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Grim tales from North Korea's gulags
Asia Times ^ | 1/29/2010 | Donald Kirk

Posted on 01/28/2010 9:41:22 PM PST by Pining_4_TX

No one should imagine that American missionary Robert Park is getting the same relatively benign treatment at the hands of his North Korean "hosts" as the two American women who were held in the North for 140 days last year.

(Excerpt) Read more at atimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: gulags; northkorea; prisoners

1 posted on 01/28/2010 9:41:24 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: Pining_4_TX

NK is among the numerous nations in the world that is ruled by amoral and lawless brutality. The sad part is the NK people are trapped by geography and history. China will always put their security needs above the suffering of the NK people, and Japan has a history of doing the same. The US is the only nation that can free NK but we will have to take on China, something we cannot do without a war and financial ruin for China, US and even Japan.
Basicly the people of NK are stuck. Lesson to be learned, is never partition a country between us and a brutal dictatorship nation (ie Soviet Union, etc) and expect good results.


2 posted on 01/28/2010 10:16:48 PM PST by Fee (Peace, prosperity, jobs and common sense)
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To: Pining_4_TX
The 28-year-old Park, who walked across the frozen Tumen River border from Chinese to North Korean soil on Christmas Eve bearing a letter of "peace and goodwill" for Dear Leader Kim Jong-il

Park sounds very nearly as insane as Dear Leader.

3 posted on 01/28/2010 10:20:23 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Pining_4_TX
"They give us 200 grams of corn a day and hard labor. A lot of people die - 80% of the deaths are due to malnutrition."

Demonic.
4 posted on 01/28/2010 10:21:07 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: Pining_4_TX

It’s a shame that there isn’t an active military resistance against the regime we could donate to.


5 posted on 01/28/2010 10:21:20 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: Ronaldus Magnus

I think there’s more of an active intelligence resistance than we know about, and that we’re donating quite a bit to it via our federal taxes.


6 posted on 01/28/2010 10:25:37 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker

Well, you do have a point there. I’m not sure what he thought he could accomplish by doing this.


7 posted on 01/28/2010 10:31:08 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: Ronaldus Magnus
South Koreans release balloons to carry news and propaganda materials into the north.

My thought:

Maybe we should get bigger ballons and release small handguns into the north. It seems like their only hope.

8 posted on 01/29/2010 7:04:45 AM PST by I Buried My Guns
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