Posted on 03/28/2011 6:46:19 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Plan in Place to Dismantle Cult of N.Korean Leaders
The South Korean military has a plan ready for a sudden collapse of the North Korean regime to raze structures that are symbolic of the personality cult surrounding founder Kim Il-sung and his son Jong-il, it emerged Sunday. The principle is much the same that led to the toppling of Lenin statues after the Soviet Union ended and of Saddam Hussein statues in Iraq.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Combined Forces Command, and the Cultural Heritage Administration have met to discuss the plan, and the military has interviewed defectors to draw up a list of targets like statues and calligraphy engraved on the side of famous mountains.
A military source said a psychological warfare unit started investigating the question in March 2008 and submitted a plan based on the outcome to military top brass a year later.
The plan is apparently to obliterate all monuments to communism except a few that are to be preserved for historic reasons.
A government source said the razing of these symbols would be "essential" to neutralize resistance from remnants of the North Korean army and to stabilize the country as soon as possible.
The military believes there are no fewer than 35,000 statues of the Kims, including the giant Kim Il-sung statue at Mansudae in Pyongyang; about 40,000 pieces of calligraphy written by the Kims engraved on mountains like Mt. Kumgang and Mt. Chilbo; and innumerable portraits of the leaders and a flood of propaganda posters.
The first stage of the plan would be to tear down statues and other structures in prominent places, and the rest would be dealt with later as the North stabilizes.
But some 27 museums like the North Korean Revolution Museum, five memorial halls such as the Kumsusan Palace and other cultural properties are to be preserved or turned into public parks.
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Free the people and they’ll tear them down all by themselves................
South Koreas economy would probably grow significantly with the resources available in the North.
We’ve been waiting for that “imminent collapse” for twenty years.
They might but it would take much longer and probably a lot more unrest.
A great plan. . .to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, that is. Genius strategy. . really. . .just give the defeated North something to keep fighting over. . .make it as bloody as possible, why don’t ya. . .it would be like coming to Washington DC and immediately tearing down the monuments. Hey, Einsteins. . .take a lesson from MacArthur . . .let the people taste freedom first. . .then they will do the rest.
Who is to say? I used to await reincorporation of former communist countries, but I'm not encouraged by what I saw result from German reunification; the character of the nation as a whole changed greatly for the worse. Czechoslovakia and Poland on the other hand were quite encouraging liberations. South Korea will have generations of brainwashed dependents to assimilate and they'll all have a vote. The South already has a seriously destructive leftist contingent. So who is to say what will happen?
“South Korea will have generations of brainwashed dependents to assimilate and they’ll all have a vote. The South already has a seriously destructive leftist contingent. So who is to say what will happen?”
Well the South Koreans studied it and made a decision. I’m good with them making the call.
Like America, the South Korean universities have been overrun with communists. Once people get away from the university most go back to their traditional conservative upbringing.
They’re so malnourished they wouldn’t be able to.
The transition may take a while, during that time, they should not have a vote
Is Dear Leader eligible yet for induction into the golfing hall of fame? Shooting 38 under par his first time out should merit him some speedy induction before he passes on.
Its nothing like going into Washington and tearing down monuments there.
In North Korea all of these are dedicated to the Kims. They guy who stored 18 holes in one on a single round of golf. The same guys who have starved their nation while gorging themselves. The same guys who use families to test the effects of chemical weapons. Who kill babies because their father didn’t show proper respect to a picture on the wall. The same people who kill entire extended families because a relative defected to the South.
A better analogy is removing the nazi symbols from Germany after WWII.
China is probably going to have a say in what happens in the North, as well. In actuality it might be better if both South Korea and China take on the task, it may be too big just from the South to handle, and it should still take awhile before formal reunification takes place, in order to avoid the mistakes the Germans made, especially since the NoKos have been even more brainwashed and it may take at least a generation before full reunification is practical.
Precisely what I was saying. This is a matter to be handled very carefully. IMO, if South Korea can't clean up its own leftist institutions, it would be political suicide to incorporate the North. Better to infuse the North for a decade or more before letting it all blend. Still, without cleaning house in their own universities, IMO, the liberation project as a whole is doomed to backfire.
Of course, I could say that about this country and the rate of influx from abroad.
Dear Leader is more than a cult figure and has been nearly deified so tearing down his statues may not have much effect on the people who for generations have been taught to worship him.
the people who for generations have been taught to worship him................................ More like, Worship me or starve.
How about we make a plan to tear down the actual leaders first, then worry about the statues?
I think the North Korean cult is more akin to the Jim Jones cult in Jonestown.
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