Bloggers fight for Laura Ling and Euna Lee!
Today I read that the two US journalists captured by North Korea, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, are about to be tried in Pyongyang probably for alleged espionage. We can expect this trial to be higly unfair. It is another way for the North Korean rotten dictatorship flexing it's muscles towards the rest of the world and especially towards America. I just wonder, how can we instantly have a big media outrage if something like that happens in Iran, but when it comes to this case in North Korea, the media is almost quiet. These two women deserve the same attention like any other illegally captured journalist around the world. I wish that the mainstream media would pay more attention to this case! And the politicians should follow. It is a shame! I think America made a big mistake when they invaded Afganistan with no exit strategy and Iraq with a fabricated reason and a fabricated outcome! So, all we keep hearing in recent years is Taliban, Saddam, Iran, Pakistan, Afganistan... All the media is focused on these 3 states plus Israel. As if that's the biggest threat to the world! How about North Korea? USA and NATO are so involved in these useless, never ending and money consuming wars that they reclessly neglect North Korea and it's poor brainwashed people. People who would really deserve to be liberated from a dictator who's constantly mocking the USA and the rest of the world by doing whatever he wants! He can blackmail and threaten! Where is the outrage! The clown Ahmadinejad utters some nonsense and the media grabs it, makes it big! Come on!!! Iran would never attack Israel or USA or Europe! Why? Because all three of them could obliterate it in few days! For what would they risk attacking or invading another country? They're surrounded by US forces. Media just can't have enough of Iran, USA and Israel. It's like a big circus! I'm just sick of these games played by Israel and Iran and partly USA, it's like verbal ping pong. And where is the logic! If Iran had the nuclear bomb or other nuclear weapons, why would they want to attack Israel? First of all, Jerusalem is a muslim holy city. Only thing they could do is destroy Tel Aviv! And then? They know the USA and Israel would retaliate few times harder. I'm not convinced by the rightwing media trying to portray the Iranian regime as nuts. If there's a nuts regime, it's the North Korean! They have 1.2 million active soldier's (plus 7.7 million reservists) and the whole population is only 22.6 million. 5.3% percent of the population are soldiers, most of them brainwashed, higly motivated to destroy their 'devil' the USA. Like the fanatic jihadists, they would die for their 'divine' leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-il. Compare that to the 300 million Americans and their regular army of 550,000 soldiers! With all the reservists and the Army National Guard they barely put together 1.1 million soldiers. The only difference is that the US army has a superior training and wapons, but are the US soldiers as fanatic to kill and fight for democracy as the jihadists are willing to fight for their supposed God or the North Koreans are willing to fight for their rotten and evil communist state? Probably not. In a free Western society, where you can pursue your own path of life, career, political engagement, where you can open your own business, experss your opinion, it just makes you have an open mind. I guess that's why we invest more in technology rather than in brutal merciless soldiers. But North Korea does so! And we should do something to change it! So many times the media says Kim Jong-il will die and then we will have something better. What!? We won't get a democrat in power! In best case, we will have a copy of the Chinese regime, which will even more strengthen the commies and we can forget democracy and the unification of both Koreas for a long time.
That's why I urge America and other free nations to focus on North Korea and do something to remove that fat* clown in Pyongyang, who's mocking the whole world, while his people starve and have no rights or freedoms like we have! And do everything to free Euna Lee and Laura Ling, 2 brave journalists, who deserve to be free and report about these evil communist states! They put their lives on the line for us. We should do everything in our power to get them released!
Some photos from the internet:
1 Laura and Lisa, her famous sister, she was host of 'The View'.
2 Laura Ling in 2009.
3 Euna Lee, unfortunately the only photo of her.
4 South Korean protesters remind us of Laura and Euna.
5 Why are they mocking our freedom?
6 Do the faces of evil look like this?
3 Euna Lee, unfortunately the only photo of her.
4 South Korean protesters remind us of Laura and Euna.
5 Why are they mocking our freedom?
6 Do the faces of evil look like this?
* apparently he's not fat anymore, due to recent illness.
