Comments on: Chongryon to go belly up? http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/06/19/chongryon-to-go-belly-up/ Korea... in Blog Format Sun, 7 Sep 2008 04:50:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Uri Onara http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/06/19/chongryon-to-go-belly-up/#comment-89605 Uri Onara Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:02:49 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/06/19/chongryon-to-go-belly-up/#comment-89605 The talk about their numbers dropping from 200,000 to 50,000 or so is misleading. These people haven't gone anywhere. More are naturalizing and some have even changed over to South Korean nationality, while increasing numbers are distancing themselves from the org as well as pulling kids out of schools. But they are not leaving Japan (as much as Hoju Saram apparantly wishes). You can take the person out of Chongryun, but can you take Chongryun out of the person? Yet the whole "fifth column" rhetoric is sooo Park Chung-hee... The talk about their numbers dropping from 200,000 to 50,000 or so is misleading. These people haven’t gone anywhere. More are naturalizing and some have even changed over to South Korean nationality, while increasing numbers are distancing themselves from the org as well as pulling kids out of schools. But they are not leaving Japan (as much as Hoju Saram apparantly wishes). You can take the person out of Chongryun, but can you take Chongryun out of the person? Yet the whole “fifth column” rhetoric is sooo Park Chung-hee…

]]> By: SomeguyinKorea http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/06/19/chongryon-to-go-belly-up/#comment-89500 SomeguyinKorea Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:05:26 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/06/19/chongryon-to-go-belly-up/#comment-89500 Why are they gloating? Do they hope that they'll catch a piece of the pie if and when Koreans in Japan turn to South Korea for help in creating a non-North-Korea-aligned replacement? Why are they gloating? Do they hope that they’ll catch a piece of the pie if and when Koreans in Japan turn to South Korea for help in creating a non-North-Korea-aligned replacement?

]]> By: hoju_saram http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/06/19/chongryon-to-go-belly-up/#comment-89374 hoju_saram Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:06:13 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/06/19/chongryon-to-go-belly-up/#comment-89374 Good riddance to them. Good riddance to them.

]]> By: Ut videam http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/06/19/chongryon-to-go-belly-up/#comment-89205 Ut videam Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:43:52 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/06/19/chongryon-to-go-belly-up/#comment-89205 You'd think Ye Olde Chosun would be a little grateful to Japan for putting the screws to these guys, but they can't resist getting their digs in:<blockquote>Central headquarters is located in Chiyoda District, right in the center of Tokyo near the Imperial Palace <em>and only 50 m from the militarist Yasukuni Shrine.</em> (emphasis added)</blockquote> You’d think Ye Olde Chosun would be a little grateful to Japan for putting the screws to these guys, but they can’t resist getting their digs in:
Central headquarters is located in Chiyoda District, right in the center of Tokyo near the Imperial Palace and only 50 m from the militarist Yasukuni Shrine. (emphasis added)

]]> By: Liberal Japan » Blog Archive » Chongryon issue, Ampontan and One Free Korea chime in! http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/06/19/chongryon-to-go-belly-up/#comment-89176 Liberal Japan » Blog Archive » Chongryon issue, Ampontan and One Free Korea chime in! Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:42:14 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/06/19/chongryon-to-go-belly-up/#comment-89176 [...] Chongryon to go belly up?, The Marmot’s Hole; There a brief post here with nothing but links, it’s worth [...] [...] Chongryon to go belly up?, The Marmot’s Hole; There a brief post here with nothing but links, it’s worth [...]

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