Comments on: Leftists Brawl with Activists over Propaganda Leaflets

By: Tom Langley

Tom Langley — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:48:16 +0000

Korea Teacher #13, Lenin had a term for people like you. The term is "useful idiots". So keeping the people of NK ignorant about the truth in the world is a good idea? So sharing the truth of the world with the people of NK is increasing hostility? Are you saying that the NK regimes propaganda about SK & the US is not hostile, that it is full of love? Why don't you emigrate to the land of good & plenty? I hope you can find a lot of "all you can eat buffets" there. I feel sorry for your students.

By: Duffy

Duffy — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:13:21 +0000

Korean Teacher, Who are you to spout that folks should know what they are talking about when you don't know the folks ? You just don't like the words. Whether your a booked teacher or have read allot of Korean History your judgment passing here is very like the leftist movement of these days. Not the days you are referring to but these days. Folks in North Korea do not even know there are people out here that want to help them . How could they know that when they haven't a clue as to what human rights are. From what I have seen and heard that is what these leaflets are about. Basic human rights . They have to rise against their government from within before folks from outside can do much. Now the average North Korean Citizen falls on their face with fear at the mere picture of their leader. These folks need to know it will be worth fighting for and even dieing For. I don't say that with a light heart as do not wish to see any Koreans die for war or any other folks for that matter but sometimes the human condition needs a change. NK is stale as it is stalemated. They have been through enough turmoil but they must finish this last test to gain their complete country back and come back into their former glory that was say before the last Joesan period. I know that is a bit extreme as that takes us back what 360 years or there about. Before Neo Confucianism but they need to get North Korean people the basic human freedoms before they can really become whole again. How do you do that. I don't know but I have no problem with anyone telling them the truth with leaflets. When you say that will only cause more separation. Don't you have the same ear as a North Korean leader as it their leaders that truly do not want the leaflets, and the leaflets are not telling them they suck. They are telling the people the government that holds them down is wrong and that they do have rights as humans. Anyway that is definitely the way I took it. The only ones that would find this counter productive are those who suck. Lets face it they have had their time at sucking it is well time some folks ( North Korean Citizens) were able to stand and grow. There family in the South is doing alright.

By: Hamilton

Hamilton — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:50:22 +0000

NK insurgents wish they had the injustice of the South. None of them are alive, all murdered and tortured to death with their families. KT, you are swine.

By: Korea Teacher

Korea Teacher — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:23:07 +0000

It is wrong for you to call people who suffered in ways that you can only imagine for the cause of democracy "insurgents." For many years, the left was victimized by the dictatorship while one of the big stars in the Grand National Party is the daughter of Bak Chung Hee (the assassinated dictator who was a Japanese officer during World War 2). The point is that many Koreans want peace and unification since unification under a democratic constitution would end the suffering of the Northern people while making the South stronger and more self-sufficient. Many people also realize that it is counter-productive to send balloons saying "You suck!" over the DMZ since this will only increase hostility and make unification harder to achieve. You should read more before you judge people in the South who suffered for the great cause of democracy.

By: Duffy

Duffy — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:20:49 +0000

SHITE looks likes the leftists in Korea are on the same page as the leftist here is The U.S.. Don't Get me wrong I love Dr. Suess but hey its cartoons and children's books. One sobering way for them to learn would be to allow them to trade places with some of the homeys up North. Lock, Stock and Barrel of Kimchi.

By: MikeInSeoul

MikeInSeoul — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:14:43 +0000

From the WaPo article:

> Park kicked one of the counter-protesters squarely in the head … sounded like a bat whacking a hardball.

> He spat on several others who were trying to rip apart bags of leaflets.

> He pulled a tear-gas revolver from his jacket …

This guy has what Colbert would call "muchos huevos grandes" – some kind titanium balls dipped in gold.
http://www.nofactzone.net/2008/02/15/stephen-colb…

I wish there was a way to support him without getting the VISA revoked.

By: North Korean Activists Restart Balloon Leaflet Drops

North Korean Activists Restart Balloon Leaflet Drops — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:23:48 +0000

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By: Connecting the Dots of the Leftist Protesters

Connecting the Dots of the Leftist Protesters — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:57:57 +0000

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By: King Baeksu

King Baeksu — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:36:47 +0000

"I love how the insurgents in South Korea support the right to protest in Seoul, but not in Pyongyang."

The sacred blood of the Minjok trumps all else.

By: Activists Continue to Send Leaflets to North Korea

Activists Continue to Send Leaflets to North Korea — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:28:22 +0000

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