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Respected Comrade Leader Episode 344

Gaiden, Wikipedia: Kim Jeong-hwan

2nd Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Real name: Kim Jung Hwan

Birth: Mangyongdae District, Pyongyang, North Korea [1]

August 16, 1962 (age 58)

Education: Graduated from Kim Il-sung University (Pyongyang National University), Department of Political Economy

Experience: General Secretary of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (1988 – 2018)

Prime Minister of the Workers’ Party of Korea Jeong Mu-won (1988 – 1989) [2]

Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly (1988 – 2016)

Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army (1988 – 2018)

Family Relations: Kim Il-sung, Kim Myung-ae

Spouse Hyerim Yoo [3]

Child Hye-in Yoo

[1] Before Kim Jeong-hwan took office, North Korea had been sanctuating the birthplaces (places claimed to be) of leaders including his father, Kim Il-sung, for personal worship and idolization, but after Kim Jong-hwan took office, no such attempt was made, so it is not certain until he reveals it himself. However, considering the fact that his mother Kim Myung-ae was a government interpreter in the immediate vicinity of Kim Il-sung and the testimony of several South Korean informants such as Park Se-hwang, Pyongyang is the most likely.

[2] Later, the name was changed to the Cabinet and transferred to Kim Yong-gun. The presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly was replaced in 2016.

[3] In addition to common-law relationships, the existence of governments, concubines, and joy-joo (…) have been constantly raised by various domestic and foreign dignitaries, but they are not listed because the facts are unclear.

summary.

The second supreme leader and dictator of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

At the same time as criticized as a development dictator and suppressor of intelligent democracy, he led North Korea to a developed country, facing internal crises such as hereditary dictatorship and idolatry, and external crises such as the collapse of the Soviet Union and South Korea’s economic overtaking. In the end, he even led to the unification of the two Koreas [4], and he is a person who receives conflicting opinions at the same time as a national leader who has made the greatest contribution to the present-day unified Korea.

Along with former President Park Chung-hee, he is the person who receives the most conflicting reviews according to ideology and inclination in North and South Korean society, and is also the person who provoked the most number of edits, revision wars, document protection measures, and discussions on the Wikis he and I saw with former President Park.

When he took office, he was officially given the title of ‘Supreme Reader’ similar to his father, Kim Il-sung, who was ‘President’, but in both South and North Korea, it is generally referred to as ‘General Secretary Kim’ or ‘General Secretary’.

[4] Even now, several years after the first free elections were held in North Korea, the official position of the two administrations is ‘to achieve reunification according to mutual needs on an equal footing’, but political scientists and Sepyong were mostly counterparts at the time. The consensus is that General Secretary Kim Jung-hwan played a bigger role as an individual than the former president.

2. Kim Jung-hwan/Life

2.1. youth

He was born in Pyongyang in August 1962 to Kim Il-sung and his interpreter mother Kim Myung-ae.

As is often the case with Kim Il-sung’s illegitimate children, the date, place of birth, and childhood of Kim Jung-hwan are not known in detail.

In fact, even immediately after taking office as general secretary, there was no deification process that his father (and half-brother Kim Jong-il failed to do) went through, no historical records of his birthplace, no childhood saga, etc. It is said that he had a hard time collecting the information of the ‘yangban called ‘.

However, since the inter-Korean compromise (refer to item) that was made along with the overcoming of the foreign exchange crisis in 1998, mutual exchanges have become more active than ever before, and as a result, research and information gathering on the identity of the supreme leader who is said to be the most closed even in North Korea has also come to light. I started

According to the testimony of those who knew about Kim Jung-hwan from childhood until he became a leader, Kim Jung-hwan was ‘a young man who was weak and shy, more of a scholar than a military officer’.

-I went to see you from afar because your bloodline entered our Kim University. I can only say it now, but at the time, my face was white, my arms were slender, and the fact that it looked like a straight bite on a desk, I remember thinking that this was the son of General Kim Il-sung, or that his mother had more blood or that he tilted his head. Even when I heard later that he was appointed general secretary… … Hmmm, I once had my doubts about whether other party cadres had put me up as a scarecrow. I paid a harsh price for making fun of my mouth because of my suspicions… … .

(Professor Il-cheol Kim, Department of Economics, Kim Il-sung University)

-At that time, security and identification of the bloodline of the highest dignity were in charge of our first escort country, but Comrade General Secretary was far below the priority of security at the time. That was the reason why there was only one female military officer, Deolreong, who is not normally dispatched except by female comrades. As a result, the female military officer became the national mother of the republic, so should I say that I don’t know people’s lives? … ?

(A member of the escort command at the time, anonymity requested)

It may be hard to believe for Koreans who are accustomed to the image of an intelligent and relentless dictator playing with the South Korean leaders in various media outlets, but it may be hard to believe that he is the leader’s illegitimate child, especially that his half-brother Kim Jong-il was born with a solid foundation. The point may have made Kim Jung-hwan as a young man combine the prudence of carefully stepping on falling leaves [5].

