Says "Long Live Great Leader Kim Il Sung", and says these were carved all around Korea during Japanese occupation, personally by Kim Il Sung, which is a lie:
Posted on 05/29/2010 10:26:04 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
This is a link to the original Japanese story just now.
Rather sketchy and breaking, but will synopsize main points into English as thus:
There is the large Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea for manufacturing products, which is just across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) from the truce village of Panmunjom, jointly run by North and South Korea. You can clearly see this development from overlook vantage points on hills located around Panmunjom. There are a number of South Korean managers and employers there on-site as we speak. At this time, they are apparantly not free to leave.
N. Korea is threatening to cut the surface roads into this complex and close the border crossing. For all intents and purposes they could prevent the South Koreans from leaving and thus creating a hostage/human shield situation right on the DMZ just 60 minutes north of Seoul.
Conservative, Japanese Sankei News via Japanese Kyodo Wire via Yonhap (South Korean) news is revealing the following facts tonight (Read below), along with pictures and overview maps I supply.
(OPEN SOURCE INFORMATION)
(Excerpt) Read more at sankei.jp.msn.com ...
oh lord. That is bad.
Burn them?
Keep some for collectors items! heh
Can we nuke it after we get the South Koreans out?
Says "Long Live Great Leader Kim Il Sung", and says these were carved all around Korea during Japanese occupation, personally by Kim Il Sung, which is a lie:
strange cult.
Its sad to see a place so cut off they have no idea what the world is really like.
I just got the report.
Hold on to your hat.
THE SOUTH KOREANS HAVE NEARLY 6,000 PERSONNEL AT THE NORTH KOREAN/SOUTH KOREAN KAESONG INDUSTRIAL SITE, on North Korean soil just north of the DMZ.
Now Japanese Yoimuri news is also carrying a story that US and South Korea are preparing for this special forces rescue possibility if North Korea seals the border and blocks the road that takes these employees in and out of North Korea.
I dont know how many are currently there, but it has at least got to be over 1,000, maybe more. This would make it a major scale operation, and of course, the North Koreans would not still still but would consider it a direct war act. They have not yet closed down the access as of 3 p.m. Eastern time US today.
I pray for their safety and security.
/johnny
“North Korea seals the border and blocks the road that takes these employees in and out of North Korea.”
I thought access had been blocked a couple of days ago? If it’s still open; people are nuts to not get out it would seem.
We are in DEEP SHIT in my estimate. I hope the Pentagon takes control of this situation if the The Metrosexual takes a cavalier attitude during his midnight basketball and our boys begin to die on account of it.
What I wish we could do with a time machine but that would be just dreaming and hoping for the impossible:
Wow..!
That. Totally. SUCKS.
Yes, a sweet bargaining chip —for them.
Getting complicated.
wow.
Thousands of hostages is a possibility.
That is huge.
It might not be a matter of just going out on your own. From what I know, you cannot walk it, and I am sure there is some kind of shuttle bus system on a set schedule between the North and the South, the buses are probably run by the Norkies (how convenient /sarc). The road might be open, but there might not be any transportation. It is kind of way out in the boonies. If you did not stay on the main road, you would be walking through a field of North Korean landmines, to be followed by South Korean landminds.
Agreed, but I have to admit that last year’s pirate hostage situation was resolved quite nicely. Unfortunately, it’s Seoul that’s the true hostage. Seoul is in range of tens, if not even hundreds of thousands of North Korean artillary pieces.
Does South Korea have a bomb shelter evacuation system in place should a North Korean attack be imminent? And is it expansive enough to shelter all of Seoul’s millions? And could people reach these shelters in time for them to be effective? If not, the death toll in Seoul could be in the millions.
Thanks for your updates. Your posts and others with insight here; are much better information than is available on the major news sites, in my opinion.
And I don’t think most Americans have sense of the potential gravity of this situation overall.
Always just remember a thing or two about North Korea negotiating tactics when it comes to the issue of hostages (kidnappees). They use these to MAXIMUM benefit and with aplomb. Expect a pathetic, weakneed kowtow trip by Gov. Bill Richardson or Jimmy Carter to Kaesong within a month to give away the whole store, such as withdrawl of all American forces from the region in return for the Industrial site hostages they will release peace meal, a few at a time, and keep a few for safe keeping and good measure, and claim they are missing and suspected of dying in a boating accident.
Thanks. Thats my new desktop background. I’ll switch between this one and the one I have currently, Augusto Pinochet. lol
Where did that quote come from?
Follow the money. Who was getting rich from the cheap North Korean labor at this complex?
Fortunately it takes less to defend than it does to attack.
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