Defector: 'North Prepared to Invade South Korea Despite Sunshine Policy'
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 07:53PM A former North Korean Colonel who defected to the South several years ago reports that despite the South’s “Sunshine Policy” toward the North, the Kim Jong-Il regime stockpiled weapons in bunkers along the DMZ (DeMilitarized Zone) in preparation for a possible invasion of the South.
Construction of the bunkers began in 2004, the second year of the Roh Moo-hyun administration, which continued the so-called Sunshine Policy of its predecessor.
“Pyongyang had built at least 800 bunkers including an unknown number of decoys by 2007 to prepare for a possible invasion of South Korea,” the ex-colonel claimed. “Each bunker contains military equipment that can fully arm 1,500 to 2,000 soldiers.”
“If a soldier carried all his military equipment, which weighs 32 kg, and came to the DMZ in full gear, he would already be exhausted before reaching the South,” the defector said. “So they built bunkers at the DMZ and put all their operations equipment there. In the bunkers, there are South Korean military uniforms and name tags, so that they can disguise themselves as South Korean troops. Also reserved are… 60-mm mortar shells, condensed high explosives, and all sorts of ammunition.”
“Despite Seoul’s appeasement policy, or whatever the South does toward the North, Pyongyang hasn’t given up its aim of unifying the Korean Peninsula by military force. They are sticking to this principle and teaching North Koreans about it,” he said.
The South’s policy of appeasement was doomed to failure because sunshine and butterflies are no match for demented dictators and evil religious cult leaders like Kim Jong-Il. It wasn’t hard to predict that the South, or the rest of the global community, would get nothing in exchange sucking up to the North except kidnapped citizens, continued human rights actrocities and nuclear build up.
Bottom Line Up Front: APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS
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Not really a shock.....
No, not really a shock, but it's always necessary to point out the reality of appeasement. It only benefits the bad guy, never the good guy.
Come on Amy, you know deep down that the North Korean dictator is really that good guy here. He just wants all of Korea to share the joy, hope, and prosperity of the great North Korea.
Right, Mike, that's what his vision of reunification is all about. It'd be funny if it werent' so sad.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama uses tough speak about letting N. Korea have it if they don't make themselves honest....how come his administration never talks about human rights? He didn't talk about human rights in China or in Korea.
Amy is making a dramatic point here, folks. South Korea's so-called Sunshine Policy was given 10 years to promote change in North Korea. 10 years is plenty of time to demonstrate the effectiveness of a policy. Based on the policy of western engagement with communist China, Sunshine Policy was supposed to promote goodwill between North and South Korea. In the decade of the Sunshine policy, untold billions in South Korean aid, fuel, food and industrial investment went north while Kim Jong Il tested nuclear weapons, fired long range missiles over South Korean airspace, kidnapped South Koreans, sold WMD technology to Syria and Iran, and worst of all starved millions of his own people earning it's deserved place among the axis of evil.
Today, even the armistice agreement between the two Koreas has been dissolved (by KJI) and all talks with North Korea are off.
Tyrants and dictators cannot be reasoned with or bought off. This one (KJI) is a megalomaniac who styles himself a god, a miltary, diplomatic, political and economic genius worthy of the most craven, inhumane groveling that he considers 'worship'.
Tyrants must be dealt with through strength, principle, resolve, and courage. The 10 wasted years of Sunshine Policy vividly dramatize the bankruptcy of appeasement and the futility of tolerating the idolatry practiced in North Korea which has sent millions to their death whether by famine or concentration camps (over 250,000 Koreans are languishing in the gulags - most will die there).
I realize that Korea is easy to ignore or shrug off, but a couple quick facts that may concern you:
(1) North Korea is the most repressive regime in the world;
(2) North Korea is the most dangerous place on earth to be a Christian;
(3) North Korea' imminent collapse may invite a conflict between US-backed South Korea and the Peoples' Republic of China.
If you are a person of prayer, please pray for North Korea's savagely persecuted Christians.
Johnny,
It's the same old thing with most thugs, you show weakness they pounce. Reagan said detente was what the turkey has with the farmer before Thanksgiving.
of course Dear Leader could also be mad because the "Sisterhood of the traveling Pants" was his idea first.
800 bunkers on the DMZ established since 2004 is shocking. This was done under the guise of 'engagement' and 'openness.' Just as Jim Jones and David Koresh did, psychotic, megalomaniac cult leaders like KJI are infamous for 'blowing it all up' when they see their end coming.
This isn't an abstraction for me and Amy, our children and thousands of American servicemembers and civilians in harm's way on the Korean peninsula. I watch the grotesque Kim cult like a hawk. In many ways, he makes Saddam look moderate. And I was in Baghdad when it fell.
Amy and Johnny,
I pray for your safety. God Bless you and your family.
Johnny,
All joking aside I agree with you. It's a serious situation and your observations about the behavior of KJI and dirtballs like him may prove prescient. Hopefully you guys will be back in the lower 48 before that happens.
Appeasement never works. And your suggestion is?
Destroy the Juche cult through psychological operations. The reality is that many of the 17,000 defectors who have succesfully arrived in South Korea have converted to Christianity and are already doing this very thing:
Certainly the former prisoners and slaves of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il know what must be done to bring chnage to North Korea - and notice it has nothing to do with nukes and everything to do with religion!
Charlie boy, great line and one which I am certain comes from your heart and mind. As a whacky liberal, you of course know nothing that can be done but Appeasement. It is not in the vocabulary of any real leader in dealing with a thug and has been that way since it failed so badly to bring "peace in our time" with Hitler. That is why a leader does not take anything off the table except appeasement when dealing with the forces of evil in our world. But first the thug has to actually have some respect for you and believe that you will pull any trigger needed to stop them.
Mike, as a Soldier, I want to be here when the Juche cult in North Korea fails. I want to enter North Korea as a member of a liberating force. maybe I'm just warped that way. After participating in the deposition of Saddam Hussein, I have observed that there are certain similarities in regime change operations. They require the trust of the population in both the invasion force and the post-war provisional government. In order to succeed, it is necessary to understand the host nation population. Few understand the trauma, disinformation and mind control perpetrated on the North Korean people and its effect on their hearts and minds. They are brain washed and trapped in a bizarre religious cult. A post-Juche North Korea will pose spiritual, moral, and social challenges the likes of which have not been seen before, at least in the last 100 years.
The difference between Iraq and Korea could not be more different if the North fails and the south shares it's resources and brings them up to speed. Think more East and West Germany.