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Red Suns of Militant Juche-Style Socialism Study Room

by Songun Politics Study Group (USA) Thursday, Jan. 01, 2004 at 5:56 PM

On the Selected quotations of President KIM IL SUNG AND Marshal KIM JONG IL!

Dear Comrades

The Songun Politics Study Group (USA), is proud to announce the formation of the

Red Suns of Militant Juche-Style Socialism Study Room

which has only begun adding the selected quotes of Eternal President KIM IL SUNG AND Marshal KIM JONG IL. We will continue to update the quotes of these great anti-imperialist class struggle fighters, each and every chance we get, so please check back periodically for new additions! If you would like to submit some outstanding quotes to the

Red Suns of Militant Juche-Style Socialism Study Room

Please Notify the Songun Politics Study Group (USA) at songunpoliticsaresuperior@ziplip.com . It is our hopes to eventually create a book entitled " Selected Quotations from the Outstanding Works of President KIM IL SUNG and Marshal KIM JONG IL.

We dedicate this outstanding achievement to whole Korean Nation and to the Anti-US Armed Resistance in Iraq, as well as to the Proletarian Internationalist Fighters in the English Speaking World, who each day build Solidarity with the Korean Workers' Paradise. In particular, we thank the National Democratic Front of South Korea Mission in Pyongyang and Comrade Dermot Hudson of the Juche Idea Study Group of England and the Association for the Study of Songun Politics in the UK, for their great love and inspiration over the course of the last year!

LONG LIVE THE IMMORTAL JUCHE IDEA OF PRESIDENT KIM IL SUNG, THE GREAT PRESIDENT THAT DEFEATED US IMPERIALISM AND CREATED SOCIALISM!!!


LONG LIVE MARSHAL KIM JONG IL AND THE GREAT SONGUN IDEA WHICH PLACES THE GUN BEFORE THE HAMMER AND SICKLE AND IS THE INSPIRATION OF THE WORING MASSES AND SMALL NATIONS WHICH DESIRE UNITY AND INDEPENDANCE!!!



LONG LIVE THE WORKERS PARTY OF KOREA, THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT OF SOUTH KOREA, AND ALL WHO STAND BESIDE THEM UNDER THE GUN-BASED BANNER OF SONGUN IN THE ERA OF FIERCE ANTI-IMPERIALIST CLASS STRUGGLE!!!
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Yes! Socialism in North Korea is working beautifully!

by ljkhjg Friday, Jan. 02, 2004 at 5:39 AM

http://www.disasterrelief.org/Disasters/990408nkorea/

Those who make the dangerous trek out of North Korea these days bring with them the incredible tale of an entire country apparently starving to death en masse, the product of a brutally repressive Communist government and several successive years of catastrophic droughts and floods.
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Cut off from the rest of the world by their hyper-secretive government, the people of North Korea have suffered with little notice by the outside world. And after five years of economic decline and abysmal harvests, they have no real hope of alleviating the famine ravaging their country. With relief supplies running out, once again North Korea is facing a tenuous battle, one that could add more deaths to the estimated two million who already have starved.

To survive the months ahead, millions of famished North Koreans will eat wild plants, tree bark, and noodles and cakes made of indigestible grasses and cornstalks.

This so-called food has virtually no nutritional value and can cause severe digestive problems -- especially in the elderly and very young. Many end up dying from infections and stomach problems.

According to humanitarian relief agencies, foreign government delegations that have visited North Korea, and South Korean intelligence sources, the ongoing famine already has killed at least two to three million. The current famine began in 1995 after a series of disasters, including record floods and severe droughts, devastated the country's harvests. Those assaults by Mother Nature were compounded by poor land use policies and a centrally planned economy that failed to adapt to the problems. The North Korea government consistently has denied the claims of widespread starvation, although it has issued international appeals for food relief.
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They tell of people begging, cheating, stealing and killing for food and of guards who dump the bodies of those who died of starvation onto trains. They say that people are executed for slaughtering cattle or for killing vagrant children and selling their flesh at markets. They have seen children pick through cow dung for undigested grain and watched people die from eating poisonous mushrooms or from hemorrhaging on tree bark.

A rare documentary aired by South Korea's state Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) last year, showed street children -- many orphaned after their parents died from starvation -- eating noodles off the ground, digging through rubbish for food, drinking water from sewage drains and sucking on stripped fish bones.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/57740.stm

Up to 2.8 million people may have died of starvation because of North Korea's three-year famine and worsening economic crisis.

Former agriculture diplomat Kim Dong-Su, who defected to South Korea in early February, said the figure was the closest possible estimate of deaths because the North's regime had not compiled reliable figures.

Kim, who spent three years negotiating with the United Nations to secure food aid for the stricken north, said the country's communist leaders could not deal with the huge scale of the crisis and they face increasing unrest from the population.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~zj5j-gttl/s970822.htm

North Korea Starves

And still they play at politics.

North Korea, for years on the edge of famine, has crossed that edge and dropped into the abyss. Food is rationed to one-fifth the necessary amount for survival. UNICEF has stated that 80,000 children are in "imminent peril" of starvation, and up to 5 million people could starve to death. Awful climatic conditions - flooding ironically coupled with terrible drought - have virtually eliminated this nation's crop store.
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And still they play. The United States has once again offered to send food - maybe also trucks - but the North Korean leadership has used the starvation of its people as a political pawn in upcoming four-way negotiations with South Korea, China, and the US. Pyongyang has demanded more food, or they would pull out of the talks designed to officially end the Korean War, for which no armistice was ever signed. North Korea seems not to be bluffing, either. A recent report in Time Magazine records a North Korean telling a member of the US House Intelligence Committee, "We're not going to beg too hard. We are not going to change and have openness. If those people die, they die."

http://www.worldmag.com/world/issue/03-09-02/cover_1.asp

Dr. Vollertsen, a 44-year-old German physician, wants officials to pay more attention to the damage done to North Koreans under the current regime than to the damage to foreign relations. He spent 18 months living at North Korea's axis, watching evil spin systematically around him. North Korea, he says, is a modern-day Nazi Germany. And its "Dear Leader," the 60-year-old President Kim Jong Il, is practicing genocide.

