Comments on: Battle of Pyeongtaek has begun finished http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/05/04/battle-of-pyeongtaek-has-begun/ Korea... in Blog Format Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:05:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: OneFreeKorea » 2008 » February » 01 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/05/04/battle-of-pyeongtaek-has-begun/#comment-132546 OneFreeKorea » 2008 » February » 01 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:27:14 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2805#comment-132546 [...] Tae-Il, in May 2006: We will unite with the workers of the North to fight against the U.S.  [Robert Koehler, via [...] [...] Tae-Il, in May 2006: We will unite with the workers of the North to fight against the U.S.  [Robert Koehler, via [...]

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » KCTU Thugs May Have to Switch to PVC Pipe http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/05/04/battle-of-pyeongtaek-has-begun/#comment-61680 OneFreeKorea » KCTU Thugs May Have to Switch to PVC Pipe Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:40:17 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2805#comment-61680 [...] When I testified before the House International Relations Committee last September, one of the issues I raised was a report that the South Korean government was funding “civic groups” that habitually engaged in violence (see page 18), including the protests at Camp Humphreys last year.  More recently, some of the leaders of those protests, and other violent anti-American protests, have been exposed and indicted as North Korean agents.  This should not have surprised anyone.  The head of the group providing most of the muscle at Humphreys, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, was openly spouting North Korean propaganda. “During the May 1 North-South Workers’ Rally in Pyongyang, the workers of North and South agreed to unify to carry out the anti-American struggle… The center of that struggle with the United States is Daechu-ri, Pyeongtaek.” – Kim Tae-Il, “General Secretary” of the KTCU [...] [...] When I testified before the House International Relations Committee last September, one of the issues I raised was a report that the South Korean government was funding “civic groups” that habitually engaged in violence (see page 18), including the protests at Camp Humphreys last year.  More recently, some of the leaders of those protests, and other violent anti-American protests, have been exposed and indicted as North Korean agents.  This should not have surprised anyone.  The head of the group providing most of the muscle at Humphreys, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, was openly spouting North Korean propaganda. “During the May 1 North-South Workers’ Rally in Pyongyang, the workers of North and South agreed to unify to carry out the anti-American struggle… The center of that struggle with the United States is Daechu-ri, Pyeongtaek.” – Kim Tae-Il, “General Secretary” of the KTCU [...]

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » Cindy Sheehan, Kim Jong Il, and Me http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/05/04/battle-of-pyeongtaek-has-begun/#comment-57742 OneFreeKorea » Cindy Sheehan, Kim Jong Il, and Me Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:30:33 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2805#comment-57742 [...] Meet Lee Jung Hun.  Lee is a former member of the Central Committee of the Democratic Labor Party.  Until last month, Choi Ki Young, one of the party’s founders, was its Vice General Secretary and an “executive” in the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions.  Lee, Choi, and several others are now both under arrest for having been members of a well-placed North Korean spy ring, known as Il Shim Hue, for the last decade.  This inconvenient development so embarrassed the ruling party, also leftist and deeply fearful of offending Kim Jong Il, that President Roh Moo Hyun quickly replaced the head of the National Intelligence Service who exposed the ring, installing an old political crony instead.  Lee, Choi, and other members of the spy ring are suspected of traveling to a safe house in China, where they met with and received money and instructions from North Korean intelligence agents.  One of their assigned duties was to try to throw their party’s votes to the ruling party candidate and help Kim Jong Il pick the next mayor of Seoul.  That effort failed, but another was far more successful:  lending the Dear Leader’s guidance to an radical and often violent anti-American movement in South Korea.  And, as Kim Tae Il, the General Secretary of the KCTU delicately put it, “During the May 1 North-South Workers’ Rally in Pyongyang, the workers of North and South agreed to unify to carry out the anti-American struggle…. The center of that struggle with the United States is Daechu-ri, Pyeongtaek.”  [...] [...] Meet Lee Jung Hun.  Lee is a former member of the Central Committee of the Democratic Labor Party.  Until last month, Choi Ki Young, one of the party’s founders, was its Vice General Secretary and an “executive” in the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions.  Lee, Choi, and several others are now both under arrest for having been members of a well-placed North Korean spy ring, known as Il Shim Hue, for the last decade.  This inconvenient development so embarrassed the ruling party, also leftist and deeply fearful of offending Kim Jong Il, that President Roh Moo Hyun quickly replaced the head of the National Intelligence Service who exposed the ring, installing an old political crony instead.  Lee, Choi, and other members of the spy ring are suspected of traveling to a safe house in China, where they met with and received money and instructions from North Korean intelligence agents.  One of their assigned duties was to try to throw their party’s votes to the ruling party candidate and help Kim Jong Il pick the next mayor of Seoul.  That effort failed, but another was far more successful:  lending the Dear Leader’s guidance to an radical and often violent anti-American movement in South Korea.  And, as Kim Tae Il, the General Secretary of the KCTU delicately put it, “During the May 1 North-South Workers’ Rally in Pyongyang, the workers of North and South agreed to unify to carry out the anti-American struggle…. The center of that struggle with the United States is Daechu-ri, Pyeongtaek.”  [...]

