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- '노란봉투'캠페인/국제연대..
- no chr.!
5112개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
金剛山
Yesterday KCNA/조선통신 "reported" following:
Kim Jong Il's Field Guidance to Mt. Kumgang Resort
General Secretary Kim Jong Il provided field guidance to Mt. Kumgang resort on his way of inspection of the front. Mt. Kumgang covers a vast area of 530 square kilometers extending 60 km from south to north and 40 km from east to west including Kosong, Kumgang and Thongchon counties of Kangwon Province. It is known as a famous mountain of Korea and a world-famous mountain from old times as it presents a myriad of diverse, majestic and spectacular scenery.
It is called a mountain of superb scenic beauty as everything there presents fantastic scenery. It is superb not only in the beauty of its peaks and ravines but in the scenery of the sea and its shore, lakes, kaleidoscopic changes seen around the peaks due to winds and clouds, thick forests rich in rare animals and plants and falls presenting ever-changing scenery.
He climbed the Piro Peak, the main peak of the mountain, and commanded a bird's-eye view of the mountain presenting kaleidoscopic scenery.
He said that Mt. Kumgang, which had long been a resort for the exploiting class only, turned into a splendid recreation ground for the people in the era of the Workers' Party
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Our country has many scenic spots wherever its people go, the objects of foreigners' envy, as its mountains are beautiful and its water is clear, he said, adding that our people are highly proud of fully enjoying a worthy life in the beautiful socialist country with brilliant culture and long history.
Noting that one can display patriotism only when one knows well about the history, culture and scenic beauty of the country, he underscored the need to intensify the education through scenic spots.
He specified tasks to be undertaken to permanently preserve the superb scenery of Mt. Kumgang and ways to do so, underlining the need to spruce up the beauty spots in a peculiar manner and prevent the damage by natural phenomena.
He was accompanied by Korean People's Army Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.
*****
First of all KCNA and the people who are publishing this stuff in the internet must think that everyone who is reading it must be a complete ignorant pro-DPRK idiot or some one who have absolutely no idea about the reality on the Kor. Peninsula.
Secondly: Nearly the entire area of Geumgang-san is occupied by the S.K. capitalists. So, of course, no(ordinary) N.K. citizen is allowed to enter this area.
Thirdly: The N.K. people have complete other interests as to climb on mountains! They just want to get something to eat, warm clothes and heating material for the coming winter(aeh~ so they also have to climb mountains, but not for fun..).
And so on, and so on..
Anyway, thanks to KCNA and everybody who is republishing this f.. sh..!!
The Dear Leader in Geumgang-san..
*****
PS: When Kim Jong-il visited Geumgang-san Resort he had to pay entrance fee? S.K. Won? US$? Or what..?
For more about the Geumgang-san Resort please check out this:
North Korean wouldn't normally spring to mind as a choice holiday destination. But hundreds of thousands of tourists are flowing into the secretive realm of.. Kim Jong Il as part of vacations organized by the South Korean conglomerate Hyundai..
Please read more here(Der Spiegel, 06.03.13. - just for example):
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,406426,00.html
NEXT WEEK: JAPAN WILL DECLARE WAR TO THE D.P.R.K.(*)
S.K. Yonhap news agency reported today:
Japan considers financial sanctions against N. Korea
Japan has reportedly decided to impose financial sanctions against North Korea amid concerns that the communist state may be preparing to launch additional missiles or test a nuclear bomb.
Japanese news outlets reported that the country may take action as early as next week.
"Japan is considering releasing specifics of financial sanctions on North Korea in line with a U.N. Security Council resolution as early as Tuesday and has begun final consultations on the matter with the United States," Kyodo News reported, quoting unidentified sources.
The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a resolution on July 15 condemning North Korea's test-firing of seven ballistic missiles earlier that month and to prohibit any transfer to or from the communist state of material, technology and financial resources that are related to the North's weapons program.
North Korea immediately rejected the resolution, calling it a "gangster-like" act by Washington and its allies to isolate and stifle its communist regime. Japan and the United States have been calling for additional sanctions against the North amid Pyongyang's boycott of international negotiations over its nuclear weapons program.
The move, if taken, is expected to deal a severe blow to the North as its firms in Japan and pro-Pyongyang Koreans in the country have been one of the largest sources of hard currency for the communist state.
Japan's prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, told reporters Thursday that the plan has yet to become final, saying his country would "have to consult on the matter with the United States and South Korea."
But his Deputy Chief Secretary of Cabinet Jinen Nagase said the country was moving toward that end.
"At the moment, relevant government ministries and agencies are making preparations as to whom the sanctions will target and when the sanctions will be implemented," Nagase was quoted as saying Thursday.
News reports here said the envisioned sanctions were likely to target 12 North Korean or pro-Pyongyang businesses and organizations that have been outlined by the United States for having suspected links to the North's communist regime and one person suspected of similar links.
Tokyo banned a North Korean passenger ferry in July from its ports for six months as part of a nine-point resolution, imposing economic and diplomatic sanctions against the North.
The total amount of North Korea's exports to Japan dropped to 440 million yen (US$3.75 million) in July, a 44.2 percent decrease from that of June, Japan's Finance Ministry said late last month.
The amount also represented a 42.2 percent decrease from the same month in 2005, according to the ministry.
Japan is part of the multilateral negotiations aimed at persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions. But the talks, also attended by South Korea, China, Russia and the United States, have been stalled since November due to a North Korean boycott.
http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20060915/610000000020060915091104E8.html
DailyNK(no comment please!!) wrote this today:
“Japan, Imposing Financial Sanctions Against North Korea”
Mainichi “Freezing assets of enterprises suspected to be involved with WMD”
A Japanese newspaper, the Mainichi reported that on the 14th the Japanese government confirmed its policy to implement financial sanctions against North Korea this month and freeze assets of individuals or corporations speculated to be involved with weapons of mass destruction.
The newspaper reported that “The government will ban withdrawals and overseas remittances from accounts held in Japan by organizations and individuals suspected of being linked to North Korea’s development of weapons of mass destruction” and “may implement the sanctions before Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi resigns on September 26th.”
The newspaper relayed that “Top government officials deemed it indispensable to impose additional sanctions against the secluded state after North Korea refused to hold talks on its missile development plan and failed to express its readiness to return to the six-party talks even though two months have passed since the United Nations adopted the resolution.”
After the U.S urged members of the United Nations resolution to pass the North Korea financial sanctions, it appears that further cooperation will be advocated through the U.S.-Japan mutual support.
Although it is difficult to anticipate cooperation from China or Russia, it is expected that European countries, Canada, Australia and such will be provoked to cooperate.
The Japanese government plans to identify the individuals or organizations subject to the sanctions based on information from investigative authorities in various countries. Even if dozens of individuals and organizations receive sanctions though it would not have direct affect on North Korea, the Japanese government anticipates that these measures will portray a strong message of ‘pressure’ to each country.
After the missile launch on July 5th, the Japanese government implemented the nine-point sanctions prohibiting the North Korean vessel ‘The Mangyongbong’ and North Korean officials to enter Japan. In addition, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is deliberating drafting a law to further impose sanctions against financial institutions suspected of being involved in money-laundering.
http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk00100&num=1101
* Several times the D.P.R.K.(KCNA/Rodong Shinmun..) said that any sanctions against it will be seen as a "declaration of war"!!(^^)
1968, J. Joplin, Ball and Chain
Sittin’ down by my window,
Honey, lookin’ out at the rain.
