North Korea said Wednesday it will permanently block its border with South Korea and build front-line defense structures to cope with “confrontational hysteria” by South Korean and U.S. forces, while not announcing an expected constitutional revision to formally designate South Korea its principal enemy and codify new national borders.
While the moves were likely a pressure tactic, it’s unclear how they will affect ties with South Korea since cross-border travel and exchanges have been halted for years.
North Korea’s military said it will “completely cut off roads and railways” linked to South Korea and “fortify the relevant areas of our side with strong defense structures,” according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.
Eastern Germany also called the wall built to keep its citizens in an “antifascist bullwark”
They say the fences on their shor line are against beach landings. Absurd.
Recognisable by the screw heads facing West
Which is accurate considering west germany was full of nazis in leadership positions.
https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/from-dictatorship-to-democracy-the-role-ex-nazis-played-in-early-west-germany-a-810207.html
As nobody tried to sneak in from the West that is silly. Also people from the West could easily visit the East as long as they exchanged some money.
The GDR calling the Wall to imprison its own people some sort of protection has nothing to do with the problems of Nazis making careers again in Western Germany. These spanned police, military, politics, administrations, judges…
It is a big problem of its own, especially now that it shows how little was learned from German history and with Nazis like Hans Martin Schleyer being glorified.
But none of these justifies the Wall in Berlin and the other border between East and West Germany.
If you did the slightest bit of reading about this topic, you’d understand this statement is patently false.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001109662.pdf
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:West_German_defectors_to_East_Germany
The wall was built in 1961
Mate, why are you selecting a timespan* like that? The Russian occupation started 1945, that’s when most fled. Something like 15 million fled to the West. Generally most wanted to get away from the Russians. A list of 16(!) defectors is rather irrelevant in this context.
*Huh, I wonder why:
Why would fascists defect to East Germany if West Germany was fascist? I don’t see a single fascist on that list of defectors, just socialists and communists
Who was not a member of the Nazi party at the end of WW2 and still alive and in any sort of position of power?
The entirety of east german leadership… to name one of many.
What did they do during WW2?