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27-05-2016, 10:30 AM
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...eak-in-korean/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/25/the-north-korean-born-sons-of-an-american-defector-speak-in-korean/)
An American GI defected to North Korea. Now his sons are propaganda stars.
By Anna Fifield WorldViewsMay 25
These two sons of an American defector are huge stars in North Korea
Play Video1:08
Ted and James Dresnok are the Pyongyang-born sons of James Joseph Dresnok, a former American GI who defected to North Korea in 1962 when he was stationed in South Korea after the war, and Doina Bumbea, a Romanian who was reportedly abducted by North Korea. (The Washington Post)
Their names are Ted and James, and they look like the kinds of men you might bump into on the streets of Richmond, Va., where their father was born.
But they’re speaking perfect North Korean and wearing badges of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, the first two leaders of North Korea, over their hearts. Oh, and the younger one, James, is a captain in the North Korean army.
They’re the Pyongyang-born sons of James Joseph Dresnok, the former American GI who defected to North Korea in 1962 when he was stationed in South Korea after the war.
[North Korea’s one-percenters savor life in ‘Pyonghattan’]
And they’ve just appeared in an extraordinary video published online by Minjok Tongshin, a pro-Pyongyang news service based in the United States that runs the kind of stories that wouldn’t look out of place in North Korea’s official media.
“I want to advise the U.S. to drop its hostile policy against North Korea. They’ve done enough wrong and now it’s time for them to wake up from their delusions,” said Ted Dresnok, 36, who goes by the Korean name Hong Sun Chol. He was wearing a navy blue suit with a red Kim badge on it.
His younger brother, James, or Hong Chol, was wearing a North Korean army uniform and said he held a rank equivalent to a captain in the U.S.*Army. His comments also sounded like they came out of the propaganda department.
“The American Imperialists caused the division of the Korean peninsula,” James*said.
This led to a bizarre situation in which Roh Kil-nam, the ethnically Korean, naturalized U.S.*citizen who runs Minjok Tongshin, asked the ethnically Caucasian, North Korean citizen brothers if they considered him among such ilk.
“No, I mean the very top leaders of the U.S.,” James clarified.
[I went to North Korea and was told I ask too many questions]
Ted and James are the sons of Dresnok, known as Joe, and a Romanian woman, Doina Bumbea, who was reportedly abducted by North Korea. Charles Jenkins, another U.S. serviceman who defected to North Korea but was allowed to leave in 2004, described Bumbea as a Romanian abductee in his memoirs and said she died of cancer in 1997.
Dresnok is then thought to have married the daughter of a North Korean woman and a Togolese diplomat, and they are said to have had a son, Tony.*(North Korea is big on blood purity and generally won't allow foreigners to marry Koreans, meaning that the foreigners get matched up among themselves.)
Ted and James said that Tony was at school at the time they did the interview, which was apparently carried out in Pyongyang after the much-hyped congress of the Korean Workers’ Party this month.
All three sons, along with Dresnok’s third wife, appeared in "Crossing the Line," a British documentary about the former American and his life in North Korea. That film showed the older boys speaking English with a Korean accent.
Dresnok came from a difficult background and was going through a difficult period — his wife had left him and he was in trouble with his superiors — when he decided to cross the demilitarized zone into North Korea in 1962. He was 21.
[What it’s like to be an American held in North Korea]
He taught English and appeared in television shows and movies — always playing the “evil American.”
Like their father, the two sons*also have appeared as Americans in North Korean dramas.
Now 75 and in poor health, Dresnok hasn’t been heard of for several years.
But his sons were apparently trotted out to extol the glories of the “socialist paradise” into which they were born. Each*contact with the media is highly scripted in North Korea, but it's impossible to tell whether the men were saying what they'd been told to say or if, after spending their entire lives in North Korea, they really think this.
Here’s what they said:
Ted: He said he was born in Pyongyang on Dec. 13, 1980. “Under the generous care of Kim Jong ll,” he went to an elementary school and foreign language schools and then the Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies, majoring in English and Japanese.
He said he is now working at a defense education facility, part of the Workers’ Party.
He is married to 36-year-old *Ri Ok, and they have a 7-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son.
James: Prompted, he said he volunteered to join the military in 2014. “Thanks to the general's hospitality, we receive gifts on every national holiday. I’m very grateful for the socialism system. Due to the worsening situation on the Korean peninsula, I decided to work for the military.”
He said he met his wife through workmates, and that they have a 6-year-old daughter.
Today there are Jihad John, American Taliban, etc, but this guy is pioneer.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://singsupplies.com/showthread.php?230223-US-Army-Defected-to-North-Korea-more-Loyal-amp-Proud-than-LKY-s-Dogs&goto=newpost).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...eak-in-korean/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/25/the-north-korean-born-sons-of-an-american-defector-speak-in-korean/)
An American GI defected to North Korea. Now his sons are propaganda stars.
