I find this situation shocking, little bit of history first; North Korea (DPRK) The northern(obviously) body of the Korean peninsula which was controled in whole by the Korean Empire (1897 - 1910) In 1905 Korea was invaded and occupied by the Japanese, and this is basically when the seperation came on the 38th paralle. Which was like at the end of WWII (1945) (2.5 miles depth and 155 miles in width, right across the middle of Korea.) Seperating the north and south. The north being backed by the communists and the south by the Americans.... In 1948 elections were held and both south and north had their own leaders even though they still claimed sovereignty over the entire country.
In 1950 there was a war/civil war/part of the cold war... Many titles for some reason, I'll just go with Korean war.... North Vs South/Small US force... To claim this sovereignty.... And uhm "unification" although unity on ones terms not alls terms.... heh. This took Kim Il Sung (the father of Kim Jong Il) a hard long time to convice the Communist leader Stalin to allow them to rage this war on the south, as the Russians feared reactions from the US.... He promised within thirty days that he would control the North.... Well... 1953 three years later... And there was still deadlock, after millions of deaths... They were still no futher forward still pushed to the 38th parellel...
After over a thousand meetings they finally arranged to sign a ceasefire, The Americans leading this requested The North to sign the treaty in a tent along the 38th, however denying this, the North spent the next three days constructing a building... (which still stands today on the 38th in the JSA. Joint Security Area; Which is the nearest the soldiers come together like 8 metres away from one another, and still all meetings are held here.) to sign this cease fire... And that is all that came from the war... A cease fire.... No peace treaty has ever been signed... (and I seriously doubt that there will ever be a signed peace agreement.)
The 38th Became known today as the DMZ... DeMilitarized Zone. There are a fair few DMZ's in the world, however this is -thee- most dangerous one of them all.. Over 2 million soldiers face off against one another... Just biding time.... There are many, many electric fences that spread across the DMZ... Touch one of these, and you are dead. This is also the -most- heavily mined area in the world... Millions of land mines are spread across the DMZ. The thought of war is quite daunting, because within the first few hours there would be over 2 million deaths.... I think this would be the hardest time of fatality count and it would decrease it's rate. But for example Seoul (pronounced: Soul) the Capital of South Korea is only 70km from the North's Capital Pyongyang (pronounced: pong yang) and is only 50km's from the DMZ. Literally in -minutes- the North's artillery power could turn this giant to rubble.
There have only been a few skirmishes across the DMZ over the years the two I find most intersting would be the Axe murders incident... Basically there is a post (many posts lol...) but this one in particular... Check Point #3.... Known as the most lonley post in the world lol... And the least favourtie CP to be put on at the DMZ, as many times the KPA (Koreans people's army, the north) have attempted to drag soldiers across the bridge (of no return) to their side. In 1976 this CP was blocked by like a 100ft poplar tree, it also blocked the sight of a UN's Observation post (OP #5) So logic calls for them to go and cut this tree back so their visions were clear..
So a group of Korean Service corps (KSC: S.Korean soldiers) escorted by the UNC and JSF. Went across halfway and started to cut down branches, then 16 or so KPA's appeared on the over border and were watching for awhile then told them they had to stop with such comments as that Kim Il Sung had personally planted the tree and he cared for it, and they couldn't cut at it. So they kept ignoring them and cutting at it, The Koreans sent soldiers across and there was a skirmish and basically the north took axes from the workers and butchered two American soldiers. (Capt. Bonifas & Lt. Barrett) I saw some where orginal photos from one of the UN OP's Not sure which one it was but a soldier there had a camera and got photos of the attack.... Unreal.
I think three days or so later, Operation Paul Bunyan, was exectued...... Which was like insane.... 23 S.Korean / US vehicles convoy (task force Vierra) two 30 man platoons of infantry soldiers, a 64 man S.Korean platoon, 27 cobra helicopters.... 20 b-52 bombs and 30 F-4 fighter jets.... And F-5 fighter Jets... And F-111 Jets grounded but ready....... All to cut down a tree.... They were no longer gonna trim it... They had to say **** you to the north. So they cut it down... The stump was left as a memorial and reminder..... CP #3 is no longer used.....
Now this DMZ I mentioned, if.... IF North Korean Defectors can cross it.... They have citizenship and freedom waiting for them in the south.... Millions attempt to flee from North Korea, The only other borders that connect to the north would be China in the north and the very Northeast Russia.. The only thing along these borders are giant rivers... A few patrols and a few watchtowers, so the majority of the N.Korean Defectors (Refugees) obviously choose this way to escape, although I know that a few North Koreans have managed to go DMZ route.
And this is what I was trying to get to lol sorry, shocking... Ok what I find shocking is that this state is falling a ****ing part.... It is run by a ****ing idiot, Kim Jong Il (67...ish) Who took the reigns of power from his father who died in 1994 (Kim Il Sung) They run on a regime that obviously doesn't work, it is brutual, it is unfair, it lacks justice, and it must end... That is why I would say this is NOT a communist state, sure when Kim Il Sung was in charge of the guerilla party back in the days of the cold war kissing Stalins ass, and then taking out other parties and dodging Stalins assassination plots... But he then formed his own system and schooled the people in Juche... Which is self preservation... I find this ironic as they cannot self preserve... AT freaking ALL. The other reason I find it unique from communism is that it hands its power down in a family, Il sung -- Jong Il and now Jong Il has named Kim Jong Un (his youngest of three sons (26 something) as the next leader, declaring the march 25th nuke test in thanks to him and intelligence reports say they are now schooling the people to praise Jong Un...
