Posted on 08/26/2007 7:29:52 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea has started building a fence along parts of its border with China in an apparent move to prevent people from fleeing the impoverished communist country, a news report said Sunday
The North has put posts on a six-mile stretch along a narrow tributary of the Yalu River, which marks the border between North Korea and China. It has also built a road to guard the area, Yonhap news agency reported. The North has yet to string barbed wire fencing between the posts, the report said.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry had no immediate comment on the report.
Less than a year ago, China built a massive barbed wire and concrete fence along its side of the same river.
North Korea and China share an 880-mile border.
Most of China's trade and aid to the North, on which North Korea heavily relies on, moves across the border. Up to 90 percent of the North's oil supplies also come across the border from China.
China had left their border lightly guarded but it has became a security concern for Beijing in the past decade as tens of thousands of North Korean refugees began trickling across into northeast China.
Many of the refugees take a long and risky land journey through China to Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries on their way to eventual asylum in South Korea.
More than 10,000 North Koreans have defected to the South, with most arriving in recent years.
The 1950-53 Korean War ended in a cease-fire rather than a peace treaty, leaving the two technically still at war.
Tiger hear about this???
Things are pretty bad when you want to flee to China where many end up as slave labor.
How about it, kids, we get that old Korean War declared ended so you Communists can share more personal time together?
BTTT
When Communist regimes build a fence, it isn’t ever to keep people out.
Having seen the fences in Europe in the early 1970’s, they aren’t very pretty.
Totalitarians hellholes (North Korea, the old East Germany) have to build fences and walls to keep people IN, as prisoners of the regime.
Great, free countries (USA, Israel) sometimes have to utilize fences or walls to keep people OUT, those who would break the laws (illegal immigrants) and worse, of course, those who would engage in terrorism.
There is absolutely no comparison between enforcing just and good laws by keeping law-breakers OUT vs. totalitarian regimes that have to keep helpless people IN.
Unfortunately, charlatans on the left constantly try to obliterate this kind of distinction.
btw, what a nightmare to have to try to flee the hideous North Korean regime by sneaking into COMMUNIST CHINA.
GEE “Dear Leader” is a heck of a guy......
Why can't the Mexicans do this?
You know, we do need to tighten up our border enforcement, but if I ever had to choose between living in a country where people break the law to get in, and one where people break the law to get out...I think I greatly prefer the former.
There’s our border fence!
Nice picture, and I’ll spin it free of charge for Comrade Chia Pet:
‘Rook! Rook!, the imperalist puppets of U.S.A. in South Korea are contributing to global warming with their waste of energy, excessive lights, nightlife, and other decadent behavior!’
‘But ROOK: we not ronery in North Korea, we contributing to saving environment by turning off ALL lights at night, using energy wisely, and sleeping at night instead of indulging in raucous, riotous, depraved capitalist riving!’
Spoken as the little drunk swills down $500 bottles of imported cognac, watching six channels of satellite porn on plasma screen TVs, every light in the 200 room mansion ablaze....
While the slaves starve to death in the cold and dark everywhere else in his commie "kingdom."
One of the worst regimes on earth. People trying to escape horrific torture.
Damn Monk that funny I like that one I don’t know Puppert version is funny ROFL
Isn’t that interesting! North Korea has to build a fence to keep people in and we need to build a fence to keep people out.
I wonder what Zimbabwe looks like at night now?
Lights on in the Mugabe mansions.
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