Related post: Tribute to Laura Ling and Euna Lee
8 KAFKAESQUE COMMENTS:
I'd say that it makes sense to be in Afghanistan, provided that the Afghans and the allied forces both do a reasonable job.
As for North Korea: it's no place to go now.
And how far the no-longer-fat dictator can go will largely depend on Beijing. They are facing a refugee problem already. If a plague breaks out in North Korea (and naturally crosses the border), they'll have to act.
April 25, 2009 4:06 PM
About Afganistan: Yea, it's an 'if'. The problem is that Afganistan is more fragile than Irak, yet we have only a small fraction of the soldiers there... and the combat forces are just the Americans. What are Germans doing there?? Siting in their enclosed camps, just useless, throwing away money and wasting time.
I think the N.Korean regime has enough forces to keep the people in N.Korea. If they can snatch 2 US journalists off the border with China, I think they have a well secured border. I know many N.Koreans try to escape to China and subsequently to S.Korea, but that's a very small number. The US should do something. NK is a real threat to SK, Japan and USA and therefore the whole world, because it can throw the fragile world economy out of balance, if they bomb Seoul or Tokyo...
April 25, 2009 4:12 PM
What are Germans doing there??I agree that no Nato member country should try to keep its troops out of trouble. When the war began, the government tried to make the public believe that this was rather some kind of "development aid" - that's how they sold the first out-of-area deployment of the German army here.
As for N Korea: I think that the US missile defense program makes a lot of sense. Let Japan, South Korea and other neighboring countries have it, and let China see to its own security. Beijing could do a lot more to put the brakes on Kim Jung-il. They only need some motivation ;)
April 25, 2009 6:31 PM
I agree with you. Everyone critisizes USA for being an imperialistic force, but when work has to be done, they only watch USA doing it. Of course, there's many useless wars the USA waged like Vietnam and Iraq, but World war II, Korean war, Gulf war, Afganistan war made sense. I think Germans need to open their eyes - either they're in the NATO and the soldiers should learn to use force and subsequently kill or they should be out of it, like Austria. And same goes for other nations, like France. They should engage more in all these conflict spots. USA can't do everything on it's own. These 6 party talks should be 12 party talks and let's include Canada, Australia, France, Britain, Turkey and Italy and we'll have a much stronger case against North Korea.
April 25, 2009 9:08 PM
Alright guys, let's put aside how we should deal with North Korea as a whole for a moment as a group, Let's talk about beating some sense in to this fat-ass dictator of North Korea to release our girls so they can come home safe. They are apparently going to be standing trial in North Korea on June 4th, and as you know North Korean Judical court is corrupt and lacks a structure, so state will basically decide their fate as they wish. And Pray for these two young women too, and all the reporters in fact working in dangerous hostile countries to light the world with news of what is happening.
May 14, 2009 12:02 PM
I guess in my post I tried to beat some sense into the whole thing. I am not religious, that's why I respectfully disagree that praying will help. Diplomacy or force will help. That's why you don't see any media reporting, we don't know what is going on behind the scene. Let's just hope there is something goin on. It seems like they are forgotten and if so, it's a shame. Sooner or later debating and praying has to stop and action has to follow. Hope the Obama admin. does something.
May 14, 2009 2:36 PM
The reason it has been kept 'quiet' is simple. The president is working behind the scenes with other nations to address North Korea in a significant and lasting way. In order to accomplish this, he needs the support of the U.N. and, most importantly, China.
China has, quite surprisingly, agreed to sanctions against North Korea. Until the U.N. and China strike a significant agreement in the way they will cripple North Korea without further punishing the people of this impoverished and oppressive country.
Most importantly, it just good old fashioned diplomacy. Something the last 8 years was completely devoid of!
May 29, 2009 11:25 PM
Yea, well. I'm sure Obama's administration is doing something behind the scenes... But how about the media? Maybe in the next days when the trial is due and the recent nuclear tests bring back the focus. But will the diplomacy work? What the leverage the US has? I just hate North Korea and I can't seem to see that anything except force will work with this regime. I lost my optimism.
May 29, 2009 11:29 PM
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