Oh, Lord, Lord, sittin’ down by my window,
Baby, lookin’ out at the rain.
Somethin’ came along, grabbed a hold of me, honey,
And it felt just like a ball and chain.
Honey, that’s exactly what it felt like,
Honey, just dragging me down.
And I say, oh, whoa, whoa, now hon’, tell me why,
Why does every single little tiny thing I hold on to go wrong ?
Yeah it goes wrong, yeah.
And I say, oh, whoa, whoa, now babe, tell me why,
Does every thing, every thing.
Hey, here you gone today, I wanted to love you,
I just wanted to hold you, I said, for so long,
Yeah! Alright! Hey!
Love’s got a hold on me, baby,
Feels like a ball and chain.
Now, love’s just draggin’ me down, baby,
Feels like a ball and chain.
I hope there’s someone out there who could tell me
Why the man I love wanna leave me in so much pain.
Yeah, maybe, maybe you could help me, come on, help me!
And I say, oh, whoa, whoa, now hon’, tell me why,
Now tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me why, yeah.
And I say, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, when I ask you,
When I need to know why, c’mon tell me why, hey hey hey,
Here you’ve gone today,
I wanted to love you and hold you
Till the day I die.
I said whoa, whoa, whoa!!
And I say oh, whoa, whoa, no honey
It ain’t fair, daddy it ain’t fair what you do,
I see what you’re doin’ to me and you know it ain’t fair.
And I say oh, whoa whoa now baby
It ain’t fair, now, now, now, what you do
I said hon’ it ain’t fair what, hon’ it ain’t fair what you do.
Oh, here you gone today and all I ever wanted to do
Was to love you
Honey you can still hear me rock and roll the best,
Only it ain’t roll, no, no, no, no, no.
Sittin’ down by my window,
Lookin’ out at the rain.
Lord, Lord, Lord, sittin’ down by my window,
Lookin’ out at the rain, see the rain.
Somethin’ came along, grabbed a hold of me,
And it felt like a ball and chain.
Oh this can’t be in vain
And I’m gonna tell you one more time, yeah, yeah!
And I say oh, whoa whoa, now baby
This can’t be, no this can’t be in vain,
And I say no no no no no no no no, whoa,
And I say whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Now now now now now now now now now no no not in vain
Hey, hope there is someone that could tell me
Hon’, tell me why love is like
Just like a ball
Just like a ball
Baaaaaaalllll
Oh daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy
And a chain.
Yeah.
One of the last videos of J. Joplin you can watch here:
http://blog.naver.com/1dynasty?Redirect=Log&logNo=140027368291
(*)
1968
Sailing the seas depends on the helmsman,
Life and growth depend on the sun.
Rain and dew drops nourish the crops,
Making revolution depends on Mao Zedong Thought.
Fish can't leave the water,
Nor melons leave the vine.
The revolutionary masses can't do without the communist party.
Mao Zedong Thought is the sun that shines forever..
* The working class must exercise leadership in everything
..Paranoia and Provocation (Guardian, UK, 9.14)
North Korea's political paranoia spilled into the open this week when the isolated regime accused the Bush administration of plotting a nuclear strike. The state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper said a "sub-critical" underground nuclear test in Nevada last month was part of Washington's efforts to develop new, offensive atomic weapons. "The US is perfecting a nuclear war plan after listing our and other countries as targets for its pre-emptive nuclear attack," it said.
An US assault is not remotely on the cards, but North Korea's clamour reflects more than its leadership's persecution complex. In Seoul the claim was read as possible evidence that the North is preparing to justify an imminent nuclear weapons test of its own. South Korean officials have warned that Pyongyang could conduct a test, or repeat July's destabilising Sea of Japan missile launches, at any time. Not coincidentally, President Roh Moo-hyun was in Washingtonon Thursday arguing for a more "flexible" US line.
Concern about North Korea's intentions is ratcheting up again across the region. Pyongyang escaped binding sanctions proposed by Japan after the July launches when China diluted a condemnatory UN resolution. But it failed in its apparent aim of scaring the US into relaxing financial sanctions or offering improved, Iran-style incentives for good behaviour. Now analysts suggest it may be about to try again.
The US says it would view a North Korean nuclear test as "very provocative" while the reaction in Japan, the only country to experience atom bomb attacks, could be explosive. But with the six-party nuclear talks deadlocked for almost a year, and differences in approach evident between the US, South Korea, Japan and China, foolproof mechanisms for avoiding another dangerous confrontation appear lacking.
"The key has got be some kind of bilateral deal between North Korea and the US that everyone else can buy into," said Christopher Hughes, a regional expert based at the University of Warwick. "An agreement with the US is what the North Koreans have always wanted. The US is searching for a way to reach them while stopping Japan over-playing its hand."
But Machiavellian manoeuvring by Pyongyang, diplomatic divergences and distrust continue to bedevil such efforts. When Christopher Hill, the US chief negotiator, proposed a one-on-one meeting with his North Korean counterpart last week, he was reportedly rebuffed. Kim Jong-il, North Korea's leader, is meanwhile rumoured to be on the point of visiting China for consultations.
Japanese officials play down the prospect of a crisis while admitting that "favourable signs" from North Korea are lacking. "We do not have any evidence of activities suggesting that something is going to happen soon, either concerning missiles or a nuclear test," a senior diplomat said. "But it is very difficult to predict, especially when it comes to underground testing."
The likely appointment this month of a hard-hitting conservative, Shinzo Abe, to replace Junichiro Koizumi as Japan's prime minister would not change Tokyo's approach, the diplomat said. "We will maintain our current policy of dialogue and pressure. We want talks to resume. We also want full implementation of UN resolution 1695 (that requires countries to halt WMD or missile-related technology transfers to North Korea)."
Reports yesterday suggested Japan may impose financial sanctions later this month, which North Korea says would be tantamount to a declaration of war. Sources said the US could also adopt additional punitive measures if no progress is made.
Describing Mr Abe as a "neo-nationalist, more hawkish than Mr Koizumi", Dr Hughes predicted a tougher Japanese line on nuclear weapons and on the long-running dispute over Japanese abducted by North Korea. "Abe portrays himself as a leading statesman. He believes in reviving the Japanese nation. He wants to rewrite the constitution and the post-war settlement." Speaking yesterday, Mr Abe called for a more "assertive" international role for Japan.
But after fierce Sino-Japanese frictions during the Koizumi era, Mr Abe would also face considerable pressure, not least from Washington, to improve relations with China, Dr Hughes said. So partly to maintain his credibility with the nationalist right "he will probably still be tempted to bash North Korea quite hard". And that could be seen as provocation by the paranoiacs of Pyongyang.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,,1872341,00.html
PS:
Yesterday's DailyNK [well, I know, f.. reactionary.. But dont't forget: "If you want to fight your enemy you must study him/her"(Lenin)^^] wrote following stuff:
The U.S. Intensifies Sanction against NK through UN Resolution
'By deepening, rather than broadening, existing measures'
The United States is expected to tighten its North Korean policy by strengthening financial sanction and containment through the UN resolution 1695, within the boundary of six-party talks.
Such expectation is materialized as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill visits Northeast Asia, recently. Hill, during a press conference in Seoul, said that North Korea did not pursue fulfillment of the 9.19 communiqué, and added “every member state of the UN must follow the Security Council’s resolution and we will watch it.”
