February 18, 2020
Mr. Donald J. Trump
President of the United States of America
The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
NW Washington DC 20500
Dear Mr. President:
I am a former North Korean official who had worked at the core of the North Korean ruling Party for about 30 years. My entire family from North Korea support your incredibly successful domestic and foreign policies and wish you every success in the 2020 presidential election.
I am writing to you today to give my sincere advice on new North Korean circumstances and recommended solutions.
At the 5th plenary meeting of the 7th central committee of the Workers’ Party of North Korea, Kim Jong-Un threatened that “The world will witness our new strategic weapons soon”. Moreover, he declared that he would continue his strategic weapons development without interruption, stating that there will be no denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula ever if the U.S. continues to pursue a hostile policy toward North Korea to the end.
In addition, on Jan 11, 2020, North Korea’s senior adviser Kim Kye-Gwan announced that the regime would never give up its nuclear weapons to lift sanctions and there would be no such deal as the Hanoi summit, which proposed dismantling some sanctions and in exchange for its Yongbyon nuclear facilities.
All those statements prove the truths that Kim Jong-Un has zero intention of giving up nuclear weapons and that denuclearization of North Korea can never be accomplished as long as Kim Jong-Un is in power.
Kim Jong-Un’s ultimate goals are to secure his long-term rule and to build the Kim dynasty across the Korean Peninsula. Kim Jong-Un also understands too well that North Korea can flourish if he gives up nuclear weapons and chooses a market economy. However, for his own power and ambition, he will not choose denuclearization and free democracy for the suffering 25 million North Koreans. Due to the nature of the North Korean regime, Kim Jong-Un alone holds all the power. Therefore, denuclearization of North Korea depends on the determination of a single dictator, Kim Jong-Un. However, the dictator has never thought about denuclearization and has never sincerely said or made a decision that he would give up nuclear weapons.
Unless the dictator made a true decision on denuclearization of North Korea, the denuclearization dialogue will have no effect even if the U.S holds 100 of meetings with the Kim regime. North Korea is like a cult where Kim Jong-Un has become a god figure. There can be no one in North Korea to persuade him to denuclearize North Korea or to convince him to accept the U.S. proposal. Hence, completing denuclearization through such negotiations with the Kim regime is banging one’s head against a brick wall. For the past two years, the South Korean President, the Chinese President, the Russian President and the U.S. President have also met Kim Jong-Un respectively and had conversations with him. Nevertheless, he made no sincere comment on North Korea’s denuclearization. What’s clear is that the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula he claims is completely different from the U.S. definition of North Korea’s denuclearization.
North Korea has continued to deceive the United States over the past 25 years by repeating its dual strategy of avoiding denuclearization through dialogue while using the brinkmanship of blackmail diplomacy to gain political and economic concessions. The South Korean President Moon Jae-In and his envoys, who collaborated with Kim Jong-Un, deceived the Trump administration with sweet lies and the Kim regime’s brinkmanship resumed like a revolving door.
At this very moment, while the U.S. pursues dialogue, Kim Jong-Un is developing sophisticated strategic weapons that can threaten the safety of not only the Korean Peninsula but also the American people. For 25 years since the 1994 Agreed Framework, the U.S. has been conned by North Korea’s deceitful strategy, providing a lot of time and money while neglecting the increasing nuclear weapons capabilities of North Korea. Nonetheless, the U.S. does not seem to hold itself accountable or find a lesson in the huge consequences of Kim’s nuclear development.
I believe if the U.S. does not grasp the true nature of the evil Kim regime, it will continue to make poor judgments. It seems to me that the U.S. has a very wrong perception and misunderstanding about the North Korean regime. Without accurate information, good policies and successful diplomacy cannot be created.
I firmly believe the U.S. should no longer beg for dialogue with North Korea or be dragged into blackmail diplomacy. So far, North Korea seems too confident in front of the U.S. and the U.S. looks servile before the gangster regime. The U.S. has yet to bring up the miserable North Korean human rights issue for denuclearization talks with the Kim regime. The human rights issue is the core factor of American values and dignity. North Korea’s human rights and nuclear weapons, the North’s human rights and inter-Korean unification are two sides of the same coin. However, the corrupt hypocrites in the South Korean government always say unification, while not mentioning a word about the miserable human rights of North Koreans. Those who do not stand for the North Korea’s human rights are not entitled to talk about unification.
