» 04/15/2010 17:12 NORTH KOREA Fugitive from North: Regime uses atomic bomb to blackmail Former Secretary of the Workers Party of North Korea, Hwang Jang-yop, escaped from North Korea. In an interview, he says that Kim Jong-il uses nuclear power to blackmail the world, but has no intention of using it. He adds: "The dictator uses 20% of the national budget for himself, while 50% goes to the military. Which is why they will never fall. "
Tokyo (AsiaNews) – “North Korea will never abandon its nuclear program, but the dictatorship in Pyongyang has no intention of launching a nuclear bomb. This is only used to blackmail the world." Hwang Jang-yop, former secretary of the North Korean Workers Party, who escaped from the Stalinist regime and now lives in the southern Korean peninsula made this comments in a recent interview with the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun.
The former political leader, considered a confident of former president Kim Il-sung also explained that the "poverty of the nation derives from the use being made of the national budget. 50% of the money is used for the military, and 20% is at the full and free disposal of Kim Jong-il: he can do what he wants, without telling anyone. With 30% of an already limited budget, the population suffers greatly".
According to Hwang, the situation is not likely to change: "I do not know much about the health situation of the 'Dear Leader', but I know that a coup will never happen in the country. That's because Kim has allowed only his loyalists close to power. He promoted the most menial and rewards them to maintain their trust. The degree of dictatorship has increased ten-fold since his father’s time".
These statements are confirmed by the news coming from Korea. For the “Sun Festival”, the birthday of Kim Il-sung that falls today and is one of two national holidays in Korea, the regime purchased one hundred luxury cars from China, which were delivered last week. They will be used for the big parade at the mausoleum of Kim and then given to the dictator's loyalists.
