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Japan's Sankei Shimbun reported Monday that several anti-establishment organizations opposed to the Kim Jong-il regime are active in North Korea. The paper quoted Kim Deok-hong, who defected together with former Korean Workers Party secretary Hwang Jang-yop. In his interview with the Sankei, Kim said he was in contact with an organization engaged in anti-government activities in the North.
Kim said, "The organization concluded that the Ryongchon Station Explosion in April was the work of the Kim Jeong-il regime itself... There are about 210 counties in North Korea, and the group has gotten word that leaflets revealing in detail how the Ryongchon explosion took place were distributed from most of these counties.
Kim said, "The event was staged so Kim could claim there were forces out to kill him and launch a purge.' He claimed, "There were defective missiles on board those trains that were to be exported to Syria, and the explosion gave Kim the chance to get rid of them, too."
(Jeong Gwon-hyeon, khjung@chosun.com )
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