Comments on: Firefight near Sino-DPRK border, 1 PLA soldier killed

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:54:33 +0000

Oops, double post

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:02:39 +0000

I love this guy “Michael” claiming that “Michael” is dogging him “on another threads” as you so eloquently put it in Konglish. At least what you write is innocuous–my first cyberstalker….

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:32:01 +0000

Yes, I have encountered this “Michael” on another threads. While it may be a common name, I am positive he is doing his best to make me look like an idiot.

By: Reverend Lovejoy

Reverend Lovejoy — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:15:38 +0000

Mr. Marmot,

I’m sure that’s got to be some rule against posting using someone else’s handle, hmm?

By: kushibo

kushibo — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:56:49 +0000

Kushibo, you are full of shit. China has no obligation to help you damn Korean, because even you people in the South don’t care about your ‘northern brothers’. The more I get to know about Koreans, I more I despise them. China is a sovereign country and the border means something to us. We have every right to send back the damn dirty, smelly koreans who entered China, whether they are from the North or the South. To be, they are jsut stupid arrogant korean whose only strong points are whining, burning flags, oh, and cutting his own fingers.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:42:23 +0000

This episode might only be a speedbump on the way to China absorbing N.K.:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/GL17Dg01.html

If it is a sign of real internal instability, look for China to play a big role in determining Kim jongil’s successor. Dr. Lankov’s hedging his bets: “So, it is more likely that the Chinese will avoid political adventurism and limit themselves to gaining economic advantages in the northern part of the Korean peninsula.” Yet his whole article lays out some good arguments for China to set up “a sort of friendly dependent government,” as he put it.

By: kushibo

kushibo — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:52:33 +0000

That’s a good question, Jing.

Would you care to enlighten us on the difference between PLA and PAP, especially in terms of patrolling a border region like that?

By: Jing

Jing — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 11:07:39 +0000

Was the soldier killed PLA or PAP? A lot of newspapers fail to make that observation and essentially call anyone in a green uniform a soldier.

By: hardyandtiny

hardyandtiny — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:13:20 +0000

Ooof! Korea and North Korea. Ooof! Over and over…never ends.

By: kushibo

kushibo — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:06:26 +0000

Sonagi wrote:
Kushibo, as always, you dissect a post line by line.

I was a biology major: dissection is what we’re good at.

I withraw my general agreement with Frieda. You’re no terrorist!

Thank you. And, might I add, what irony it is that I practically had to beat you up to get you to say that I’m not a terrorist.
However, I still feel you were out of line for thanking the Nork thugs.

The “thanking” was obvious irony, I thought.

Incidents like this will prompt the PLA to tighten the border, making it even harder for North Koreans to escape. As I recall, the border crackdown of a few years ago was prompted by cross border crimes committed by soldiers and civilians.

That is an unfortunate thing. Very unfortunate. At the Seoul Summit on NK Human Rights, experts were telling us that, thanks to crackdowns, the time that a refugee has to find a safe haven has shrunk from an average of forty-eight hours to twenty-four hours after entering China.

But it is my hope that Beijing, because of continuing incidents involving Pyongyang’s problems spilling over into China, will eventually realize that it is going to have to seriously step up the pressure on North Korea to make changes.