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| N. Korean Protesters Demand Food and Electricity | |
| 2011-02-23 | |
Small pockets of unrest are appearing in North Korea as the repressive regime staggers under international sanctions and the fallout from a botched currency reform, sources say. On Feb. 14, two days before leader Kim Jong-il's birthday, scores of people in Jongju, Yongchon and Sonchon in North Pyongan Province caused a commotion, shouting, "Give us fire [electricity] and rice! "
The State Security Department investigated this incident but failed to identify the people who started the commotion when they met with a wall of silence. "When such an incident took place in the past, people used to report their neighbors to the security forces, but now they're covering for each other," the source said. The commotion started because the North Korean regime had diverted sparse electricity from the Jongju and Yongchon area to Pyongyang to light up the night there to mark Kim's birthday on Feb. 16. "Discontent erupted because the regime cut off electricity that had been supplied to them only a few hours a day, and they had hard time putting food on the table due to soaring rice prices." A North Korean defector said the Jongju and Yongchon area "has long been a headache to the regime due to the spirit of defiance of the people there." In April 2004, a massive explosion occurred at Yongchon Station right after a train carrying Kim Jong-il passed. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > [Russia = South Kuriles]A REVENGE TO CHINA, JAPAN INVITES AUSTRALIA TO HELP DEVELOP THE DAOYUS [Japan = Senkakus]. * SAME > RUSSIA'S MILITARY BUILDUP IN PACIFIC [South Kuriles = NE Asia/NORPAC] MAY NOT BE AIMED AT JAPAN [covertly agz the US]??? ARTIC = Russia's strengthening of its defenses in the Kuriles may be meant to DETER THE US FROM MIL "LEAP-FROGGING" INTO THE KURILES IN CASE OF REGIONAL WAR TO DENY RUSS UTILITY OF THE SEA OF OKHOTSK AS A SAFE BASE, LAUNCH HAVEN FOR RUSS LR NUCLEAR = STRATEGIC MISSLE SUBMARINES. I DISAGREE - the above may be Russia's PCORRECT-DENIABLE COVER STORY BUT IMO RUSS REAL INTENT IS TO ISOLATE RISING CHINA + PLAN ACCESS VEE RUSSIAN FAR EAST + KEY ARCTIC ROUTES. * SAME > [James Webb]US SENATOR PRPEPARED TO WAIT FOR TOKYO TO SETTLE OKINAWA BASE ISSUE. WEBB = argues that US Marine forces still need to stay on Okinawa because GUAM IS NOT AN ADEQUATE LOCATION FOR ACCOMODATING ALL OF THE MARINES = TROOPS CURR BASED ON OKINAWA ISLAND. Also opined that "In terms of Planning, GUAM IS A VERY SMALL ISLAND + LOCATED CONSIDERABLY TO THE SOUTH". IOW, OLD MIL ADAGE [paraph] = KEEP YOUR MILFORS AS CLOSE TO THE AREAS/THEATERS OF ACTION OR NEAR-ACTION [Battle Front(s)]AS POSSIBLE. North Korea + Taiwan + Radical Islamist threat to China, Russia + East Asia. Aka GETTING THERE "FIRST-EST WID THE MOST-EST". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-02-23 23:10 |
| #2 ION PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > RUSSIA TO DEMAND PUNISHMENT [from Tokyo]FOR JAPANESE WHO DESECRATED FLAG. ARTIC = Russ Embassy in Tokyo claims to had received an EMPTY LETTER ENVELOPE WID A SINGLE BULLET WARNING,"THE NORTHERN TERRITORIES [Russia = South Kuriles] IS JAPANESE LAND". * REUTERS > [CHEN JIPING, Deputy SecGen of CPC Politics +Legal Affairs Cmte]CHINA OFFICIAL WARNS OF [increasing]DOMESTIC UNREST + "HOSTILE" WEST. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-02-23 01:33 |
| #1 Wel-l-l. CHINESE MIL FORUM POSTER = opined that IHO the HISTORY OF CHINA ITSELF + ITS VARIOUS RULING DYNASTIES IS ONE LONG OR LENGTHY STORY/EPIC OF REBELLION AFTER REBELLION. * ION YONHAP > [Defectors to ROK]NORTH KOREAN SOLDIERS TESTIFY ABOUT WORSENING FOOD + RIGHTS CONDITIONS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-02-23 00:37 |