Koreans for America
link (tip to Malkin)
A protest in South Korea of a memorial for General MacArthur was met by a larger protest defending him and his statue. The protest grew somewhat unruly and even a little violent, and the police had to hold back the participants. It makes a lot of sense that the South Koreans would be appreciative of MacArthur and the US for the successful UN police action in Korea; their cousins in North Korea currently live in one of the worst possible countries on Earth.
North Korea is littered with a series of ten or twelve concentration death camps where people are sent for everything from political dissent to religiosity to engaging in market activities (illegally, almost by definition). The people lucky enough to be outside the deadly prisons are simply in a larger prison that is their entire country. Famine and hunger have gotten bad enough that instances of cannibalism have been reported there for years. It's illegal to leave the country, which doesn't stop thousands from constantly trying to escape to China or occasionally to raft to Japan. Few make it out of the country, and many find that once they do escape to China the red police there try to stop them before they can reach a safe embassy.
In all, North Korea is not only the most unfree country in the world (worse than Saudi Arabia, Sudan or Saddam's Iraq) it is also one of the deadliest per capita: the DPRK communist government has, in the last ten years, starved one person in ten or more than two million out of a population of twenty-two million.
The South Koreans would be crazy if they weren't overjoyed at being saved from the fate of the North. It's interesting that the US is often accused of having a short-term memory, yet it seems that it's the anti-Americans in South Korea (and elsewhere) who have tragic memory loss.
UPDATE: I forgot that I wanted to mention the other countries that helped contribute to South Korean independence and to (still unattained) North Korean liberation. According to korean-war.com: Republic of Korea 590,911; Columbia 1,068; United States 302,483; Belgium 900; United Kingdom 14,198; South Africa 826; Canada 6,146; The Netherlands 819; Turkey 5,453; Luxembourg 44; Australia 2,282; Philippines 1,496; New Zealand 1,385; Thailand 1,204; Ethiopia 1,271; Greece 1,263; France 1,119
A protest in South Korea of a memorial for General MacArthur was met by a larger protest defending him and his statue. The protest grew somewhat unruly and even a little violent, and the police had to hold back the participants. It makes a lot of sense that the South Koreans would be appreciative of MacArthur and the US for the successful UN police action in Korea; their cousins in North Korea currently live in one of the worst possible countries on Earth.
North Korea is littered with a series of ten or twelve concentration death camps where people are sent for everything from political dissent to religiosity to engaging in market activities (illegally, almost by definition). The people lucky enough to be outside the deadly prisons are simply in a larger prison that is their entire country. Famine and hunger have gotten bad enough that instances of cannibalism have been reported there for years. It's illegal to leave the country, which doesn't stop thousands from constantly trying to escape to China or occasionally to raft to Japan. Few make it out of the country, and many find that once they do escape to China the red police there try to stop them before they can reach a safe embassy.
In all, North Korea is not only the most unfree country in the world (worse than Saudi Arabia, Sudan or Saddam's Iraq) it is also one of the deadliest per capita: the DPRK communist government has, in the last ten years, starved one person in ten or more than two million out of a population of twenty-two million.
The South Koreans would be crazy if they weren't overjoyed at being saved from the fate of the North. It's interesting that the US is often accused of having a short-term memory, yet it seems that it's the anti-Americans in South Korea (and elsewhere) who have tragic memory loss.
UPDATE: I forgot that I wanted to mention the other countries that helped contribute to South Korean independence and to (still unattained) North Korean liberation. According to korean-war.com: Republic of Korea 590,911; Columbia 1,068; United States 302,483; Belgium 900; United Kingdom 14,198; South Africa 826; Canada 6,146; The Netherlands 819; Turkey 5,453; Luxembourg 44; Australia 2,282; Philippines 1,496; New Zealand 1,385; Thailand 1,204; Ethiopia 1,271; Greece 1,263; France 1,119
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July 19, 2005 at 2:41am