Kim Jong-il ordered Jang Sung-taek's arrest.
How long are we going to be dirt-poor and dying?
Where are you dragging us into?
People, let us fight and regain freedom and democracy.
Fraternity For Free Young People
Picture 2
Posted on 01/17/2005 5:57:50 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
/begin my summary
In the mid-December last year, a video recording "public" activities of a N. Korean dissident group in Hoi-ryong(a town in N.E. N. Korea near Chinese border), which occurred in last November was smuggled out of N. Korea, and into the possession of Doh Hee-yoon, a S. Korean human right activist. He brought it to S. Korea and invited some N. Korean refugees from the area. After going over it carefully, they found it to be authentic. The video will be aired in Asahi TV of Japan on Jan. 18, 2005 at 10pm. In this summary, only some pictures from video are shown.
The dissident group calls itself "Fraternity For Young Free People." The Daily NK also contacted some N. Korean refugees from the area and asked them to view the video. One was able to identify the trail the group took in the course of recording the video. He said, " They started from an empty lot at the entrance of Hoi-ryong Station(coming from Chong-jin.) It is near a small market 100m from the station. Next, they went to "Jan. 17" Factory at Kang-an Dong, and recorded the anti-Kim Jong-il poster. After that, I can see that they went to Kum-saeng Ri, and onto Chang-yo Ri."
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| Translation of posters: Kim Jong-il ordered Jang Sung-taek's arrest. How long are we going to be dirt-poor and dying? Where are you dragging us into? People, let us fight and regain freedom and democracy. Fraternity For Free Young People |
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| Dae-duk Middle School in Hoi-ryong |
One of Anti-Kim Jong-il posters(Picture 1) were put up inside "Jan. 17" Factory and the other, on the pier of a bridge, leading to Dae-duk Middle School(Picture 2).
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| Translation of the graffiti: Kim Jong-il, who are you? You are a dictator. People will not forgive you, and drive you out of your power. We want freedom and democracy. Reform and Open Door are the only ways for survival. Fraternity For Free Young People |
With the Kim Jong-il's portrait as a backdrop, a man in his 30's made a public announcement in the name of Fraternity For Young Free People. The portrait was defaced with anti-Kim Jong-il statements(Picture 3). He speech was a scathing indictment of Kim Jong-il. Another N. Korean refugee from the area commented that he must be one of locals because he put a stress on the first syllable of every spoken word, which is a peculiar feature of Hoi-ryong accent. One refugee from Pyongyang suspected that, judging from words and expressions used, educated elite are involved.
It is estimated that there are 10 active dissident groups near Sino-N. Korean border of Ham-kyong, Yang-gang, Ja-gang Provinces. Fraternity For Young Free People is one of them. If we count smaller groups, the number goes up to 30. The dissident group started to sprout after Kim Il-sung's death in '94. They are known to concentrate of these three provinces because they are where victims of regime were banished.
The following interview is from Korean National Security Net.
How could you get hold of the video?
I did not have any direct connection to them. I got it from a Chinese friend in China, last November, who had links with indigenous dissident organizations. I brought the video into S. Korea, and reviewed it with N. Korean refugees from the area. We concluded that it is the authentic video of dissident activities inside N. Korea. However, I cannot divulge any details on this group.
Why did the group made this video and bring it to the outside world?
After the passage of N. Korean Human Right Act, things got pretty shaken up inside N. Korea. This may have led to activities of the group like this. They want outside support badly. This video must be the strong indication for that. I am sure that they want to have more international support for their cause, by publicizing their activities. At the same time, they also want to show where N. Korean people stand, to counter the actions of S. Korean government to further prop up Kim Jong-il regime.
Do you keep the contact with the group now?
No direct contact. However, we plan a project to help them.
Are there any other dissident groups other than this one?
There are not many of them. We do see groups of credible size operating, though.
Your group, CHNK, has been devoted to N. Korean refugees and S. Korean P.O.W.. Do you have plans to help dissident groups, to prepare for the change in N. Korea?
N. Korea is getting unglued. Exploiting the situation, we would like to set up a project to strongly support and strengthen them. We also do our best to alert outside world about N. Korea's atrocious human right violations.
What is your future plan?
As I have done before, I will keep going my way for abductees, N. Korean defectors, and N. Korean human right.
