(Here We Go AGAIN!!) Liberal Suggests 'Human Shields' Protect North Korean Nuke Facilities

The Nautilus Institute ^ | March 2003 | KIM, Seung Kuk (in English)

[AmericanInTokyo]

Title: "Let's Send Human Shields of Anti-War and Peace to North Korea: Proposal to Peace Activists and NGOs of South Korea, The U.S. and Japan"

By Kim Seung-kuk

Chairperson of the Solidarity of Korea Reunification Peace Committee

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has publicly said that North Korea will be the next target for the U.S. military attack. North Korea is on the top of the countries targeted in the "war program" pushed by the United States with the help of Britain and Japan. That is why the establishment of peace and reunification has been delayed in the Korean peninsula. We think the "fuss about Pyongyang's nuclear development" being raised from October 2002 is not unrelated with this U.S. war program.

Now, it is widely recognized that America will turn a gun to the North after its war on Iraq or even if it fails in the war. Therefore, it seems to be almost certain that the clouds of war are advancing to the Korean peninsula in any event.

In the year 2003, Pyongyang and Washington is expected to sharply confront each other over the agreements they have entered into, increasing the danger of war on the peninsula. Because of the rows over Pyongyang's nuclear issue, the 1994 Agreed Framework between the two countries has already ceased to be effective and, therefore, there is no longer any crisis management mechanism on the peninsula. There is also no war-prevention regime on the peninsula because the Korean armistice agreement has long become ineffective.

Nevertheless, the United States are refusing to negotiate with the North a non-aggression pact as demanded by Pyongyang. Instead, it is hastening a realignment of U.S. forces in Korea as well as a revision of the ROK-US Mutual Defense Treaty, in order to strengthen the combined ROK-US fighting power.

Not even taking its responsibility for the delayed completion of projected light-water nuclear reactors construction by the KEDO, the Bush administration has embarked on a war program called the "contingency plan" to destroy the Pyongyang regime. Probably under this war program, the U.S. has recently augumented its war potential against the North. The U.S. Pentagon has indicated its intention to launch a pinpoint air strike against the North's Yongbyon nuclear site and to intercept vessels carrying Pyongyang's arms exports. Following this, the Japanese Self Defense Forces are hastening to land in the Korean peninsula again.

Though we cannot be completely sure that a war will break out on the Korean peninsula, there is certainly an evil omen now. Korean peninsula may look calm outwardly, but we seem to hear the distant boom of guns. We must crush even the slightest sign of war, for the happiness of individuals, peace of civil society, security and peaceful reunification of the nation.

War must be prevented in peace. The most visible way of preventing a war would be to deploy human shields in the potential areas of conflict, so that the attackers cannot not easily bomb the areas. For instance, the United States will find it difficult to bomb Yongbyon nuclear facilities and Pyongyang where American and Japanese human shields are deployed. As severe international denunciation will be directed at any American attack endangering their life, they can really be a "shield" against a war.

There are many instances of activities and success involving human shields for anti-war and peace. Pacifist groups in America and Europe are central to such activities, and PBI(Peace Brigade International) and NP( Nonviolent Peace Force) are leading ones. Also the peace activists who have recently entered Iraq to serve as human shields offer vivid examples.

We think that now is the time for pacifist groups and NGOs (non government organizations) to learn from the former human shield activities and positively consider sending human shields to Yongbyon and Pyongyang in North Korea.

[Billthedrill]

If they do go and we do exactly what we did in Iraq, wait a couple of months, there won't be much left but well-picked bones. I'm trying to think of a down side to that...

[No Truce With Kings]

Yes! Yes!!! *YES*!!!!!!

[FourPeas]

OK, OK, let me get this straight. The people who normally go for this human shield clap-trap are usually far left liberals who are also against nuclear power and nuclear weapons. So, following their own twisted logic, they feel the need to go to North Korea and guard their nuclear facilities? The world just gets weirder and weirder.

[eaglesiniowa]

Yep, they can glow in the dark, or at least what's left of them.

[GSWarrior]

NO WAR FOR RICE!!!!

[JoeSixPack1]

This article is out of date already. Way too much has happened in this world since March 21.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Condoleeza might take issue with that.

[Marysecretary]

Yes, by all means, send tons and tons of them.If they're over there, they aren't bugging the crap out of us here on American soil.

[Poohbah]

S**t, I'll chip in for the worthless f***s' airfare.

[GSWarrior]

You see, those North Koreans need to have nuclear weapons to protect themselves from the likes of us. So it's okay with the lefties.

[NorseWood]

Lets send send them as many human shields as we can, but with the condition that we route their flight through Bejing with a week-long stop-over, so that the students can help out in the hospitals.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Heck, you kidding? Nothing will stop these blathering idiots. They're on to the next crusade. They've long since given up on Iraq. They could care less about staying behind and helping the 'people' of Iraq they cried about, since the 'people' will be under a new, free regime. No sense going back there if there is a pro-American government--despite the continuing 'needs' of the people.

They never were humanitarian...they were political...just as they were in Nicaragua.

Well, I'd love to see them start their caravan of trouble-spot bound double decker buses from London again this time--and all come down with SARS by the time they reached Xian, China from the Euroasian routes.

[jriemer]

I suggest that each human shield interested in going to N. Korea should bring enough food to tide them over for the duration of their visit. Otherwise, they will have resort to becoming dirt-iarians just like the people they intend to "protect".

[kevao]

Here's hoping they stick around until the shooting starts this time.

[Poohbah]

Think of this as MOAZ: Mother of All ZOTS!

[AmericanInTokyo]

you can see I was working on a post with much the same idea.

[Marysecretary]

I'm concerned about that too, having two grandchildren, a son and daughter-in-law in Anchorage. I don't trust NK for nuttin'.

[jriemer]

Think of this as MOAZ: Mother of All ZOTS!

Beautiful! I can already hear the music now....

AHHhhhhh, AH!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Actually, if some of those human shields aren't careful but turn out as war casulties vigilantly guarding the People's Facilities, they might as well know they have a better than even chance of being boiled, post-haste, down to meaningless chunks of rancid flesh and tossed into a pot with common field grasses and rotten carrots and made into a fetid broth for a starving North Korean family of six.

(Hope nobody is in a time zone where it's dinner or lunch!)