Posted on 12/17/2004 12:17:24 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo
Footage of Japanese TV from Beijing showing 7 North Koreans escaping LAST NIGHT over tall BARBED WIRE FENCES (some barefoot on the wire and all apparantly without gloves) to get into neutral territory in Beijing, in a Japanese children's school, to safety and the West. Shades of the East Germans getting out of Berlin through the wire or over The Wall.
Video Stream Link above and here (brief, in Japanese):
http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20041217-00000051-nnn-int-movie-000&media=wm300k
Chinese Communists put up extra security afterward and are trying to prevent more escapes by North Koreans, currently underground in China, to Freedom.
MUST SEE VIDEO.
Check it out. A short, but dramatic video.
Indicator that Kim Il's regime is collapsing?
"Neutral Chinese territory...?" That's a good one. I hope they can't see their faces, otherwise, teir families are dead meat.
However, the terms of collapse could be anything from 1-3 more years from now. One must be patient here. But first, yes, all of these things must come.
bttt
Intresting... I know I had read before that there were thoughts that he was either Ill or in a depresion over a favored mistress dying. It creates an intresting focal point for asia for the next few years at least.
Noboday said "neutral Chinese territory".
I said "neutral territory in Beijing". Which is what the Nihonjin Gakko is. Japanese territory...same as an Embassy.
It looks like they were barefooted in order to get a better climb on the wire mesh.
Yes, they were (or some of them). Ouch. That's gotta hurt. But it would be worth it.
While I sympathize with the defecting North Koreans, you're a little extreme in your description of the Chinese guards (and uniforms) - just doing their job. At least they're attempting to maintain border security, and some law & order with illegal aliens in their midst. Makes me a little envious...
They're people who don't seem to want freedom for themselves, or anyone else. They aren't guarding against economic invaders. They're chicoms!
Good video clip posted by AIT.
But its a Socialist Paradise... fools!
If the Chinese looked the other way or allowed it this time, there'd be hordes climbing over the fences of every foreign school/embassy/company demanding help/assylum. Hordes crossing the border... sound familiar?
They are posted to keep North Korean political refugees and defectors out of the Japanese school. I won't make excuses for them. Sorry to be about 'extreme' about Freedom. I doubt if any of those who went over the wire last night on that video, if you and I sat down with them, would think of me as 'extreme' in my thinking or description.
Yes, those dirty, lazy Mexica... er, North Koreans are just trying to take jobs from hard working Ameri... er, Japanese. Enforce the borders! Mammon bless America!
I'm all for freedom too, but I'm also for law and order. See my post above to monkeywrench.
Indeed.
It reminds me of the hoards of Czechs, East Germans, Hungarians and Poles going out of Eastern Europe in 1989/1990 when various nations dropped their police state border system design to HOLD PEOPLE in, and the 'hoards' left by bus, auto, hitchhiking, whatever. Almost like the 'hoards' of Koreans stream constantly south from North Korea in 1953.
Upon which do you place a priority?
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