Note to journalists: If you’re reporting from North Korea, and you’d like to continue your work without having to flee from the country under threat of arrest, do not call any of those “missing” South Koreans in the North “abductees.”
The North also delayed for 10 hours the departure of 100 elderly South Koreans who were visiting separated family members at the Hyundai resort in the North’s Kumgang Mountains.
The South Korean press corps covering the event has decided to go home early in protest.
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Newfound respect for S. Korean journalists–they had the balls to stick up for one of their own. What will the nork asslicker Chung Dong-young say to excuse the norks for this one?
Reading about this I continue to wonder what exactly the South has gained from all the appeasement and billions in transfers of money and goods to the North? A few meetings between several hundred very old people and even that doesn’t always go smoothly, as we see here. A decrease in human rights violations? Yeah, right, from absolutely ghoulish to merely hideous.
Why not just ignore the North completely and go about doing business with China, Japan, the US (while shoring up the military)? Leave the ball in the North’s court. If they want help, they have to come to the South, not the other way around. And if they pull their usual temper tantrums and other stunts, just hang up the phone and continue to ignore them.
This is another typical tantrum the underscores that North Korea is fundamentally incapable of change. There is no peace process here worthy of the name.
Once in a while, average people including reporters have to send a message to KJI that they are not as dumb as the present administration.
People will take back the government from these pro-north “Sunburnt” politicians pretty soon.
So NK wants to stop people using the word ‘납치’? How about ‘강제 연행’ then? I like the sound of that more anyway.