China (and others) on North Korea

[chilton747]

Kim was pissed off at the response he got on the second summit so he made a little noise. No big deal.

[Allon]

The nature of the testing has changed since that last "summit." Production has sped up and testing has slowed to test higher trajectories. So NK can be assured of mutual mass destruction in the balance of terror between the US and NK. And we just do a fly by of our B1's, B2's and B-52's over the DMZ to deter the artillery sites. (That really pisses the little boy off.)

 

We are walking the tiger's back again.

[chilton747]

As long as he keeps dumping his missiles in the water that is ok by me.

[Allon]

With every dump in the water, they learn a little more.

[chilton747]

With every dump in the water, they learn a little more.

Poor citizens could of had that money's worth of food.

[Allon]

 

With every dump in the water, they learn a little more.

Poor citizens could of had that money's worth of food.

 

 

That has been true before NK started the nuclear path. It's unbelievable that a country can completely starve their citizens, force them into literal concentration camps, and feed them verbal garbage for so many years while being so focused on building a huge standing army and developing nuclear weapons.

 

I think we talked about that NK soldier who defected and took some rounds from his own soldiers while doing so. While trying to save his life, SK surgeons found multiple parasitic worms as long as 11 inches. Parasites were common even in SK for years until a 9 year old girl died from them. Doctors found over 1,000 worms in her system. SK launched a program to eradicate them and did so successfully. (Parasites are common in countries where human fertilizer is used in place of costly chemical fertilizers. We had a lot of them in Laos and Cambodia.)

 

The soldier who defected weighed 132 pounds and was 5'5''. The average SK soldier is 5'8'' and weighs 154 pounds. NK soldiers are given more of a food ration than the average population, so imagine what the average population looks like.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/world/asia/north-korean-defector-parasitic-worms.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/13/north-koreans-lap-reports-soldiers-daring-defection/

[chilton747]

How much you wanna bet that Kim is the most obese person in his country? Have you ever seen any coverage of NK that proves me wrong? What a sick bastard!!

[Allon]

Yeah. Imagine what that sweet wife has to go through, if she is even alive now. Some say she is dead at the hands of her husband.

[chilton747]

Yeah. Imagine what that sweet wife has to go through, if she is even alive now. Some say she is dead at the hands of her husband.

The sad fact is that she has no say so in anything unless she wants to get get in trouble.

[Randy W]

Those who make it. This video is interesting.

One thing it points out is that there are 30,000 defectors in South Korea - about 80% of whom are female.

We Went On A Blind Date With A North Korean Girl | ASIAN BOSS

51,253 views

•Published on Sep 13, 2019

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We had the chance to interview Kim Seo-yoon, the CEO of a marriage agency for North Korean women in Seoul. She set up a blind date for us, so watch until the end to see how it goes.

 

Special thanks to Kim Seo-yoon for sharing her insight.

UniKorea (Marriage Agency for North Korean Women)

Website ► http://www.유니코리아.kr/main/

 

Edited December 21, 2020 by Randy W (see edit history)

[Allon]

Sad story about a defector and her son. Died of starvation, police think. There are so many similar sad stories about South Korean women being sold to Chinese and N Korean farmers. The radio said a man nearby the two who died tried to help but the woman just did not understand how things worked in South Korea. He noticed the woman looked much older than her 40 years. She was sold when she was 15.

 

SEOUL:

The bodies of a North Korean defector and her young son have been found in their apartment, Seoul police said Tuesday, with local media reporting they appeared to have died of starvation.

The mother, only identified by the surname Han, and her six-year-old son were found on July 31, about two months after their deaths, authorities said.

"We did not see any signs of murder or suicide," an officer at Seoul's Gwanak Police Station told AFP.

"We are waiting to get the autopsy results from the National Forensic Service."

Defectors in South Korea are eligible for subsidies from the authorities, but some struggle to integrate into the South's very different society.

Han, believed to be in her 40s, withdrew the 3,858 won (US$3.16) she had in her bank account two months ago, according to the South's Dong-A Ilbo newspaper.

Her monthly rent and gas bills were more than a year overdue, it reported, and there was no food in her fridge when the bodies were found.

The newspaper said she had defected to the South via China and Thailand in 2009, later marrying a Korean-Chinese man and moving to China. After a divorce she returned to Seoul last year with her son, but had difficulty finding work.

Police declined to confirm Dong-A Ilbo's report.

South Korea is Asia's fourth-biggest economy, but family deaths due to poverty and social isolation have been frequently reported in recent years.

Government data showed last year that North Korean defectors were three times more likely to commit than South Koreans to commit suicide, due to trauma, isolation and financial hardships.

 

 

 

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/north-korean-defector-6-year-old-son-die-of-starvation-in-seoul-2084412

[Randy W]

from the WSJ - https://www.wsj.com/articles/north-korea-deepens-isolation-amid-virus-threat-11581332400?mod=e2tw

 

 

 

North Korea Deepens Isolation Amid Virus Threat Nation has blocked foreign tourists, cut trade with China and curbed diplomatic travel as the coronavirus spreads

 

 

 

But Pyongyang needs to wall itself off because its health-care system lacks the resources to diagnose and treat patients, experts say. The prospect of outside help is also impeded by United Nations sanctions and the question of whether the secretive Kim Jong Un regime would even accept foreign aid.

 

North Korea’s main state newspaper called thwarting the coronavirus a matter of “national survival.”

[Randy W]

from the Business Insider

Almost 200 North Korean soldiers have reportedly died from the coronavirus, while thousands more are in quarantine. The government won't acknowledge they even exist.

• North Korea's official stance on the coronavirus remained the same on Monday, according to a state-run newspaper: "The infectious disease did not flow into our country yet."
• South Korea's Daily NK news organization, however, reported that 200 soldiers are dead from the virus and another 4,000 people are in quarantine.
• North Korea's military is scrambling to control the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, the Daily NK reported, citing an anonymous source.

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The Daily NK attributed its information to a medical-corps report from within the North Korean military. Hospitals serving different parts of the army were asked to provide data about the number of soldiers in their care who died of high fevers triggered by pneumonia, tuberculosis, asthma, and colds, as well as those who were in quarantine.

 

 

Edited December 21, 2020 by Randy W (see edit history)

[Randy W]

. . . including rumors that he is "brain dead"

from the SCMP

Kim Jong-un may be in ‘grave danger’ after cardiovascular surgical procedure, reports say

• The health of North Korea’s leader is one of the state’s most closely guarded secrets, known by a handful of people in the inner circle of leadership
• Kim did not attend April 15 celebrations for the birthday of his grandfather and state founder Kim Il-sung, one of the biggest days on the North Korean calendar

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The Daily NK, a Seoul-based website that gathers information from informants inside the isolated nation, separately reported that Kim underwent a “cardiovascular surgical procedure” and was now mostly recovered. It was impossible to immediately verify the report, which the Daily NK said was based on one person inside North Korea.

 

from the WaPo

South Korea says there are no signs that North’s Kim Jong Un is in grave danger

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“We have nothing to confirm regarding recent media reports about the health problems of Chairman Kim Jong Un of North Korea, and no atypical movement inside North Korea has been detected,” Kang Min-seok, a spokesman for South Korean President Moon Jae-in, said in a statement.

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They also said reports about Kim’s health would be top-secret subjects inside North Korea and expressed surprise they could be leaked to U.S. officials.

Edited December 21, 2020 by Randy W (see edit history)

[Randy W]

video from the front lines - and the SCMP on Facebook

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=677330176436784&id=355665009819

Edited December 21, 2020 by Randy W (see edit history)