]]> By: OneFreeKorea | Blog Archive » Suspected N. Korean Spies, Shielded by Ruling Party Parliamentarian, Played a Leading Role in Anti-U.S. Protests (The Death of an Allaince, Part 58) http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/05/04/battle-of-pyeongtaek-has-begun/#comment-53957 OneFreeKorea | Blog Archive » Suspected N. Korean Spies, Shielded by Ruling Party Parliamentarian, Played a Leading Role in Anti-U.S. Protests (The Death of an Allaince, Part 58) Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:41:28 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2805#comment-53957 [...] For further reading on the pro-North sympathies and affiliations of the other partners in the Committee, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and Hanchongryon, start at page 11 of my congressional testimony.  More on South Korea’s Fifth Column here. Here’s one of my favorite quotes, from KCTU President Kim Tae-Il: [...] [...] For further reading on the pro-North sympathies and affiliations of the other partners in the Committee, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and Hanchongryon, start at page 11 of my congressional testimony.  More on South Korea’s Fifth Column here. Here’s one of my favorite quotes, from KCTU President Kim Tae-Il: [...]

]]> By: OneFreeKorea | Blog Archive » S. Korean Spymaster Resigns; Fifth Column Scandal Widens http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/05/04/battle-of-pyeongtaek-has-begun/#comment-53953 OneFreeKorea | Blog Archive » S. Korean Spymaster Resigns; Fifth Column Scandal Widens Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:43:48 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2805#comment-53953 [...] There’s reason to suspect North Korean influence over other partners in the Committee, too — the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and Hanchongryon.  Start at page 11 of my congressional testimony.  Here’s one of my favorite quotes, from KCTU President Kim Tae-Il: [...] [...] There’s reason to suspect North Korean influence over other partners in the Committee, too — the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and Hanchongryon.  Start at page 11 of my congressional testimony.  Here’s one of my favorite quotes, from KCTU President Kim Tae-Il: [...]

]]> By: The Korea Liberator » Collaborators, You Say? http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/05/04/battle-of-pyeongtaek-has-begun/#comment-41743 The Korea Liberator » Collaborators, You Say? Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:36:02 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2805#comment-41743 [...] Kim Tae-Il, President of the KCTU, who said, “During the May 1 North-South Workers’ Rally in Pyongyang, the workers of North and South agreed to unify to carry out the anti-American struggle…. The center of that struggle with the United States is Daechu-ri, Pyeongtaek.” [...] [...] Kim Tae-Il, President of the KCTU, who said, “During the May 1 North-South Workers’ Rally in Pyongyang, the workers of North and South agreed to unify to carry out the anti-American struggle…. The center of that struggle with the United States is Daechu-ri, Pyeongtaek.” [...]

]]> By: railwaycharm http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/05/04/battle-of-pyeongtaek-has-begun/#comment-34970 railwaycharm Sat, 06 May 2006 17:53:24 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2805#comment-34970 If we pull out NK will not attack. They don't have the fuel to mobilize. They would blow over in the first stiff breeze! If we pull out NK will not attack. They don’t have the fuel to mobilize. They would blow over in the first stiff breeze!

]]> By: usinkorea http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/05/04/battle-of-pyeongtaek-has-begun/#comment-34967 usinkorea Sat, 06 May 2006 17:31:54 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2805#comment-34967 I agree. It helped, but I have a hard time guaging it because of outside factors -- 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. How much of the US military thinkers' apparent desire to find a way out of SK is based on that and how much influenced by the orgy of hate in 2002????? We can't know. I agree. It helped, but I have a hard time guaging it because of outside factors — 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. How much of the US military thinkers’ apparent desire to find a way out of SK is based on that and how much influenced by the orgy of hate in 2002?????

We can’t know.

]]> By: kimchipig http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/05/04/battle-of-pyeongtaek-has-begun/#comment-34962 kimchipig Sat, 06 May 2006 16:45:59 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2805#comment-34962 I agree but there is little doubt the Race Riots taught the Americans a useful lesson and actually got their plans in motion. I agree but there is little doubt the Race Riots taught the Americans a useful lesson and actually got their plans in motion.

]]> By: usinkorea http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/05/04/battle-of-pyeongtaek-has-begun/#comment-34958 usinkorea Sat, 06 May 2006 14:45:16 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2805#comment-34958 The current changes in USFK have little to do with 2002. The base plans go back to the early 1990s or earlier. 2002 and/or 9/11 have altered things only in perhaps giving the US side the mind to actually implement plans Korea doesn't like where before I was used to letting Korea delay them to death. The current changes in USFK have little to do with 2002. The base plans go back to the early 1990s or earlier.

2002 and/or 9/11 have altered things only in perhaps giving the US side the mind to actually implement plans Korea doesn’t like where before I was used to letting Korea delay them to death.

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