N. Korea SLAVE CAMP horror revealed

Msnbc.com ^ | 1/15/2003 | By Robert Windrem

[AmericanInTokyo]

This is where the crass charlatanism of the US media comes into play.

These photos have been out for months!

Other NK defector eyewitness sketches and accounts have been out for years in the form of documentaries, books, lectures, Asian language websites!

This information has been on S. Korean and Japanese TV in great details for years.

And yet, because North Korea is finally an issue (the US media and US people are brain dead about it for years leading up to it), this is 'some big new discovery and revelation on US TV.' Now thanks to NBC's week long 'expose' on North Korea, we are all supposed to be surprised and poised on the end of our seats in America for some flow of new information? Hogwash. This has bee known for years, has been in Congressional hearings, is all over the internet. (Where have the major US TV networks and the audiences they served been for the last 10 years?)

For pete's sake, the "NBC" photos were taken from the Far East Economic Review several months back.

Just confirms my impression that US media is so LATE and so SURFACE when it comes to reporting anything about Asia and in particular, North Korea.

Best for Freepers to get automatic Korean to English or Japanese to English software, and rely on the MEDIA IN ASIA if they want timely and detailed information to follow events.

[Petronski]

I hope no one is surprised by this: Stalinists have forced labor camps. I wonder if North Korea has its own Solzhenitsyn-san.

[Jeff Head]

This is why I describe, in Volume I of my series, what the N. Korean troops and officers do in the areas they control as they invade S. Korea ... and later in Volume II when our remaining KFOR troops surrender. Some thought I was too harsh ... I know now I was not ... if anything, I was not harsh enough.

God help those people in the South. It amazes me that so many, even in their government, are so opposed to us remaining there. I guess they figure we are not going to be able to stop it and that their best option is apeasement and assimilation. Useful idiot thinking, it will not save them from such monsters. Only the Grace of God and the force of arms have any hope against such brutality and tyranny.

[Republic of Texas]

" If someone is against socialism, if someone tries to escape from prison, then kill him,” Ahn said. "

At the rate we're going, this is the future of the US.

[tictoc]

Best for Freepers to get automatic Korean to English or Japanese to English software

I'm all ears. Got a URL?

[AmericanInTokyo]

As for freebies, try [http://babelfish.altavista.com/] and there you will see some dialogue boxes. You can select/cut/paste the URL of the Korean site you want (such as www.donga.co.kr for the Korean DongaIlbo newspaper), input the url, hit "Korean to English", and viola. Then, try to decipher what the have said if your Korean is not up to snuff. Works best on charts, headlines, etc. This works for Japanese to English, too. A good Japanese site is www.sankei.co.jp for news. Have fun.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Correction: Try this as a link to the Donga Korean site [http://www.donga.com/], and then do the cut/paste/translate thing I was talking about over on the Alta Vista site.

[AmericanInTokyo]

[ http://donga.com ] Here again, try it this way. Don't hit the brackets on either side. Then, this link will take you right away to the Korean Donga newspaper site. Got it right now, finally!

[gnarledmaw]

I first heard these types of stories a number of years ago from common Russians. They said that the world would be shocked to learn that the deaths in North Korea exceeded anything that the world had ever seen. Were these stories common knowledge because these stories been in the Russian news programs? Were these people merely relaying rumors from the street? Can you shed any light on this?

[gnarledmaw]

Americans willingly buy crap from Chinese slave camps, why would they care more if it was produced by Koreans and "washed" through China?

[Future Snake Eater]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[eshu]

Americans willingly buy crap from Chinese slave camps, why would they care more if it was produced by Koreans and "washed" through China?

Good question

[AmericanInTokyo]

somebody first needs to perhaps investigate the legal ramifications of a little conservative/freedom fighter 'political guerilla warfare', i.e. the printing up and attachment of little stickers, across the land, in little stores and big ones, next to "Made in China" stickers on products, saying simply "China Slave Labor".

In a way, it certainly isnt shoplifting or destroying property just to put little stickers like that on products here from China. They might get you for 'defacement', but I doubt it.

I bet a little movement like this could become a groundswell.

Don't leave for the Wallmart without your little roll of "China Slave Labor" stickers....Just thinking. It might at the least cut down on 10-20% of PRC goods sales in the USA, which would be millions of dollars denied the PRC.

[gnarledmaw]

Good thinking. Doesnt one or more of us Freepers own a small printing company? The bumpersticker/stamps guys is...

[gnarledmaw]

Here it is if you want a bookmark.

[gnarledmaw]

I think we will have to pursue another avenue, the first freeper/printer that I thought of cant take that order right now. Ill try to find another freeper/printer.

[Centurion2000]

God help those people.

[Travis McGee]

North Korea is a riddle, it's TNT and nitroglycerine bouncing down a mine shaft. How this is going to play out nobody can guess, it could end like Romania, or Hiroshima.

[Zack Nguyen]

Products made by prison laborers may wind up on U.S. store shelves, having been “washed” first through Chinese companies that serve as intermediaries.

This is disgusting. Frankly it is one of the prices of free trade with China. I bet most Americans would recoil at the thought that thye might be buying products made in such places. I wish someone could find out what they are.

[Zack Nguyen]

Superb post. Very difficult to read. The President is right. N. Korea's Communist leaders, from Kim Jong Il down, are evil, loathsome people. God will have the final say.