Cash, yachts and Cognac: Kim Jong-Yo Links to Secretive North Korea elites office holding in luxury

For years, intelligence officers observed around the world has a secret office on the third floor of the headquarters of the Workers’ Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea. There, in 39 offices, ruler of the country, the father and predecessor, Kim Jong-un, the practice of Kim Jong-Il has continued up to me and loyalists to reward the military, with lavish gifts ranging from cars intelligence and government cash Cognac, intelligence officials and experts say, as his father, they say, Kim, the family has the control of Office 39. Although held it is one of the hardest intelligence targets of the most secretive nation on earth, the United US and other intelligence analysts think successors that his sister and potential has assigned Kim Jong-yo, and her husband to monitor a significant role in the cash flowing through the accounts and mud family bank funds from the government for a variety of legitimate activities and illegal. The officials and outside experts admit that, with the exception of the visible space launches and airport bombings flagrant, are skeptical intelligence in his best days on North Korea. But the information from defectors and other sources that show Kim’s sister and her husband to some nominal head of the son of national government accounts are to get their hands on the money they say Office, the US intelligence. This realization has become particularly relevant in recent weeks, as Kim’s vision was, prompting questions about whether Kim Jong-Yo could be next in line. Its role in monitoring 39 Office “is actually keeping control of an asset that regime survival is crucial,” said a US official who spoke on condition of anonymity. “Ms. Kim must be married many links to Office 38 and 39 for allegedly connected with someone in the office for the Office components in collaboration with her sister running, Kim Sol-song” North Korea expert Harry Kazianis, John Dale Grover and Adriana Nazarko written in the national interest February 24 officials believe that the office handles 38 “, while the extent of their role, the office is aware of the personal finances of the Kim family. not in keeping, it is likely that the Kim- family in management because of their location, which side plays in monitoring financial transactions that relate directly to the blacks funds for the regime. “While most still kept secret the regime of activities to make money outside of trial Washington has been met with limited success, to discover secrets of Office 39 in 1970 when Kim’s grandfather Kim il-Sung created. August 30, 2010 after North Korea he South Korean warship sank in international waters President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13551, for sanctions “targeting individuals and organizations that facilitate weapons North Korea and its business; Procurement luxury goods; and engagement in certain illicit economic activities, such as money laundering, counterfeiting of goods and currency, bulk cash smuggling and drug trafficking. “appendix of 39 office, order Green Pine name associated the reconnaissance of the General Office of the regime and General Kim Yong chol, who Pyongyang has approved the main intelligence RGB. November 18, 2010, the Ministry of the Treasury of the United States with “39 key nodes of the network Office illegal financing of North Korea,” the Korea Daesong Bank and Korea Daesong General Trading Corporation to designate. It claimed that the office “a Democratic People’s Republic of Korea secret government branch (North Korea) has been the leader of North Korea in part from participation in illegal economic activities and the management of blacks funds provide critical support and to generate revenue for the lead. “Then, the Presidency on 11 January 2017, shortly before Donald Trump, the Ministry of Finance Kim Jong-Yo has added to its list of targeted persons. Publicly, US officials said at the time she was with six others for their role as deputy director of the Korean Workers of propaganda and Department agitation Party but current officials and former say this time the real goal was to reduce 39 the ability to increase long-Office contains means for leadership – and the country’s nuclear program. have “Sanctions less to do with human rights violations and propaganda – no one is naive to think sanctions enough are the ones to change – but with the ability of the family Kim of his standard of living and maintain fidelity to keep people who need to survive says, “a former Treasury official who was involved in the preparation of the 2017 round of sanctions. of US intelligence agencies they say they have completed the deserters reports and other intelligence that Kim Jong-Yo has a significant role in Office 39 with its position as the de facto leader of the powerful organization and department orientation (OGD), for the ‘application is responsible for the teachings and directions of Kim il-Sung. Defense analyst extensive study of retired Robert Collins of the OGD ‘also documented their role in the department of propaganda and agitation in which is located 39 office. “In the OGD, problems that Kim Jong Un ratification passing through Kim Jong-Yo needs,” wrote Collins. “Pictures of the party are reported both fear and respect them.” The arrangement of the intelligence officials say, also shows that she is married Choe Song, the second son of KWP secretary Choe Ryong Hae, the ceremonial head of state and a top adviser to his brother. Her husband, officials say is linked to Office 39 for his role in the finance and accounting department of propaganda and agitation. is a country for which little information about sterilized propaganda available, 39 Office has a colorful history, including a penalty failed busting attempt to smuggle two Italian yachts worth more than $15 million in North Korea through China. The department oversaw fraudulent insurance fraud and illegal sale of weapons to countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East in violation of Council resolution 1874 of the UN Security adopted in 2009, say current and former officials. He also $100 bills, production and sales of Viagra, methamphetamines and opiates were false, some of poppy farms grew 39 Office DERIVATIVES, the officials said. Diplomats of North Korea abroad with fundraising from these illegal activities and rates sent legitimate operations, which sold low-quality gold mined in North Korea pine mushrooms all can understand. The proceeds are sent to diplomatic home in sealed bags, which are immune to foreign control, the officials said. Most of the companies, they said, carried out by front companies North Korea. “Korea Daesong Bank and Korea Daesong Trading Co. are supporting key components of the financial network of illegal and dangerous activities the Office 39 of North Korea,” Stuart Levey, undersecretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, said that if were announced sanctions 2010. An indication that the proceeds are intended to reward loyalty is that, in general, imports of North Korea is still exceeded the appetite of the Kim family luxury goods, and no one else in the impoverished country that could afford. At the time of Kim Jong-Il’s birthday, in 2008, for example, according to the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo, a North Korean source said that the regime had imported more than 200 cars, including foreign cars, jeeps and large trucks crossing a bridge over the Yalu river from China to North Korea. “Criminal proceeds among members of North Korea Elite distributed (including senior military officers), be used to support the personal lifestyle Kim Jong-Il, and his military machine,” he has invested concluded a 2010 study professors Paul Rexton Kan and Bruce Bechtol the US Army War College and retired Department of Defense analyst Robert Collins who look after publication reported the North Korean leadership. Over the years, various sanctions and criminal proceedings were putting a crimp in the place of business. Twenty-five million dollars were, in 2005, when the Treasury designated Banco Delta Asia, a vast frozen financial institution that operated according to the Ministry of Finance, eight branches in Macau, including one at a casino as “recycling the main money concern” for her role as what Levey “a willing pawn for the government of North Korea in corrupt financial activities called upon to get involved”. “Without a doubt, the sanctions have an effect,” said an official of US intelligence. “But from the periphery to the judge, Kim still has access to the same types of things … We do not know if he dependent Marlboro (cigarettes), as was his father, and when he dies young, who takes over power has spread the need for bling bit ‘more distant. “
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