Kim Jong-Un’s call for the U.S. to withdraw its hostile policy toward North Korea is a tactic to pull the plugs on the denuclearization negotiations. The range of hostile policies North Korea describes is extensive. It calls for withdrawing U.S. troops and strategic assets in South Korea and halting joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises, as well as calls for the withdrawal of all policies denouncing the Kim regime, including human rights and religious oppression.
The Kim regime is an extreme evil regime that is trampling on people’s fundamental rights, freedom and the right to life with its isolation and brutal reign of terror. The cruel dictator is a heinous murderer who executed hundreds of innocent officials, their families, children and women in the most brutal way in times of peace, not in times of war. He executed his uncle most horribly, murdered his half-brother in broad daylight, and brutally purged several diplomats who were involved in the Hanoi talks.
Kim Jong-Un is a bloodthirsty devil. The devil’s horrible reign of terror continues day by day. The devil tortured and killed an innocent American young man, Otto Warmbier, and this is an unacceptable atrocity. The demon has sent more than tens of thousands of people, including women and children regardless of innocence, to the death camps like the Nazi’s Auschwitz, where more than 120,000 people are already imprisoned. They are suffering every day of harsh torture, beatings, executions and hunger, and even dying of biological chemical and weapons testing and uranium exposure in mines. The horrible concentration camps have been in operation for more than 45 years, and millions of people have died without any legal process in those hells.
Moreover, the devil is oppressing more than 1 million family members and relatives of the North Korean escapees, and their associates for the charge of guilt by association. Many of them have been placed under heavy surveillance and control, while others have been deported to the worst places. The innocent people who are being taken to the concentration camps and the labor correctional centers through guilt by association, are executed or subjected to the severe forced labor that ends in their eventual death.
In the past three decades, the incompetent rule of the tyrannical regime has left 3 million people dying of hunger, cold and disease, but the tragic death continues today. Consequently, the Kim Jong-Un regime has been unable to open up the country for fear of revealing crimes against humanity they have committed for decades.
A single dictator, Kim Jong-Un’s foolish leadership is pushing the North Korea to total ruin. He told North Koreans he would lift sanctions and put North Korea on the status of a nuclear strategic nation through the negotiations with the U.S. President, but the promise was not kept and the country’s economy is becoming increasingly impoverished and the people’s suffering is getting worse.
Thus, Kim Jong-Un declared a “head on breakthrough battle” by defining the current crisis as an unprecedented, stern impasse, saying the sanctions on North Korea have weakened the country’s control and enforcement power and the economic situation is very bad. Kim’s “head on breakthrough” strategy is to secure funds by boosting tourism and cyber-hacking, and to sabotage President Trump’s 2020 presidential election.
I have more insight than anyone else about the nature of the regime and its policies because I have seen, heard and implemented the regime’s internal policies every day during my 30 years’ service at the core of the North Korean leadership. Hence, I would like to offer some solutions which I am confident will help you eliminate the evil that threatens the U.S. with nuclear weapons, protect the safety of the American people and be beneficial for the upcoming 2020 presidential election.
Firstly, since sanctions against North Korea are a powerful tool for the denuclearization, the North Korean illegal import and export markets, labor supply markets, and the source of tourism revenue have to be fully blocked. In addition to this, cyber hacking activities have to be strongly sanctioned.
The Kim regime has set a new strategy to earn money from tourism and cyber-hacking to make a head-on breakthrough in sanctions against North Korea and aims to attract one million Chinese tourists in 2020. Congress should enact a “North Korea Tourism Sanctions Act” and “North Korea Cyber Hacking Sanctions Act” which could bring down Kim Jong-Un’s head-on breakthrough battle.
North Korea is evading sanctions through manufacturing services including watches and toys and earning cash by providing IT outsourcing services. A corresponding sanction act should be enforced and rubber products, including tires used in missile-launched vehicles, should also be sanctioned by law.
