Have you ever got up close on a N.Korean..THEY SMELL FROM GARLIC!! I mean really, really stink!! KImche!! I don't even know how you can get within 500 sq. mi of North Korea!!
These filthy beasts are holding an 85 yr old man captive and making him recite commie propaganda
Fken disgusting. G-d damn communists. Man do I hate all of you. I woul skin every one of you alive if I had the chance.
Let this poor man go you mothafukkers.. FUK YOU! DIE you filthy leftist pigs!
North Korea Releases a Video of a U.S. Veteran Confessing to ‘Hostile Acts’
By JANE PERLEZ
Published: November 30, 2013
BEIJING — North Korea has accused an American veteran of war crimes and on Saturday released a video of him confessing to what it said were “hostile acts” during the Korean War and while he was visiting the country in October.
The veteran, Merrill Newman, 85, of Palo Alto, Calif., who has been held since Oct. 26, appeared on the video dressed in casual Western clothes and wearing glasses as he read excerpts from an apology written on several sheets of white paper. The text contained several awkward English constructions and grammatical errors.
In the apology, Mr. Newman said he was an adviser for the Kuwol Unit of the United Nations Korea Sixth Partisan Regiment, which served with the Intelligence Bureau of the Far East Command.
A person familiar with Mr. Newman’s military record and his current situation in captivity in North Korea said that Mr. Newman served as an adviser in that unit in 1953 before the armistice. The unit operated behind the lines in North Korea, but Mr. Newman conducted his duties as an adviser on Chodo, an island off the west coast of what is now North Korea, the person said. In the beginning of the video, Mr. Newman mentioned Chodo as the place where he was stationed. The person speaking about Mr. Newman’s situation declined to be identified because of the delicacy of the case.
The Swedish ambassador visited Mr. Newman on Saturday, and told his family that he was in good health and being treated well, according to a statement from the family. The United States has no diplomatic relations with North Korea and has been dealing with Mr. Newman’s situation through the Swedish Embassy, which represents its interests in the North.
“Our focus now is on getting him home quickly to join his loved ones, who miss him deeply,” the statement said. “We are asking that the D.P.R.K. authorities take into account his health and his age and, as an act of humanitarian compassion, allow him to depart immediately for home.” The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or D.P.R.K., is North Korea’s official name.
n the apology, Mr. Newman describes how he wanted to meet “surviving soldiers and pray for the souls of the dead soldiers” from the unit he worked with. If he met any surviving soldiers he planned to put them in touch with members of the Kuwol Partisan Comrades-in-Arms Association who had escaped to South Korea, the apology said.
An email from Mr. Newman to friends in South Korea telling them of his impending trip to North Korea and his hopes of meeting with relatives of the partisan group is embedded in the video of the apology.
Mr. Newman said in the apology, the text of which was released by the state-run Korean Central News Agency, that he had asked his tour guide to look for families and relatives of the Comrades-in-Arms group, which is described in the apology as “an anti-Communist strategic plot organization.”
In a statement also released by the Korean news agency that accompanied the apology, North Korea characterized Mr. Newman’s activities during the tour as “trying to look for spies and terrorists who conducted espionage and subversive activity” and to “connect them” to an anti-North Korean organization. It charged that Mr. Newman was “slandering” North Korea and had “perpetrated acts of infringing upon the dignity and sovereignty” of the country. The statement also referred to Mr. Newman’s wartime activities.
“As I killed so many civilians and K.P.A. soldiers and destroyed strategic objects in the D.P.R.K. during the Korean War, I committed indelible offensive acts against the D.P.R.K. government and Korean people,” the apology said.
Col. Ben S. Malcom, who commanded a unit of about 800 North Korean anti-Communist partisans during the war, said American soldiers commanded and advised more than 20 partisan units that did everything from raiding North Korean military redoubts to counterfeiting North Korean currency, robbing banks and stealing oxen.
“We were the people who were leading the North Korean guerrilla forces” against the North Korean Army, said Colonel Malcom, 84. “That’s probably the reason they are holding him at the present time,” he said of Mr. Newman. Speaking Saturday from his home in Atlanta, Colonel Malcom said that given the partisan fighters’ destructiveness, he was not surprised at North Korea’s treatment of Mr. Newman.
