Posted on 01/26/2003 5:07:21 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo
I am in possession of a new, deeply disturbing video tape taken from North Korean TV late last week (through the services of Fuji Television Network in Japan for their daily evening news program anchored by Ms. Yuko Ando).
This video clip shows unmistakeable scenes of child cruelty and abuse engaged in by a North Korean TV production company in the process of filming a rabidly anti-American drama. The drama has been appearing nightly on North Korean TV and Fuji TV in Japan has been regularly following the story and this vibrant escalation of anti-US rhetoric in Pyongyang over-and-above the usual.
The questionable scenes, while somewhat brief, came in the course of the drama's final segment last week.
The great irony is that in their effort to portray American soldiers during the Korean War as inhumane, merciless mass murders, rather the brutal North Koreans, themselves, engaged in abuse of the two child actors, aged (I would estimate), 3 years old and 2 years old.
Even the evening commentator on "Super News" in Tokyo at Fuji TV commented on the air: "This really will backfire on them and show how it is they who have a strange system with great problems." I request a Freeper helping hand to spread the word about this unbelievable video exerpt, to get it aired on 20/20 or Nightline or Fox TV or any else where it can come to symbolize the regime of North Korea for the average American to see.
When Americans see this brief and very recent tape from Pyongyang, I am confident they will never again question the portrayal of North Korea by President Bush as 'evil.'
Video production: Korean Central TV, Pyongyang
Type of Program and Name: Drama ("Hanna's Echo") In Japanese, "Hanna no Kodama"
Program appeared: Either Wednesday (23Jan) or Thursday (24Jan) p.m. across North Korea on the main government television station.
Background: The program has been airing in segments over the last week or so, a very dramatic and popular propaganda piece on 'cruelty of US soldiers' to Korean civilians during the Korean War. North Korean actors with ridiculous, almost humorous Western-looking features and makeup, as well as whom appears to be a Pakistani or Arab, are used to demonstrate the 'dastardly evil American soldiers.'
Video scene in question: The brief scene is apparantly a takeoff from the fictional village massacre scene in the US movie "Platoon" (clearly more brutal than the "Platoon" scene). The terrified, innocent Korean villagers are rounded up and ordered to quickly confess who among them is a communist.
One surly, imperious American soldier points nearby to two crying toddlers, and says they will be buried alive if nobody cooperates.
Then one of the actors goes over and yanks both a little girl (aged 3) and a little boy (aged 2), crying and screaming and terrified, and pulls them each by one arm for a signifant distance. They are clearly in pain. Then he throws them each by their single arm into a pit about three feet deep.
The final scene aired in Japan shows the other "cruel Americans" then throwing full shovel-fulls of dark sand onto the terrified children, filling up the ditch. The toddlers are crying at the tops of their lunchs in absolute terror as the soil hits them in the face and begins to pile up (they are clearly too young to be able to 'act') into the camera as the North Korean announcer talks calmly about the 'evil Americans'.
Conclusion: The use and abuse of very small children like this compares to the stunned anger we experience when we see a hidden camera catching any act of child abuse on tape. Since the Korean Central TV is government-owned, this is nothing short of government- sanctioned and government-approved abuse of children, and is a damning and stinging indictment of North Korea for which every American should see. The image is VERY powerful in showing what this dictatorial regime is really all about and is actually capable of doing with a straight face.
Freepers, please indicate to whom at a major, trustworthy US TV network we can dub and send this tape. If there is any decency or outrage, expect it to show up on American TV soon, and as a definite shocker.
Languages: In Korean, with English and Japanese subtitles and Japanese voice over in parts.
Good job, AIT. I'm sure Fox would love to play it. If you had a link or something, I'd email to everyone I know and get it started.
As for the timing, I'm with Eva. Now is the most distracted America gets. Post it again tomorrow morning, and we'll get some momentum on it.
(What other freepers work in TV?)
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