Jeju Island place
also: Island of Peace, Jeju, Jeonju, Zhajiu, Zhaozhou, Zhezhu, that island, the island, this island
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Claims (23)
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island documented
“Even as the survivors and others demand a U.S. apology, they don't believe anything's coming anytime soon. And that basically encapsulates the part that I wanted to read about this island. There's basically, I mean, the graveyards, the pict…”
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United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island documented
“so coveted by the U.S. after World War II, had to be retained. As recently as March, the U.S. Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer made a port call at the Korean naval base at Jeju in what the commanding officer said was to ensure f…”
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United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island documented
“For more than 16 years, Choi and other activists have protested daily outside of the Navy base, calling for an end of the militarization. During World War II, Jeju was a staging ground for the Japanese air attacks. As early as 1885, Japanes…”
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United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island documented
“Everybody wanted to control everything. So that's kind of not like a newsflash. In April of 2023, President Joe Biden will host South Korea president for a state visit, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it says South Korean president was to atten…”
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United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island book_quoted
“was articulated through its military advisory group and the operations to suppress the Jeju uprising. They go on to say that the provision of military advisors to counter intelligence core, as well as many other blah, blah, blah. And it goe…”
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United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island book_quoted
“that an unknown ship had emerged from the shores of Jeju, or that the Soviet Union considered Jeju to be its satellite, thereby prompting, and this goes to show you how they were using, even back then, the mockingbird media to spread rumors…”
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United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island book_quoted
“Anyway, it was just also that they talked about how this was their center for anti-communist activities. In other words, Operation Gladio. Right, exactly. I mean, it's just every single time it just blows my mind. Yep. SR-71, what you got? …”
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United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“And we're looking at Korea today and where Korea stands, North Korea specifically, with its mineral deposits. The one thing that's puzzling me at this point in time is why they're not being exploited by China or being exploited by Russia. I…”
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United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“So it would be greatly appreciated. But SR-71, you are using logic. And that's how I started this whole thing off. If you think about it, if China or Russia wanted North Korea and they truly were communist, would they not have already taken…”
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Jeju Island host_asserted
“We're looking at Operation Gladio here, who accuses everybody of doing what they are actually doing, when I see evidence that says they are not. And you can't get more evidence than North Korea. North Korea, even before, I mean, keeping thi…”
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United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“who helped North Korea defeat, after they were attacked by the U.S., by the way, in addition to the U.S. attacking North Korea before North Korea attacked them, despite the way history is taught. Why didn't China, who is supposed to be the …”
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United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“like we are told happened to all of these other countries. Why didn't it happen to North Korea? There had to be something inside of North Korea that didn't allow either Russia, at the time Soviet Union, or China to do that that is being sup…”
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United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“have speculated that what happened in Korea wasn't anything like what we were told. That basically, that northern part of Korea was occupied by an entity that was hostile to China and to the Soviet Union and wanted an area that they could o…”
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United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“That pretended to be a country, not unlike what they do or what they did in Pakistan, because they created Pakistan out of whole cloth. It has always been a satellite ran by the CIA under the guise of the Afghan war, which we started to. An…”
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United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“nuclear weapon. So all of that crap, when you go back and look at it, it's all kind of like, what? How did we ever believe that to begin with? It's very easy now looking back to begin questioning things because what hampered us before is we…”
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United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“We had been put in a box as a kid in history class, and we were not allowed to see outside of the box. Operation Gladio cut the box to shreds. And when you understand that the U.S. military isn't always a force of good, when you understand …”
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Jeju Island host_asserted
“not what we've always been told they are. Well, part of the other thing that blows my mind here, Colonel, is Trump actually opened negotiations with North Korea. Yeah. He actually stepped on North Korean soil, if you want to get right down …”
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Korea pardoned
Jeju Island host_asserted
“And or and trained all of the Gladio paramilitary people to assassinate so they could control the island. So it's nice that the South Korean government has apologized to those people. But we were in charge of that island when that massacre …”
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United States Armed Forces carried_out_attack
Jeju Island host_asserted
“when the police went unpunished, the lack of accountability fueled anger. Does that sound familiar? So as strikes begin to occur, mass arrests continue to increase. The U.S. military is using the right-wing, what they call right-wing, param…”
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United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“Um, I don't know if you guys, um, yeah, here's the other link. I'm going to send it to you right now, Bridget. Um, but anyway, um, we can open up, uh, mics to anybody that wants to talk. We're going to try to stay on topic. Um, cause I stil…”
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United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“So we'll try to stay on topic for today. May I add just one tiny little section of something that is relevant, that is pertaining to this? One article said the role of the U.S. military continued even after the formal establishment of the R…”
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59th Military Government Company established_government_in
Jeju Island documented
