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2011-01-11 China-Japan-Koreas

Nork Border Guards Kill 5 Defectors -- on Chinese side of border

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Posted by Steve White 2011-01-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 ION DAILY TIMES.PK > COMMUNISTS VOW TO KEEP ONE-PARTY RULE IN VIETNAM.

* WMF > RISE/ADVENT OF THE "NORTHEAST ASIA" ERA: JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AGREE TO CREATE WORLD'S LARGEST FREE-TRADE ECONOMIC ZONE, US DOLLAR REJECTED AS FUTURE FREE-TRADE ZONE'S SOLE OR PRIMARY ANCHOR CURRENCY IN FAVOR OF YUAN, EURO, + OTHER NON-US MAJOR INTERNATIONAL CURRENCIES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-01-11 01:14|| 2011-01-11 01:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Medals all around.

Posted by gromky 2011-01-11 05:43|| 2011-01-11 05:43|| Front Page Top

#3 There was one report of Chinese border guards being horrified by the actions of NKor border guards. The Chinese had returned some NKor women, and the NKor guards immediately put large, sharpened hooks on chains through their collarbones, to lead them away.

I was reminded of the incident at the end of WWII, where US soldiers were ordered to repatriate Russian soldiers captured by the Germans to the Russian military. The Russians then took their POWs just out of eyesight, and murdered them with machine guns, on the paranoid assumption that they had been "turned".

Then they blithely asked for the next group of POWs. When the US guards refused, the Russians immediately sent a loud and threatening protest to Washington, D.C., who, unfamiliar with what had transpired, strongly ordered the US units to continue with the repatriation.

Our soldiers refused, to the man, and were threatened over it by the high command, until their commanders could finally explain what had happened. So despite the bitter protestations of the Stalinist government, tens of thousands of Russian soldiers were permitted to remain in the west.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-01-11 09:28|| 2011-01-11 09:28|| Front Page Top

#4 China has been more cooperative in some ways. For example, North Korean border guards are under more pressure to halt people from fleeing North Korea. If you shoot escapees, there are rewards (like more food). China does not want more North Korean refugees, who often resort to illegal or semi-legal activities to survive once they arrive. So in remote areas of the border (now easily crossed over frozen rivers), North Korean border guards are allowed to pursue escapees into China, kill them, and drag the bodies back to North Korea (and collect the food bonus). Hunting has been good this year.
http://strategypage.com/qnd/korea/articles/20110111.aspx?comments=Y

Posted by George Hupaviger4591 2011-01-11 12:45|| 2011-01-11 12:45|| Front Page Top

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