The New Revolution?

The single most interesting piece of news this week is perhaps the most vague and unclear and thus the most fun to speculate about. OFK has more on this.

The story broke a few days ago that clashes with border guards occured at multiple points along the NK-China border:

According to North Korean sources, on the night of January 28, a border guard in Onsong County, North Hamgyong Province, spotted several men crossing the Duman River from Kaishantun, China, and tried to arrest them. However, there was a scuffle between the border guard and the unidentified men, ending in the death of the guard who was stabbed 38 times.

My first thought was that 38 times seems an awful lot of stabs. What makes this interesting is that, though there are often incidents involving NK guards crossing over and causing trouble in China, nothing on the NK side has ever happened.

In the past, there have been cases of armed North Korean soldiers crossing the border into China and engaging in robbery...
...North Korean sources say that North Korean authorities consider this the work of a dissident organization composed mainly of defectors who are emulating the June 1937 Battle of Bocheonbo.

My first thought was that this had something to do with a group of soldier defectors who declared their own war on Kim Jong Il. It seems, from OFK's report that this is unlikely, but so little is known about this that anything goes. Keep your eyes peeled.