Hill is known as the leading advocate of negotiation with North Korea in the U.S. In his recent trip to East Asia, Hill might have met with Kim Kye Kwan, Vice Minister of NK Foreign Ministry. But Pyongyang did not respond to Hill’s call and the U.S. seemed to conclude that NK lacked will to follow the 9.19 communiqué, in which NK promised to give its nuclear program. The six-party talks have become a lame excuse of Pyongyang’s procrastination.
The U.S. Secretary of Treasury Henry Paulson’s plan to meet South Korea President Roh Moo Hyun, during Roh’s official visit to the U.S. this week, is also worthy of notice. Paulson is responsible to financial sanction against North Korea. The meeting’s main topic will not be anything but financial sanction.
However, it is not known yet whether Washington would ask for South Korea’s more vigorous participation in sanction, or Seoul will request appeasement policy to attract NK to return to the six-party talks. Nonetheless, since the gap between the two countries’ perspective, the summit will not have a more than symbolic meaning.
Therefore, it has become evermore probable that the U.S. would announce a wholesale sanction against NK after Hill’s East Asian tour and the U.S.-South Korean summit on Thursday. Given the perspective, the U.S. might hope to create another multi-lateral international structure to deal with security concerns of East Asia.
It might be problematic to press North Korea without participation of Seoul and Beijing. Moreover, U.S. is currently dealing with Iran’s nuclear program, too. So a joint solution that is applicable to nuclear development of both Iran and North Korea could be suggested.
Tom Casey, deputy spokesperson of the Department of State, announced on Tuesday that every necessary means will be exercised to terminate North Korea’s nuclear weapon or other WMD development program.
Professor Kim Tae Ho, a South Korean expert on NK, anticipated deepening rather than broadening of existing sanction policies against the North.
According to Professor Kim, it is possible to conduct intensive financial sanction world wide or inspection of North Korean ships on the sea through PSI, Proliferation Security Initiative. “South Korean government’s aid to North Korea,” Kim added, “would be in trouble as sanctions get intensified.”
An anonymous international politics professior commented that “there is no need for special measure to put pressure on North Korea right now, but if NK does not give up the nuclear program, coercion will get hardened.”
The professor supposed that Bush administration would not yield to North Korea’s persistence, since both countries’ fundamental interests are at stake.
http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk00100&num=1098
Wow, exactly 6 years ago(I already forgot it in the last years) I visited the first time the Korean Peninsula. At that time: Pyeongyang/DPRK, during the "Int'l Film Festival of Non-aligned and Other Developing Countries"^^!!
Harrharr, just now I found out that this night there will be a documentary about NK in the TV..
"P.Y. Robogirl"^^
Thirty years after the death of Mao Zedong, Sidney Rittenberg, the only American to join the Chinese Communist Party, remembers the man he knew and his legacy for China.
Arriving in China in 1945, Rittenberg became friends with Mao and other Chinese leaders.
Joining the communists when they were in their mountain stronghold of Yanan in northern China, he took part in the resumption of the civil war against the Nationalists of Chiang Kai-Shek.
In the years after the 1949 revolution he remained in China and was imprisoned twice, spending 16 years in solitary confinement.
Aljazeera.net: You knew Mao for many years. What was he like?
Sidney Rittenberg: Firstly, my overwhelming impression of him was he had a giant mind, a giant brain. The reason he was able to dominate his colleagues was his ability to dominate by sheer force of brainpower.
He was certainly a political genius. This has nothing to do with whether he was an evil genius or benign genius but simply the force of mind when you sat and talked with him.
Secondly, I would say I never found him a loveable person personally. There were people around him such as Zhou Enlai [future Chinese premier] who were extremely outgoing. With Mao, there was something always cold and aloof about him.
Saturday nights we would get together and play Chinese gin rummy. And while we would be at the table jostling, teasing and cuffing each other around, Mao would only sometimes take part. And nobody teased or cuffed him around. It was just different. You felt that he was not one of the boys.
AJ: What do you think drove him?
SR: I think it was his own ideology in Marxist clothing. Not that he was not a sincere Marxist. But his view of Marxism was to take dialectic materialism and use it to analyse Chinese reality and then develop a Chinese programme.
He had no interest in copying what was done in the Soviet Union or any other country.
In the days before the PRC [People's Republic of China] it was whether the Chinese revolution would depend on the peasants or urban industrial workers. And the orthodox Soviet line was that Marxism belonged to the proletariat. There was no Marxism in the mountains they used to say. The peasants are backward.
But Mao said when the Party educates the Chinese peasants they could be just as good revolutionaries as anyone else in the world. That was the bedrock of his thinking.
AJ: Mao has been revered across the world. Why, and does he deserve it?
SR: I don't think he deserves reverence.
I think he deserves acknowledgement as a serious historical leader at a certain period and he needs to be studied, both the good and the bad. And I keep saying this in China.
I was on Chinese Central Television last month and they cut that bit out.
In the years leading up to the revolution he made tremendous contributions to Chinese history, inspired his people, and led them to set up a new regime that cleared out corruption, epidemic diseases, banditry, the warlords, unified the country ... and for the first five years carried out tremendous social reform and improved the lives of a great majority of people.
AJ: And then?
SR: And then after 1955-56 the regime started going downhill.
His hubris started coming to the fore and he tried to do more class miracles and things went from bad to worse.
He did good things as a leader that nobody else could do and when he did horrible things he did horrors on a scale nobody else could do either.
AJ: Why?
SR: The main reason is Mao was a very skilled military strategist and tactician so he presided over the strategy from guerrilla warfare to the agrarian reform movement.
He defeated his enemies and he came to power. But he knew very little about administration, economics, or how to run the country.
And I think he was not content with seeing China plod along. He wanted to see China advance to a prominent position in the world during his lifetime and I think he became overly ambitious.
He said in 1958 at the beginning of the Great Leap Forward that he would use the strategy and tactics of a people's war and not use the Soviet way of brick upon brick to build the economy.
This was totally unrealistic and resulted in this huge man made famine.
I think it was what went on inside his head that was the problem. His plans during the Great Leap to catch up with Britain and America met with opposition from almost all his sober-minded colleagues. This awoke the conspirator and narrow envious peasant in him. And he began to conspire against his colleagues.
AJ: Can you give an example?
SR: The most vivid thing in my mind was when I first met him in Yanan in the mountains. Apart from a great mind he was the best listener I had seen.
I was an unknown young American who did not know which end was up, and he would listen to my answer as though what I was saying was the most important thing in the world to him.
But later on when I was translating his works in the early 1960s he was quite different. When you sat down and talked with him he did not pay much attention to other people's views. That was a fundamental change. It's the old adage about corruption and power.
AJ: You spent 16 years in jail. How did you feel when you were locked up on false charges of being a spy?
SR: I was in prison for two different episodes. First in 1949 Stalin accused me of being an American spy.
So I sat in solitary confinement for six years until Stalin died and all those trumped up spy ring cases were thrown out. Mao several times made public apologies and offered to make any kind of restitution that was possible.
And then during the Cultural Revolution I spent another 10 years in solitary.
The first time it was a terrible shock. I felt not angry but hurt. How could they so misunderstand me? How could they not see I was with them and worked hard and supported them?
The second time I knew why I was there. My wife and I had been supporting the young people who had been fighting for a kind of town-hall democracy in China.
And of course it was silly, an illusion, and could not have happened but we put everything we had into it. And they put me back in prison and I knew why.
