The DPRK. Western media fairy tales.

About the "wave of defectors" and "capitalist experiments"in the
Democratic People?s Republic of Korea (22 August 2002)

Alejandro Cao de Benos de Les y Perez

President of the Korean Friendship Association (KFA), Special Delegate
of the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
-Government of the DPRK- DPRK Consultant to the House of Asia ?Ministry
Foreign Affairs, Spain-IT Consultant for Business Schools

Since the creation of the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea, the
USA through its intelligence agency and South Korean sponsored
organizations are trying to isolate and destroy the public image of the
country by preparing an orchestrated campaign. These groups are
continuously fabricating false news by distorting the reality with the
aim of creating confusion among the people.

Here are some points that show how far the imperialist media can
manipulate the minds and influence the public that have no knowledge
about the real situation in North Korea.

The Theatre of Defectors.

About the news referring that the 'defectors' are crossing the
border between the DPRK and China and escaping in mass: This
information is nonsense and only a new reader in the subject can
believe such info. It's pure and cheap propaganda. The controls in the
border are always very tight and in any case it?s possible to enter
China in the way the articles say. The fake 'defectors' like explained
by themselves, were living already for 4 years in China, so it's not a
desperate escape from North but a well meditated and planned theatre. A
coincidence: The "defectors" never carry passport or a way to
demonstrate their North Korean nationalities.

The Norbert Case.

Norbert Vollersten is a German Doctor and one of the main organizers of
this fake opera.

Using the "Cap Anamur" (NGO) excuse, he entered North Korea to help
the people in need just after the natural disasters, but he had another
agenda with a sinister purpose, to get as much information as possible
and collaborate with the CIA and South Korea to prepare the
campaign they're doing now.

Trips to Asia aren´t cheap for a normal doctor (like Mr. Vollersten).
Where do he gets his salary from? He's always in Seoul or in
Washington, sometimes he go to Beijing or recently Mongolia, where he
wanted to open a camp for North Korean refugees... (of course he's the
only one that will live in). Who's paying his trips, his meals, his
hotels and his expenses? The logical answer: the governments of the USA
and South Korea.

Yes, he was awarded with a friendship medal for helping the people...
and he was also cheating all the time since he entered the DPRK,
otherwise he'll never get the award. So, it's clear that he had a
hidden identity all the time. He said in the interviews that he was the
"first foreigner" to be awarded with the "medal of friendship" which is
totally false. First, the "medal of friendship" is the lowest in its
category awarded to foreigners, and second, before him, many foreigners
got this medal and often of superior degree (Order of friendship 1st
"gold- and 2nd Class "silver-).

So with his own words he demonstrates his low knowledge about the DPRK
and his chasing after protagonism in the news. He's the one, that
together with some South Korean and American NGO's are paying money to
some people to make a display in front of the Embassies. Note that
before the 'defectors' will cross the embassy door, all the cameras
from many agencies worldwide were ready to record the images. How a
group of "desperate" people is waiting for the camera signal to invade
the embassy? It's not a report from serious press, but just a
low quality film with well-paid unskilled actors. Will be good to know
who ringed the AFP, Reuters or the other news agencies saying Hi, at
17:32 we have a group of refugees waiting for you to spontaneously-
rush into the Embassy?.

The main support to the covered activities leaded by Mr. Vollersten
was received in the 3rd International Conference on North Korean Human
Rights and Refugees in Tokyo in February 2002. With the curiosity that
the Tokyo conference received funding from the National Endowment for
Democracy, a foundation funded by the US Congress and where one of the
featured speakers was James Lilley, a former diplomat and CIA analyst.

Why a news agency will accept to publish a new under these conditions?
Easy, they live from the news, so the more spectacular the report
(although fake) the more expensive the advertisements will be and more
benefit will produce. It is just a matter of business. But even if you
say it is fake! Doesn?t mind, just look how many TV´s worldwide bought
the rights to put the 2 minutes film "on the air".

The conclusion is clear: the defections aren?t real, cannot be probed
and they are not recognized by the government of the DPR of Korea.

The following are just small excerpts about how the information is
used specially in western countries- to keep the big lie alive. Note
that the interesting point here is to read the news some years after,
so one can see the difference about ?what they said? and about ?what
really happened?.

Institute of Peace -USA, October 1996 ?The food and energy crises
have raised critical questions about the need for contingency planning
to prepare for any sudden changes that might occur in North Korea in
the absence of reforms. Likewise, advance preparations are critical for
refugee flows that might result from further economic decline and/or
widespread famine in North Korea?

