

January 25, 2022, Lee Chul-young, columnist [Translation] The South Korean government’s five-year daydream of “Peace Show,” so-called the “Korean Peninsula Peace Process,” is likely to end in vain. By the...

Categories National Security/North Korea/Nuclear weapons/Translation of Korean News

January 10, 2022

Lee Seung-bok’s “I don’t like communism” and North Korean Operatives’ Massacre of Lee’s Family

2022-1-10, Tara O Earlier this month, Chung Jin-yong (정진용), the Vice Chairman of Shinsegae Group posted “Defeat Communism,” on Instagram which Instagram censors removed, then later restored after attracting unfavorable ...

Categories Communism/Espionage/Guerilla/History/North Korea/Subversion

June 4, 2021

Korean Workers’ Party Changed Its Goals? No, It’s Terminology Confusion Tactics

2021-6-4, Tara O The 8th Party Conference of Nodongdang [Korean Workers’ Party (KWP) or Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK)] was held in Pyongyang on January 9, 2021.  An article in...

Categories National Security/North Korea/South Korea

April 30, 2021

The Moon Administration’s Connection to the Revolutionary Unification Party, Extends to Even Ki Mo-Ran

2021-4-22, Chosun Ilbo [TRANSLATION] On August 20, 1968, a North Korean spy ship appeared off the coast of Jeju island.  Their plan was to pick up Kim Jong-tae (김종태) and...

Categories Communism/Espionage/Moon Jae-in/North Korea/Security/South Korea/Spy/Subversion/Translation of Korean News

April 26, 2021

South Korean POW Who Was Held in North Korea for 50 Years Speaks

2021-3-12, Boda  [TRANSLATION] [North Korean defector [former Korean People’s Army (KPA) soldier] Kim Jong-a (김정아) interviews Yu Yong-bok (유영복), a Republic of Korea (ROK) Prisoner of War (POW) held in...

Categories Human Rights/Korean War/North Korea/South Korea/Translation of Korean News

February 8, 2021

Open Letter to the US Congress Human Rights Commission by Governor Kim Opposing South Korea’s Anti-Leaflet Law Criminalizing Leaflet Sending to North Korea

2021-2-3, KIM Moon-soo (Former Governor of Gyeonggi Province, Republic of Korea) Kim Moon-soo, former governor of Gyeonggi Province in South Korea, opposes the ruling party-passed law that criminalizes defectors and...

Categories Censorship/Defectors/Freedom/Freedom of Speech/Human Rights/Leaflets/North Korea/South Korea