[Focus on the Korean Peninsula] Quiet North Korea... Busy with 'celebration events' on the inner line

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Let's continue to talk with Ahn Jung-shik, a reporter specializing in North Korea, about current issues in North Korea.

[Ahn Jung-sik / Reporter Ahn Jung-sik: North Korea became quiet as soon as China started the Olympics.

Even if the missiles were not fired, there were observations that Kim Jong-un would send a message to the Supreme People's Assembly in the form of a speech in this form.

I think it's because we're holding an important international event in China, our ally, now, and I won't make any noise.

So, it is Kim Jong-il's birthday on the 16th, and there is a high expectation that there will be no military parade at this time as well.

Apparently, the military parade is in the mood to move on to Kim Il-sung’s birthday in April.]

[Ahn Jung-sik/Reporter Ahn Jung-sik / Reporter specializing in North Korea: Since last month, North Korea has not resumed importing goods through the Sinuiju and Dandong routes.

At the Supreme People's Assembly this time, they emphasized emergency quarantine, but also expressed their intention to continue bringing in supplies.

However, there are some things to keep an eye on.

Prime Minister Kim Deok-hoon reported, and there is something like this, "I will continue to push forward the business to restore and restore the country's only trade system in the external economic sector." Yes, then, what is the country's only trade now? Although North Korea does trade, it seems to mean that the state, that is, the central government, will take control of it, rather than allowing each institution or enterprise to do it autonomously.

Because quarantine is very important right now.

So, the central government will do everything to prevent the spread of the corona pathogen. If you see this, we will resume trade on a limited basis, but smuggling will not be allowed for the time being.]

[Ahn Jung-sik/Reporter specializing in North Korea: Even if there is no military parade on Kim Jong-il's birthday, I think the celebration will be very big.

This is the 80th anniversary of Kim Jong-il's birthday, and North Korea attaches great importance to the so-called broken years every five or ten years.

Art festivals, culinary contests, art exhibitions, and various celebrations have already been held.]

[Ahn Jung-sik/Reporter specializing in North Korea: That is a lie.

Kim Jong-il was born in 1942, but now, viewers, if you recall a little bit of history you learned in middle and high school, in the 1940s, the anti-Japanese armed struggle in Korea was not possible.

In 1942, when Kim Jong-il was born, Kim Il-sung was in the Soviet Union.

So, it seems that Kim Jong-il was born in a camp near Vladivostok or a nearby obstetrics and gynecology clinic near Vladivostok where Kim Il-sung and his troops were located, but North Korea is now promoting that Kim Jong-il was born especially in Mt. Baekdu.

Apparently, they are doing this kind of propaganda to give Kim Jong-il the symbolism that Mt. Baekdu has for our people.]