Comments on: PFC White’s Walk in the Dark: America’s Last Defector to North Korea

By: bb

bb — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:17:03 +0000

I was at GP Oulette the day PFC White took his walk on an unrelated mission. I witnessed his squad saluting the North Koreans. There is no evidence that NK was waiting for him as it took him 90+/- minutes to walk the 1500 meters. I talked with one of his squadmates who said he had White in his gunsights for 20+ minutes. The command exercised great restraint in not firing on him. This was probably due to the difficulty in obtaining a command decision at 2am. So, do nothing was the best course of action.

I don’t know why he walked. I can only state that Korea was a stressful environment for American GI’s. I can only speculate that the combination of live ammunition, culture shock, relative newness in country, nightly harrassing loudspeakers, the confinement of DMZ duty and a lack of personal friends contributed to his decision.

I call BS to the NK agent theory. As an E-3 and new guy in country, he had limited access to the ‘ville’ from Camp Howze. Even if he did befriend a few business girls, it was easy to confuse motives for their current professional status. Most disturbing though, are your six references to the word defection in one tape. “In South Korean newspapers you read all the time of North Koreans who defect south,” but then he noted ominously in a disembodied voice, “But it’s not all one-way traffic.” Hard to tell how far out of context these quotes came as it was common to discuss defections in passing conversations. And, I never heard of Bongilchon.

I recall seeing a propaganda leaflet with White, 3 Korean women and one of the Kim’s enjoying a leisurely ride in a vintage motorboat on North Korea’s recreational lake. And, I heard he died in a mine accident shortly after I left Korea.

By: Fantasy

Fantasy — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:34:40 +0000

Anyway, “big-dot-squiggle-asterisk or just ‘bomb’”, would you care to elaborate your comment so as to bring some sense into it ?

By: Fantasy

Fantasy — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:27:49 +0000

Aaah, sorry, now, it seems as if I had said that - I was merely quoting “big-dot-squiggle-asterisk or just ‘bomb’”.

By: Fantasy

Fantasy — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:25:56 +0000

“How come America is so segregated still? Whites hang out with whites, blacks with blacks, asians with asians… etc.” (Maru the Swede)

Oh, god.

It makes me think of ……….. eat my black bla bla. Oh, so sorry to who will google.

I did not really expect THAT kind of reaction…

By: steve

steve — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:31:58 +0000

How do you get your Gravatar to work?

By: ●~*

●~* — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:48:51 +0000

Omission occurred.

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“How come America is so segregated still? Whites hang out with whites, blacks with blacks, asians with asians… etc.

Oh, god.

It makes me think of ……….. eat my black bla bla. Oh, so sorry to who will google.

By: ●~*

●~* — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:36:16 +0000

Mr. Zonath,
I DIDN’T slander Jews. I have no reason to slander Jews, and I DIDN’T. It has still evidence for me. Read my comment again. I didn’t, and If someone did, it’s the writers.

I don’t remember, but a few above had been saying about Jews; I was a late-comer.

By: robert neff

robert neff — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:52:45 +0000

This is the reason I don’t normally post on Marmot’s. I have always admired Marmot - who I personally know - but I do not agree with the common hijacking of every link or article on his blog by people who wish to projec their own - often narrow and biased - views of the world…Stay to the general topic…if you wish to open up with your own racist and prejudiced comments…start another link…Marmot will surely grant it. It weakens the web/site when you diverse into your own flame-wars with each other which generally are nothing more than juvenile race-wars///grow up and contribute to the web instead of perpetuating immaturity…

As I used to wish a certain member of the net/… “Wishing you the best in your own little world”

By: Zonath

Zonath — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:43:05 +0000

I am trying to decipher what you want to tell us (or specifically to Zonath), but frankly, I do not get your message

Color me puzzled, as well. First ’she’ slanders Jews and cites a bunch of (thankfully) dead authors, and then ’she’s’ back saying that we should eradicate their works? I’m not even entirely certain what all this has to do with defectors to North Korea in the first place. It would be nice if ’she’ spelled my name correctly though, even though I can understand that the ‘Z’ key is a little difficult to find (and to be fair, I call ‘her’ Pepe because I can’t find the ‘●’ key on my keyboard.)

By: Fantasy

Fantasy — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:25:00 +0000

Big-dot-squiggle-asterisk or just ‘bomb’,

could you please try to be a little bit more specific as to the message of your comment above. I am trying to decipher what you want to tell us (or specifically to Zonath), but frankly, I do not get your message…

Absolutely no offence intended, merely an honest question asked.