More on the father of Choe Ryong-Hae having done what Kim Il-sung claimed

According to sources quoted in South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo, one of the most powerful figures in Pyongyang is expected to fall victim to Kim Jong-un’s purges, as the North Korean leader trains his sights on a rival who could expose a lie about a key moment in the communist regime’s history.

Evidence suggests that it was the father of 64-year-old Choe Ryong-Hae, the joint chairman of the all-powerful Politburo Presidium who led an attack against the Japanese later claimed by Kim’s grandfather to legitimize the ruling dynasty.  Whereas North Korea’s version of the struggle against the Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula claims that Kim Il-sung, revered as the founder of the nation, led the June 1937 assault.

Ken Kato, a researcher and human rights activist, said that the stories undermined Kim Il-sung’s reputation as the heroic father of the nation.

North Korean history about to change –again?

New evidence from the 1930s indicate that it might have been someone else other than the grandfather of Kim Jong-Un who led a famous attack against the Japanese, an attack that has been claimed by Kim’s grandfather Kim Il-Sung that he led, so they could be the ruling family of North Korea.

If accurate, it would mean that someone else  — not the son of Jong-il — would be the rightful heir to the communist North Korean state.

A report in the Asahi Shimbun dated June 7, 1937 says it was Choe Hyon, the father of Choe Ryong-Hae current joint chairman of the powerful Politburo Presidium and political director of the North Korea People’s Army, who actually led the attack. The report reads in part: ‘A little more than 100 men lead by Communist bandit Choe Hyon attacked Pochonbo. ….”

The grandfather of Kim Jong-Un, Kim Il-Sung, is documented in North Korea’s official history as the leader of this 1937 attack on the Japanese base defending the town of Ponchonbo, which helped him gain a foothold of legitimacy in the claim of leadership of the country.

So Choe Ryong-Hae has been singled out because of these newly-revealed records, amidst rumors that Kim Jong-Un is planning another purge to rid North Korea of some of its most powerful figures.

North Korea regularly changes its own country’s history, with children in the North being taught that the Korean War was started in 1950 by an invasion by the South, and that Kim Jong-il was born in a cabin on the slopes of Mount Paektu, when historians claim that the late leader was actually born in a refugee camp in the Soviet Union.