So this busted Juche Regime... It doesn't work... Millions Starve to death.... Children literally pick corn from Cow waste to eat.... People eat tree bark, grass, anything to put something in their stomach, you are not free and have no opinion here, it is like their mass games that they display... There is no individual there is only us... Yet us are not treated equal. So you attempt to live and be free and be yourself you will either end up in one of their death camps.... Like 'Number 22' or you will be thrown into the mines.... Or publicly executed or just tortured/raped. I heard a story from one of the EX prison guards who defected and got through the DMZ that a child was beaten to death for looking for food... The child was hunting a mouse. Like in 1995 showed the worst famine, and even then the regime cut back even more so on who deserved food rations... And some units of lower class/rank soldiers also were left to starve... One such unit from Hamhung... decided to march on Pyongyang.... They vanished.... and there isn't much known about their unit, but it was disbanded.......
Kim Jong Il pisses me off so much... lol I can't even describe it... Like when there was aid support to the country all the food/water/whatnot... did it go to those who needed it? **** no... don't be silly, it went to the loyalists..... They started to do checks and such and started to use logic. That they wanted to supply the aid themselves personally to those who needed it... Kim didn't like this and said all aid had to be sent to Pyongyang.... The show case capital for loyalists.... (oh yeah if you didn't know In Korea, you are -told- where you live, you do not get to choose.... You need freaking permission to go just from town to town...) The aid groups obviously refused knowing what was happening... so what does Kim do? He stops it full stop....... So no one now gets aid in N.Korea....
This has to be the worst country for violations of human rights... Can you understand why there are like 300,000 refugees in China? And everyday even more attempt to escape, sometimes with the aid of groups such as the Underground railway... That are a Christian group formed in the South... They attempt to get people out through China and then to Mogolia, or Thailand or right around a very long winded dangerous route to get back to the South... You see, for these Refugees, you'd think once they were in China they'd be safe?
Sadly not... Because still here they get their rights violated... If they don't end up in the hands of Human traffickers They still have the risk of being caught by China because China doesn't care for these people and returns them to North Korea... Which ensures their death... Defectors are tortured and put in camps or just killed.. Women, Children, Men, young, old it doesn't matter they will get sub-human treatment... Even pregnant women that come back, and their children are brutually aborted by the North.....
Chun Ki-Won the pastor who is like the leader of the Underground Railroad, Is such a man... I really wish I could be as good as this guy, I admire him and he should inspire others to care for mankind... He risks so much to help these people, a North Korean Refugee has few friends... Even the ****ing UNHC Who are a department in the UN who are soley to save and help Refugees are rarley friends... They do not do enough... And that pisses me off... Every month hundreds of Koreans are capatured and hunted down in China and forced back to Korea... Which is against International laws, you CANNOT force/send someone back to their country if there is risk of death, torture and sub human treatment... Most of them just want to get out from China to Mongolia or other countries.... Many Attempt to rush/blitz embassy gates in China to get asylum... why can't China just help these people? Most of them wouldn't even stay in their freaking country if they could get the chance to get else where...
Anyway, I am at work and thought I would just write something like this to kill time, but I would also love to help make people aware of The North Korean Refugees, and their whole population.... They need help... They need freedom....
Looking at the current situation... You got the US shipping more planes to Japan..... Even sold a ton of GBU-28's to South Korea.... North Korea has cleared the oceans of civilan ships.... Setting up three missiles (Nodongs and Taepodong-1s) on the east coast? Setting up an ICBM (Taepodong-2) on the west? double ammounition to soldiers on the DMZ? South Moving up Battleships.... Is this going to kick off? I honestly hope so... I have for a few years been one of peace, I strongly am agaisn't killing, I cried when I killed a freaking greenfly by accident like 2 weeks back...
But I've been looking at this, and maybe sometimes death is for a bigger better picture.... Millions will die if there is a war... But, millions are already dying.... And millions more will still die if nothing happens... The people of North Korea deserve freedom, deserve their human rights... No one can take your ****ing human rights from you.... Kim Jong il is a fat lil child with a temper... He needs a ****ing spanking... Seriously look at it..... I know like 60% perhaps more of the incomes money of the North goes directly to the Military so yeah no doubt they got the goods.... And they got the numbers (4th largest army) But... You hit these ****ers.... People fear a mass panic and refugees in the hundreds.... OPEN your ****ing eyes... There are already thousands and thousands of refugees attempting to seek saftey... But, that isn't the point I mean... All these people WILL turn on their leader and his iron fist...
There are so many underground rebels there now.... You attack them you would find the majority of the north of north korea would support you.... Allowing this **** to continue isn't right... We going to just continue to sit back like idle ******? Shrug our shoulders say it isn't our responsability? The deaths our on our hands for doing nothing... That death count rises every day... Every single day...... Ok I need a cigarette so I finsh my rant with a quote/poem from WWII "First they came...."
When the Nazis came for the Communists.
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
Then they locked up the Social Democrats. I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists.
I did not protest;
I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews.
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out for me.
One Love
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