AJ: How did you spend your time? Where you tortured?
SR: They never physically beat me. In the first four years during the Cultural Revolution when the elite guards ran the prison there was a lot of torturing going on and you could hear the screaming and the blows falling.
But nobody laid a finger on me. For me, there was only mental torture and harassment. The only thing that worried me was I had to keep my health.
When you are faced with a long term in solitary the real danger is you are going to collapse. That is the thing you have to fight against. So you can't afford to dwell on rage and self-pity.
You have to find ways of dealing positively with your daily life in that little room. So I would get up in the morning and first clean up the cell. Then I took exercises. I developed a kind of callisthenics that didn't take much room and I would also jog in circles.
The room was only 6.5 feet by 3 feet [2 metres by 1 metre]. After the first year, I had books and could write. I studied hard, like a medieval monk in a cell.
AJ: How did you feel when told Mao had died?
SR: It was a strange sensation. I had cried for days when Zhou Enlai died, because I felt I had lost a very dear personal friend, and just when the country needed him.
When Mao died, I felt that this was a much more important loss for the Chinese and, indeed, the world revolution – which at that time I still fervently believed in. A terrible loss!
That being the case – why was it that I couldn't shed a single tear? I couldn't understand it. My "emotional intelligence" was much smarter than my "rational intelligence" at that point.
AJ: As someone who has been engaged with China for so long, how do you view the current Sino-US relationship?
SR: If you are reading the congressional journals and what the politicians are fuming about it looks like they will disown China any day. But actually the relationship seems to be quite good and I think our relationship with China for the last four or five presidencies has continually moved forward.
It is not a smooth path, with lots of bumps and challenges and fissures and conflicts and so on. But generally speaking it moves forward and that's because our national interest in America, and the Chinese national interest, at least in this period of history, doesn't contain major conflicts that I can see.
I am not a fan of the Bush administration but on their China policy I think I would call it satisfactory. Much better than their relationship with Europe, Latin America or the Middle East. They have been more sensible with China.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EAF16069-05EF-4D42-B705-E15AD31BC161.htm
9.13 Police invade Daechuri and Doduri, demolish over 60 houses
22,000 riot police and 450 contracted construction workers and thugs invaded and occupied the villages of Daechuri and Doduri today at dawn. Police demolition equipment managed to wipe out 68 of the 90 houses that the Korean Ministry of Defense had threatened to destroy, but villagers successfully defended some houses.
The Ministry of Defense had promised to only destroy empty houses. But several squatted and renovated houses, as well as one long-term resident's house, were knocked down. A backhoe also destroyed a farming warehouse with expensive farming equipment inside, including a 100,000 USD tractor.
Children from Daechuri were unable to go to school today, because of the police lockdown of the the roads leading to town. In the village, police controls kept elderly residents from entering their homes and fields, and 10 residents received minor injuries at the hands of the police and their contractors. Some of the contractors also insulted (“bitch”, etc) elderly residents who were fighting to stop the demolitions or to reach their homes.
Many outside supporters were kept from entering the village by tight police checkpoints over the past several days, and 21 were arrested this morning trying to enter to defend the village. But despite their overwhelming numerical disadvantage and several arrests in Daechuri, villagers and supporters struggled all day to defend the village. The police's first target in Daechuri was the Human Rights house. Several human rights activists had tied themselves to the lookout tower on the roof of the building and threw out the ladder, and residents barricaded the building to keep the cops from coming up. But the police eventually managed to enter, and dragged out and arrested the activists before smashing up the house and all of the beautiful murals that it contained.
But around 40 other people who climbed onto the roofs of other buildings kept the police from destroying 13 houses in Daechuri. At one house right at the entrance to town, police stood off for hours with two people sitting on the pointed top of the house's sloping roof. The house was surrounded by villagers. After several failed attempts to force the two activists down, police promised to let them go free (and then destroy the house) if they came down on their own. But villagers already learned during previous attacks what a cop's promise is worth, so they stood their ground and insisted that the police leave. Eventually the police were forced to give up and leave the house standing and activists free.
Residents will probably now try to regroup after today's demolitions, and continue preparing their harvests and getting ready for any future attacks. Residents and supporters across Korea will also continue organizing for the national march in Seoul on September 24 (and supporters in other countries will continue preparing solidarity actions for the same day).. Hopefully there will be plenty of solidarity actions on September 24 in other countries too....
In the morning S.K. semi-official news agency Yonhap reported following:
S. Korea demolishes houses for U.S. base expansion
Hundreds of workers on Wednesday began demolition work at a site designated for expanded U.S. military facilities south of Seoul, police said.
Before the work started at 7 a.m., police officers made the rounds of 90 houses in four villages from which people were evicted to make sure that no one remained there. But 40 houses were excluded from the demolition work because the remaining occupants and protesters were still inside them.
About 15,000 riot police barricaded the roads leading to the villages to prevent civic and student activists from gaining access to the contested areas.
According to police, some 10 protesters chanted "Stop forced eviction! Negotiate U.S. base relocation again!" at the top of an empty house near Peace Park in Daechuri, one of the villages marked for U.S. base expansion.
Earlier this year, military engineers erected a 29-kilometer-long wire fence near Camp Humphreys, 70 kilometers south of Seoul, to halt farming and ensure eviction.
The Pyeongtaek City government designated 2.85 million pyeong (one pyeong equals 3.3 square meters) as a restricted area for military facility protection at the request of the Defense Ministry.
The land has been earmarked to enable Camp Humphreys to triple in size by 2008 and become the U.S. military's chief installation in South Korea.
The U.S. military plans to relocate its Yongsan Garrison in downtown Seoul and the 2nd Infantry Division near the border with North Korea to Pyeongtaek...
http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20060913/610000000020060913112542E5.html
The chronology of the latest developments since the early morning you can read here(in Korean):
경찰, 철거용역 대추리 입구 진입...마을파괴 임박
경찰과 철거 용역들의 투입이 임박한 가운데 대추리에는 현재 긴장이 고조되고 있다.
대추리 입구에는 수십대의 경찰버스와 관광버스에 나눠 탄 경찰병력과 철거용역들이 배치돼 있는 상태다.
평택지킴이, 청년 등 수십명은 2시 경부터 철거가 예상되는 건물 옥상에서 두 세 명씩 팀을 이뤄 경찰과 철거용역들의 투입에 대비하고 있다.
이들은 건물 옥상에 '강제철거 중단' 현수막을 내걸고 끝까지 '마을파괴'에 맞설 것이라고 밝히고 있다.
13일새벽3시 50분 현재 도두리에서 대추리 입구까지 20여대의 경찰버스와 관광버스가 줄지어 있으며 원정삼거리에는 경찰 4-50명이 탑승한 관광버스를 평택지킴이 2-30여명이 막고 있다.
경찰과 철거용역들은 대추리 1반쪽에 집중돼 있으며 4반쪽에는 아직 경찰과 철거용역들은 보이지 않고 있다.
<13일 새벽 4시 30분>
경찰 배치 거의 완료...대추리, 도두리 농성 준비 들어가
새벽 4시 30분 현재, 대추리ㆍ도두리 '마을파괴(빈집 강제철거)'를 위한 경찰병력과 용역의 집결이 분주하게 진행되며, 거의 완료단계에 이른 것으로 보여 긴장감이 더욱 고조되고 있다.
