Posted on 02/23/2011 6:50:18 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
North, China trade tips on democracy protests
February 24, 2011
Meng Jianzhu, China’s minister of public security, made a trip this month to North Korea to discuss ways to prevent the wave of democracy protests in the Middle East from spreading to China and North Korea, according to several South Korean sources.
North Korea’s official news agency reported on Feb. 15 that Meng had been received by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il the day before. The visit was initially seen as an endorsement of the plan for Kim Jong-un to succeed his father Kim Jong-il as the country’s leader, as the report said that Meng “offered his congratulations” on North Korea’s succession process.
However, the visit apparently had another motive, as a high-ranking government source in Seoul said Meng discussed with Kim Jong-il ways to prevent public protests based on information gathered on the tumult in Tunisia and Egypt .
“North Korea and China had a common understanding as they have been nervous that the demands for democracy from the Middle East could spread,” said the source. “They are likely to have discussed means to prevent a mobile revolution from happening in North Korea by using Chinese technology to trace phone calls made by North Koreans who communicate with the world.”
China has been trying to ward off any possibility of an uprising by intensifying its Internet censoring after the protests in Egypt led to the downfall of its dictator. Chinese media criticized the protests.
There were calls for protests Sunday in 13 Chinese cities on an online forum, but very few people showed up and police dispersed them.
North Korea has kept silent on the protests, with no media reports on the situation in the Middle East. It has supported China’s decision to censor the Internet and recently reported in official media on the “evils of the smartphone.”
Another diplomatic source said that Meng had also discussed the increasing flow of drugs into China from North Korea.
“A strong demand was probably made to Pyongyang to prevent the export of drugs into China, as a great portion of the drugs dealt in China is North Korean,” the source said. The source also said that North Korea is a “heaven for drug manufacturing,” with drugs and counterfeit cigarettes bringing foreign exchange into the country. Most of the drugs that are manufactured in North Korea are then sold in China, which provides a vast market.
Meanwhile, the U.S.-funded radio station Radio Free Asia (RFA) said yesterday that resistance against the government in North Korea is growing.
It quoted a North Korean resident in Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province, saying that an unidentified group of assailants stoned the city’s former inspection chief to death early this month. The ex-inspection chief was notorious for sending dozens of North Korean residents to prison while serving as Chongjin’s inspection chief and an investigator for 14 years, RFA said.
RFA said that an increasing level of food thefts and antigovernment acts are being reported.
On Feb. 14, two days before the 69th birthday of leader Kim Jong-il, dozens of residents were reported to have gathered simultaneously to demand electricity and rice in Jongju, Ryongchon and Sunchon, RFA said.
By Kang Chan-ho, Christine Kim
[christine.kim@joongang.co.kr]
Have the Wisconsin unions come and preach THEIR kind of “democracy.” China and the Norkies shouldn’t have a bit of trouble with that.
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an unidentified group of assailants stoned the city’s former inspection chief to death early this month. The ex-inspection chief was notorious for sending dozens of North Korean residents to prison while serving as Chongjin’s inspection chief and an investigator for 14 years, RFA said.
“How we burned later in the camps.....”
Now this is protest!
Even if I were only one person feeling helpless but with a personal burden for the poor people of North Korea, I would start calling DPRK Diplomatic and Trade Missions, Pyongyang Noodle Restaurants, etc. in various capital cities around the world, including the one in NYC, and taunting them and also encouraging them to defect, i.e. low intensity, anybody-can-do pys war harrassment against these bastards.
I would ALSO bet American IT security technology sold to Red China is in fact being used to keep the North Korean people down; wonder how they feel about that in the velvet-carpeted rooms of Silicon Valley, bigass donors to Obama and all.
World class hypocrites.
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