But nonetheless, what is special about Kim Jeong-hwan at the time is that he performed exceptionally well even in Kim Dae, where the best talents of the Republic gather. that he got good grades.

Considering that his father, Kim Il-sung, and his half-brother, Kim Jong-il, a competitor and half-brother who had been at a distant place up to that point, were all types far from academics, in the Kim family in Jeonju, Kim Jung-hwan could not be but a mutant.

[5] Some critics of luxuries, who paid attention to this kind of benefactor in his childhood, criticize Kim Jeong-hwan by comparing him to Caligula, the tyrant of ancient Rome. Of course, if you look at the actions of the two people after coming to power, it is a severely biased criticism.

[6] In fact, it is correct to say that at the time, Kim Jung-hwan was not in a position to receive such special treatment.

However, there is a clue that can be speculated that this mutant (?) may have had the same idea that the people should be treated like magicians, at least as young as the other Kim family members. I obey’ statement.

2.2. Studying in Japan freed me from brainwashing

– After all, the people are nothing more than dogs and pigs. To them, complex theories (theories) or policies are nothing they can or want to understand. Don’t starve, but you should always be unsatisfied… … (omitted) Without a leading, tiger-like, iron-like leader, this republic will soon fall into the hands of foreign powers.

(Kim Jung-hwan, at the celebration of the Day of the Sun [7])

[7] A North Korean public holiday commemorating the birthday of President Kim Il-sung. It may be hard to imagine North and South Korea, especially North Korean wikis in their 20s and 30s, reading this right now, but it was the biggest national holiday in North Korea at the time when the idolatry of the leader was ripening at the time!

It is a fact that most zealous worshipers of Kim Jeong-hwan, who are still present in both North and South Korean societies, would want to ignore the most, but Kim Jung-hwan prepared a coup d’état against his father and half-brother from a young age without any self-interest in order to restore freedom and happiness to the people. The claim of some that it was raised can be refuted with one sentence above.

Through countless testimonies and cross-verification of many senior officials and generals who had already attended the event, it was proved that Kim Jung-hwan must have said that with his own mouth. It succeeded in overcoming the correction and vandalism that originated from ‘ and retaining the remarks.

Regardless of the adequacy or morality of the remarks, those remarks made at the celebration were the first time that Kim Jung-hwan was a savage for the first time, breaking away from his position as a potential purge target of Kim Jong-il, a potential purge target in the Joseon Dynasty, from the position of Crown Prince. It can also be said that it was an opportunity to get a little public attention,

There is still a difference of opinion among researchers as to whether that statement was actually sincere, and it is highly likely that Kim Jung-hwan himself will remain in that state unless he publishes an autobiography, but at least he has changed his mind over the course of his life. [8] [9]

[8] Among scholars in recent years, the theory that this problematic remark was made with a high degree of calculation in order to escape from the savagery and go to Japan to build a power base, or at least escape from North Korea, which was nothing like a prison, is gaining strength. are getting

[9] Or at least before that, to see or hear information about the merits of a market economy in some way and see it with your own eyes. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain the anecdote of Midas’ hands that he showed as soon as he settled in Japan.

To give an excuse for Kim Jung-hwan, from birth until the age of 23, I have lived under the indoctrination education that I cannot see or hear about other systems other than my home country that only shouted the Juche ideology and the socialist self-reliance economy. It would have been impossible not to be affected in the slightest.

And the opportunity of ‘studying abroad’ in Japan, which Abadi obtained in this way, served as an opportunity to imprint in his mind that the new republic he would create in the future should take the direction of a market economy system rather than a planned economy system.

As you can see if you go into the relevant items, there are few temporal and spatial backgrounds that show the decline of communism and the richness created by capitalism as well as the essence of financial capitalism as well as Japan during the bubble economy.

However, in Japan at that time, it was the Shincheonji that opened the eyes of young Kim Jeong-hwan, and at the same time, it is the period that still remains the biggest mystery for scholars (regardless of North and South) studying Kim Jung-hwan. It is also the reason why ‘Kim Jeong-hwan’s slush fund of 100 billion dollars’ and ‘Kim Jeong-hwan’s 200 tons of Japanese gold bars’ are automatically completed if you name them.

2.3 The Myth of Mythus’ Hands Achieved in Japan during the Bubble Economy (?) and Preparations for a Coup

In any case, for the first time in his life, Kim Jung-hwan leaves Japan as a North Korean diplomat to study and asylum in Japan, where he is somewhat free from surveillance. (bold)

Although there are many controversies about the exact amount and source, there are studies that estimate at least $100 million or more, and at most billions of dollars.

At this time, there is no denying that Kim Jung-hwan used some means to own a huge amount of money, and that this money became the basis for the later coup d’état of the arbitrary collapse of the Ryugyong Hotel.

