One of the few
regimes that can top the Burmese junta in pure
unadulterated
cravenness, North Korean despot Kim Kong-il and
his military posse ponder their next move, in this photo handed
out by Pyongyang,
reported to have been taken early last month.
Daily North Korea, South
Korea
North Koreans May
Be Turning Against the Regime and Beijing
"Now when the authorities
blame America for the lack of food, people ask in turn, 'Is it the
responsibility of America and South Korea to feed us? … why won't China help
us, since it's our closest ally?'
-- A North Korean interviewed by
the Daily North Korea
Yanji, China: It appears that
North Koreans are expressing increasing doubt about government claims that
South Korea and the United States are responsible for the latest food crisis.
North Korea's
Ryanggang Province, where the meeting described herein took place.
In a telephone interview on May 1st, a source from Ryanggang
Province told TheDailyNK, “At a conference of the Union of
Democratic Women, called to commemorate the founding of the Korean People's
Army on April 25th, one speaker humiliated herself by blaming [South Korean]
President Lee" for the crisis.
One of a series of meetings now being held across the country to
extol the military, this meeting was held at the conference hall of the General
Federation of Korean Trade Unions in Ryanggang Province.
The source reported that, “A lecture was given, entitled ‘Our
revolutionary weapons are an invincible force for building a strong
military-first country.' During the lecture, he said that the politics of
putting the military first were, "praised even more highly than the
People’s Army itself.”
During the conference, a speaker is said to have explained the
state of international and domestic affairs by saying, "the U.S. and the
puppet regime (the Lee Administration in South Korea) have overridden peaceful
agreements between North and South (referring to the June 15th Joint
Declaration and the October 4th Agreement) in order to create a serious food
crisis in our Republic.”
Then our source reports that there was an awkward atmosphere in the
hall after the chairperson of a People’s Unit
from Hyehwa-dong in the city of Hyesan asked forthrightly, “We understand that the
Americans and Lee’s puppet faction aren't helping us with rice, but why won’t
China help us, since it's our closest ally?” The speaker’s face turned pale at
the question and a silent tension filled the hall.
“At that moment, a woman sitting next to the chairperson began
to chuckle. Putting her head down, others here and there people began to
chuckle too, and eventually the entire hall was engulfed in laughter,” the
source told TheDailyNK.Posted by WORLDMEETS.US
The speaker reportedly responded in the midst of his own mirth,
“We all know how the lecture material reads. You all understand the situation
and understand what I'm saying, right?" This comment, according to our
source, "sent people rolling in the aisles” and showed that, “how absurd
the propaganda released by the authorities really.”
Now when the authorities blame America for the lack of food,
people ask in turn, 'Is it the responsibility of America and South Korea to
feed us?' People have grown to dislike China, which hasn't aided us
sufficiently, and yet always emphasizes the China-North Korea relationship.”
The source concluded by saying sarcastically, “How put upon must
these speakers feel when forced to lecture people with such nonsense! I don’t
know why they still go through with these conferences.”
