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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (65731)1/13/2003 12:39:48 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Michael, that guy's a wacko or that is purely a fantasy piece, akin to the Evil Iraqis tossing babies out of incubators and taking the incubators to Iraq.

That's what they said when the first reports of the Holocaust trickled out -- "You sound just like the propagandists going on about the Atrocious Huns in the First War. The Germans aren't savages. Civilized men don't do things like that."



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (65731)1/13/2003 1:04:26 AM
From: greenspirit  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one Maurice. After reading an enormous amount of information the past couple of days, I happen to believe the reports are largely true.

I could have chosen dozens of stories from the web to post, but I chose Dr. Vollertsen, because of his articulate and unique first-hand experience.

Every story may not be true. As the articles state, some were reported to him from interviews he conducted on the Chinese border towns. But, I certainly do not believe he's a wacko.

Do you have any concrete or anecdotal evidence to support your claim that he is a wacko?

By the way, here's a good link to Korean news sites.
lib.monash.edu.au



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (65731)1/13/2003 4:44:21 AM
From: frankw1900  Respond to of 281500
 
...that guy's a wacko or that is purely a fantasy piece,

When I was a kid the Reader's Digest, every issue, carried a story about how awful life was in the Soviet sphere. Some of the stories made em want to puke. Turns out, they were all true.

You're wrong, Maurice. The N Koreans have been allowed to play house for 40 years longer.