Comments on: 15 Executed in the Border Town of Onseong, North Korea

By: OneFreeKorea » 2008 » March » 07

OneFreeKorea » 2008 » March » 07 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:28:45 +0000

[...] refugees, and shooting people who try to cross the border into China in search of food (see Sonagi’s post at TMH and the North Korea Monitor). That is a change. In the recent past, the regime had been [...]

By: Baek du boy

Baek du boy — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:43:19 +0000

My bad..I forgot the name of 남양…and thought it was Onseong when it said North Korea’s most Northernmost point of north Korea.. I get the city and 군 district names confused.

I thought it would quite strange to kill the people if it was at 남양, as it is very easy to see.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:11:00 +0000

Onseong is not across from Domun/Tumen. The city you were looking at is Namyang. I visited the border town of Tumen, also, in the winter. Better views, but freezing cold outside! I don’t imagine they were too much warmer in the buildings across the river, as I didn’t see smoke coming out of many smokestacks.

By: Baek du Boy

Baek du Boy — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:49:58 +0000

Thanks for the post Sonagi,

That’s a shame, and they were brazen enough to it out in the open.
I’ve walked half away across the bridge at Domun/Onseong. Also if you walk a up a small hill a little further up from the railway bridge you can see right into that town.
Kids playing in the school, guards patrolloing the Domun/Tumen river, pictures of Kim Il-sung at the train station, farmers working the fields.

I wonder if there were many witnesses on the Chinese side of the border? - not that would be able to do anything about it.