/end my summary
Ping!
May God protect them..and help them become free.
The next step (which is probably being taken) is to mass produce such a video, and distribute that video surreptitiously throughout north korea, allowing even more there in the DPRK to see the underground efforts of some of them. Mao said, "a prairie fire is started by a single spark."
After all, his legislation is credited with jump starting some of these courageous, anti-State activities within the police state up there.
And to think some Freepers actually were selfishly opposed to that legislation. Thank goodness they were an extreme minority and that things are continuing to happen, the pressure continuing to build through various underground venues in the DPRK.
Yeah, all we have to do is to stoke the fire. I think that this is what made Kim Jong-il so scared lately.
Hoi-ryong could be Timisoara of N. Korea. It was an uprising in Timisoara, a border town of Romania which led to the toppling of Ceaucescu in the capital city of Bucharest eventually.
Kim jong-il will very likely end up in some backyard, shot down along with his family, by the people, such as Ceaucescu's case...if we are lucky their will be a video of that, too, to prove the stake has finally been driven into the beast's heart.
Dissidents in Iran and N. Korea get no play from the media, but they devote full attention to the "insurgents" in Iraq. That sure says a lot about liberals.
The guy and the First Bitch were unceremoniously then taken out and shot, after they tried to escape from that palace by helicopter. One would hope for such a manifestation of people power, but I'm not sure if it would happen in Pyongyang, since that whole city seems to be "Class A" People, whom the regime can trust, and the more untrustworthy are out in the countryside. Perhaps it is there that Kim will meet his fate at the hands of the people.
WOW - this is awesome.
Question; what was that story a few weeks/months ago where some photos were taken down in North Korea that led to some speculation about Kim Jung Il's leadership??
We need to get some aid to these people.
Aid = money OR intelligence OR technology OR leave them alone ( whatever will help them the most/whatever they ask for inside North Korea )
Methinks Lil' Kimmie's regime will fall sometime in the next decade.
Excuse me?
So, what do we do. Rather than back the dissidents we decide to back the ChiComs backing Kim up.
Excellent point.
Might be a lot sooner than that --- like when the Chinese decide it's time to fall.
Of course. The media wouldn't want to encourage all us stupid people to liberate the Korean peninsula at last, liberate Iran at last, and eliminate budding nuclear threats into the bargain.
I got better idea
Tell Anti Kim Jong 11 group that Team America going be release in Mid March in America
so pre order copy on Amazon.com
then again they are just kids... I like the look of this. It looks out in the boonies, which my wild guess makes it less likely to be North Korean counterintelligence work.
freedom bump
I find this development very hard to swallow. To organize against the NK Communists means certain death or at least a slow death in their infamous gulags. It is far more likely that these people are a phony opposition group designed to trick the West into believing that the NK Communists are moderating and/or losing their hold on power. Such a notion, if accepted in the West, could lead to a number of benefits to the NK Communists in the form of foreign aid, secret aid to the "opposition" which would be appropriated by the NK Communists, passing of disinformation from controlled NK "dissidents" to the CIA, and a consequent change/softening of our foreign policy towards NK. If these people are legit, then more power to them. But at this point, it is far more likely that the NK Communists are trying to suck the US and the West into one of their usual sting operations (and with the full complicity of Red China and Russia no doubt).
I find this development very hard to swallow. To organize against the NK Communists means certain death or at least a slow death in their infamous gulags. It is far more likely that these people are a phony opposition group designed to trick the West into believing that the NK Communists are moderating and/or losing their hold on power. Such a notion, if accepted in the West, could lead to a number of benefits to the NK Communists in the form of foreign aid, secret aid to the "opposition" which would be appropriated by the NK Communists, passing of disinformation from controlled NK "dissidents" to the CIA, and a consequent change/softening of our foreign policy towards NK. If these people are legit, then more power to them. But at this point, it is far more likely that the NK Communists are trying to suck the US and the West into one of their usual sting operations (and with the full complicity of Red China and Russia no doubt).
Makes his hair stand on end, doesn't it!!
LoL >> Dirty Harry at the tea party.
My brother was up at Hovey/Casey from 1994-1997 with the 2ID. Is that where you were?
Definately rude. Sign of a bad upbringing. Were the US soldiers allowed to give the NK's a taste of their own medicine?
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