Unearthed CIA files show spy’s account of North Korea as ‘feminist’ utopia
North Korea leader Kim Jong Un arrives in Russia via train
North Korea is known to have spies operating all around the world.
They gather intelligence on foreign powers, and while working in neighbouring South Korea, work to undermine the government and its image.
As technology has advanced, Pyongyang has cultivated a vast and skilled network of hackers, some 6,000 of them targeting organisations around the world.
While foreign powers also have spies working against the North, it is far more difficult to penetrate the insular society in which few are allowed in and even fewer allowed out.
However, in the Fifties, shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War, spies on both sides swarmed throughout the country and the border regions, with declassified CIA documents revealing one defector’s bizarre account of then-leader Kim Il-sung’s vision.
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The Korean War lasted for three years between 1950 and 1953, a battle as part of the wider Cold War fought between Russia and the West.
In this time defectors and prisoners of war on both sides were regularly questioned and gleaned for insider information, some of them tortured for their knowledge.
One unearthed document written by the CIA dated May 1951 reveals the extent to which the US had penetrated North Korea’s government, a report titled, ‘North Korean Agents Confirm Death of Soviet military Advisor and Illness of Kim Il-sung’.
In it, Cho Ok-hui, a former private nurse to Kim who is interviewed by Southern Korean forces, reveals that the Supreme Leader of the time is “suffering from a heart ailment as well as from ‘various kinds’ of venereal diseases”.
More bizarrely, however, is her assertion of Kim’s vision of a “feminist” North Korea.
The report reads: “The nurse asserted that Kim Il-sung is a feminist in his own way and, vehemently advocating the ‘equal rights for both sexes’ which he incorporated in the constitution of North Korea.”
It added: “[He] takes the liberty of ‘any woman that comes in his sight’.”
The report later stated that Kim and his inner circle of government officials had taken to living 37 feet underground to escape allied bombing raids.
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“His entire government staff has moved and governs the people from 37 feet underground,” it stated.
“According to the spy, when Kim was in Pyongyang last year he used to work only from 1600 to 0100 or 0200 o’clock.”
North Korean top brass have a long history of ensuring their own survival in an otherwise turbulent political environment.
Kim Jong-il, the second Supreme Leader and son of Kim Il-sung, regularly went into hiding during his reign.
Perhaps one of the most notable periods of absence came after the US declared war on Iraq in 2003 when Jong-il went missing for 48 days.
As the Daily NK newspaper noted at the time: “It is customary for Kim Jong Il to conceal himself whenever an important event occurs.”
His son and current Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un similarly disappears at sporadic intervals, with much speculation rising over his health and whereabouts during such periods.
Acutely aware of the bounty on his head, Jong-un barely leaves the country, but when doing so travels on a private and heavily fortified train.
Journeys to the few allied countries that would ordinarily take a few hours turn into tens of hours long mammoth treks.
Most recently, he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the eastern Russian city of Vladivostok.
While the two cities are just 425 miles apart, Jong-un’s journey took some 20 hours — all to ensure the Supreme Leader isn’t shot out of the sky or assassinated en route.
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