Posted on 11/27/2010 6:55:05 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
North Koreans leave Russia's Far East to protect homeland - paper
North Korean citizens working in Russia's Far East rushed home after the recent military skirmish between North and South Korea, Russian popular daily Moskovsky Komsomolets said on Friday.
North Korea opened artillery fire on the South's Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea Tuesday, killing at least two South Korean marines and two civilians. Sixteen others were injured, along with three civilians. The South retaliated and warned of further strikes. The North later accused South Korea of attacking first.
"As soon as the message about rising tensions between both countries appeared, North Koreans took it as an unspoken call to stand up and protect their dictator Kim Jong-il," Moskovsky Komsomolets cited Russian news agency VladNews as saying.
North Koreans, suffering from severe food shortages at home, often put their lives at risk to cross the short Russian-North Korean border in order to earn some money in outdoor markets and construction sites and buy food for malnourished relatives.
Their disappearance has already affected the Russian Far East labor market, since the North Koreans are the lowest paid employees there, Moskovsky Komsomolets said.
In the 1990s, North Korea suffered from one of the gravest famines in the 20th century. At least one million people died of hunger.
"Hordes of malnourished children wander across the country. If policemen detain them, they are sent to overcrowded asylums where they die," the daily quoted a spokesman for the Open Doors human rights organization as saying.
Until recently, North Korea was almost totally dependent on humanitarian aid from South Korea, China and the World Food Program, the main food aid supplier to North Korea.
Recently, donors have been reluctant to render aid to North Korea because of restrictions on aid workers and the international condemnation of its nuclear program.
MOSCOW, November 26 (RIA Novosti)
There was no “skirmish.”
South Korea was attacked. Period.
Why do we continue sending food or any other aid to North Korea. The only reason they even have nukes today is because of liberals in the USA giving that technology to them.
Damn, I wish the Mexicans would go home and defend their country.
This is a little disconcerting if true. Leaving “enmasse” almost sounds like they were “ordered” back home.
Must be a wholesale repatriation. They must think they need some depth because this could become a larger conflict. At least they are ready.
They need troops in the south but also in the north along Sino-N. Korea border, just in case Chicom acts against NK. I guess they should get extra boots wherever they can get.
Isn’t it true that 70% of civilian NORKS are reservist?I don’t think this scene has played out yet.
Good riddance !
This whole thing is Trumans fault. He should have listened to MacArthur.
Another Democrat mess left simmering.
“This whole thing is Trumans fault. He should have listened to MacArthur.”
Margaret Thatcher once quipped you could track the decline of the British Empire with the invention and use of the telephone. I guess she was implying Heretofore, commanders and viceroys in the field ran their territories free of meddling by the home office. Pretty much the same in WWII except for the onsight meddling later in the game as they began deciding the political ending for the war in Europe. By the time of Korea, we had the first instance of missions being run out of the White House which was more than expanded under Johnson in Vietnam. The results were disasterous.
Are you aware of such a move by the DPKR in the past during similar crisis? Seems like a very extreme move. Also, I would think if the DPKR is going through the trouble of bringing expats back home for the defense of the homeland, wouldn’t they also start calling up reserves? Any indication the DPKR is calling up reserves?
“North Koreans, suffering from severe food shortages at home, often put their lives at risk to cross the short Russian-North Korean border in order to earn some money in outdoor markets and construction sites and buy food for malnourished relatives. “
Translation: North Korea pays their debts with slave labor.
To feed the NK army, the bureaucrats that protect Kim clan, and to feed the gulag guards and the overseers of those asylums where starving children are sent to die- if they are lucky enough to die indoors. As many or more freeze as starve.
The Christian ministries that try to help North Koreans and expose the genocide are real unsung heroes. I think I will make a donation
If this is true, it could push North Korea over the edge. When these guys get home and see what a mess Lil’ Kim has made, they may revolt. And even if they don’t, Lil’ Kim may be in the awkward position of not being able to feed them.
“I have not heard about NK’s full-scale reserve mobilization yet. For now, such a move is restricted in the area including and surrounding where the shelling broke out.”
And that is a good thing. If such a thing was happening, it would likely set off a chain of events that I don’t even want to contemplate.
If North Korea gets destroyed where are the North Korean workers going to go to? Better to deport them now than to be stuck with them.
North Korean citizens working in Russia's Far East rushed home after the recent military skirmish between North and South Korea, Russian popular daily Moskovsky Komsomolets said on Friday.And the Russians miss 'em already, I'll bet. ;') Thanks TigerLikesRooster.
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