Major David S. Maxwell -United States Special Forces, 1996- It is
possible that North Korea is near collapse. Recent statements by key
officials show that US and ROK national leadership are becoming
increasingly concerned with this possibility, although the focus
remains on the possibility that such disintegration may lead to a
desperation attack. In a recent article in Jane's Defense Weekly, the
Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lieutenant General Kenneth
Minihan said, "North Korea is collapsing economically. North Korea is
implosion and explosion going on at the same time"

After 6 years the "sudden changes?" aren´t produced but for sure that
many readers really believed in the danger of "North Korea". The
articles use the fear to give some consistency to the tale. This is the
same fear that President Bush Jr. is using as an argument to create the
National Missile Defence and deploy it in South Korea. The same excuse
is valid to keep more than 40.000 US soldiers and 1000 nuclear weapons
near parallel 38.

Channel New Asia -June 2002- Japan has started work to salvage a
suspected North Korean spy ship from the bottom of the East China Sea,
with the permission of Beijing. Japan claims it needs to raise the ship
to find out what country it came from.

In this kind of new we can clearly see the manipulation of the
information. So Japan doesn´t know at all the identity of the ship, but
since the beginning was already accusing North Korea in front of the
international community. Although two months passed since this report,
there are no comments or news talking about the ship or showing any
evidence that will link it to North Korea. Throw the stone while hiding
the hand? is a typical gesture of the capitalist media that the serious
investigator won?t accept.

The Guardian, UK, -May 2001- Kim Jong-nam (son of Chairman Kim Jong
Il), his wife, son and another relative were deported to Beijing three
days after immigration officials at Tokyo's Narita airport detained
them for attempting to enter Japan on false passports.

The only probe of this case was a picture of the false "Kim Jong Nam"
in the airport. The picture doesn´t match at all with the real son of
Chairman Kim Jong Il. The new was published in all the media worldwide
and was never questioned its truth. In this case, the big lie is easy
to introduce: 98% of the readers will believe it because they don?t
know how the son of the Dear Leader looks like, but I know, and he was
not the one in the picture.

Is North Korea changing to capitalism? (or the Goods/Wages price
increasing subject)

The answer is NOT AT ALL.

Stories like this one are repeated in the history. Take a look at
the newspapers of some years ago. Since the changes to capitalism
started in some socialist countries (we?re talking about 20 years back)
the media argued that North Korea won?t last long more than few months
and that a flooding of refugees and even civil war was expected. Now in
the year 2002 and after the difficult time of the "arduous march" the
country is recovering fast and becoming stronger than ever,
demonstrating that the citizens fully suppor "prestigious academicians
or self-claimed specialists"? Now at least they try to be more cautious
and they started saying "well could be will take some years to North
Korea to adopt the free market system" and other rubbish like Chairman
Kim Jong Il visited Shanghai to apply Chinese reforms inside his
country. Chairman Kim Jong Il visit Far East Russia to study the
transition to capitalism?. For some people it is really easy to be a
North Korean expert inside their offices of Harvard while drinking a
coffee and just guessing the future of the country depending on the
weather. But curiously most of that people have not visited Pyongyang
yet, or they talk about a one-week guided visit ten years ago.

The government of the DPR of Korea isn?t going to change the
socialist system based in the Juche Idea created by the Great Leader
President Kim Il Sung and now carried forward under the Direction of
the Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. The recent reforms in the economy were
made inside the own socialist economy for the only purpose of
increasing production. The Free Market System (Capitalism) is not going
to invade the country, and the DPRK won´t follow "the transition of
other socialist countries" like many newspapers said.

"They" will have to kill each one of us if the capitalists pretend that
the free market system will enter in the socialist land of the DPRK,
we´ll sacrifice each drop of our blood and we´ll never surrender even
under the most difficult conditions, this is the phrase that I hear in
the universities, the government or the villages. The convictions and
strength of the citizens of the DPRK is clear, and any new referring to
a capitalist change is just a children´s tale.

Absolutely all the welfare system (kindergarten, schools,
universities, libraries, hospitals and medical treatments, culture
centres, free housing, holidays, etc..) will continue covered and paid
by the government, assuring the dignity and quality of life of all the
citizens living in the DPRK under the care of the Worker?s Party of
Korea. Any foreigner visiting the DPRK can evidence this truth. The
rest is just guessing from the day-dreamers in the pentagon.
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