[imText1] Feb 10, Onsung-gun, North Hamkyung province, anti-Kim Jong Il flyers were found, reported North Korean internal source on Feb 17.
The source said the flyers read, “Stand Kim Jong Il Upside Down” and tens of them were found near the Wangje Mt. Grand Monument and the Security Agency along with other government agencies.
“Wangje Mt. is a site constructed to commemorate Kim Il Sung’s resistance against Japanese colonialism where Kim Il Sung’s statue and Grand Monument are located, thus the government is agitated about the incident.”
The Wangje Mt. Revolution Site was constructed in the 1970s, and has been called the “Grand Nochon Museum” which educated the people of Kim Il Sung’s resistance against the Japanese.
Consequently, the government’s crackdown activities have been intensifying and cellular phone connections were cut off on Feb 11.
Kim Young Chul, a defector whose hometown is Onsung, said, “I call my family every Wednesday and Sunday but I could get in touch with them for days.”
The recent flyer incident is assumed to have been done by one of the anti-regime groups inside North Korea and it is worth noting because it took place at the Kim Il Sung memorial site of resistance against the Japanese.
Incidents caused by unidentified anti-regime groups up to now include a video clip of the “Down with Kim Jong Il” statement read by the head of the “Free Young Adults Alliance” in Huiryeong, November 2004, and the anti-Kim Jong Il slogan incident in Hamheung Grand Theater on April 2003.
“Although flyer incidents are not known to the outside world, they occurred a number of times during the food crisis since the mid 1990’s,” added Kim.
