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South Korea is Not Part of the United States!
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sundubuman



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:35 pm    Post subject: South Korea is Not Part of the United States! Reply with quote

South Korea is Not Part of the United States!

By using American names for areas of South Korea with U.S. military installations, is Washington trying to turn that country into a kind of U.S. colony? According to this 'commentary' from North Korea's state-run Korean News, this 'a bid to permanently Americanize south Korea and numb its consciousness to national independence.'

September 26, 2006

North Korea - Korean News - Home Page (English)


�UNITED NATIONS VIDEO: Deputy Foreign
Minister of North Korea Choe Su Hon addresses
the 61st annual General Assembly, where he
attacked America's War on Terror and defended
his nation's nukes, Sept. 26, 00:12:20RealVideo

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Pyongyang: A spokesman for the Northern Headquarters of the Special Committee Probing the Truth of GI Crimes in a statement on Tuesday, vehemently denounced the United States for its accursed crime of giving American names to places in south Korea, even though they already have their own Korean names. Ever since its occupation of south Korea, the U.S. has staged the farce of instructing the American intelligence services to call areas with its military installations by the names of areas with similar geographical features in the U.S. The statement went on:

The U.S. has since called its military bases on the eastern and western tips of Korea in Kyongsang and Jolla Provinces, "Florida" and "Hawaii," just as Florida and Hawaii are located at the eastern and western ends of the U.S. It has also called a military base in Pusan "Camp Hialeah," after Hialeah in Florida.

It is deplorable that some areas of south Korea, which host U.S. military bases, are still called "Camp Casey" and "Camp Walker" and so on, which are the names of the devilish homicidal generals of U.S. forces, who became infamous in the last Korean war.

This is a brazen act aimed at infusing U.S. worship and U.S. phobia into the minds of south Koreans, in a bid to permanently Americanize south Korea and numb its consciousness to national independence.

Koreans will never remain onlookers to the criminal acts of the Yankees. They will never accept the usurpation of the names of their native places, which have been bequeathed to them by their ancestors, and they have defended, generation after generation. This is a matter of sovereignty, dignity and the living soul of their nation.

The U.S. imperialist aggressors should never forget that no matter how hard they work to implant American names, south Korea can never become part of the United States. To expect otherwise is nothing but a pipe dream.


http://www.watchingamerica.com/koreannews000048.shtml
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mindmetoo



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't South Koreans refer to Cheju as the "Hawaii of Korea"? I'm not sure how internal American nicknames for places is an attack on Korean whatever.
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mateomiguel



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

just once in my life I'd like to speak to someone who actually talks and thinks like this. It would be a breathtaking experience to remain rational and calm in the face of such powerful propaganda in human form.

Is there someone I can call to set something like that up?
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On the other hand



Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue

PostPosted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The funniest thing about the artile is the writer's assumption that the US really wants Koreans to refer to these places as "Florida" and "Hawaii".

Oh, and this was rather amusing as well...

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This is a brazen act aimed at infusing U.S. worship and U.S. phobia into the minds of south Koreans, in a bid to permanently Americanize south Korea and numb its consciousness to national independence.


So the US wants to infuse US phobia into the minds of South Koreans? Looks like they could use a few more English teachers up there.
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Hollywoodaction



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

North Korea needs to be informed of the other similar plots to assimilate the Korean territory: Lotte World (those darm Japanese-Brits), Everland (those darn creatures from fairy tales), and the Olympic stadium (don't get me started about the ancient Greeks). Rolling Eyes
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Ya-ta Boy



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't suppose the Norks are all that thrilled that the president's home is called the Blue House either.
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Moldy Rutabaga



Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea

PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmm.. why is the representative for North Korea in the picture wearing a suit and tie-- shouldn't he be wearing a hanbok instead of those accursed fashions of the decadent western running dogs?

