South Korea Prods North by Dropping Leaflets Telling of Mideast Protests

[StingRoy]

South Korea Prods North by Dropping Leaflets Telling of Mideast Protests

South Korea's military has dropped leaflets on North Korea that tell of pro-democracy revolts in the Middle East with the intention of provoking a movement against Kim Jong Il’s regime, a South Korean lawmaker said.

The leaflets detail popular uprisings that toppled Egypt’s government and sparked a bloody crackdown in Libya, explaining that “a dictatorial regime is destined to collapse,” Song Yong Sun, a member of the National Assembly’s defense committee, said in an e-mailed statement today. The leaflets travel in balloons that distribute their cargo when they burst, according to her office.

South Korea has sent over 3 million leaflets across the border in renewed “psychological warfare” since North Korea shelled one of its islands in November, killing four people, the statement said. North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency hasn’t reported on demonstrations in the Middle East.

The Chinese government this week blocked phone messages and websites to stamp out movements inspired by the Middle East revolts. China shares a border with North Korea and is the major economic benefactor and political ally.

A defense ministry official in Seoul declined to comment on Song’s statement, asking not to be named because of military policy.

“North Korean people’s protests may also be able to bring a change to the regime,” Song, a member of the Future Hope Party, said in the statement. “South Korea’s military and government should also be ready for any revolt inside North Korea.”

 

[StingRoy]

North Korea threatens South over leaflets

NORTH Korea says it will fire at South Korea if it continues allowing activists to launch propaganda leaflets toward the North.
The North's official Korean Central News Agency says the country's military conveyed the warning to South Korea's military today.
The warning comes one day before South Korea kicks off annual military drills with the US.
The North says the drills are a preparation to attack the North.

 

[Riaz Mohammed]

I really hope the south does attack.....and win. The north koreans have suffered enough.

 

[Riaz Mohammed]

And hopefully the chinese wouldnt interfere for the sake of humanity. But i guess thats asking a lot. If they do support though, they will lose all their fake credibility and any clout in the UN.

 

[below_freezing]

And hopefully the chinese wouldnt interfere for the sake of humanity. But i guess thats asking a lot. If they do support though, they will lose all their fake credibility and any clout in the UN.

We don't need the UN. North Korea has a higher GDP per capita than ALOT of countries.

 

[Aramsogo]

And hopefully the chinese wouldnt interfere for the sake of humanity. But i guess thats asking a lot. If they do support though, they will lose all their fake credibility and any clout in the UN.

What fake UN credibility? China has real Veto power, that's all the credibility it needs.

And North Korea is a nut case. It doesn't listen to any country, not even China.

 

[Veritas]

What fake UN credibility? China has real Veto power, that's all the credibility it needs.

And North Korea is a nut case. It doesn't listen to any country, not even China.

May be chinese should stop the shipments of fuel before coming to the conclusion. There is lot of blood spilt in North Korea, and Chinese administration is guilty of aiding and abetting such rulers in North Korea.

China's role in North Korea is simply put "Morally reprehensible".

 

[Riaz Mohammed]

And North Korea is a nut case. It doesn't listen to any country, not even China.

Well maybe, if ...."if" your government stop giving aid to banana republics like north korea, they "might" be inclined to "listen" to you.

 

[cross1993]

Well maybe, if ...."if" your government stop giving aid to banana republics like north korea, they "might" be inclined to "listen" to you.

If we stop the aid, the NK refugees who fled to China, how do we deal with them?
Hundreds of thousands of refugees, India is willing to receive it?

Do you know? There are more than 0.1 million NK refugees in Dandong China.
If we are to repatriate these refugees, Kim Jong-il will kill them.
SK govt is not willing to accept them all, it only accepts a small number of NK refugees who has value for the SK govt.

If can not solve the refugee problem, we can not stop food aid to NK.

 

[Riaz Mohammed]

If we stop the aid, the NK refugees who fled to China, how do we deal with them?
Hundreds of thousands of refugees, India is willing to receive it?

Are you suggesting the chinese military and political powers are not able to free the north koreans?! Hell, if you guys can go about making tall claims and pursue aggressive policies...i dont see the problem. Whats with the double standards?

 

[cross1993]

Are you suggesting the chinese military and political powers are not able to free the north koreans?! Hell, if you guys can go about making tall claims and pursue aggressive policies...i dont see the problem. Whats with the double standards?

Yes, China has no ability to control NK.

 

[HongWu]

Yes, good time for North Korea to finally take out South Korea. And China / Russia take out Japan. Then India and Vietnam are isolated. India is contained with Pakistan's help. Vietnam is contained with Laos / Cambodia's help.

 

[third eye]

Yes, good time for North Korea to finally take out South Korea. And China / Russia take out Japan. Then India and Vietnam are isolated. India is contained with Pakistan's help. Vietnam is contained with Laos / Cambodia's help.

Great.

In two lines posted above the entire world order changes.

 

[Nomenclature]

May be chinese should stop the shipments of fuel before coming to the conclusion. There is lot of blood spilt in North Korea, and Chinese administration is guilty of aiding and abetting such rulers in North Korea.

China's role in North Korea is simply put "Morally reprehensible".

I don't see anything morally reprehensible about providing some grain and fuel to a country that seems to always be on edge of mass starvation. What is morally reprehensible? The people who advocates a policy of starving a few million people to death in the hope that some of them may revolt against their government (hint: it didn't happen last time).

Oh and I love how some people always conveniently forget how South Koreans has been giving the North Korean government a steady stream of hard currencies via their industrial parks in the North. Maybe that's because when the U.S and South Korea give NK something, it's humanitarian assistance and when China does the same it's propping up an evil regime?

 

[cross1993]

Yes, good time for North Korea to finally take out South Korea. And China / Russia take out Japan. Then India and Vietnam are isolated. India is contained with Pakistan's help. Vietnam is contained with Laos / Cambodia's help.

Most Chinese people do not like NK. Kim Il Sung has betrayed China, swing to USSR, they killed the Yan'an faction!
Chinese will not join to the Second Korean War.
If the Second Korean War broke out, we will set up power grid at the border, prevent refugees.