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SarcasmKills
Joined: 07 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 6:36 pm Post subject: SK Solidier goes on killing rampage at the DMZ |
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SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- A South Korean soldier stationed along the Korean demilitarized zone has gone on a shooting rampage, killing 8 of his colleagues, the nation's defense ministry has reported.
Eight were killed and two were wounded in the Sunday morning spree, which occurred at Yonchon, a border station along the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas.
The alleged attacker, who was taken into custody for questioning, fired several rounds from a gun and threw a grenade into the barracks where the soldiers were sleeping.
The demilitarized zone is the world's most heavily fortified border, with almost two million troops facing each other on either side of the 248-km (151-mile) line.
-- Seoul Bureau Chief Sohn Jie-Ae contributed to this report.
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 6:54 pm Post subject: Re: SK Solidier goes on killing rampage at the DMZ |
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| SarcasmKills wrote: |
| ...was taken into custody for questioning... |
Mild way to put it.
All that time on the line with a bunch of guys who may play the traditional pecking order game, and the guy lost, got angry and exacted revenge. Perhaps.
Put a bunch of trained killers together with loaded ammo in a stressful yet boring environment for long periods of time... what else do you expect?
Maybe the guy was on the line too long, a common hazard in the army.
Who knows? The media may reveal the details later. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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It belongs in current events.
The General forum is for issues and aspects of general living for us in Korea.
All your Korean on Korean news with nothing but a tangential relationship to us ESLers belongs in current events.
This forum has been a godsend to keep many RR threads out of what should be relevant threads to our lives in Korea.
Threads about Koreans lives themselves are interesting but not directly relevant to our lives RR. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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 Everyone knows that the issue isn't really in which forum the thread belongs. |
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mount real
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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| If this were to happen in Canada there would be fury at the politicians, army, people up top, to explain this and people's heads would roll....wonder how much time this will receive in the media since the evil foreigner wasn't directly involved.....or was he?.... |
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Free World
Joined: 01 Apr 2005
Location: Drake Hotel
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:53 pm Post subject: Re: SK Solidier goes on killing rampage at the DMZ |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| Who knows? The media may reveal the details later. |
Then again, maybe they won't. |
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rok_the-boat
Joined: 24 Jan 2004
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 1:34 am Post subject: |
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Bullying is rampant in the military. They've been on a campaign to correct it, but have not been very successful so far. (I wonder if the effort is like traffic cops enforcing laws for a month and then ending the campaign.) I personally know:
a) a guy who was beat so often and was able to prove it that he was transferred to a different base
b) a group of three that were repeatedly beaten by an officer and the officer was transferred (but not punished in any other way)
c) and a guy who was repeated forced to give bj's to his commanding officer (and he says he knows several others who were forced to do the same)
It's a wonder more of these tragedies don't occur. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 1:45 am Post subject: |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 1:50 am Post subject: |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 2:29 am Post subject: |
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| Incredible allegation |
I was pretty shocked by it, too. Others have heard similar stories and mentioned them here. I can't attest to the other stories but I have no reason to disbelieve the guy who told me. I don't have any idea about his sexual orientation. When I asked if he couldn't refuse he said 'no', that he'd be beaten every day. I suppose if you put a younger guy who is trained to obey elders who also have a higher social position and the power to make your life a living hell for two years that it is possible.
I'm quite a bit older than most teachers and a lot of my students treat me like a favorite uncle. I often hear very personal stories. Very. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 3:31 am Post subject: |
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| In any case, do you think this is an isolated thing in the Korean armed forces or that it's somewhat institutional? |
I have heard roughly similar stories from men who served in the Korean army. And it seems to me I've also seen articles in the newspaper about the issue of sexual coercion in the military. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| Didn't it just come out in the press that some conscripts were forced to consume fecal matter? Next to that, giving a bj sounds plausible. |
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