Ken:>
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sundubuman



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The sad thing about this crap is that this is what is spoon-fed to the North Korean inmates/population day-in and day-out.

Just look at the wild and crazy frenzy free South Koreans worked themselves into over a speedskating race (Ohno) and then imagine how this shit (Americans rename parts of the great holy peninsula) must be received up yonder.

frightening.

would almost makes islamodroids seem logical.....Axis of Evil indeed.
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mindmetoo



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 6:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

sundubuman wrote:
The sad thing about this crap is that this is what is spoon-fed to the North Korean inmates/population day-in and day-out.

Just look at the wild and crazy frenzy free South Koreans worked themselves into over a speedskating race (Ohno) and then imagine how this *beep* (Americans rename parts of the great holy peninsula) must be received up yonder.

frightening.

would almost makes islamodroids seem logical.....Axis of Evil indeed.


Well, consider the large number of Americans who think Bush blew up the WTC so he could attack Iraq. And Canadians can get pretty worked up about America. A lot of Canadians were pretty sure the American flag was on our $5 bills.
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sundubuman



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 6:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

you lost me........


completely.
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On the other hand



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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A lot of Canadians were pretty sure the American flag was on our $5 bills.


Quote:
you lost me........


completely.


From Wiki:

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An American flag is flying over the Parliament buildings on Canadian paper money. This is not the case. The Birds series bills depict a Union Jack flying over Parliament on the $100; a Canadian Red Ensign (a former Canadian flag) on the $5, $10, and $50; and the modern maple-leaf flag was on the $2 and $1000 bills. (The $20 depicts the Library of Parliament, with no flag visible.) Those "taken" by the rumour were likely fooled by the bills with the Red Ensign, as the flags are very small and not shown in full colour, and the Ensign with its contrasting canton somewhat resembles the American flag.


The funny thing about this is that the rabid patriots who were so vexed about an American flag supposedly being on the bill obviously failed to recognize the Red Ensign.

And I wonder if anyone ever tied the idea into the fact that Laurier was a supporter of reciprocity?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_banknotes
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AbbeFaria



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mindmetoo wrote:
Don't South Koreans refer to Cheju as the "Hawaii of Korea"? I'm not sure how internal American nicknames for places is an attack on Korean whatever.


And also, according to your first podcast that I started listening to today, Koreans have taking to calling themselves the Italy of Asia.

-S-
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ddeubel



Joined: 20 Jul 2005

PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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And also, according to your first podcast that I started listening to today, Koreans have taking to calling themselves the Italy of Asia.


Just add some of mama's homemade sauce (without the sugar) and you'd have kimchi lasagna! Bad imitation but a start.....

I am amazed by one thing and maybe someone has an answer. I don't . Why do all Korean cars/vehicules have English names? Why no hanguel written on them, as a brand? Do they associate luxury (a car) with the west? MY only guess.

It would be like us, naming all our cars with Japanese symbols (even though we are unable to read them).

DD
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mindmetoo



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

On the other hand wrote:

The funny thing about this is that the rabid patriots who were so vexed about an American flag supposedly being on the bill obviously failed to recognize the Red Ensign.

And I wonder if anyone ever tied the idea into the fact that Laurier was a supporter of reciprocity?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_banknotes


That's what irked the hell out of me. These so called patriots didn't know a simple fact about Canadian history. When confronted with this news that the Maple Leaf wasn't always Canada's flag and they were simply showing parliament as it existed in the time of Laurier, they fell back on "ONLY ONE FLAG SHOULD BE WAVING ON PARLIAMENT AND THAT'S THE MAPLE LEAF!"
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mindmetoo



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sundubuman wrote:
you lost me........


completely.


Every society has a bunch of idiots who, through stupidity and a totally misreading of the facts, blow up little things into big things. Americans think Bush blew up the WTC. Canadian patriots don't know a simple fact of Canadian history.

I mean visit any campus in North America. You'll find the same kind of reactionary thinking.
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