North Korean Authorities in the Middle of Forcibly Demolishing Buildings within 50m of Yalu River

Radio Free Asia ^ | 2017-11-04

[JoeProBono]

[Vlad The Inhaler]

[TigerLikesRooster]

Gee, that was fast.:-)

[bgill]

Looks like the least little thing would cause them to fall down. Kim could stand outside those houses and huff and puff and blow them over.

[bagster]

No kidding.

[trebb]

My first thought was 50 miles and couldn’t figure it - I guess they don’t want tunnels heading out any more than we (and Israel) want tunnels heading in....

[PAR35]

They may just be trying to improve the sight lines from the apartment buildings and create a Potemkin village effect. I doubt they’ll be tearing down that large government building near the river.

[ctdonath2]

That’s why I’m concerned about building a wall to keep people out: the next administration could easily take advantage of the fact that walls stop people going either direction.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Considering we would still have three borders that are wide open I think you are worrying about the wrong things.

[Blogatron]

I’m pretty sure authoritarian rule passed down from father to son is called a kingdom.

[GOYAKLA]

50 metres @ 162ft
It would be a “Killing Field”!

[ctdonath2]

There have been calls to close those too - even though they’re basically walls as well (can’t just head east/west without real resources, going north is too cold and occupied by “where are your papers?” socialists).

[Robert A Cook PE]

But this NorK wall IS on the north border on the Yalu River- “To prevent the Chinese from getting information (and people) in”

Yeah, right.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

going north is too cold and occupied by “where are your papers?” socialists).

Too cold?

"Yep, I would love to escape my tyrannical government by walking across a line but there is SNOW up there!" Said no one ever.

As to them being “where are your papers?” socialists so are the guys to the south to a far greater extent.

At least to the north they can speak English. As to the water being a barrier, there is this marvelous invention called a "boat". They have only been around for a few thousand years so maybe you have not heard of them yet.

Of all the reasons for being against building a wall on the southern boarder that pretty much has to be the silliest I have ever run into.

[JimRed]

Oh, 50m...meters...at first I was interpreting that as fifty MILES. A darned big buffer zone!

[COBOL2Java]

Forcibly = Against owner's will

Question is, of course, is whether or not the NORK government Forcibly Demolished the Buildings before the residents had a chance to evacuate...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks TigerLikesRooster. Those displaced can be moved into those model Potemkin villages up at the cease-fire line. /sarc