A German Activist Who Get's It

Wall Street Journal ^ | 2-5-03 | Norbert Vollersten

[ysoh]

SEOUL, South Korea--A human tragedy of hellish dimensions continues in North Korea.

For nearly a decade, an unknown number of North Koreans, possibly as many as 300,000, have defected to China. These brave men, women and children risk their lives to flee the mass starvation and brutal oppression brought upon them by Kim Jong Il's Stalinist regime. Sadly, Beijing's official policy has been, and remains, to arrest the refugees and forcibly return them to North Korea, where they face imprisonment, torture and in some cases execution.

[ysoh]

Even worse, the South Korean government has largely turned a blind eye to the plight of their "brothers" to the north, and in many cases has actually hindered their escape. Our plans to cross the Yellow Sea were foiled in part by South Korean authorities who used surveillance, interception and minders to disrupt our plans. Read this again, for I wish to stress the shame of it: South Korean authorities worked actively to foil our attempts to bring North Korean refugees to freedom. But under South Korean law, North Korean refugees cannot be turned away. It is time for Seoul to live up to this promise.

It looks like its time to put up or shut up for the ROK govt's BS Sunshine Policy.

[axel f]

Is this the guy who was on "60 Minutes" Sunday? I have to say that was a very good report. What a sad place N. Korea must be.

[headsonpikes]

Thanks for posting this.

Socialism is cannibalism plus electricity.

[HighRoadToChina]

PRC-NK relationship "as close as lips and teeth."

[The KG9 Kid]

Click the pic to visit Rep. Ed Royce's (R-CA, 40th) website detailing Dr. Norbert Vollersten's testimony in front of the House Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific, May 2, 2002.

Dr. Norbert Vollersten and Rep. Ed Royce.

[Callahan]

Contrast this guy with the do-gooders at "Doctors Without Borders" who do nothing except protract the suffering of those living under communist or Islamofascist rule.

[Billthedrill]

Really standing up for human rights is difficult, dangerous, and often thankless work. Publicly condemning whatever U.S. policy is extant at the moment is easy, safe, and very popular work. The sad part is that those most responsible for helping keep these people, and their Iraqi counterparts, most firmly under the bootheels of their oppressors style themselves "human rights activists," and will continue to do so after the smoke clears and these people are free at last. At that point these people will be as inconvenient for the smug, self-righteous left to remember as the Vietnamese boat people turned out to be.

[redbaiter]

bump

[DeweyCA]

Yes, this is the same guy. He has written about the NK situation at other times and in other articles in the past year.

[ysoh]

What is also upsetting is that the mainstream media will ignore this activist and instead give their attention to the peacenik activists who condemn the US.

[headsonpikes]

bump.

[Smedley]

Many of them had spent years in concentration camps and spoke of mass executions, torture, rape, murder, baby-killing and other crimes against humanity. Most were imprisoned for "anti-state criminal acts."

Axis of evil stuff. Not according to Noam Chomsky.

"He [Chomsky] therefore explored why these countries were selected as leading enemies. Chomsky said North Korea was chosen because it is not Muslim, so that current actions by the US wouldn’t be portrayed as a war against Islam.

http://www.antibaro.gr/international/chomsky_axis.htm