From: barrera@mtu.edu (Barrera)
Subject: Re: Maybe you'all don't understand!
Organization: Michigan Technological University
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:31:23 GMT

ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano) writes:
: 
: No you miss the point. If she were kiddnapped from Nippon, Why would the
: Japanese government have to go to N.Ko-ryo to validate it. Her family
: and friends would just say our so and so just disappeared and we think
: or have reason to believe that she was kiddnapped by  N. Ko-ryo to teach
: Japanese to their spies. Corny!!! I am Japanese your not!!
: 

Your explanation is the one that is corny. How would her relatives have
reason to believe she was kidnapped by North Korea? Oh you are japanese?
So what. You could not even begin to imagine how little the fact that you
are Japanese could ever have an iota of relevance to this argument.

: Point Two:
: 
:          I think that out of all of the people who know the Japanese language
: and I can highly assume that the N. Ko-ryuan government can get its
: hands on at least a billion dollars someone in this world would be
: willing to teach for the right amount of money.
: 

Maybe. N. Korea doesn't have a billion dollars to spend on hiring a
Japanese language instructor. Not even $1000. Actually, why should they
pay someone when they can kidnap someone from the enemy? It isn't likely
the instructor would ever escape to tell the world.

: Point Three:
: 
:            Most high political official of N. Ko-ryo already know
: Japanese. REMEMBER that the two didn't split at least until the 1950 or
: early 40's. So, Corea had centuries of contact with Nippon.(For which I
: adhor the Japanese side of the relationship) So there could be in fact
: million of people who know Japanese in N. Ko-ryo. 
: 

Most high political officials have better things to do than teach Japanese.
Who ever heard of a communist party official doing something productive?
Also it is not likely millions of people are alive from the early 40's, nor
is it likely that Japanese was ever taught to large amounts of students, if
at all.

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, they cannot teach someone the most modern Japanese
with the most modern slang and even the accent if they do not have someone 
fresh from Japan to teach it. That is very important in the world of spying
to be able to send a spy to a country and speak its language *flawlessly*
so as not even draw suspicion. And that Mr. Asano is not corny, that is
reality.

: Point four:
: 
:              I also sure that since the Chinese supported N.Ko-ryo
: during the war, they(the Chinese) could go alittle farther and give
: classes in Japanese. This would be easier and more realistic than going
: to Nippon and kidnapping a citizen to teach Japanese.
: 

Read my last paragraph above. Also consider that although China supported
N.Korea during the war, that does not necessarily relate to modern times.
Alliances change, circumstances change. China has good relations with the 
US (well, sometimes not) and would want to distance itself from a rogue
terrorist state.

: Corny!!!

Have too many corn flakes for breakfast? Ever hear the phrase "you are
what you eat" ? :)))

-chris barrera       barrera@mtu.edu     gorim@irc


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