Article

2004-06-01 China-Japan-Koreas

DPRK to build "apartheid fence" to keep Norks in:

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by mojo 2004-06-01 1:56:26 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Corrupted by CHINA? The mother or all Commies
become decadent? What's the world coming to?!?!?!?

Posted by BigEd 2004-06-01 2:24:46 PM|| 2004-06-01 2:24:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "The North Korea-China border is more that 1,000 li (about 400 km) long, and the reality is that itâs impossible to block all of it"

The main line of the Great Wall of China is 3480 kilometres. It would be far quicker to build with modern equipment and its good for tourism. Perhaps China should be building a second wall. Clearly the North Koreans aren't up to the task.

Posted by Yank 2004-06-01 2:39:10 PM|| 2004-06-01 2:39:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 People died in boxcar lots to build the Great Wall, it took the better part of a generation, it was designed to keep nomads from raiding, not to hold peasants in, and North Korea doesn't know what to do with the tourists it gets already.

This would presumably be to keep the border from leaking peasants westward, as it has ever since the early Nineties. I wouldn't be surprised if this is an installment on some sort of promise from that Beijing meeting of Kim's the other month, to stop leaking economic refugees into Manchuria or something like that.

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-06-01 3:02:04 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-06-01 3:02:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 But given that unfinished ziggarat in Pyongyang the NorKs call "Ryugyong Hotel", I wouldn't underestimate the juche capacity for pointless acts of inscrutable engineering.

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-06-01 3:05:26 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-06-01 3:05:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 You need protein to feed to the workers to build a wall. Even the Chicoms know that. The NORKS need to realize that you cannot feed workers grass and expect them build much of a wall. OTOH, maybe daily shots of wheat grass juice will help.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-06-01 3:18:54 PM|| 2004-06-01 3:18:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 juche capacity for pointless acts of inscrutable engineering

9.4 Huzzah!

Posted by Shipman 2004-06-01 3:37:36 PM|| 2004-06-01 3:37:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 more targets for us to bomb,keep on buildin Kimmy!

Posted by Shep UK 2004-06-01 4:31:04 PM|| 2004-06-01 4:31:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Jon Shep, no bomb required. We could shoot it with a flaming arrow. Maybe they will invent chicken wire in this next century, thus eliminating the need for varnish - a vital food staple.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-06-01 4:51:26 PM|| 2004-06-01 4:51:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 a 2 meter high wooden fence

I would say to use a match to escape, but they probably needed it to build the damn thing in the first place.

Posted by Charles 2004-06-01 4:55:27 PM|| 2004-06-01 4:55:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 "2 meter high wooden fence" wont they just eat their way through this?

Posted by flash91 2004-06-01 4:59:46 PM|| 2004-06-01 4:59:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 But given that unfinished ziggarat in Pyongyang..

"The searchin' general has determined that smoking ziggurats are hazardous to your stealth."

(a punch line to an old, stupid joke..hehe)

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-01 5:24:33 PM|| 2004-06-01 5:24:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 My point was the Chinese should build the great wall of Korea since they get tourism dollars for the current wall and they want to keep the wave of North Korean peasants out.

People died in boxcar lots to build the original great wall and it took a generation. But they also built the wall 10 times longer than the Korean wall would need to be and they built it 15 meters high when three or four meters would be all that is required to keep North Korean peasants out.

The ancient Chinese also failed to use trains, cranes and earth moving equipment to get the job done.

Posted by Yank 2004-06-01 5:26:39 PM|| 2004-06-01 5:26:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Visions of NYT headline:

NKORS KNAW WAY SOUTH
Sharp Teeth an Asset.

Posted by john 2004-06-01 9:52:57 PM|| 2004-06-01 9:52:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Bom, I had never heard that one. My kids will love it.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-06-01 10:14:52 PM|| 2004-06-01 10:14:52 PM|| Front Page Top

16:03 M. Murcek
11:30 Halfass Pete
10:37 Halfass Pete
17:30 Victory Now Please
14:29 Victory Now Please
09:01 Victory Now Please
15:27 Victory Now Please
10:50 Victory Now Please
15:55 Victory Now Please
17:14 Faisal
11:09 growler
07:42 Anonymous5089
04:02 gromky
02:41 Mike Sylwester
01:46 Aris Katsaris
01:44 Anonymous2U
00:51 .com
00:43 rex
00:22 .com
00:19 .com
00:15 gromky
00:09 Quana
00:00 Zenster
23:56 Quana