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An American GI defected to North Korea. Now his sons are propaganda stars
The Washington Post ^ | May 25, 2016 | Anna Fifield

Posted on 05/25/2016 8:11:50 PM PDT by Trump20162020

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To: Verginius Rufus

North Korea is a hermetically sealed totalitarian dictatorship. Entry & exit strictly controlled.

South Korea is a free society, in contact with peoples of all nations, who come and go as they please.

It is therefore obvious that Korean as spoken in the DPRK is recognizably different from that spoken in the ROK.

A South Korean can identify a Nork in an instant.


21 posted on 05/25/2016 8:48:39 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: gaijin

“To make white babies which are NK but as overseas operatives would not arouse suspicion:
Like if they were photographing installations as tourists.
—> OR FLYING COMMERCIALLY.”

True.


22 posted on 05/25/2016 8:50:36 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: Trump20162020

Here is a documentary on the father who defected in 62... very interesting piece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GwBVMgPUH4


23 posted on 05/25/2016 9:00:37 PM PDT by hecticskeptic (In life it's important to know what you believe�.but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Hangul, actually.


24 posted on 05/25/2016 9:07:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

“Natural born” future presidents...

our enemies have taken note


25 posted on 05/25/2016 9:16:27 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Trump20162020

Hope they’re getting enough to eat. Not many are up there.

red


26 posted on 05/25/2016 9:18:35 PM PDT by Redwood71
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To: StoneWall Brigade

My question is, why are these grown men all drinking from glasses with kiddy fun straws?


27 posted on 05/25/2016 9:45:40 PM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: Trump20162020

Bookmark


28 posted on 05/25/2016 10:09:47 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Trump20162020

Celebrate diversity.

Nuts get a lot of play in the media these days, and it doesn’t get any nuttier than North Korea.


29 posted on 05/25/2016 10:59:49 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Trump20162020

Family of traitors. A zoo exhibit for the Norks. Wonder how much keeping them costs?


30 posted on 05/26/2016 1:15:26 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: mkleesma

I was wondering the same thing. Can’t say I’ve ever in my life seen a white man in a North Korean army uniform in front of a drink with a crazy straw in it.


31 posted on 05/26/2016 1:34:24 AM PDT by OldNewYork (Operation Wetback II, now with computers)
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To: Trump20162020

Let those maggot eaters stay with the Gooks then. They aren’t Americans and they sure don’t belong here.


32 posted on 05/26/2016 1:35:32 AM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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To: Trump20162020

Have they ever been to the states? their father is a traitor, they may or may not be.


33 posted on 05/26/2016 4:35:12 AM PDT by armydawg505
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To: ozzymandus

They are not a family of traitors. They have no real connection to the US. The poor things are totally North Korean creatures.


34 posted on 05/26/2016 4:41:48 AM PDT by stellaluna
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To: donna
They likely kidnapped an American too.

http://www.outsideonline.com/1923586/did-north-korea-kidnap-american-hiker

The following year, in May 2012, the Tokyo nonprofit National Association for the Rescue of Japanese Kidnapped by North Korea dropped a bombshell. One of the organization’s most reliable sources, a North Korean defector who had provided flawless intelligence to NARKN for years, had obtained Chinese security documents indicating that in August 2004, a 23- or 24-year-old American studying at a Chinese university was arrested in Yunnan province on charges of helping illegal residents. According to the documents, authorities had released the American in September, and he’d ended up in the hands of five North Korean secret agents who were in the area searching for defectors. NARKN was certain it had to be David.

In November 2012, a friend of the Sneddon family filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the State Department for all records related to David. Though the request turned up 14 documents, the government refused to release 13, citing concern for privacy and the “interest of national defense or foreign relations.”

35 posted on 05/26/2016 4:41:55 AM PDT by Rameumptom (Gen X= they killed 1 in 4 of us)
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To: Rameumptom

Usually they send them to a North Korean training facility for spies where they go to them mainly on language but also on many aspects of American culture or Japanese culture as the case may be.

the goal is to permit them to construct and maintain a cover story that will stand up to a superficial interrogation.

subjects covered TV, sports, billing, taxes, fashion, music, games.

one famous example of a successful agent was a very attractive young woman who traveled under Japanese cover of with her grandfather and blew up a South Korean plane that flew from somewhere in the Middle East.


36 posted on 05/26/2016 5:34:56 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: rlmorel

***It is a glowing article,***

Reminds me of the American who defected to the North Vietnamese back in the late 1960s or early ‘70s.

When he finally decided to return to the USA the news media and Hollywood portrayed him as some kind of hero, even making a TV movie about his time in NVN.

It was sickening!


37 posted on 05/26/2016 6:09:51 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I am with you on this.

The funny thing is, these MSM people often have no idea the light this kind of article paints them in. It is as easy to see their sympathies, as if they were wearing a neon light sandwich board.


38 posted on 05/26/2016 8:42:26 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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