In addition, the U.S. government should set up a system to monitor and control North Korean coal, fishery and other exports, along with upgraded sanctions that block loopholes in the sanctions, and strongly impose sanction on companies that hand over refined oil to North Korea by illegal ship to ship transfer. In South Korea, several companies illegally imported million dollars of North Korean coal under government protection, while others handed over refined oil to North Korean ships on the open sea. Evidence of hundreds of thousands of tons of refined oil disappearing on open sea has been uncovered.
Furthermore, it is highly likely that the current South Korean government provided North Korea a large amount of money in return for the summit. In the past, former South Korean Presidents Kim Dae-Jung, Roh Moo-Hyun gave huge sums of money to the North Korean regime for the inter-Korean summits. Also, it is impossible for the North Korean officials to arrange an inter-Korean summit without paying for the leader of North Korea.
It is a fact that South Korea has seriously violated U.S. law and U.N. sanction against North Korea. However, the U.S. and U.N. have not imposed any sanctions on South Korea because it is an ally. If the U.S. does not abide by its impartiality and principles in imposing sanctions on North Korea, China and Russia will not participate in sanctions against the North in the future.
Secondly, as I emphasized many times, but the best solution to resolve all North Korean issues is to develop a psychological warfare campaign against North Korea that offers the chance to win without fighting. Psychological warfare is the light that illuminates the darkness in North Korea.
North Koreans, who have lived in isolation for decades, long for the truth of the outside world. The North Korean elites and military generals are filled with discontent and hatred for Kim Jong-Un’s relentless execution, purge, brutal reign of terror and looting. The elite group no longer has faith and loyalty in Kim Jong-Un. Countless people and soldiers are increasingly dissatisfied with the regime amid cold, starvation and the pain of disease. Factories have stopped operation because of the regime’s incompetent leadership, poor electricity conditions, the collapse of its basic industries and lack of raw materials. People have not been paid any salaries and food rations for a long time. The North Korean economy has completely collapsed, but there is no concept of bankruptcy or bankruptcy law because all assets in North Korea are owned by the state. Nevertheless, everyone in North Korea is controlled by the ruling party and forced to work under a quadruple surveillance system.
If Kim Jong-Un’s crimes against humanity, truths of the outside world, information on freedom, human rights and universal human values are spread through Pyongyang and other cities by the USB flash drives, smart phones, other electronic media, or leaflets, it will give the oppressed and suffering the hope of freedom, and the dictator will not be able to maintain his power anymore. It should also reveal through psychological warfare that the nation’s economy is collapsing, and its people are suffering not because of the U.S., but because of the oppression of Kim Jong-Un and his strategic policy decision to prioritize his nuclear weapons program over the welfare of the Korean people..
Psychological warfare against North Korea is a way of winning without shedding blood. Psychological warfare against North Korea is the best way to enlighten those trapped in a huge prison camp called North Korea, to allow angry elites and military generals to replace the dictator to establish a new regime, and to get them to resolve the nuclear issue on their own.
Thirdly, the fastest way to end the North Korean tragedy is to eliminate the bloodthirsty devil, who increases the threat of nuclear devastation, menaces world peace, brutally executes his people, through the Qasem Soleimani model shown by the President Trump.
It will be a very just act to prevent terrible nuclear devastation and save the lives of 25 million North Koreans dying every day under the Kim regime’s oppression. Peace can only be kept by removing the villain who poses the threat of nuclear devastation. Kim Jong-Un has often threatened to turn Washington DC into a sea of flames with nuclear attacks and to launch preemptive strikes. He also threatened to show new strategic weapons in his recent speech, and the nuclear threat is becoming a reality.
Now, the Kim regime’s nuclear threat is rapidly spreading to the Middle East, the U.S. mainland and Israel. North Korea has been engaged in missile and arms trade with government forces, anti-government forces and terrorist organizations in Middle Eastern countries including Iran for decades. There is also the case that Syrian nuclear facility built by North Korea was destroyed by Israel in 2007. Additionally, In his book, Thae Yong-ho, a former North Korean diplomat, testified that he met with the Israel Ambassador to Sweden in 1999 and offered a deal not to sell missiles to the other Middle Eastern countries if Israel provides North Korea $1 billion in cash.
