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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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 Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 6:15 pm Post subject: Anti-Pyongyang Leaflets Jolt NK |
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/01/113_59985.html
Personally, I think the SK gov't covertly fund more balloons every time Kim Jung dipwad starts rattling his sword. I think it's hilarious that a chunk of them landed in Pyongyang, and they had to shut down the city to clean them up!
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Balloon-carried leaflets sent by South Korean civic groups to North Korea are unnerving the North Korean authorities as the anti-Pyongyang messages are gaining trust among North Korean citizens, a local daily said on Saturday.
In the past, when the anti-North Korean leaflets were spread in Pyongyang, North Korean residents didn't believe their contents. However, the situation is different now. According to the Chosun Ilbo, civic groups' leaflets these days are much more effective than in the past as they are now written by North Korean defectors who write contents that ring a bell among northerners.
The leaflets also contain the private life of its leader Kim Jong-il of whom North Koreans are very curious, it said.... |
How is it that they get the bags to open at the proper time? Or do they ever open? |
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kimchi_pizza
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Location: "Get back on the bus! Here it comes!"
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The North used to do the same thing. I was a soldier near the DMZ and the North would send out these balloons full of leaflets with a small detonation device. Once over a target area *pop* and there would be these business card leaflets everywhere.
Again, they were a little bigger than business cards with one side a picture of Pyongyang in yellow border and on the opposite side, in Korean, was written something to the effect, "Follow our dear General Shin Ra-mien to victory, peace and freedom over your vile oppressors, yadayadayada..."
It was illegal to ANYONE to possess one. The locals were supposed to turn'em in to the KNP. I tried to get one Korean to turn in the one I found, but he wouldn't touch it. He was scared to death of the thing! I actually wanted to keep it, but if I would've been caught with it...! As an American soldier? No way...
I eventually turned it into the KNP myself and my reward was a small children's ruler, a common reward for Koreans I guess. The police and I had a good laugh over it...
Leaflets had little effect South of the DMZ but I can see how this kind of thing could send out a rippling effect in the North. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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Wait you mean Koreans can think critically and ignore appeals to Han and Urinara and all that and just go on about their day without hating the foreigner?
Don't let the bashers in on that. They might call you in for re-education. |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:28 am Post subject: |
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| kimchi_pizza wrote: |
| "Follow our dear General Shin Ra-mien. |
Shin Ramyon? Thats my favorite tasty snack. |
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GwangjuParents
Joined: 31 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:24 am Post subject: |
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| "Follow our dear General Shin Ra-mien to victory, peace and freedom over your vile oppressors, |
You mean it's not true?
I was ready pack my bags and head up there... |
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