By Just when the Korean leftists couldn’t get anymore pathetic, they sink to even new lows:
“Pro-North Korean regime organizations also will disseminate leaflets. They ought to capture the reality of defector organizations that distribute leaflets and send them to the North. Like them, we will attach leaflets about defector organizations to hydrogen balloons and send them to the North.”
As the scattering of leaflets by defector organizations becomes a major issue, the possibility that pro-North Korea figures will send leaflets containing critical messages about defector organizations to the North has generated significant interest.
Kim Young Man (65), who led the Public Statement of Affairs for the Normalization of Inter-Korea Relations by “615 Persons in the South Gyeongsang Province” and is the permanent representative of the South Gyeongsang Province headquarters of the June 15 Joint Declaration Realization Committee in South Korea, maintained in an interview with “OhmyNews” on the 4th that, “The people who scatter leaflets in the North are those who are misusing the tragic division of Korea.”
He said, “Our organizations opposing them will produce leaflets that disclose their activities and send them also to the North.”
He also insisted, “People who have seen the leaflets that they have sent to the North will think that all South Koreans think this way. So we want to convey the reality that a majority of South Koreans want peaceful unification and that our people do not think that the leaflets that have been distributed by defectors organizations are ideal.”
He then said, “We cannot disclose the specific time we will send them at this time. Even if legal issues result and our reputation is damaged due to the contents, we will do this for the future of the 70 million of our nation.” [Daily NK]
Here is the paragraph that had my eyes rolling unlike any other:
Although North Korea civilians cannot speak their minds publicly, the thing that they most long for may be peaceful unification. How they would be delighted if leaflets with the very same wish from South Korean’s come to the North! Through these leaflets, even from pro-North regime organizations, North Koreans will feel a sort of solidarity with South Korea and have some faith that their South Korean brethren will rescue them from famine and rights violations.
So rescuing North Koreans from famine and human rights violations means sending pro-North Korean propaganda that only legitimizes the regime responsible for the said human rights violations and famine. This logic could only make sense to a Korean leftist. I guess on a positive note at least this guy is admitting human rights violations are going on unlike other prominent members of the Korean left.
Anyway the guy behind these statements is a man by the name of Kim Young-man. What I have been able to find out about this guy is that he first came to prominence with the Korean left when he was published in the Hankyoreh for admitting to committing war crimes in Vietnam. I have seen no evidence to support his claims, but just like American useful idiots that claim to commit war crimes, his supporters could apparently care less if the claims are true or not. Now he is working with the Korea Alliance for Progressive Movement to ensure the killings of civilians in North Korea continues. Once again the logic of these people is incredible and is why Kim Young-man is a useful idiot.
1:19 am on December 10th, 2008 1
There seems to be a group of people who think that if they just put reunification ahead of human rights, or their own ability to think independently, then order in the world will be restored. It could possibly be called nationalism, or some kind of overarching loyalty that exceeds human nature. OK, it’s fascism.
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12:57 pm on December 10th, 2008 2
They can disem all the leaflets they want, saying whatever they want. I reckon the average North Korean who finds one will quickly conclude that these are actually spread around by their own government, as counter-propaganda. One thing is sure: they would never suspect their own government of dropping dollar bills or RMB.
The North Koreans used to sprinkle some very interesting leaflets, gray or black propaganda. These were not written in the usual (“white”) style, and were printed on markedly different paper. The idea I suppose was that the South Korean who found these would surmise that these were spread by an underground South Korean dissident group. I found one in 1980 that contained the full text of Park Junghee assassin Kim Jae-kyu’s last will and testament (I believe it was known to be authentic).
The very best leaflet campaign I saw the South Koreans do back in the 80’s was one in which the leaflet came in two parts, dropped on different dates. The two leaflet series would feature scantily-clad smokin’ hotties, top or bottom half of a full-length picture. The big idea was, I think, to get people to collect and circulate them in order to assemble a full snap of the lovely. Kind of fiendish, because part of the object is to get people to willingly engage in conspiracy.
From a defector report, I think it was learned that NK ladies were given very little in the way of material with which to make sanitary napkins. A brilliant and crazy civilian, who shall remain nameless, had the idea to print millions of stay-free maxi pads with propaganda for ballooning over. I don’t know if that ever flew; the civilian in question kept insisting that Kim Ilsung’s portrait had to printed on the “action-side” of the rag.
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1:50 pm on December 10th, 2008 3
This “but they don’t let US spread leaflets” meme was printed in the Hanky a while ago. I don’t see why that would be true. It might confuse the Norks if they get some pro-NK propaganda mixed in with the other material, and it might be interesting for the SK public to read what these groups put in them.
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