China (and others) on North Korea

[Randy W]

Why North Korean was Shocked for the First Time in America!

Today we have a very special guest, all the way from Chicago, Illinois! 

This is Yeonmi Park, who is a Human Rights Activist for the plight of North Korean people and we were able to
reach her online. It was a valuable experience being able to reach out to her from across the hemisphere. 
Thank you for being here today Yeonmi!

[Randy W]

https://www.facebook.com/scmp/videos/819063445337367/

SCMP on North Korea COVID

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Kim Jong-un to call party meeting as North Korea faces worst crisis since 1990s

North Korea has shut its borders for nearly a year to keep the coronavirus out and it could face its worst economic crisis since a devastating famine in the 1990s.

 

or YouTube

 

Edited December 29, 2020 by Randy W (see edit history)

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from AL Jazeera English on Facebook 
https://www.facebook.com/7382473689/posts/10159788545008690/

Russian diplomats use hand-pulled trolley to cross N Korea border 

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“Since the borders have been closed for more than a year and passenger traffic has been stopped, it took a long and difficult journey to get home,” Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a post on social media.

The group of eight, including a three-year-old, travelled 32 hours by train and two hours by bus from Pyongyang just to reach the Russian border on Thursday, the post said

 

Edited February 26, 2021 by Randy W (see edit history)

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un describes nation’s food situation as ‘tense’

 

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Kim berates North Korean officials for 'crucial' virus lapse

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a Politburo meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, June 29, 2021. Kim ripped into senior ruling party and government officials over what he described as a serious lapse in national efforts to fend off COVID-19. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said Wednesday, June 30, 2021 that Kim made the comments during the meeting, which he called to discuss a “grave incident” in anti-epidemic work that he said created a “huge crisis” for the country and its people. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified.(Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP) (Uncredited/KCNA via KNS)

from the WaPo

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un berated top officials for failures in coronavirus prevention that caused a “great crisis,” using strong language that raised the specter of a mass outbreak in a country that would be scarcely able to handle it.

The state media report Wednesday did not specify what “crucial” lapse had prompted Kim to call the Politburo meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party, but experts said the North could be wrestling with a significant setback in its pandemic fight.

So far, North Korea has claimed to have had no coronavirus infections, despite testing thousands of people and sharing a porous border with China. Experts widely doubt the claim and are concerned about any potential outbreak, given the country’s poor health infrastructure.

At the Politburo meeting, Kim criticized the senior officials for supposed incompetence, irresponsibility and passiveness in planning and executing anti-virus measures amid the lengthening pandemic, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said.

Kim said “senior officials in charge of important state affairs neglected the implementation of the important decisions of the party on taking organizational, institutional, material, scientific and technological measures as required by the prolonged state emergency epidemic prevention campaign,” according to the KCNA. This “caused a crucial case of creating a great crisis in ensuring the security of the state and safety of the people and entailed grave consequences.”

The report also said the party recalled an unspecified member of the Politburo’s powerful Presidium, which consists of Kim and four other top officials.

The reference indicated Kim may replace his Cabinet Premier Kim Tok Hun, who would be held responsible for failures in the government’s anti-epidemic work, said Hong Min, a senior analyst at Seoul’s Korea Institute for National Unification.

 

 

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Kim Jong-un scolds officials for Covid-19 lapse

Although North Korea hasn’t confirmed any Covid-19 cases, leader Kim Jong-un has berated top officials for their negligent pandemic response.

from the SCMP
https://fb.watch/6sYtU8jrXI/

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un paid tribute to his grandfather on the death anniversary of the state's founder.

from the SCMP on Facebook
https://fb.watch/v/QKCLP363/

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North Korea’s new train-launched missile

North Korea says it fired 2 "railway-borne" ballistic missiles to test its
 new system. The rockets fell in the Sea of Japan, fuelling concerns in
 the region.

from the SCMP on Facebook 
https://www.facebook.com/scmp/videos/556345018943481/

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Kim Jong-un admits North Korean economy is ‘grim’ while pledging to build . . .
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un spoke of his country's "grim economic situation" as the nation celebrated the 76th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea.

from the SCMP on Facebook 
https://www.facebook.com/scmp/videos/1058232988324847/

 

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Kim Jong Un was quietly helping design North Korean wine bottles, cargo ships, and school uniforms when he mysteriously vanished from public life, report says

• The North Korean leader mysteriously vanished from the public eye several times in 2021.
• NK News found the dates matched up with times Kim was judging designs for national projects.
• Experts have speculated that Kim, who appeared to have lost weight this year, was taking sick leave.

from the Business Insider

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The North Korean leader vanished several times between January and May, prompting some experts who keep close tabs on Kim's every move to speculate he might be unwell.

But according to NK News, Kim's absences matched up with dates displayed at Thursday's national industrial art exhibition in Pyongyang, which showed when Kim had been judging the designs.

Footage of the event, broadcast by the state-run KCTV news network, showed a large display board that listed 25 days this year when Kim was "guiding" some 110 designs to their completion, NK News said.

 

 

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from Yeonmi Park on YouTube 

Freedom is not free. Even though this North Korean defector did everything he could to be free, he still got captured and about to be killed by authoritarian regimes.

 

 Zhu Xianjian is 39 years old who escaped North Korea from starvation. China put him in a labor camp for more than 10 years and was about to repatriate him back to North Korea to be executed by Kim Jong-Un.
He bravely escaped the Chinese prison 40 days ago, however got recaptured and brutally shot by CCP.
This is what the horrors of CCP look like and how the 400,000 North Korean defectors in China are being treated.
In this 21st century, this is what the people under Communist regimes go through.
Slavery never ended. People are continuously being enslaved in Communist countries like North Korea and China.
North Korean Lives Matter!
#NorthKoreanLivesMatter
Please share this hashtag and help me to raise awareness about the horrors ofthe Chinese Communist Party and save Zhu Xianjian from inhumane repatriation to North Korea.
It is time to stand up for the people who are actually suffering from real tyranny and oppression.
As free people, it is our duty to speak for the voiceless so when the time comes and when we are not free, they will do the same for us...

Yeonmi Park

Edited December 4, 2021 by Randy W (see edit history)

[Randy W]

 . . . she becomes a citizen

[Randy W]

I still cannot believe I own myself and I am the master of my own destiny here in freedom.
I never even knew the word individual liberty when I was living in North Korea. 
Nothing is more valuable than individual liberty in this world. Without it, being a human means nothing. 
This marvelous human experience is only possible when there is a system that protects human rights and dignifies be a human.

We must protect and fight for individual liberty at all costs if we wish to continue to innovate and evolve as a human specie. 

Ps, Please get your signed copies of my book here for holiday gifts 🎁 

https://www.paypal.com/instantcommerce/checkout/QF7E9JPUKF8E2

from Yeonmi Park on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxIMp1mpZHsfoxiMuG28v8G8Uq7xwS85Kb

(and maybe a little bit of plastic surgery)

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South Korea military suspects man who crossed border to be former North Korean gymnast-defector
South Korea’s military suspects that the man who crossed the border from South Korea into North Korea on January 1 is the same man who jumped the fence into South Korea from the North in 2020.

from the SCMP on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/scmp/videos/412960660518013/

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Watch the blockbuster movie-style montage shown on North Korean state TV as it announced the launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile 

from Al Jazeera English on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/videos/371325321349872