By Anna Fifield WorldViewsMay 25
These two sons of an American defector are huge stars in North Korea
Play Video1:08
Ted and James Dresnok are the Pyongyang-born sons of James Joseph Dresnok, a former American GI who defected to North Korea in 1962 when he was stationed in South Korea after the war, and Doina Bumbea, a Romanian who was reportedly abducted by North Korea. (The Washington Post)
Their names are Ted and James, and they look like the kinds of men you might bump into on the streets of Richmond, Va., where their father was born.
But they’re speaking perfect North Korean and wearing badges of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, the first two leaders of North Korea, over their hearts. Oh, and the younger one, James, is a captain in the North Korean army.
They’re the Pyongyang-born sons of James Joseph Dresnok, the former American GI who defected to North Korea in 1962 when he was stationed in South Korea after the war.
[North Korea’s one-percenters savor life in ‘Pyonghattan’]
And they’ve just appeared in an extraordinary video published online by Minjok Tongshin, a pro-Pyongyang news service based in the United States that runs the kind of stories that wouldn’t look out of place in North Korea’s official media.
“I want to advise the U.S. to drop its hostile policy against North Korea. They’ve done enough wrong and now it’s time for them to wake up from their delusions,” said Ted Dresnok, 36, who goes by the Korean name Hong Sun Chol. He was wearing a navy blue suit with a red Kim badge on it.
His younger brother, James, or Hong Chol, was wearing a North Korean army uniform and said he held a rank equivalent to a captain in the U.S.*Army. His comments also sounded like they came out of the propaganda department.
“The American Imperialists caused the division of the Korean peninsula,” James*said.
This led to a bizarre situation in which Roh Kil-nam, the ethnically Korean, naturalized U.S.*citizen who runs Minjok Tongshin, asked the ethnically Caucasian, North Korean citizen brothers if they considered him among such ilk.
“No, I mean the very top leaders of the U.S.,” James clarified.
[I went to North Korea and was told I ask too many questions]
Ted and James are the sons of Dresnok, known as Joe, and a Romanian woman, Doina Bumbea, who was reportedly abducted by North Korea. Charles Jenkins, another U.S. serviceman who defected to North Korea but was allowed to leave in 2004, described Bumbea as a Romanian abductee in his memoirs and said she died of cancer in 1997.
Dresnok is then thought to have married the daughter of a North Korean woman and a Togolese diplomat, and they are said to have had a son, Tony.*(North Korea is big on blood purity and generally won't allow foreigners to marry Koreans, meaning that the foreigners get matched up among themselves.)
Ted and James said that Tony was at school at the time they did the interview, which was apparently carried out in Pyongyang after the much-hyped congress of the Korean Workers’ Party this month.
All three sons, along with Dresnok’s third wife, appeared in "Crossing the Line," a British documentary about the former American and his life in North Korea. That film showed the older boys speaking English with a Korean accent.
Dresnok came from a difficult background and was going through a difficult period — his wife had left him and he was in trouble with his superiors — when he decided to cross the demilitarized zone into North Korea in 1962. He was 21.
[What it’s like to be an American held in North Korea]
He taught English and appeared in television shows and movies — always playing the “evil American.”
Like their father, the two sons*also have appeared as Americans in North Korean dramas.
Now 75 and in poor health, Dresnok hasn’t been heard of for several years.
But his sons were apparently trotted out to extol the glories of the “socialist paradise” into which they were born. Each*contact with the media is highly scripted in North Korea, but it's impossible to tell whether the men were saying what they'd been told to say or if, after spending their entire lives in North Korea, they really think this.
Here’s what they said:
Ted: He said he was born in Pyongyang on Dec. 13, 1980. “Under the generous care of Kim Jong ll,” he went to an elementary school and foreign language schools and then the Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies, majoring in English and Japanese.
He said he is now working at a defense education facility, part of the Workers’ Party.
He is married to 36-year-old *Ri Ok, and they have a 7-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son.
James: Prompted, he said he volunteered to join the military in 2014. “Thanks to the general's hospitality, we receive gifts on every national holiday. I’m very grateful for the socialism system. Due to the worsening situation on the Korean peninsula, I decided to work for the military.”
He said he met his wife through workmates, and that they have a 6-year-old daughter.
Today there are Jihad John, American Taliban, etc, but this guy is pioneer.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://singsupplies.com/showthread.php?230223-US-Army-Defected-to-North-Korea-more-Loyal-amp-Proud-than-LKY-s-Dogs&goto=newpost).