“I wouldn’t even consider going into North Korea,” he said.
These filthy beasts are holding an 85 yr old man captive and making him recite commie propaganda
Fken disgusting. G-d damn communists. Man do I hate all of you. I woul skin every one of you alive if I had the chance.
Let this poor man go you mothafukkers.. FUK YOU! DIE you filthy leftist pigs!
North Korea Releases a Video of a U.S. Veteran Confessing to ‘Hostile Acts’
By JANE PERLEZ
Published: November 30, 2013
BEIJING — North Korea has accused an American veteran of war crimes and on Saturday released a video of him confessing to what it said were “hostile acts” during the Korean War and while he was visiting the country in October.
The veteran, Merrill Newman, 85, of Palo Alto, Calif., who has been held since Oct. 26, appeared on the video dressed in casual Western clothes and wearing glasses as he read excerpts from an apology written on several sheets of white paper. The text contained several awkward English constructions and grammatical errors.
In the apology, Mr. Newman said he was an adviser for the Kuwol Unit of the United Nations Korea Sixth Partisan Regiment, which served with the Intelligence Bureau of the Far East Command.
A person familiar with Mr. Newman’s military record and his current situation in captivity in North Korea said that Mr. Newman served as an adviser in that unit in 1953 before the armistice. The unit operated behind the lines in North Korea, but Mr. Newman conducted his duties as an adviser on Chodo, an island off the west coast of what is now North Korea, the person said. In the beginning of the video, Mr. Newman mentioned Chodo as the place where he was stationed. The person speaking about Mr. Newman’s situation declined to be identified because of the delicacy of the case.
The Swedish ambassador visited Mr. Newman on Saturday, and told his family that he was in good health and being treated well, according to a statement from the family. The United States has no diplomatic relations with North Korea and has been dealing with Mr. Newman’s situation through the Swedish Embassy, which represents its interests in the North.
“Our focus now is on getting him home quickly to join his loved ones, who miss him deeply,” the statement said. “We are asking that the D.P.R.K. authorities take into account his health and his age and, as an act of humanitarian compassion, allow him to depart immediately for home.” The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or D.P.R.K., is North Korea’s official name.
n the apology, Mr. Newman describes how he wanted to meet “surviving soldiers and pray for the souls of the dead soldiers” from the unit he worked with. If he met any surviving soldiers he planned to put them in touch with members of the Kuwol Partisan Comrades-in-Arms Association who had escaped to South Korea, the apology said.
An email from Mr. Newman to friends in South Korea telling them of his impending trip to North Korea and his hopes of meeting with relatives of the partisan group is embedded in the video of the apology.
Mr. Newman said in the apology, the text of which was released by the state-run Korean Central News Agency, that he had asked his tour guide to look for families and relatives of the Comrades-in-Arms group, which is described in the apology as “an anti-Communist strategic plot organization.”
In a statement also released by the Korean news agency that accompanied the apology, North Korea characterized Mr. Newman’s activities during the tour as “trying to look for spies and terrorists who conducted espionage and subversive activity” and to “connect them” to an anti-North Korean organization. It charged that Mr. Newman was “slandering” North Korea and had “perpetrated acts of infringing upon the dignity and sovereignty” of the country. The statement also referred to Mr. Newman’s wartime activities.
“As I killed so many civilians and K.P.A. soldiers and destroyed strategic objects in the D.P.R.K. during the Korean War, I committed indelible offensive acts against the D.P.R.K. government and Korean people,” the apology said.
Col. Ben S. Malcom, who commanded a unit of about 800 North Korean anti-Communist partisans during the war, said American soldiers commanded and advised more than 20 partisan units that did everything from raiding North Korean military redoubts to counterfeiting North Korean currency, robbing banks and stealing oxen.
“We were the people who were leading the North Korean guerrilla forces” against the North Korean Army, said Colonel Malcom, 84. “That’s probably the reason they are holding him at the present time,” he said of Mr. Newman. Speaking Saturday from his home in Atlanta, Colonel Malcom said that given the partisan fighters’ destructiveness, he was not surprised at North Korea’s treatment of Mr. Newman.
“I wouldn’t even consider going into North Korea,” he said.
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