도두1리 방향의 마을입구에는 약 30여 대의 경찰버스가 집결, 일부는 도두리에 남고 일부는 대추리 방향으로 이동했다.
경찰버스 뒤에 따라붙어 도두리로 들어온 관광버스에는 사복경찰과 용역으로 보이는 사람들이 내려서, 마을회관 근처에서 철거 준비를 하고 있다. 이 소식을 들은 도두리 지킴이들은 마을회관 옥상에서 농성 준비를 하고 있다.
한편, 내리 방면에서 안성천 철조망 안으로 들어온 경찰버스들이, 농로를 따라 도두리와 대추리로 계속 진입하고 있는 중이다.
철거대상 빈집은 대추리 4반에 집중돼 있어, 대다수의 지킴이들은 여기에서 철거에 대비하여 바리케이트를 치고 있다. 이에따라 1반쪽에 있던 경찰버스들도 4반으로 이동하고 있다.
<13일 아침 6시>
대추리 비상사이렌...경찰, 철거용역들 진입
5시 57분 현재 비상사태를 알리는 사이렌이 울리기 시작했다.
내리 방면에 있던 경찰 병력이 차에서 내려 논길을 따라 대추리를 향해 들어오고 있다.
아메리칸 타운 공장 뒤쪽에는 포크레인 등 중장비와 경찰, 용역 들이 대기하고 있고 도두리 문무인상에서 대추리 4반 방향으로 경찰 수천여명이 열을 지어 들어오고 있다.
정부관계자에 따르면 현재 전투경찰 180여개 중대가 동원된 것으로 알려졌다.
경찰 간부들이 흩어져 대추리와 도두리의 빈집들을 확인하고 있으며 조만간 마을파괴 작업에 들어갈 것으로 보인다.
도두리 방면 철거용역들은 흰 철모를 쓰고 있으며 일부 용역은 경찰용 방패까지 지급된 것으로 보인다. 이들 철거 용역들 사이에는 피켓을 든 아주머니들의 모습도 눈에 띤다.
13일아침 5시 50분 현재 도두리에는 중장비가 진입해 있고 대추리, 도두리에 소방차와 구급차 30여대가 들어와 비상사태를 대비하고 있다.
지붕에 올라가 있는 지킴이들은 "사람이 살고 있어요. 강제철거 중단하라"는 구호가 적힌 플랜카드를 들고 '마을파괴 중단하라'며 소리치고 있으며 마을 주민들은 근심과 불안함이 가득한 얼굴로 도두리에서 대추리로 들어오는 입구로 모여들고 있다.
마을에는 계속 사이렌이 울리고 있다.
<13일 아침 7시 10분>
경찰 호위 받으며 철거용역들 '마을파괴' 시작
"우리 가슴에 진실을 안고 있는 한 우리는 당당합니다. 오늘 우리 한 없이 당당해 집시다."
그야말로 한 줌도 안되는 주민들과 지킴이들의 모습이 이처럼 당당해 보일 수 있을까.
경찰들이 아침을 먹고 있는 사이 평화 공원에 짧은 결의대회를 진행한 주민들과 지킴이들은 "오늘 하루 당당하게 보내자"며 서로를 다독였다.
문정현 신부는 "우리는 약하지만 누구보다 강하다"며 가슴에 진실을 담고 있는 한 이 싸움은 꼭 이긴다며 주먹을 치켜올렸고 주민들도 큰 함성과 박수로 한껏 결의를 다졌다.
평택 범대위 오두희 집행위원장은 "이날의 치욕과 분노를 똑똑히 보고 전국 방방 곡곡에 진실을 알려내자"고 당부했다.
긴 밤을 뜬 눈으로 지샌 주민들은 비상을 알리는 싸이렌이 울리자 차라리 마음이 편하다는 표정이다. 동이 트기 전부터 평화공원에 모였던 주민들은 마을을 뒤덮고 대기중인 경찰 병력을 보며 쌓아뒀던 분통을 터뜨렸다.
"여기 빈집이 어딨어? 나쁜놈들아" "왜 이 땅을 미국놈들한테 줘야하냐"
결의대회가 채 끝나기 전에 대추리 1반, 4반 방향으로 경찰들이 움직이기 시작해서 주민들이 황급히 나뉘어져 용역들과 경찰들의 움직임을 차단하기 위한 행동에 나서고 있다.
1반 입구로 들어오는 경찰과 철거용역들을 주민, 지킴이 등 100여명이 막아 보았으나 숫적으로 상대가 되지 못했다. 7시 10분 경 대추리 1반 옆 미군기지 담장 근처의 집들이 파괴되기 시작했다. 주민들은 철거용역들에게 막대기를 들고 항의해 보려 했으나 철거용역들은 엄청난 숫자의 경찰에게 호위 받고 있는 상황이다.
대추리 4반 입구에는 주민들이 바닥에 은박지를 깔고 연좌시위를 벌이고 있다.
한편 오전 7시를 기해 도두리에서도 마을파괴가 시작됐다. 6시 30분 경 도두리 1반과 2반 방향으로 포크레인을 앞세운 용역들이 진출 하는 것과 동시에 약 3천여명의 경찰 병력들은 도두리 마을 입구는 물론 골목골목을 봉쇄했다.
도두리 1반과 2반의 집들 지붕에서는 건물 잔해에서 나오는 먼지가 나오고 있으며 주민들은 넋을 잃고 바라보고 있다.
주민들은 "내 눈에서 눈물나면 너희들은 피눈물 난다", "우리 집에 털끝 만큼만 닿기만 해봐라" 등을 외치며 항의했지만 마을을 둘러싼 경찰에게는 들리지 않는 듯하다.
<13일 아침 7시 50분>
마을파괴 순식간에 진행...경찰, 평화전망대 진입시도 위험 상황 발생할 수도
경찰과 철거용역들의 마을파괴가 순식간에 이뤄지고 있다.
13일 아침 7시 10분 경 대추리와 도두리에서 일제히 시작된 마을파괴는 비교적 저항이 적은 도두리의 경우 상당히 빠르게 진행되고 있으며 대추리에서도 첫 번째 집이 불과 20분만에 완전히 파괴되었다.
대추리의 두번째 집을 철거하기 위해 경찰들이 집을 완전히 에워싸고 안에서 격렬하게 저항하는 할머니들을 다 끌어내 가옥파괴에 나섰다.
13일아침 7시 40분 현재 대추분교 앞 길은 경찰들이 장악하고 있으며 지킴이들과 주민들의 이동을 막고 있다.
한편 인권활동가 다섯명이 고공농성중인 평화전망대에도 경찰이 투입됐다. 1반과 4반으로 경찰과 철거 용역들이 진입해 주민들과 평택지킴이들의 시선이 분산되자 마자 벌어진 일이다.
경찰 500여명은 평화전망대가 있는 집 주변을 완전히 둘러싸고 진입을 시도하고 있다. 옥상으로 통하는 계단에는 의자와 가구 등 집기가 켭켭이 쌓여있어 경찰들의 진입이 쉽지 않은 상태다.
맨몸으로 진입이 어렵다고 판단한 경찰은 포크레인을 동원해 대문 입구를 부수면서 진입을 시도할 것으로 보인다.
인권지킴이 다섯명은 평화전망대에 사슬로 몸을 묶은 채 '강제철거 중단하라', '사람이 살고 있다' 등의 구호를 외치며 완강하게 저항하고 있다. 아울러 주민들도 전망대 집 주변으로 몰려와 격렬히 항의하고 있다.