From Dr. Vollertsen these are not empty charges. He has had access to witness North Korea's famine conditions in a way no other Westerners have. He traveled to North Korea in 1999 with the German relief agency Cap Anamur (known in English as German Emergency Doctors), working to rehabilitate the nation's hospitals. A month after his arrival, Dr. Vollertsen found himself treating a patient who was badly burned by molten iron. Dr. Vollertsen unhesitatingly offered his own skin for the grafting procedure. In front of government officials, a doctor stripped skin from his left thigh with a penknife.

Impressed by his unselfish act, Mr. Kim's government awarded Dr. Vollertsen the prestigious Friendship Medal. They gave him a VIP passport and driver's license, allowing him to travel freely across the country without the usual government restrictions.

These were gifts the government would one day regret. They allowed Dr. Vollertsen to discover and secretly videotape a nationwide famine. Bouncing across the countryside in a Jeep, Dr. Vollertsen encountered starving children who were nevertheless forced to engage in daily, two-hour songfests idolizing the "Dear Leader." He saw gangs of undernourished children working on a 10-lane highway project. He watched doctors perform an emergency appendectomy on a girl without anesthesia. He met adults who were desperately afraid, always under surveillance, dousing their depression with cheap alcohol. He found a staggering infant mortality rate and, among children who did survive, significant declines in height, weight, and IQ. "It's easier to brainwash unintellectual children," Dr. Vollertsen observes dryly.
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As much access as the government provided Dr. Vollertsen, the worst atrocities were kept hidden in secretive prison camps. These he learned about more recently. After leaving North Korea, he spent time along its borders learning from defectors-torture victims who live like hunted animals on the border between North Korea and China. They described a nightmare world where guards electrocute prisoners for fun and throw women into sewage pools for stealing food. He heard stories of children who vomit when they accidentally dig up fresh mass graves and babies who are strangled moments after birth on concrete floors.

He was told repeatedly of an island in the northeastern part of North Korea, in an area near Chongjin so highly restricted it does not appear on official maps, where prisoners are used as laboratory test material for anthrax and other bacteria, food poisoning, or medical experiments-how long they can stand freezing, or how long they can live underwater-"the cruelest experiments you can imagine," Dr. Vollertsen says.

Mr. Bush's remarks and recent trip should revive a hardline approach to North Korea, even though experts long have known it is the most repressive nation in the world. Humanitarian relief experts say that more than 4 million people have died of starvation in North Korea since 1995-despite the country's receiving more food aid than any other nation in the world.

Dr. Vollertsen's firsthand testimony was echoed last month in Tokyo at the third annual International Conference on North Korean Human Rights and Refugees. Three North Korean defectors, including a former bodyguard of President Kim Jong Il, told reporters and conferees that international food aid is not reaching the starving; instead, it is going to the government. They said millions of dollars worth of food aid is being stockpiled in mountain military complexes and used to feed soldiers and the ruling elite.

The former bodyguard, Lee Young Kuk, said he watched the punishment of a political prison camp inmate accused of stealing salt. He was tied to a vehicle and dragged for 2H miles at high speeds and "became de-skinned." His body was tied to a stake "as an example," said Mr. Lee. He told reporters, "I have watched so many deaths in North Korea I almost lost the concept of human dignity."

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Tell me again how North Korea is a Worker's Paradise, you murderous piece of breathing human crap. This only shows why Communists would best serve the world by assuming room temperature.
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Sounds familiar

by Adult Supervisor Friday, Jan. 02, 2004 at 3:23 PM

Sounds a bit like Cuba.

Also resembles the former Soviet Union and their client states like East Germany.

The bottom line is that Capitalism Rocks!!!

Communism and Sociaiism Suck!!!

But the good news is that North Korea and Cuba do exist. That gives our leftist friends a minimum of two prime destinations for relocation.

I'd like to help them pack for their move to one of those countries. The sooner they get their sorry asses out of America the better.
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The Hidden Gulag

by Marcello Tuesday, Jan. 06, 2004 at 5:53 AM

Kim Jong Il stands for horrible prison camps in the DPRK. What is great about a leader who is responsible for such atrocities?

Read this report: www.hrnk.org/TheHiddenGulag-press.pdf
Look at this page: www.freenorthkorea.net

The document "the hidden Gulag" contains a lot of testimonies and detailed satellite images.

Do you think all this is fabricated?

How could you be sure that this is not true? The DPRK leadership wants to eradicate pro-imperialist class-enemies as Stalin did in Soviet Gulags. What makes you sure, that Kim Jong Il does not use similar methods and prison camps? The abduction of Japanese people was revealed last year after decades of denial.

Anyway, if there would be no Gulags at the described areas in North Korea, why does the DPRK leadership not invite Amnesty International or other NGO's to check this and prove this report false?

Could any Songun supporter provide a serious answer?
Marcello
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the illmatic

by kim jong il Wednesday, Feb. 04, 2004 at 11:21 AM

if you like my tracksuit, there's more where that came from. read my blog. much love to you all.
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