A Suffering Japanee Mother
Perhaps you have heard the story of the kidnapping of Japanese citizens by North Korea some 30 years ago.
These kidnappings were truly bizarre and cruel actions; their purpose, ostensibly, was to use those people as Japanese language teachers for North Korean intelligence agents.
They were people plucked at random, a security guard, an engaged couple on a seaside holiday, an apprentice carpenter, a beautician; not people of intelligence value or academic standing.
The estimated number of people taken is 12, four of them were returned to Japan decades later, the others were reported dead by the North Koreans.
One of those Japanese kidnapped and reported to have died decades later was a 13-year-old girl named Megumi Yokota, who was reportedly locked in an iron room in the bowels of a North Korean ship in 1977, and taken to North Korea, and held there in enslavement all her life there.
It has always struck me how odd it is that this story does not reverberate around the world, it revealing a clearly grotesquely illegal action by a widely disliked regime. It it a story of such poignant content that it makes the stomach turn,
It is not just that this story is not well known and well reported in the United States; it was not even openly discussed by the Japanese government until 2002. Thirty years of hush-hush is a story in itself.
The mother of the kidnapped girl, Sakie Yokota, has been in Washington this week, presenting her story to Congress yesterday (Thursday) and scheduled to talk to George W. Bush today (Friday).
I have as yet seen no national TV coverage of this visit, which surprises me because it is such a profound story, and a story so telling of the mind set of North Korea. Not even Fox News, which sees in North Korea the embodiment of evil, has reported this story.
So, I.C.News reports this story.
You can tell a lot about a nation by the nature of its cruelties. The North Korean government has said this episode of profoundly evil kidnap and torture was the result of a few overzealous intelligence agents. There is an American term for this: Bull Shit.
I have never really bought the language-instruction theory as the reason for the kidnappings, although that is certainly the use these kidnap victims seem to have been put to. These were ordinary people, not scholars or specialists, and they were enslaved into teaching North Korean intelligence agents how to speak Japanese and better understand Japan.
I have always felt these kidnappings were in some warped way responsive to Japan's really cruel occupation of Korea, formalized in 1910 and ended in 1945, an occupation in which the Korean language was made illegal, Korean men were forced to serve a laborers in the Japanese military, and Korean women were forced to serve as sex slaves for the Japanese army.
The point I make here is, how valuable can a 13-year-old Japanese girl be as an enslaved Japanese language teacher to North Korea? I think it more likely that she was taken in random, cowardly revenge.
Now look at the poignant event in Washington DC this week, the mother of this kidnapped girl who has suffered for some 30 years has been pleading with the United States of America to somehow ease her pain, and the American TV media has not reported her plea.
I have seen nothing on the TV news about this agonized mother, but this is a very important story.
This story represents for this bumbling "president", George W. Bush, an opportunity to do something good, and to do something well, for a change; but I expect he is ignoring it..
I don't expect anything of Bush, except perhaps for some self-serving propaganda, but this issue, properly handled, could break the deadlock of bull-headedness between the United States and North Korea.
In my view, and in my experience, cruelty is the common denominator of all nations. The United States is cruel, North Korea is cruel, China is cruel, Japan is cruel, Russia is cruel and on and on around the globe.
This cruelty travels in waves, appearing in greater and lesser degrees here and there, Nazi Germany then, Dafur now, but it is always present, everywhere.
I have discussed at great length America's cruelty to me since I became the only audible mental telepath in history, but for the purpose of today's report that cruelty is just another piece of cruelty in the world-wide mosaic of cruelty.
Americans torture me every day; as I write this report Americans torture me through the walls; but these Americans cannot see their own cruelty; and, Dear Reader, that is the common denominator of all human beings. I can see your cruelties but I cannot see mine; America can see the Boogie Man of Iraq's cruelties, but it cannot see its own.
This is a constant equation in human relationships, as constant as two plus two equals four in the mathematics of the destruction of the human being.
This work, The Obituary of the World, concerns the death of this Earth by 2065, and I want to suggest to you that a large piece of the pie of that death is common human cruelty.