비교적 철거대상 가옥이 많이 분포된 4반에는 경찰 간부들이 흩어져 집을 확인하고 있으며 조만간 가옥파괴에 나설 것으로 보인다.
<13일 아침 9시>
경찰, 인권활동가 연행 후 평화전망대 파괴
경찰들의 호위 아래 용역 50여명이 절단기와 소화기, 플라스틱 방패를 들고 평화전망대 진입을 시작했다. 중장비 한 대가 건물을 철거하기 위해 대문 밖에서 대기하고 있는 상황에서, 용역들이 2층으로 진입해 가구들을 마당으로 떨어뜨렸다.
이 과정에서 강제철거를 중단하라는 지킴이들의 절규와 유리창이 부서지는 소리가 뒤엉켜 처절한 상황이 연출됐다.
용역들과 경찰이 옥상에 진입했고, 용역들이 전망대 주변을 둘러싸자 사복경찰들이 망루에 올라가 지킴이들의 몸을 묶고 있는 밧줄을 풀어내고 연행을 시작했다.
지킴이 한 명당 4명이 경찰이 붙어 이들의 팔을 뒤고 꺽고 몸을 눌러 무력화시킨 뒤 폭력적으로 연행했다.
한 여성 지킴이는 사지가 들린 채 옥상계단으로 끌려내려오는 위험천만한 상황이 벌어지기도 했다.
지킴이들은 폭력적인 연행과정에서도 끝까지 '강제철거를 중단하라'는 구호를 외치면서 강제철거의 부당함을 호소했다.
이들이 연행되자마자 밖에서 대기하고 있던 중장비가 무자비하게 건물을 무너뜨리기 시작했고, 옆집에 살고 있는 방효태 할아버지는 이 광경을 망연자실하게 쳐다보기만 할 뿐이다.
무리하게 진행되는 철거하는 과정에서 전봇대가 아무렇게나 쓰러지거나 파편이 튀는 등 위험한 상황이 벌어지고 있다.
<13일 아침9시 50분>
경찰.용역 마구잡이 마을파괴..."전기 끊어놓으면 어쩌란 말이냐"
포크레인 3대가 동원돼 마을파괴가 진행되고 있는 대추리 4반 일대에는 이른 아침부터 주민들의 거센 불만의 목소리가 나오고 있다.
현재 4반 일대의 연립주택들이 모두 철거됐으며 나머지 집들도 경찰의 보호속에 용역에 의해 철거가 진행되고 있다. 평화공원 옆길에 위치한 건물들을 철거하기 위해 포크레인이 들이닥치자 시민들은 앞을 가로막고 몸으로 강제철거에 저항했다.
이에 경찰과 용역들은 포크레인 앞을 가로막은 주민들을 하나둘씩 끌어내 결국 평화공원 옆 건물들에 대한 강제철거를 시작했다. 주민들은 철거가 시작되자 "전기선을 끊으면 어떻게 하냐"면서 "다 끊어 놓으면 아래 사람은 어떻게 사냐"고 경찰을 향해 소리쳤다.
경찰 책임자는 그러나 "곧 조치를 취할 것"이라면서도 "모르겠다"는 말로 일관하며 자리를 급히 피했다. 이를 지켜보던 대추리 주민들은 "노무현이 뭔가 했다는 것을 보여주고 싶어서 이러는 것"이라며 "미군한테 땅을 줬다는 것을 보여주려고 한다"고 말했다.
정든 이웃집이 속수무책으로 헐려나가는 것을 본 주민들은 이성을 잃고 포크레인 앞으로 달려들었고 건물 잔해 위에 그대로 드러누워 버렸다.
대추리 이민강 할아버지는 포크레인으로 달려들었지만 이내 경찰들에게 두 팔을 붙들려 끌려나왔다.
"나는 이미 죽은 목숨이야. 나는 이제 뵈는 게 없어. 저것들 다 죽여버리고 싶어." 눈에 핏발을 세우며 달려들던 이 할아버지는 분을 삭히지 못했고 끝내 지킴이들의 부축을 받으며 물러났다.
생가(사람이 사는 집) 바로 옆에 있는 집이 철거되면서 생가의 농작물이 심하게 훼손되는 일도 계속 벌어지고 있다.
김영녀 할머니의 배추밭과 콩밭은 경찰과 용역들의 발에 짓이겨져 흉물스러운 모습을 드러냈다. 김 할머니는 "가만히 놔두면 잘 영글어 갈 것들을 저렇게 밟아놓았다"며 지팡이를 휘두르면서 경찰들 앞에 그대로 누워버렸다.
"왜 나가라고 해. 늙은이 나가면 거지 되는 데 가만 살게 냅두지 왜 자꾸 나가라고 하는 겨" 김 할머니는 주저 앉은 채로 발버둥을 치며 있는 힘을 다해 경찰들에 흙을 집어 던져 봤지만 분이 풀리기에는 너무나 미약한 몸짓이다.
주민들은 "이렇게 우리 마을 뭉개놓은 노무현은 언젠가 응분의 댓가를 받게 될 것"이라며 이를 갈고 있다.
대추리에는 현재 1반과 4반의 집중적으로 건물철거가 이루어지고 있다
<13일오후 12시 45분>
경찰, 사람 올라간 지붕 방패로 부숴...아찔한 상황
경찰이 사람이 올라가 있는 지붕을 방패로 부수며 위험한 마을파괴를 진행하고 있다.
13일오후12시 40분 경 대추리 1반 마을 초입에 위치한 가옥을 철거하기 위해 경찰이 진입했다. 평택경찰서 소속 황 모 형사의 집으로 알려진 이 집에는 현재 평택지킴이 두 명이 올라가 '강제철거 인권침해'라는 구호가 적힌 현수막을 들고 서있고 이들을 끌어내기 위해 경찰이 지붕에 올라간 상태다.
지킴이들은 경찰의 연행 시도에 끝내 저항할 것으로 보이며 취재진들까지 함께 올라가 위험한 상황이 연출되고 있다. 지붕위로 올라간 경찰이 방패로 지붕을 부숴 지붕 반이 없어졌으며 지붕은 상당히 얇아 자칫하면 무너질 수도 있어 보인다.
여기에 할머니 한 분이 반파된 지붕위로 올라가 기왓장을 던지며 경찰들에게 "이 땅 주민들은 다 죽고 미군들만 살면 되는 거냐. 나는 이판 사판이다. 너무 억울하다. 이장 내보내라. 이장이 뭘 잘못했냐. 멀쩡한 시민들 왜 가두느냐"고 소리치며 저항해 상당히 위험한 상황이 지속되고 있다.
그러나 경찰은 미란다 원칙을 고지했고 지킴이들을 연행할 태세다.
<13일오후 2시 30분>
평택지킴이-경찰,용역 대치 상황 지속
대추리 1반 입구에 위치한 가옥을 둘러싸고 두명의 평택 지킴이와 경찰 용역들간에 일어난 대치상황이 소강상태로 접어들었다.
가옥 지붕위에서 시위를 하던 두명의 평택 지킴이와 주민 할머니 한분을 끌어내리기 위해 경찰들이 지붕 일부를 방패로 부수기도 했으나 할머니의 격렬한 저항에 못이겨 지붕 밑으로 내려갔다.
