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NORTH KOREA: THINGS ARE STARTING TO HAPPEN (Summary Report by "AmericanInTokyo") 3/25/03
Yomiuri News, Kyodo News, various N.E. Asian news sources (translated) ^
| 25 March 2003
| AmericanInTokyo
Posted on 03/25/2003 7:23:42 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo
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To: MrConfettiMan
I got to visit South Korea several times in the late 1950's. It seemed to me to be land devoid of trees.
To: piasa
Here is the story you mentioned:
Cuba Protests 'Subversive' U.S. Radio Handouts - April 5, 2002
Ummm...and according to the following story, it is not the US-Gov doing this to NK...
SEOUL, South Korea--As the Pentagon studies moving tons of military hardware within striking range of North Korea, some say the weapon most feared by the Stalinist government there may be a disposable radio the size of a cigarette pack.
"Little throwaway radios, you listen, you throw away--the smaller the better, the more disposable, the better," said Pastor Douglas E. Shin, a Korean-American human rights activist who advocates smuggling thousands of tiny radios capable of receiving foreign broadcasts into the North.
The radio smuggling is part of a growing public and private effort, including foreign radio broadcasts, to crack an information monopoly in the North that has helped keep the Kim family in power for nearly 60 years. So tight is the information blackout that defectors report that they believed that their country--one of the world's poorest--was wealthier than South Korea and that the United States donated rice as a form of tribute to the powerful Communist state.
In January, in a bid to emulate the experience of East Europeans in the cold war, Radio Free Asia and Voice of America doubled their hours of Korean-language broadcasting into North Korea. In February, Radio Free Asia joined Voice of America in broadcasting into North Korea on medium wave, a bandwidth accessible with cheap AM radios.
ltrators of North Korea: Tiny Radios
To: AmericanInTokyo
Thanks for the update, AIT.
It's good that someone is keeping up with what is going on in North Korea right now when a lot of people are laser focused on the war with Iraq.
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posted on
03/25/2003 8:37:56 AM PST
by
Just another Joe
(FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: AmericanInTokyo
If I was a North Korean, the first question I would ask myself every morning upon awakening is:
"Where is John C Stennis?"
Best ones -- Brian
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posted on
03/25/2003 8:41:46 AM PST
by
Brian Allen
(I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny ....)
To: ravingnutter
ltrators of North Korea: Tiny Radios = Infiltrators of North Korea: Tiny Radios...
Not enough coffee : )
To: AmericanInTokyo; harpseal; Travis McGee; Squantos; sneakypete; Chapita
ping
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posted on
03/25/2003 8:43:47 AM PST
by
razorback-bert
(25 March 2003..."Saddam Hussein still denies he's alive.")
To: AmericanInTokyo
There's an interesting essay in this quarter's Foreign Affairs mag that addresses recent history in this area and profers a few possible avenues to backing everyone down before things go further than anyone really wants.
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posted on
03/25/2003 8:47:00 AM PST
by
wtc911
To: AmericanInTokyo
The North Korean association of residents in Japan has said the mood in Pyongyang is of war footing and vigilence, and that North Korea feels it will be the next victim of the US, so it will move forward with unspecified moves. This is what they call a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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posted on
03/25/2003 8:48:59 AM PST
by
Liberal Classic
(Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est.)
To: Mystix
Big Bump....
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posted on
03/25/2003 8:51:35 AM PST
by
photogirl
(SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!!)
To: AmericanInTokyo
Re.:
"Truth, as they say, will set you free. Kim Jong Il both despises and is deathly afraid of.... the TRUTH." Oh; You mean... sort of like Dashole, Kennedy, and Klinton?
As to the balloon thing - that is an old oriental tactic.
Japan sent up small anti-personell and incendiary bombs during WW-II to drift over the US Northwest, and I think that they managed to set a few forest fires up in the Yukon willie-whacks somewhere.
When I was in Korea with the 8th Army in 1968, they would send them up to drift over South Korea, loaded up with propaganda and attached to a slow fuze. When the fuze burned to the rubber, the balloon would *POP* and the leaflets would come wafting down all over the place. It happened pretty routinely, so turnabout, in this case, is fair play.
Of course, much like American DemocRATS, Kim Il Jung expects that things must always and ever run only one way - HIS way.
Once information and awareness of other lifestyle options (to include FREEDOM) starts to permeate Kim's Communist shell, he very well may have some internal "issues" to contend with. Or so we can hope!
Sad to say, it was my impression while stationed in Country that most North Koreans who had a lick of sanity or common sense had been exterminated years ago, along with anyone related to them, and that nearly the entire surviving population up there was stark raving mad, much like their "leadership". Sort of like "UN-Natural selection".
To: r9etb; riri; AmericanInTokyo; Enemy Of The State
<< .... there's the same old question of how "china" would react. >>
The Peking-based mass-murdering gangster bastards that calls itself "china" is the primary enemy and we will, one day, have to fight it.
The sooner that happens the better will be the outcome.
And meanwhile scores of thousands of its agents, who already own operate and control Canada, America's Panama Canal, much of Central America and the Carribian, continue to pour into our universities and to fill our most secret and sensitive phyics and aeronautics and computer and defense and missile and nuclear -- and every other kind of -- laboratory and manufacturing facility.
And to steal from every single one of them.
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posted on
03/25/2003 8:57:10 AM PST
by
Brian Allen
(I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny ....)
To: AmericanInTokyo
Thanks for your work to keep us informed.
Remember 'The End of History'? LOL!
Life will never be boring.
To: Brian Allen
And meanwhile a mystery killer virus that originated upon it's shores is making it's way across the globe...
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posted on
03/25/2003 9:01:15 AM PST
by
riri
To: jriemer
North Korea is already all flustered since the Japanese H2 can/is , as I understand, essentially an intercontinental ballistic missile, which could certainly be moved away from orbital to perhaps targeting them with WMD as a counterthreat.
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posted on
03/25/2003 9:06:49 AM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(JapanTV showed report on Kim Jong il. He watches CNN regularly. Imagine his thoughts watching Iraq!)
To: jjm2111
re: ping list requested. had recieved word by freepmail from another kind freeper who told me how to do that. trying to get some time to throw it together. will advise. thanks.
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posted on
03/25/2003 9:08:00 AM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(JapanTV showed report on Kim Jong il. He watches CNN regularly. Imagine his thoughts watching Iraq!)
To: Uncle Jaque
that was an interest post of yours! thanks.
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posted on
03/25/2003 9:11:09 AM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(JapanTV showed report on Kim Jong il. He watches CNN regularly. Imagine his thoughts watching Iraq!)
To: AmericanInTokyo
Pyongyang after the war:
To: AmericanInTokyo
Re.:
"They respect strength, and they also, I believe, in the last few days saw contrasting images of American benevolence and genuine kindness and good faith towards Iraqi prisoners taken, and on the other hand they saw American POWs laying lifeless after execution by Iraqi war criminals." You mean, sort of like this:
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posted on
03/25/2003 9:19:28 AM PST
by
Uncle Jaque
(MOXIE; Much like Bagpipe or Kletzmer Music... It ain't for everybody!)
To: AmericanInTokyo
AIT, thank you for your reports, both personal & translated abstracts of area news. I had been wondering what had been going on during this apparent lull.
Thanks again.
To: Allan
ping
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posted on
03/25/2003 9:21:37 AM PST
by
keri
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