Cruelty is Satan.
These kidnappings were truly bizarre and cruel actions; their purpose, ostensibly, was to use those people as Japanese language teachers for North Korean intelligence agents.
They were people plucked at random, a security guard, an engaged couple on a seaside holiday, an apprentice carpenter, a beautician; not people of intelligence value or academic standing.
The estimated number of people taken is 12, four of them were returned to Japan decades later, the others were reported dead by the North Koreans.
One of those Japanese kidnapped and reported to have died decades later was a 13-year-old girl named Megumi Yokota, who was reportedly locked in an iron room in the bowels of a North Korean ship in 1977, and taken to North Korea, and held there in enslavement all her life there.
It has always struck me how odd it is that this story does not reverberate around the world, it revealing a clearly grotesquely illegal action by a widely disliked regime. It it a story of such poignant content that it makes the stomach turn,
It is not just that this story is not well known and well reported in the United States; it was not even openly discussed by the Japanese government until 2002. Thirty years of hush-hush is a story in itself.
The mother of the kidnapped girl, Sakie Yokota, has been in Washington this week, presenting her story to Congress yesterday (Thursday) and scheduled to talk to George W. Bush today (Friday).
I have as yet seen no national TV coverage of this visit, which surprises me because it is such a profound story, and a story so telling of the mind set of North Korea. Not even Fox News, which sees in North Korea the embodiment of evil, has reported this story.
So, I.C.News reports this story.
You can tell a lot about a nation by the nature of its cruelties. The North Korean government has said this episode of profoundly evil kidnap and torture was the result of a few overzealous intelligence agents. There is an American term for this: Bull Shit.
I have never really bought the language-instruction theory as the reason for the kidnappings, although that is certainly the use these kidnap victims seem to have been put to. These were ordinary people, not scholars or specialists, and they were enslaved into teaching North Korean intelligence agents how to speak Japanese and better understand Japan.
I have always felt these kidnappings were in some warped way responsive to Japan's really cruel occupation of Korea, formalized in 1910 and ended in 1945, an occupation in which the Korean language was made illegal, Korean men were forced to serve a laborers in the Japanese military, and Korean women were forced to serve as sex slaves for the Japanese army.
The point I make here is, how valuable can a 13-year-old Japanese girl be as an enslaved Japanese language teacher to North Korea? I think it more likely that she was taken in random, cowardly revenge.
Now look at the poignant event in Washington DC this week, the mother of this kidnapped girl who has suffered for some 30 years has been pleading with the United States of America to somehow ease her pain, and the American TV media has not reported her plea.
I have seen nothing on the TV news about this agonized mother, but this is a very important story.
This story represents for this bumbling "president", George W. Bush, an opportunity to do something good, and to do something well, for a change; but I expect he is ignoring it..
I don't expect anything of Bush, except perhaps for some self-serving propaganda, but this issue, properly handled, could break the deadlock of bull-headedness between the United States and North Korea.
In my view, and in my experience, cruelty is the common denominator of all nations. The United States is cruel, North Korea is cruel, China is cruel, Japan is cruel, Russia is cruel and on and on around the globe.
This cruelty travels in waves, appearing in greater and lesser degrees here and there, Nazi Germany then, Dafur now, but it is always present, everywhere.
I have discussed at great length America's cruelty to me since I became the only audible mental telepath in history, but for the purpose of today's report that cruelty is just another piece of cruelty in the world-wide mosaic of cruelty.
Americans torture me every day; as I write this report Americans torture me through the walls; but these Americans cannot see their own cruelty; and, Dear Reader, that is the common denominator of all human beings. I can see your cruelties but I cannot see mine; America can see the Boogie Man of Iraq's cruelties, but it cannot see its own.
This is a constant equation in human relationships, as constant as two plus two equals four in the mathematics of the destruction of the human being.
This work, The Obituary of the World, concerns the death of this Earth by 2065, and I want to suggest to you that a large piece of the pie of that death is common human cruelty.
Cruelty is Satan.
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