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| All Koreans called upon to vent their bitter grudge against GIs |
| 2003-05-20 |
| Looks like Rodung got into the White Slag again... The truth about GIs' massacre of prisoners in Jonju prison in South Korea in the past was recently clarified by documents and photos of the U.S. government, remains of slain civilians were unearthed from different parts of South Korea and witnesses testified to GIs' shuddering massacre of civilians before and after the last Korean war. Guess I missed this. Was it in all the papers? In this regard Rodong Sinmun today says in a signed commentary: All this proves that it was none other than the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces present in South Korea who killed a million civilians and the probe into the fact has been strongly demanded in South Korea. The history of their occupation of South Korea that has lasted for over half a century was a bloody one of terrorism, assassination and massacre. Rodung plays pick a number. 100,000? Too low. A billion? too high. A million? We'll go with that. GIs killed 25,000 civilians in cold blood when South Koreans rose up against the U.S. forces' occupation and the harsh fascist rule in October 1946. In April 1948 when Jeju islanders waged a popular uprising against the U.S. imperialists' moves for separate election and separate government in South Korea, GIs killed over 35,000 or over a quarter of the population of the island. They killed more than 38,800 people in Seoul in just three days from September 28, 1950. Anybody? They're not big on documentation to back it up. Which, of course, shocked me. I think the last one was retaking Seoul the first time during the war. I think our NK friends might've had just a little teeny bit to do with that situation. The United States is a ferocious strangler of the Korean nation and an empire of evil as it has kept South Korea under its military occupation for more than half a century and killed so many innocent people. The U.S., the sworn enemy of the Koreans, is rendering the situation on the Korean Peninsula extremely tense under the pretext of "nuclear issue", bringing dark clouds of a nuclear war to hang over the Korean nation, as if it were not enough with the mass killings of Koreans it has perpetrated so far. The Korean nation with high national dignity and self-respect will no longer allow itself to suffer from GIs. The departed souls of innocent Koreans killed by GIs in cold blood are calling for taking revenge upon them. Yeah, call up the dead ancestors... All Koreans are called upon to give vent to their pent-up grudge against the U.S. imperialist aggressors. Vent, South Korean people! Vent! |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #4 4.5 - clearly slipping here. No 'sea of fire', no 'madcap adventure'. Tut tut, we expect more in the peanut gallery... |
| Posted by: Tony 2003-05-20 19:37:24 |
| #3 Found it: 1948 Cheju-do Civil War But the main object of the conference was to bring world attention to one of the darkest yet least- known chapters of postwar Asian history--the horrific genocide of 30,000 innocent civilians on Cheju-do between 1948 and 1949. In the space of one year, fully ten percent of the island's total population of 300,000 was massacred -- literal Roman decimation. Privately the governor of Cheju told American intelligence at the time that 60,000 were killed. This mass murder, in the guise of an anti-Communist civil war, was undertaken by the South Korean army, the Cheju-do police, and the U.S. military, which directed the counterinsurgency operation, providing military advisers, naval and air support, and U.S. ground troops. Communist uprising at about the time of the first elections in South Korea. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2003-05-20 13:58:29 |
| #2 Ah the sweet sounds of leftist journalism. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2003-05-20 13:54:00 |
| #1 Jeju Island is a volcanic island located at the south sea of the Korean Peninsula. It lies south of Mokpo city by 141.6 km, southwest of Busan by 286.5 km, and south of Seoul by 286.5 km. The South Sea and the East China Sea surround the island, encompassing the Jeju Sea Area at the north and south respectively. Should you look at the map on Jeju Island upside down, you can see that it serves as an important advanced base for Korea. In other words, since Jeju Island is located at the heart of Korea, Japan, China, it has, from the past, played a quintessential role in geopolitics around these regions. Jeju Island lies in 126° 08' 43" ~ 126° 58' 20" of east longitude, 33° 11' 27" ~ 33° 33' 50" (excluding islets) north latitude. Located at the south of the island is Marado, the southern-most area of the Korean Peninsula, with Chagui Island at the west, Biyang Light at the east, and Siruyeo of Chuja Island at the north. According to statistics for the year 2000, the area of the Jeju Islands totals 1,845.92㎢, taking up a mere 1.85% of Korea, and also includes a 253 km-long coastal line, 8 inhabited islands, and 55 uninhabited ones. They apparently have female pearl divers. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2003-05-20 13:51:06 |