The View From Intelligence – Failed Assassination In Korea

I thought this article was interesting, if you know how things work:

He was one of North Korea’s deadliest secret agents.

On Oct. 9, 1983, Kang Min-chul and two other North Korean agents bombed the Martyrs’ Museum in Rangoon, Burma, in a plot to kill the South Korean president, who was to have laid a wreath there. The bomb missed its mark — the president’s car had been delayed — but 17 South Koreans, including four cabinet ministers, were killed.

For his deed, Mr. Kang was consigned to oblivion. North Korea denied any connection with the attack. In South Korea, where the bombing was declared a North Korean atrocity, few cared to remember that a North Korean was languishing in a Burmese prison for it. In 2008, Mr. Kang died at the age of 53. During 25 years in prison, he received not a single visitor from his homeland.

There was an episode of Burn Notice where a Latin American doctor named Gabriel had a young daughter who had been killed by a big company’s poisoning of the water supply. He had sworn vengeance, and kidnapped one company official, and was set to grab up a second in a hotel, where he had set a honey trap.

The hero of the show didn’t want him to kill the executive because the executive had not been involved in the poisoning, and the executive had his own young daughter. So the hero went into the kitchen when nobody was looking and started a greasefire right as the executive walked in the door. The hotel’s fire alarm triggered and everybody began evacuating. The executive’s security turned him around and hustled him out before he could be grabbed.

It appeared to be a totally random event that had interrupted Gabriel’s plans.

But Gabriel immediately assumed it was not coincidence, and decided to burn his entire operation, even killing the one hostage he had already grabbed up. He would not even entertain the idea it might have been coincidence.

The reason people in the game think like that is because they know how many areas such an operation must traverse that are common to such operations, and how government and rival intelligence operations have already figured that out – and laid coverage in those areas to alert them to any such operations. It is much more sophisticated than any novice would ever assume.

If you need guns, bomb components, compatriots, communications, privacy, information on someone, surveillance intel on a location, or to travel somewhere out of place, you will probably ignite curiosity. There will be guys outside gun stores that are flexible about paperwork, watching for people to go in, and if they don’t already know the exact story of the guy going in, somebody will go in and pose as a customer to take a closer look at what is going on. And the gun store owner himself may be flexible on paperwork because he was asked to be by somebody, so he would attract that kind of business and it could be examined more closely.

Order the wrong chemical, from the wrong person, and you will be under the microscope. Think you can hire an ex-con just out of the joint for a job? FBI has a denser informant network in the jails than they do in regular society, probably by an order of magnitude or more, because that population is where the action is, and it is full of unprincipled criminals facing long sentences who are easily bought off and turned into sources. And Cabal owns all of those sources through the FBI, as well as more in the foreign gangs that the FBI probably isn’t allowed to touch.

Go somewhere interesting to run pre-op surveillance, and all it takes is one random roving surveillance unit to notice anything about you out of place, or your lingering too long, or examining the wrong thing, and a few more will rapidly swing in for a closer look.

And there are a lot of them out there looking, especially in the interesting places. And then every moment of your life had better be plain-Jane vanilla, and easily figured out quickly, or it will be like you kicked over a hornet’s nest. They will close in, in ever increasing numbers, with ever increasing resources, and blindingly advanced tech, until they know everything.

You can see why I feel there is no way the 9/11 hijackers did everything they did before their operation, and nobody in American Intelligence knew anything. They were foreigners, in the Muslim community, studying MMA, getting cash from Al Qaida, being talked about at terrorist meetings in the Philippines that were under surveillance, all taking flying lessons (with one saying he didn’t need to take off or land, he just wanted to steer a plane in the air), and their names were floating around al-Qaida. They left a dead plane on the runway at an airport, and just walked away from it without saying anything to anyone. They were running surveillance on chemical plants.

Somebody in the intelligence hierarchy knew, and I will bet they were Cabal – and they covered up the mistakes the hijackers made, so they could complete their operation. That their operation succeeded left me without any doubt that our intel agencies were penetrated by something, and national security was not a concern for it.

So when I see in this story above about the Korean bomber, that the official targeted just happened to get delayed just long enough that the bomb missed him, I assume the operation was compromised. I also assume that they let the others be killed either because they were not desirable to the agency which knew about the plot, or to preserve a source or method and not reveal they penetrated the operation’s security.

It is common sense that such operations would be so difficult to hide. You do not easily cross a border illegally, enter a foreign country as a stranger, and run a conspiracy with multiple individuals, that gets the components for, and then makes and transports a bomb, into a sensitive location, at exactly the time when someone trying to bomb that location would move a bomb into it, right before a high value target arrives there, and not have one aspect of all of at least one of those previous facets trigger somebody’s interest somewhere. And once you trigger interest, it will be very difficult to go operational, given what will immediately come your way. Even if you can maintain a complete 100% plain-Jane vanilla cover that nobody can penetrate, you will be watched for quite a long while by an operation you will probably not see. And make just one mistake and let just one of them catch on that you are hiding something, and the hornet’s will come flowing out of the nest in waves.

And it is almost impossible to not make several mistakes, let alone just one.

I write this stuff just because the machine has been compromised, and everything has gone so far to hell that it is entirely possible we could lose Trump and end up with it on, in the nation. We already saw a remote car attack launched on the duly elected President, with the attempted collision caught on video – and notice the news won’t talk about it. I’ll bet there have been several more attempts that didn’t get video’d by some random bystander by chance. The conspiracy is everywhere and in control of a lot, especially the important stuff.

As Trump links up with Putin, these are the two giants of the world uniting, most likely against a common enemy. I assume we are bringing the Storm to a head, and are heading into the period of highest danger. Trump is the best there is, bar none, and have no doubt that he is giving us his all. But I can’t imagine a peaceful end to this is 100% guaranteed, even with him at the helm. Anything is possible.

If it comes to a war between the Cabal and America, our side needs to be as operationally competent as possible, and aware of the various dangers it faces, because the greatest dangers in that environment are the invisible ones you never see or think about. Know the dangers you will not see, and be paranoid, paranoid, paranoid. Always think from an Intelligence perspective, and how you would set traps to catch onto yourself. Recognize there are no coincidences.

Then set about trying to figure out ways to uncover who it is at the very top, behind the curtain, because they are the head of the hydra.

Other people want the forces which are already compromised in full control, but I believe in Americans.

Power to the people – or at least the K-strategists.

Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because intelligence doesn’t share what it gathers from the shadows