할머니는 한 때 실신하기도 했으나 이내 정신을 되찾고 경찰과 철거용역들을 향해 항의하고 "노인양반들을 어디서 살라는 말이냐", "대추리 이장을 왜 가두냐, 제대로 못하는 정치인들이나 가두지"라고 외쳤다.
한편 2시현재 철거용역들은 원집결지로 철수한 상태며 경찰 병력도 일부 철수한 상태다. 그러나 소규모의 경찰병력이 대추리 1반 주위를 여전히 포위하고 있으며, 가옥 앞에는 20여 명의 주민들이 모여 연좌 항의하고 있다.
당분간 대치상태는 계속될 전망이다.
<13일오후 4시 10분>
경찰 대추리에서 병력 철수...평택지킴이들 옥상에서 내려와
13일오후 3시경 대추리 1반에 잠시 긴장이 조성됐다. 마을 곳곳에 약간명의 경찰 병력을 남긴 채 마을을 빠져나갔던 경찰병력과 용역, 포크레인 등이 대추리1반으로 다시 들어오기 시작했던 것.
경찰은 오후 4시 대추리 1반에서 병력을 철수시켜 상황은 종료됐다.
대추리 4반은 잔류하고 있던 일부 병력이 오후 3시 반 경 모두 철수하면서 지붕으로 지난 밤 지붕에 올라갔던 지킴이들이 내려오기 시작했다. 약 12시간 만에 땅을 밟는 것이다. 한 낮의 뜨거운 햇볕에 지칠대로 지쳐있던 모습이었지만 결국 자신들의 올라간 가옥을 지켰다는 사실에 기쁜 표정들이다.
한 지킴이는 "집을 무너뜨리는 모습을 볼 때는 내 마음도 무너지는 듯 아팠다"면서도 "그래도 내가 올라와 있던 이 집은 지킬 수 있어서 다행"이라고 소감을 밝혔다.
또 다른 지킴이는 ""포크레인이 툭 치면 와르르 무너지는 모습이 너무 가슴 아팠다"며 "한마디로 야만적이라고 밖에 할 수 없다"고 분개했다.
철거가 시작될 무렵부터 여태까지 지킴이들과 지붕에 올라 농성을 벌였던 문정현 신부도 건강한 모습이다. 문 신부는 농성 시 확성기로 경찰들을 호통하기도 하고 밑에 주민들이나 아는 얼굴이 있으면 손을 흔드는 등 여유있는 모습을 보이기도 했다.
"연행될 각오하고 올라가니까 마음이 참 편하더라"는 문 신부. 지난 5월 4일 대추초등학교 철거 때에 이어 두번째 고공농성었다.
"집 무너지는 모습을 본 심정은 대추초등학교 무너지는 걸 봤을 때와 똑같았다. 야만적인 행위이다. 그래도 내가 올라와있는 집만이라도 끝까지 사수해서 다행이다. 집을 부쉈다고 우리 마음도 부쉈다고 생각하는 건 큰 오산이다. 우리는 정당성을 가지고 끝까지 싸울 것이다."
한편 이날 새벽 6시부터 9시간 동안 약 2/3 가량의 철거가 진행된 것으로 파악되고 있다. 팽성 대책위는 국방부에 철거잔해 청소를 위한 장비를 놓고 갈 것을 요구하고 있으나 국방부는 이를 거절한 상태다. 이날 강제철거에 저항해 연행된 지킴이 수는 인권지킴이 4명을 포함해 모두 7명인 것으로 파악되고 있다.
사진: 민중의소리
Another detailed report, including many videos, about today's developments/attacks in/on Daechuri and Doduri you can read here(Voice of People):
국방부.경찰.철거용역, 결국 마을을 파괴했다 |
국방부 철거 잔해 청소 거부...대추리.도두리 폐허로.. |
Map of Daechuri. Red dots: houses expected to be destroyed(60 were
already destroyed today). Inside the red lines: residential quarters.
Following "story"(it was published 9.12 in the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth) needs actually no further comment.. it just might suspect a really "funny" future(^^)!
Al-Aqsa leader: Another 9/11 'on its way'
American-trained leader of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in West Bank declares 'beginning of collapse' of US 'empire'; says wishes every day was September 11
The September 11, 2001, terror attacks were the beginning of the collapse of the American empire, and it is only a question of time before the next "great big event" strikes the United States, a senior Palestinian terror leader who received American training warned during an interview with WorldNetDaily Tuesday.
"The Americans even now are doing everything to bring our hostility and hatred to higher levels and bring us to wait impatiently for the next great big event," said Abu Muhammad, a senior leader of the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in the northern West Bank city of Jenin. "They deserve one more coup of this kind (like 9/11), and I am sure it is only a question of time. September 11 was the beginning of the collapse of this empire of evil."
The al-Aqsa Brigades, the declared "military wing" of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' party, is responsible for scores of deadly shootings, hundreds of rocket attacks, and – together with the Islamic Jihad terror group – every suicide bombing inside Israel in the past two years.
Abu Muhammad also is a member of the Palestinian Authority's Preventative Security Services, which has received training and weapons from the United States and Europe. Abu Muhammad says like many members of the Preventative Security Services, he personally received training from the CIA.
Many al-Aqsa Brigades leaders also are members of Fatah's security services, including Abbas' Force 17 personal security detail. The US largely considers Fatah and its security branches to be "moderate."
‘Overwhelmed with joy’ over attacks
Abu Muhammad said he wished "every day was another 9/11."
America, he declared, deserved the Sept. 11 attacks: "Our 19 heroes got the revenge of all the Muslims in the world and all the poor and exploited people and nations," he said. "Americans must know that their loved ones were killed because of the policies of their state and government."
Abu Muhammad went on to claim the US supports the killing of Palestinians and Muslims throughout the world.
"But not only Muslims. See what the Americans made in Latin America and see their support to the apartheid regime in South Africa," stated Abu Muhammad.
The US-trained terror leader said he was "overwhelmed with joy" when he first heard the World Trade Center and Pentagon had been attacked.
"I do not think that I ever lived moments of joy, happiness and great feelings of pride and honor like I felt when I saw the divine planes hitting the twin buildings," he said. "It was one of those moments that Allah appears and tells the believers, 'See I do not forget to punish the non-believers. Those who keep killing the Muslims and stealing their lands and their oil.”
"September 11 was a great day and the first minutes after the people understood what happened, Palestinians went out into the streets and started distributing candies and started hugging one another," he said. "Everybody felt that Allah gave us a present and that history will never be the same because Islam finally got rid of all the handcuffs that restricted and prevented it to express itself and its capacities."
Another 9/11 on way
Abu Muhammad warned another 9/11 is "on its way," because, he claimed, America failed to draw the "proper conclusions" from the mega-attack.
"Instead of asking themselves the right questions about why did this happened, the Americans occupied Iraq and Afghanistan," he said. "They intensified their support of the Zionists and seem not to understand that they are bringing their end about with their own hand.
"In the Quran, it is written that the non-believers will destroy their homelands and their houses with their own hands."
Still Abu Muhammad conceded that since the 9/11 attacks, the position of Islamists has been damaged.
"There is no doubt that for the moment it seems the attacks harmed the situation of the Arab and the Islamic world," he said. "America is occupying Arabic and Islamic states because of the attacks that gave the Americans the excuses to deepen its control on the Arab and Islamic world and its oil.
