S. Korea: 9-year-old Son of 'Flower of Unification,' Drowns (a tragedy rich in irony)

Chosun Ilbo ^ | 07/22/05

[TigerLikesRooster]

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9-year-old Son of 'Flower of Unification,' Drowns

Seoul, Yonhap News
2005.07.22

 

Lim Soo-kyung

 The son of Lim Soo-kyung(age:37,) aka 'Flower of Unification,' drowned in Philippines while playing in a swimming pool. She touched off a firestorm of controversy by visiting N. Korea and attending Pyongyang Festival in 1989, defying S. Korea's travel ban. 

Her son, 9 years old, drowned in a swimming pool at a resort in Cebu, Philippines, at 2pm on July 21.

He was on a ESL class in Philippines along with 30 other kids of similar age. The class was being held at the resort.

Ms. Lim married while attending Journalism school at Sogang University in 1995, but had a divorce in 1999. She was living with her son.

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[TigerLikesRooster]

When she went to the North defying all S. Korean laws, she predictably got a thunderous welcome at a Pyongyang stadium, and even met Kim Il-sung. After her return from N. Korea, she was arrested and sentenced to 4 years in prison.

 

However, she was touted as a "brave" heroine by S. Korean "Juche" left. She is akin to Hanoi Jane of U.S. in that respect. Hanoi Jane had better luck with her life, though.

 

Despite being  rabidly anti-American pro-North, she studied, and lived in U.S.. Now we learned that she put her son into a head-start English program. Somehow, she values her access to U.S.-inspired global order. Many hardcore lefties are like her. They want to be in a system they so vehemently proclaim to hate.

Still, it is a real tragedy to lose her son like that.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[theDentist]

Despite her political naivety and stupidity, it's a great tragedy to lose a child.

[Tax-chick]

Yes, it is a tragedy. The mother's politics, however wrong and harmful, don't take away from the deep sadness of a child's death.

[doggieboy]

The irony is amazing.

[Iris7]

Dunno, there is very little charity in my heart for a Leftist. Very little. Sorry for the kid. Mother can go to h**l.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #6

I saw the pictures of her going around in black&white Hanbok(a traditional female Korean dress.) The white top and the long black skirt. This is the N. Korean female version of Mao suit.

That is, a male wears Mao suit, while a female wears black&white Hanbok. Such a dress was a kind of raging fashion among coed commie nutballs in S. Korean college campus. Lim Soo-kyung was the prototypical example.

[nw_arizona_granny]

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