By GI Korea on July 4th, 2011 at 4:22 am

Video Footage Shows Starving North Korean Soldiers & Children

• Lemmy
  5:59 am on July 4th, 2011 1

  Unfortunately this turns out to be another piece of inflammatory shoddy news. The title VIDEO FOOTAGE SHOWS STARVING NORTH KOREAN SOLDIERS & CHILDREN is not supported by the video. There is little difference between this and a cooking book titled “Dictionary.”

  We have all seen images of starving POWs from WWII in the Japanese prison camps, Nazi prison camps and concentration camps. Compared to those images these are nothing and certainly anything but images of starving people. Just the dirty face of children probably forced to work.

  Please bring back respectable journalism – or point out the footage of STARVING SOLDIERS & CHILDREN like this picture.

  http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/terrorism/north_koreans_eating_human_flesh.htm

• guitard
  6:28 am on July 4th, 2011 2

  It’s not even video footage – it’s a series of photos made into a video.

• setnaffa
  10:24 am on July 4th, 2011 3

  The on;y way to really help the Norks is to replace their government…

• setnaffa
  1:11 pm on July 4th, 2011 4

  In other news:

  Humberto Leal was an illegal alien who brutally raped and murdered a 16 year old girl. His bite marks were found on her body.

  ONLY A RABID MUSLIM MYSOGYNIST (i.e., like the Taliban who execute female rape victims for adultery) WOULD WANT TO KEEP THIS FIEND ALIVE.

  Tell the President to stop helping the people who rape and murder Americans, get off the golf course, and start doing his job…

• Teadrinker
  9:14 pm on July 4th, 2011 5

  One problem I have with the “video” is how it concludes that North Korean soldiers are starving because of the government official who was harassing the vendor for rice claimed it would be a donation to the armed forces. It’s obviously a shakedown, the spoils of which are destined for nobody but the government official. The vendor wouldn’t be protesting if it wasn’t.

• Leon LaPorte
  9:18 pm on July 4th, 2011 6

  #5 This is what happens when these naive “journalists” (like the Ling’s) travel to places like this. They take their bleeding heart but lack the experience or intellect to truly interpret what they are seeing.

  I prefer to be an optimist. More starving children today means less norK soldiers and supporters tomorrow.

• Jinro Dukkohbi
  10:02 pm on July 4th, 2011 7

  #5 So let’s have the EU send more food aid in:

  http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/07/04/north.korea.eu.aid/

  so the NK army will be fed, the KJI regime will be perpetuated and the NK government crooks will have more goods to scam people with…

• Teadrinker
  10:06 pm on July 4th, 2011 8

  #7,

  I’m not saying that North Korean soldiers aren’t starving (they should as far as I’m concerned), but the reporter did come to the wrong conclusion or manipulated the material to make the viewers come to the conclusion.

• Jinro Dukkohbi
  10:16 pm on July 4th, 2011 9

  #8 – sorry – didn’t necessarily want to make it sound like I thought you were advocating feeding the NK army; more like venting about the EU (and possibly the US) thinking that they can send aid into NK and have it actually reach the intended recipients. Besides the corruption and outright skimming-off for the NK army and KIJ’s family and buddies, the transportation network in NK is in a shambles so distribution would be a disaster as well. It matters not what kinds of promises the Norks make about monitoring and such – they have been getting around this for years and will continue to do so. There are very few things I get ‘worked-up’ about, but this issue is one of them…

• Glans
  3:36 pm on July 6th, 2011 10

  Leon LaPorte 6, please explain the erroneous interpretations of the Lings.

• Glans
  1:50 am on July 14th, 2011 11

  Coke and KFC in Pyongyang? rjkoehler links to a YTN story, which I of course can’t read, and ends his summary with a note of skepticism; at the marmot’s hole.

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