Comments on: Were 22 Returned North Koreans Executed?

By: New York Philharmonic Comes and Goes, But All Remains the Same | The Marmot's Hole

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:22:10 +0000

[...] and Kim Jong-il couldn’t be bothered to attend. Apparently, he was busy shooting illegal fishermen or something like that. The Potemkin Village, however, was on display, as is always the case when [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:55:07 +0000

The story was buried on the morning news, and came on right after the handball update. The Chosun Ilbo has it now, in English: http://english.chosun.com/w21d.....80009.html
Strange they had to run a picture of people protesting China in the US, rather than something closer to home. Oh, and if you go to the Korea Times site you can see citizens mourning the death of Namdaemun.

By: The Value of Slogans and labels: Left Flank

The Value of Slogans and labels: Left Flank — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:46:09 +0000

[...] Koehler also reports on NIS’ official explanation for the executions. I’ll allow readers to discover the "humor" of it themselves. It’s a travesty of [...]

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:22:48 +0000

Whether they were executed or not, being sent to North Korea is a death sentence.

By: Railwaycharm

Railwaycharm — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:48:27 +0000

“anti-American Jolla Commies”
I know these people all too well. They are liars and crooks! There is a flag airline carrier in Korea that are from Jolla province. Their M.O. is stealing and cheating from their vendors. There was a time when the Yangban would not allow them on the sidewalks, for good reason. Rotten scum.

By: baduk

baduk — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:20:29 +0000

#2, ditto.

Those KCIA Commies should be executed. Rho brought in many pro-North and anti-American Jolla Commies into this most important agency in Korea.

There was an announcement in newspaper that 13 of the most senior officers in KCIA would be fired.

I think they should not only be fired but investigated and executed.

Maybe all thirteen of them if necessary.

By: joshua

joshua — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:35:00 +0000

Has the SK govt ever directly rejected NK refugees before?

I guess that depends on how you define “directly.”

To be fair, the U.S. government has a pretty mixed record of it own here.

By: dokdoforever

dokdoforever — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:32:51 +0000

Wow, if S Korea really turned back a group of attempted refugees, claiming that they were lost fishermen, that would be bad news, and as far as I know, unprecedented. Has the SK govt ever directly rejected NK refugees before?

By: joshua

joshua — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:27:08 +0000

If these people articulated a well founded fear of persecution — if you’re a North Korean, just being AWOL is enough — then sending them back violated Articles 2 and 3 of the ROK Constitution, the Convention on Refugees, and the Convention Against Torture.

The government’s story is absolutely implausible.

By: wjk

wjk — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:02:47 +0000

i thought either Okamoto or Rhee Syng Man wrote into HunBup, that much like how the ROChina imagines that Qing Dynasty Chinese land is all of ROChina,

North Koreans are all technically citizens of the Republic of Korea.

thus, unlike Josonjeok in China, North Koreans from North Korea gain automatic South Korean citizenship, if they make it over.

I may be in error.