"But on the other hand, the Americans are in a very grave situation in Iraq, in Afghanistan and their war against what they call terror. The democratization campaigns that they are leading are for the moment bringing opposite results. We are sure that Allah will help us defeat the Americans and collapse this empire.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3302896,00.html
Originally the report, based on a interview with "Abu Muhammad"(Al-Aqsa Brigades/Fateh), was published 9.11 in WorldNetDaily, a very, very reactionary(you also can say ultra right wing) US internet magazine.
KCNA(조선통신) wrote today following:
Emergency appeal released in s. Korea
The All-People Measure Committee for Checking the Expansion of the U.S. Military Base in Phyongthaek, south Korea reportedly made public an emergency appeal on Sept. 7 denouncing the moves of the "government" and the "defense ministry" to remove dwelling houses from the zone designated for the expansion of the U.S. military base in Phyongthaek. The "government" and the "defense ministry" are stepping up preparations for forcing the evacuation of houses, turning a deaf ear to the voices of various social strata demanding a stop to the evacuation scheme, the appeal said, and went on:
Nothing can justify the scheme of the "government" and the "defense ministry" to expand the U.S. war base in Phyongthaek by expelling its inhabitants who have engaged in farming all their life.
It is the way of defending human rights, lives and peace to frustrate their moves to destroy villages and remove houses.
Only unity of the people can curb the evacuation scheme, the appeal noted, calling upon the people to gather in Phyongthaek so as to defend Taechu-ri and Todu-ri with their united strength.
And of course there is..
..Unbreakable Faith of Korean People(*) in Socialism.. (KCNA wrote some lines later)!!
BTW.. please keep in mind: in s. Korea(not in ROK, not in South Korea..) there is just a "government"..^^
* Please remember that there is only ONE "Korean People"!!
If you have such friends, you don't need enemies anymore!! (Sorry!!^^)
The other September 11 (Asia Times, HK/China/9.12)
You don't need an Osama bin Laden to pull a September 11. Forget Boeings-turned-into-missiles crashing into twin towers. Switch for a moment to four military planes bombing a presidential palace - and replay a different September 11 movie starring Dick and Henry. "Dick", of course, is the late US president Richard Nixon. "Henry" was his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger. Foreign policy-wise, it's quite an enlightening plot.
Scene 1: Washington, the Oval Office, September 1970. Dr Salvador Allende, a man of culture, grand bourgeois and charismatic founder of the Socialist Party, has just won the presidential election in Chile fair and square, with 36.22% of the votes. Nixon and Kissinger receive Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Richard Helms. Nixon tells Helms, according to Kissinger, that he wants "a major effort to see what could be done to prevent Allende's accession to power. If there were one chance in 10 of getting rid of Allende, we should try it."
Scene 2: Santiago, La Moneda Palace, September 11 of the year 1973, 8am. Allende, the democratically elected president of Chile, is worried about a general called Augusto Pinochet. Radio stations are mute. The navy has taken over Valparaiso - where the president was born. But he worries about his new army commander, chosen less than three weeks ago: "Poor Pinochet, he must have been arrested ..."
General Pinochet is far from arrested: he is conducting a coup. Troops march over Santiago. At 8.30am a solemn military declaration makes treason official. Tanks roll into the city center. At noon, four Stuka planes destroy Allende's private residence on Tomas Moro Street and bomb La Moneda Palace. The president chooses resistance, fighting the troops surrounding the palace and spurning offers of a plane for himself and his family to leave the country. When his capture is imminent, Allende presses his chin against the AK-47 that Cuban leader Fidel Castro gave him, and fires. At 2pm, the military junta takes power. Systematic arrests, torture and executions start almost immediately.
Between these two scenes is the story of a coup that unfolded in slow motion for virtually three years. The United States was still embroiled in Vietnam. Nixon's policy for the whole of Latin America was one word short of "war on terror": "to prevent another Cuba". Nixon simply could not tolerate "that bastard Allende" (in his own words). Chile had the largest copper reserves in the world. Allende was about to nationalize Chilean copper - thus sabotaging the monstrous US corporate profits of Anaconda Copper Mining Co and Kennecott Copper Co, which had been bleeding the country for decades.
The Chilean-destabilization strategy, presided over in detail by Kissinger, developed into a series of operations called Track 1 and Track 2. The CIA tried to stage a coup even before Allende's inauguration on November 1970, giving US$50,000 to a crypto-Nazi gang to kill chief of staff General Rene Schneider on October 22, and bribing generals and admirals. It didn't work.
Allende wanted to develop "a peaceful Chilean way towards socialism". He was elected by workers, peasants and the marginalized, urban lower classes. Educated urban youth celebrated the "socialism of red wine and empanadas" (stuffed pastry). But Washington would prevent any turn to the left by devastating the Chilean economy, deploying mass bribery, spying and blackmail.
Allende in fact was a moderate compared with Chilean popular movements further to the left that occupied factories, lands or just property (1,278 occupations in 1971 alone). Then strikes started to spread (3,200 in 1972). Industrialists sabotaged production. No one could explain how Chilean credit was suddenly cut off in international markets. Loans were suspended.
The CIA, apart from non-stop sabotage, financed strategic strikes - doctors, bank clerks, a very long truck drivers' strike. Conservative newspapers conducted a non-stop vicious disinformation campaign. There were coup rehearsals. And political chaos compounded economic chaos: the Christian Democrats - the centrists - ended up joining the right and the extreme right against Allende.
Nixon got exactly what he wanted. On September 11, US Navy ships monitored all Chilean military bases to warn the plotters about who might be supporting Allende. Pinochet took over and entered history as the definitive, sinister Latin American dictator from central casting.
Dictatorship in Chile coincided with the ascension of neo-liberalism (which in the 1990s would be remixed as "globalization"). Chileans with scholarships had been a fixture of the University of Chicago for years. The charter of neo-liberalism - and Pinochet's Holy Economic Grail - was written by two of them, Sergio de Castro and Arturo Fontaine. Afterward, it was classic division of labor: the armed forces killed while the "Chicago boys" applied neo-liberal economic policies. Military repression assured economic "freedom".
Some other dictators were in place before Pinochet, more were to follow. By the mid-1970s, six US-backed South American dictatorships - Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay - were united in deep secret under the infamous, transnational Operation Condor, a Latino war "of" terror eliminating everyone who was or might become a political adversary.
Condor had two key players: Pinochet in Chile (who kept Condor's centralized computers) and Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay (he died this year in Brazil). The Pinochet regime kept a small lab for the fabrication of botulism soup and nerve gas - which were and remain certified weapons of mass destruction; the chemist responsible later escaped to Uruguay and was assassinated. Orlando Letelier, Chile's ambassador to Washington under Allende in 1970-72, was assassinated under Condor. Who cared? Military fascism was Washington's daily special, every single day.
Pinochet and Condor, in Chile, were responsible for as many victims as September 11: about 3,000, including 1,198 "disappeared". In Argentina, there were officially at least 10,000 dead: for human-rights organizations there were more than 30,000 dead and "disappeared". In Paraguay, there were at least 2,000 dead; in Bolivia at least 350 dead and "disappeared", in Brazil almost 300, in Uruguay almost 200. Families of the "disappeared" are convinced Kissinger knew about everything. He will take his secrets to the grave, as will model dictator Pinochet - who still refuses to die.
Behind the rebuilt La Moneda palace in central Santiago, facing the Ministry of Justice building, there is a statue of Allende. Underneath, the words: "I have faith in Chile and its destiny." These were his last words before he committed suicide, instead of becoming a hostage on South America's September 11.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HI12Aa01.html
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