“All right, so it says the 59th Military Government Company arrived in Zhajiu with a tank landing and established a U.S. military government there as well. What followed was, let's see.…”
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United States carried_out_attack
Jeju Island host_asserted
“experience the actual violence of the attacks of the U.S. government. So, yeah, that makes perfect sense. Miles, go ahead. You guys remember the commercial that Trump put out for North Korea? Yes. Anybody remember that? Nope. I'm going blan…”
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Mentions (25)
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But it does serve, I mean, it makes it very good as far as a method of doing it. Okay. Yeah, we finally got a rhythm. Yeah, exactly. All right. So here's what I wanted to read. There is an area, an island called Jeju. It's J-E-J-U, island.…
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in South Korea. It is South Korea's largest island. And if you wouldn't mind, Bridget, pulling up a map so you could put it up there so everybody can see what we're talking about. There was an uprising on the island from April 1948 to May 1…
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That's kind of where we're at. So we're going to go back to this. A year prior to the start of this conflict in 1948, the residents of Jeju had begun protesting elections scheduled by the United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea. And re…
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protection in order for it not to be labeled an invasion by the U.S. So it said Jeju was protesting the elections scheduled by the U.S. slash U.N. to be held in the occupied half of Korea, which they believed would entrench the division of …
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and beginning the eradication campaign against these people. And this went on for the better part of a year. Many rebel veterans and suspected sympathizers were later killed upon the outbreak of the Korean War. And the existence of the Jeju…
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within South Korea for several decades. In other words, they classified it and you weren't allowed to talk about it. The Jeju Uprising repression was notable for its extreme violence. They basically did an ethnic cleansing in there, redid. …
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2019, the South Korean police and defense minister apologized for their involvement. So just a little bit more about this, just because it's so crazy. After Imperial Japan surrendered to Allied forces, the 35-year occupation had finally com…
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We already talked about that. Lieutenant General John Hodge established the military government, which included Jeju Island. And U.S. representatives met with those from the Soviet Union and the UK to kind of work out how that was all going…
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The islanders courageously stood up against the division of the Korean Peninsula and strongly protested against the first election because the U.S. only wanted to be done in South Korea because they wanted their guy, Ri, to be in charge. Un…
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All right, so it says the 59th Military Government Company arrived in Zhajiu with a tank landing and established a U.S. military government there as well. What followed was, let's see.…
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in order to feed all these people. And I'm not saying that everybody there, that that was a bad thing, but I'm trying to set the stage for the unrest that was already there. So they've got a lack of food as far as the number of people that …
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And you have all of these people that in some cases, some of these people that came back had been in captivity for 10 or 20 years. So a lot of turmoil is what I'm describing here. And supposedly there was a lot of concern about making sure …
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basically retraining the entire police force. And they did it in a manner that will be similar to what we see in the Phoenix program in the future in Vietnam. So they also began another aspect of the Phoenix program was basically to turn so…
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Also, another element that compounds all of this is because they had been occupied for so long by Japan, a lot of the villagers were Japanese collaborators. They had sold their neighbors out. So again, in some defense of the U.S. military, …
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where there's a lot of indigenous hatred of people who had sold their neighbors out. And to be quite honest with you, it would be almost impossible for the U.S. military to discern who the good guys and the bad guys are. So it's very chaoti…
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And they're they're very insistent on labeling people that they have decided are bad as communists. And that's for these people, a nonstarter after they have just been for the last 35 years held hostage by the Japanese people. It frankly pi…
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desire to be in another repressive regime. They're thinking they just got out of one. In 1946, the police were clamping down hard on the island people, and they were making mass arrests. As the U.S. expands the police force, in most cases d…
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paramilitary groups by like 10 times what had ran when it was under occupation by Japan. The paramilitary groups start attacking supply lines, exacerbating the food shortages. So it's basically just falling apart. Let's see. Oh, don't do th…
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Government officials basically are comparing what's happening in Korea to what happened in Greece. And remember what happened in Greece is the CIA overthrew the Greece country after World War II. Because you remember the British had basical…
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people in Greece and then decided they didn't want them once the war was over and then sent in these other people to basically kill the people they trained to try to be a pain in the ass to the Nazis. And they created their own chaos there.…
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when the police went unpunished, the lack of accountability fueled anger. Does that sound familiar? So as strikes begin to occur, mass arrests continue to increase. The U.S. military is using the right-wing, what they call right-wing, param…
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So chaos, violence spread, which is, of course, what they're intended to do. And now the police stations and the jail cells are overflowing with people. On the morning of April 3rd, a dozen police stations came under attack by armed rebels …
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And this is exactly what happened in Colombia, by the way. So the U.S. military command was the supposedly ruling authority. They took no action to prevent any of the murder, the rape, the torture, or the destruction that was taking effect …
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During the autumn of 1948, violence raged as civilians were killed using bamboo spears, and entire villages were burned to the ground. Fearing targeted reprisals, villagers fled beyond the five-kilometer coastal area into the island's inter…
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created no-go zones. What were they doing in the no-go zones? Is that where they were training the paramilitary people? So then what happened is many of those places is where the people were massacred. And today, unfortunately, that's where…