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bassexpander
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 Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject: Liberal protesters steal balloons with leaflets |
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Guess there was nowhere to go after the anti-US meat failure:
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http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2008/12/02/80/0302000000AEN20081202006000315F.HTML\\
Groups scuffle with protesters as they send leaflets into N. Korea
혻혻 By Shim Sun-ah
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Yonhap) -- South Korean groups sent propaganda leaflets critical of North Korea over the strictly controlled Demilitarized Zone on Tuesday as they scuffled with liberal activists who desperately tried to stop the launch.
혻혻 The groups sent off a large balloon carrying 10,000 leaflets at a spot near the west coast, a day after North Korea tightened border traffic with South Korea in an initial retaliatory step against Seoul's hardline policy toward Pyongyang.
The groups had prepared ten balloons to carry 100,000 leaflets but managed to send just one after clashing with dozens of liberal activists looking to prevent further damage to inter-Korean relations. The opposing members stole the remaining leaflets from a truck parked nearby.
혻혻 One activist was hospitalized and another was taken into police custody, according to police officials.
혻 혻 Rarely seen since the Cold War, leaflets have recently emerged as a divisive issue between the two Koreas. Relations between Pyongyang and Seoul have worsened since the launch of conservative South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in February.
혻혻 Lee has shown reluctance to carry out agreements signed by his two liberal predecessors and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. The most recent summit agreement, signed in 2007, includes a slew of cross-border economic projects that would require massive South Korean investment in the impoverished communist state.
혻혻 North Korea has repeatedly threatened to cut all ties with Seoul if it fails to stop the conservative activists from sending the leaflets. Seoul also asked them to stop in order not to further enrage the North.
혻혻 Pyongyang has mobilized soldiers en mass in a campaign to collect leaflets that have fallen on western coastal towns near the border, Washington-based Radio Free Asia reported earlier in the day, citing Chinese sources well-informed on North Korea.
혻혻 Experts say the leaflets have struck a nerve because they often contain information on the 66-year-old Kim's reported health problems, of which most North Koreans are likely unaware.
혻혻 South Korean and U.S. intelligence officials have said the North Korean leader suffered a stroke in the middle of August. North Korea has vehemently denied the reports.
혻혻 Many of the leaflets have repeatedly criticized Kim for enjoying a lavish life while his people suffering from chronic food shortages, and urge North Koreans to rise up against the "killer whose death is approaching."
The leaflets sometimes are mixed with U.S. dollar bills or Chinese yuan notes to entice North Koreans to pick them up. In the impoverished nation, one can live a month on one dollar, according to Park Sang-hak, a North Korea defector whose group has been sending the leaflets for about four years.
혻혻 The two Koreas agreed in 2004 to halt propaganda warfare, which had involved floating leaflets and blasting loud speakers across the heavily armed border.
혻혻 South Korean activists, mostly defectors from North Korea and families of South Korean fishermen abducted by the North, however, have kept sending the leaflets.
혻혻 "We also don't want an end to inter-Korean relations but just want to confirm whether our families kidnapped by the North are alive or not," Choi Song-ryong, head of an association of families of those kidnapped by North Korea. "We will not stop scattering anti-Pyongyang leaflets until the issue of kidnapped South Koreans is settled," he stressed.
혻혻 Seoul estimates a total of 494 South Korean citizens, mostly fishermen, have been abducted and held against their will since the 1950-53 Korean War, and that there are about 540 South Korean prisoners of war still alive in the North. Pyongyang denies holding any South Korean nationals against their will. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Are BB guns legal here? There's your solution. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Actually, it's a gas gun, I think. Was wondering which side he's on? |
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sharkey
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| bassexpander, do you post every single new article you read ? |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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No, I don't.
By the way, I love how all of these new posters coming in around October 12 are suddenly posting like wild, talking like some previously-banned nickname (or sock).
As for the article, it sounds like one of the liberals hit someone over the head with a wrench. Typical left-wing behavior. They're all for whining about the government, and wanting free speech, but they don't want to allow free speech from an opposing viewpoint. Rather than allow it, they seek to inflict pain and damage on property.
This story also is significant, because these are the same liberal activists who were so anti-US beef. It's not too difficult to figure out who is pulling the strings behind them. North Korea is running out of cards to play, and there seems to be nothing they can do to stop the balloons. Priceless.
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Seoul says ideological feud over anti-Pyongyang leaflets undesirable
혻혻 By Shim Sun-ah
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean government said Wednesday the country's burgeoning ideological divide over anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets was "undesirable" and might give a "wrong message" to the communist nation amid deteriorating cross-border relations.
Activists from groups who regularly send balloons carrying flyers to North Korea clashed Tuesday with tens of opponents from liberal groups protesting against the campaign as they attempted to launch a new batch of balloons at a port near the western sea border between the two Koreas. One activist was hospitalized after being hit on the head with a wrench wielded by a protester.
Earlier this week, North Korea took a series of measures to retaliate for what it called Seoul's confrontational policy -- ranging from suspending cross-border rail services, sightseeing tours to the ancient North Korean city of Kaesong to limiting traffic across the border with the South.
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wayfarer
Joined: 05 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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| The way you're using the words "liberal" and conservative" in any of these contexts renders the words quite meaningless. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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Ok... left and right.
Satisfied? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Would it not be possible just to put all those lefties on a boat, send it North, and let them 'defect'? |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| Would it not be possible just to put all those lefties on a boat, send it North, and let them 'defect'? |
No, they were already sent here by "the dear leader."
Did you catch that story a while back about the North Koreans who ran into the Chinese Embassy? China was preparing to send them to the South, until some of the North Koreans identified one of the defectors as a North Korean spy attempting to enter South Korea. The people were all sent back to North Korea -- probably to be killed.
They were going to the South until that guy was discovered.
Don't think they haven't done it before. |
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sharkey
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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Typhoon
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:16 am Post subject: |
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Yup, you are right. There are a lot of North Koreans here who are involved with the left. Regardless sending anyone who is too sympathetic North is a good idea. For the real North Koreans it gets them out of the South. For people who are not North Koreans they can get an idea of what a great country North Korea is.  |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:31 am Post subject: |
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Yet another sock of a previously-banned troll.
I'm sure you won't be around much longer. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:35 am Post subject: |
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| So, what leftist group was out there? That horrible left-wing teachers union? |
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bobranger
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:39 am Post subject: |
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I like bassexpander posts.
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| bassexpander, your threads are so shitty people dont even reply to them |
Sharkey has posted twice on this thread. |
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