As the above cases attest, there is no guarantee that the cash-strapped Kim Jong-Un will not hand over its nuclear weapons to Middle Eastern countries and terrorists. Kim Jong-Un has developed more sophisticated nuclear weapons over time, and the threat increases exponentially. Therefore, if the U.S. just talks but take no action, it will face an intensified nuclear threat soon.
Many people are worried that attacking the “nuclear-aholic Rocket man” would lead to war. However, if the dictator who holds all the power is killed, there is no one to order a war or push the nuclear button in North Korea. North Korean military leaders will also hesitate because they do not possess independent military operational authorization and end up being intimidated by the U.S. military and unable to fight back. Iran, too, shouted war loudly for revenge, but in the end, they were frightened by the U.S. military and failed to start a war. However, if the U.S. goes ahead with psychological warfare, including clear messages and rewards to prepare for the worst, the North Korean military generals will not dare to strike back. If you conduct a strike against Kim, you must thoroughly prepare North Korea through an aggressive psychological warfare campaign.
What the U.S. needs to know is that even if the dictator is killed, there will be no chaos in North Korea as the Workers’ Party, the most powerful organization in North Korea, controls everything including the nation, its military, its media and its borders. The Chinese military cannot enter North Korea, which is a sovereign state without permission from the ruling party of North Korea. More importantly, there will be no sudden chaos in North Korea due to the absence of religious dispute or any party faction.
Hence, if the devil is removed, the U.S. can immediately reach a comprehensive agreement with the new leadership of North Korea to help rebuild the nation, dismantle nuclear weapons and liberate its people from the restraints of tyranny. You can help the oppressed to liberate themselves. At the same time, peaceful unification between the North and the South can be achieved gradually under the mediation of the U.S.
Finally, in order to complete the denuclearization of North Korea, the U.S. must be on the maximum alert and remove the internal enemy who is trying to dismantle sanctions against the Kim regime with a crafty deceptive scheme.
So far, under the name of peace, the South Korean President Moon Jae-In has persistently deceived the Trump administration to lift sanctions against North Korea by emphasizing reopening of the Kaesong Industrial Complex, the resumption of the Mount Kumgang tourism, inter-Korean railways connection, and economic cooperation rather than denuclearization of North Korea. Mr. Moon and his envoys tricked the U.S. president to the negotiation table to dismantle sanctions against North Korea, even though they knew very clearly that Kim Jong-Un would not denuclearize. In the past, the former South Korean Presidents, Kim Dae-Iung and Roh Moo-Hyun provided $ 7 billion of funds and goods to North Korea over 10 years to support their nuclear development and the regime’s survival. President Moon also talks about denuclearization superficially, but he is protecting North Korea’s nuclear development and doing everything he can to save the North Korean dictator.
President Moon is even arguing that North Korea is not the main enemy for South Korea. He claims to be a mediator, recognizing only the issue between the U.S. and North Korea, despite the fact that the North Korean nuclear program directly threatens South Korea. Nevertheless, South Korea is never a neutral state. South Korea is an ally of the U.S. with their common enemy, North Korea.
The South Korean president’s remarks indicate that the U.S.-South Korea military alliance, which has no main enemy, is no longer worthy of existence and that the U.S. military has no justification for its presence in South Korea. In fact, South Korea has not allowed full deployment of the U.S. THAAD system it brought in four years ago. It does not value the U.S. security interests, with the suspension of joint drills with the U.S. military and the controversy over defense costs sharing.
The Moon administration is the radical leftist government which consists of the key members including President Moon are the North Korea’s Juche ideology followers, socialists, and anti-Americanism. Thus, if the enemy within tries to lay a conspiracy to deceive the U.S. by colluding with Kim Jong-Un again, it should be sternly blocked. My family and I, along with the people fighting for the freedom and liberation of North Korea, are enthusiastically supporting you, sincerely, hoping that you will be elected as the great U.S. president for four more years. People always support a great economic president who is as strong and passionate as you.
Thank you.
With Utmost Respect.
CC: The Honorable Michael R. Pence, Vice President of the United States
