Barbarity on the North Korean/Chinese Border

[DRJ4]

<p>This is what the North Korean military does to its people who try to escape:</p>

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@The Sunday Times

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<p>THE North Korean refugee had one request for her captors before the young Chinese soldiers led her back across the steel-girdered bridge on the Yalu River that divides two “socialist allies”. “She asked for a comb and some water because she said that if she was going to die she could not face going to heaven looking as dirty and dishevelled as this,” recounted a relative of one soldier who was there. What happened next is testimony to the rising disgust in Chinese military ranks as Beijing posts more troops to the border amid a crisis with North Korea over its regime’s plan to stage a nuclear test.</p>

<p>The soldiers, who later told family members of the incident, marched the woman, who was about 30, to the mid-point of the bridge. North Korean guards were waiting. They signed papers for receipt of the woman, who kept her dignity until that moment. Then, in front of the Chinese troops, one seized her and another speared her hand — the soft part between thumb and forefinger — with the point of a sharpened steel cable, which he twisted into a leash. “She screamed just like a pig when we kill it at home in the village,” the soldier later told his relative. “Then they dragged her away.”</p>

<p>Such stories are circulating widely among Chinese on the border, where wild rumours of an American attack on nuclear test sites have spread fears of a Chernobyl-type cloud of radiation and sparked indignation at the North Koreans. “I’ve heard it a hundred times over that when we send back a group they stab each one with steel cable, loop it under the collarbone and out again, and yoke them together like animals,” said an army veteran with relatives in service.

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<p>I’m glad the Chinese are growing disgusted with this. Perhaps that’s part of the reason why they agreed to work with Japan, their ancient enemy, to resolve the dangers posed by North Korea.</p>

[cheers]

<p>Young Chinese soldiers might be disgusted by that treatment, but older Chinese have seen that and much worse at the hands of their own totalitarian government.</p>

<p>My guess is that the Chinese have ulterior motives for working in with the Japanese.</p>

[DRJ4]

<p>Far worse, I agree, and I’m also sure there are many forces at play linking the Chinese and Japanese efforts. (I could have also offered a comment that when people claim America tortures its enemies, that’s nothing compared to what happens in North Korea.) </p>

<p>To be candid, however, I posted this because I thought it was terribly sad. I know there is suffering throughout the world but this article resonated with me - probably because of the way it described the prisoner’s requests and her dignity as she was handed off to certain torture and death.</p>

[golani89]

<p>ofcourse within hours there will be posts about how much worse it is to be in america</p>

[PhatAlbert]

<p>@golani89</p>

<p>You seem to think that the United States has some sort of immunity against becoming a fascist/authoritarian country.</p>

<p>We don’t, and the only thing that prevents it from happening is the political actions and wills of a citizenry that is increasingly apathetic and disillusioned.</p>

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<p>two of the biggest america-bashers right here:</p>

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