Posted on 03/18/2005 2:16:54 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
What`s he being executed for? For trying to defect? My modem is too slow to watch it. Hero of Hollywood Fidel Castro does the same exact thing all the time. Last year I think it was, 3 guys tried to take over a ferry boat to escape to the USA and they were caught and executed 3 days later. Let us recall what Hollywood had to say about Fidel...
"He [Castro] is a genius."-Jack Nicholson
"Dinner with Castro was the eight most important hours of my life."-Steven Speilberg (I guess the birth of his kids comes second)
"Castro is a source of inspiration to the world."-Model Naomi Campbell
"I believe socialism works and Cuba might prove that."-Chevy Chase
"It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him and watch him relive an experience he lived as a very young man."-Kevin Costner
A unified & free Korea would not be witness to such horrors today had we done so.
Sorry, but that term should not be used on this forum.
Too bad we don't have samples of these types of videos from around the world. You could share your suggested names for the videos from Poland, Africa, Mexico.... I can just imagine.
Re: #5..I didn't consider it "racist"...it was in a parody sense...but I'll leave it to the admin moderator to decide..please remove if you think inappropriate..
I know you didn't mean nothin' by it . . . except, probably, in reference to the NK leadership.
"Kooks" they are for sure.
and they're in "deep" kimchee to boot..
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The N Koreans are sheep being led by the "Bad Shepherd".
Some of you may be interested in the "alledged" origins of the offending term used in the post removed by the moderator. Although many of the Vietnam generation believe the term originated there, I learned of a more reasonable expalanation while serving as a Korean linguist in the US Army in the 1980's.
The Korean word for the US is (phonetically, since I don't know how to post Hangul) "me-guk", using the Chinese characters for "beautiful" (me) and "country" (guk). Americans serving in the Korean conflict would be greated by Koreans saying "me-guk, me-guk", meaning "American" or "US person". Thirty years later Koreans would ask me upon first meeting, are you a "me-guk". Innocently at first, soldiers thought the Koreans were saying, in broken English, "I am a 'guk'". Eventually the term became used in a disparaging way to speak of Asians, and became well known through Vietnam War-era movies and books.
Now, I always took this to be apocryphal, but it is certainly plausible.
Moderator: This post is not meant to offend. If you think I have anti-Asian sentiment, I'd be happy to post a picture of my wonderful 4-year old daughter, adopted from China. She can vouch for me.
Sorry, but not true.
Had he stopped where he was suppose to, the Chinese would NOT have gotten involved. North Korea would have been about 40 miles wide. Not enough for a troublesome country.
I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be shocked. I thought we all knew this kind of thing happens (and worse).
Need some help from current Japanologists.
It used to be considered politically incorrect for the Japanese to use the term "Chosen".
However, the news reporters constantly referred to the north as "kita Chosen" or north Chosen (Korea).
Have things changed?
Japanese still call N. Korea "Kita Chosen" in their news reporting. Probably because N. Koreans call themselves "Chosun."
That's true, but Koreans in Japan bristle badly when called "Chosen-jin".
Confusing.
"Chosen-jin" is different. That is very offensive.
Sorry but PRK needed destroying.
I'll point out that 1/3 of American KIA occured during the phases of two disastrous retreats and two successful advances. 2/3 of American KIA occured after the war settled down on the 38th parallel on Truman's orders. Anybody who does not allow our troops to move forward to complete victory but commits us to trench warfare and a holding pattern is a traitor. Wars of movement, in either direction, are less deadly for our soldiers. Patton and MacArthur both understood this.
It was Truman's fault for the sudden collapse of the Kuomintang in the first place. The PLA should not have been anywhere near Korea in 1950. Truman is mainly remembered for his magnificent first term. But his second term was Jekyll & Hyde by comparison, the worst single term in the 20th Century IMO. The salvation of half of Korea was entirely MacArthur's doing. We could have beaten both the PRK and PLA as we were doing until Apr. 11, 1951, even without the A-bomb or bombing China proper, and had it all at less cost if not for Truman.
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