Kim Yong-geon, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly, who can be said to be his first vassal and almost the only comrade except for Yu Hye-rim, has consistently argued that the ‘pocket money’ received from Kim Jong-il as a gift was given to Japan, which was at the extreme of the bubble at the time. It is said that it was achieved by investing in the stock market, but to this day, there are virtually no people, regardless of the public and academia, who genuinely accept it.

– Standing Chairman Kim Yong-geon (representative of the Chongryon in Japan at the time): South Korean comrades, think whatever you like. Even if my snout tells me the truth, I won’t believe it at all… … .

Even so, who can understand that a 23-year-old young man who lived his entire life in North Korea, where he didn’t even have a personal bank account, let alone investing in stocks, until just a few years ago, suddenly came to Japan, and suddenly became a god of investment, beating out investors. ?

Combining the investigations of many scholars and journalists, as well as the testimonies of migrants from North and South Korea and Japan at the time, where on earth Kim Jung-hwan was able to raise so much money is still one of the most mysterious parts of his life to this day.

The theory most convincingly accepted by experts in ‘Kim Jung-hwan and Kim Jung-hwan’s North Korea’, which can be said to be a sub-subdivision of the current inter-Korean relations – the history of unification [10], is the ‘overthrow of the Kim Jong-il regime out of control’. I received secret funding from China for… … . [11]

[10] Although it is a sub-discipline, it cannot be regarded as a sub-discipline at all, given the influence that Kim Jung-hwan had on the entire modern and modern history of the Korean Peninsula beyond North Korea.

[11] In 2008, during the Noh Yun-hyeon administration, KTBC’s drama ‘Iron Man of Frozen Land’ adopted this theory.

The problem is that there are parts of this hypothesis that are not easily understood.

The question is, what on earth did China believe in supporting Kim Jung-hwan, who was literally just a little bit of money at the time, in providing such a huge amount of money, which amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars?

Therefore, even to this day, this part remains a mystery that stimulates the imagination of many people, such as the ‘Kim Jung-hwan drug king theory’, which will be described below, and various hypotheses are raised in numerous video media, but none of them are accurate.

2.3.1. Kim Jung-hwan, the drug lord?

See the article on ‘Kim Jung-hwan’s theory of drug lord’.

Because this is a question that has no answer at all, there are scholars who sometimes advocate a rather unique minority theory.

It is said that ‘Kim Jung-hwan prepared a large-scale slush fund by selling North Korean stimulants [12] such as methamphetamine, which was called Bingdu (氷毒) in Japan, where there was a hedonistic atmosphere throughout society due to the bubble economy at the time.’

[12] In fact, it is hard to imagine now that it has become a world leader in cutting-edge industries, but until Kim Jung-hwan took office, North Korea at the time produced drugs at the national level and used it as a government fund.

To condensed and explained the main rationale of the theory for wikis who are bothered to enter the document,

-The official explanation, that is, the ‘Kim Jung-hwan Midas’ hand theory’, is a pure investment return with the enormous amount of funds estimated at at least billions of dollars (in the 1980s!) in just over three years, no matter how the Japanese bubble economy went crazy at the time. The fact that it was prepared is that it is common sense impossible for anyone to see.

-At that time, it is proved by several eyewitness accounts that Kim Jung-hwan had a connection with Heo Young-joon, a famous Korean-Japanese Yakuza. As a pioneer of the liver heroin route, it was a very suitable sales book.

– Kim Jung-hwan’s official status at the time of his exile in Japan was that he was a North Korean diplomat, so the burden of judicial punishment was much less than that of civilians.

In a country with a highly developed administrative and police force, such as Japan in the 1980s, it sold billions of dollars worth of drugs for over three years and was never arrested or charged with anything.

Not long ago, it was discarded due to the fact that it is unrealistic for a human being who was a white student until a month ago to suddenly turn into the head of a large criminal organization and lead production, sales, and even money laundering [13][14] It is a theory that has been developed, but it is still a theory that has gained considerable support in some areas.

[13] There is an objection that this might have been possible if there had been systematic support from Kim Jong-il, that is, the North Korean authorities. In other words, it was a disguise that he sent him to study abroad, and at that time, Kim Jung-hwan was sent to Japan to raise funds for Kim Jong-il’s illegal rule, so to speak, as a ‘mischievous team’.

[14] At that time, even if Kim Jung-hwan was arrested or imprisoned in Japan, there was nothing to lose even if Kim Jong-il pretended not to know, so it is a reasonable hypothesis in some way. However, at the same time, the CIA also sold drugs to the Contra rebels and it took a few years to get a scandal. … ?

Believe it or not, it is a theory that is being raised with a strong mix of demeaning feelings from Korean scholars with strong anti-Kim Jung-hwan and anti-North Korean tendencies. The judgment is just left to you who read this article.

#writer’s words

Whoo… … I don’t know if I can continue to use it without a pause in the middle while maintaining the fun… … .

We will do our best. If possible, attend the lottery… … .

If you are uncomfortable with the midline direction or footnotes such as [1], please share your opinion in the comments, and we will try to reflect it in the next episode as much as possible.