[KS] room 35

[Ruediger Frank]

Dear all,

thanks to the highly appreciated support by Karoly Fendler, I was finally 
able to find the answer on a question I had posted previously on this list 
- on the mysterious Room 35 or 35 Hosil. It appears in a Russian article in 
the Asian Library (Asiatskaya Biblioteka) at 
http://asiapacific.narod.ru/countries/koreas/sis_nk.htm

Written by Andrei Lankov (are you out there? thanks!), the piece is in 
Russian and titled "Intelligence Agencies in North Korea". It indicates 
that in addition to the two institutional frameworks for intelligence 
gathering (military and political), which were the standard in socialist 
countries, North Korea has a third one (party). The latter's existence has 
historical reasons due to the connections with the South Korean branch of 
the KWP. Room 35 is the alias for this service, i.e. a kind of the KWP CC's 
Intelligence Agency. It is described as the smallest, but most influential 
among the four major services.

This summary of the overall 6 Pages is mine, and so are any errors.

Best,

Ruediger

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Dr. Ruediger FRANK
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