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8.
Hong Won Ok, born on 13 December 1933, ordinarily residing at Nokya-ri,
Eundeok-gun, was 68 years old at the time of her arrest. Neighbours reported that she had
regularly and publicly complained about the living situation and political climate in the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Such statements are considered “reactionary
words” for being critical of the Party’s Ten Principles for the Establishment of the OneIdeology System, which state:
“1.
We must give our all in the struggle to unify the entire society with the
revolutionary ideology of the Great Leader Kim Il Sung.
2.
We must honor the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung with all our loyalty.
3.
We must make absolute the authority of the Great Leader comrade
Kim Il Sung.
4.
We must make the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung’s revolutionary
ideology our faith and make his instructions our creed.
5.
We must adhere strictly to the principle of unconditional obedience in
carrying out the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung’s instructions.
6.
We must strengthen the entire party’s ideology and willpower and
revolutionary unity, centering on the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
7.
We must learn from the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung and adopt the
communist look, revolutionary work methods and people-oriented work style.
8.
We must value the political life we were given by the Great Leader comrade
Kim Il Sung, and loyally repay his great political trust and thoughtfulness with
heightened political awareness and skill.
9.
We must establish strong organizational regulations so that the entire party,
nation and military move as one under the one and only leadership of the Great
Leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
10.
We must pass down the great achievement of the revolution by the Great
Leader comrade Kim Il Sung from generation to generation, inheriting and
completing it to the end.”
9.
Hong Won Ok was assumedly reported to the NSA and arrested in the summer of
2002. Three NSA agents from Eundeok-gun allegedly forcibly entered her house at night
while she was sleeping, dragged her outside, beat her in front of her children and abducted
her to a political prison camp. The source reports that the change in Hong Won Ok’s
residency status to the region of a political prison camp, and the designation of her
occupation as a worker of the NSA agriculture bureau, as registered with the party
organization she belongs to, indicates that she was being detained in a political prison
camp. The source adds that the severity of Hong Won Ok’s punishment for committing
treason against the State is compounded by the guilt by association she bears as a result of
the accusation of espionage against her husband and his consequent indefinite detention
since 1962.
10.
Kim Seong Do, a.k.a. Sondo, born on 8 December 1967, usually residing at 15-ban,
Manghyang-dong, Hoiryeong, was reportedly a well-known smuggler in Hoiryeong. His
brother, Kim Seong Il, born on 3 April 1970, worked at the Hoiryeong Ceramics Factory.
Their nephew, Lee Hak Cheol, born on 1 December 1987, was unemployed. Lee Hak
Cheol’s brother, Lee Gook Cheol, was born on 5 July 1991, and was enrolled in school but
did not attend. Kim Seong Il, Lee Hak Cheol and Lee Gook Cheol usually resided together
at 35-ban, Manghyang-dong.
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