South Korea’s coastguard said Tuesday it had arrested a Chinese national who tried to enter the country after travelling by jet ski from China – a journey of more than 300 kilometres (186 miles).
Wearing a life vest and helmet, the man crossed the Yellow Sea on a 1800-cc jet ski from Shandong province, using binoculars and a compass to navigate and towing five barrels of fuel.
“He refilled the petrol on the ride and dumped the empty barrels into the sea,” the coastguard said in a press release.
That’s actually pretty badass.
totally completely 100% badass
Does anyone know what the sea is like on that trip? I would think if it was not very calm this would be a nightmare.
I don’t really know but…
Looking at it on a map it looks like it’s a huge bay, enclosed on 3 sides. I doubt there would be any significant “swell”. There might be small waves whipped up on a windy day but barely enough to trouble you on a jet ski particularly if you’re moving.
The main risk would be exposure. Too hot, too cold or too much sun even on a cold day can really fuck you up.
I’ve sailed there, granted it was on a merchant ship, and it varies a lot. If it’s little or no wind or a slight breeze from the west he would be fine weatherwise but when we had a small storm pass through it was a bit rough even on a 200m ship. Would look carefully on the weather report before attempting this, especially since he was towing his fuel.
1800cc? That’s a bigger engine than my car. In fairness, it sounds like my car gets better mileage.
“While his means of entry into South Korea in violation of the law was wrong, surveillance of the Chinese authorities and political persecution of Kwon since 2016 are behind his life-risking crossing into South Korea,” Lee said.
“He is now weighing whether to apply for refugee status in South Korea or choose a third country,” he said.
Well, that’s nice. Glad they don’t even consider sending him back or something. Hope he gets out of this well.
If this had happened in my country (UK) he’d be in a concentration camp by now.
Nice to know some countries are still civilised
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That’s literally what concentration camps are. Points where you “concentrate” a population you’re trying to control.
Outright murdering the people you have in them was a Nazi death camp thing, but the Brits were probably most famous for using them before that while attempting to suppress colonial rebellion.
My apartment in America is a concentration camp ☹️
You joke, buy people have been pointing that out for decades now. There is a reason the term Ghetto is still a common descriptor for these areas to this day…
“Ghettos” aren’t just apartments; they’re specifically segregated (and not by the minority’s choice) and often substandard/impoverished/oppressed.
Trying to equate ghettos with mere high density is nothing but racist NIMBY bullshit.
If there apartment seems like a concentration camp then it is likely subsidized housing, which is statistically likely to be part of a ghetto.
I have nothing against high density, living… the top commentor said their apartment feels like a concentration camp, and my point is that it essentially could be.
Feel free to be smug when the floating death trap of an “asylum center” burns up like Grenfell 🥴
He means a boat
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We’re talking about the existence of of the camp here, not how it will be expected to run.
Are you questioning the existence of the camp on the fact this is a torygraph article.
Bibby Stockholm has been in the news recently, i would consider that a concentration camp too. Temporary structure in which asylum seekers are to be concentrated
Paywall. ☹️
Thanks!
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do you live in a cave or something? The UK is full of rapists and imprisoning people for doing wrong-thinking à la 1984
Or Rwanda. They love sending immigrants to Rwanda.
They haven’t actually managed to send anyone yet have they? Courts keep blocking them
You are correct. Braverman and Sunak are appealing the decision by the Court of Appeal because they’re inhuman but so far no one has been sent to Rwanda just yet.
They’ve also said they want to take away our human rights laws and leave the ECHR. Once they take away all those pesky human rights we’ll be all set. I, for one, am sick of all these fucking humans acting as if the human societies that humans built should serve humans and protect humans and encourage humans to prosper. Humans rights? Makes me sick. Can’t wait to get rid of them and show these humans who really matters, the people really in charge: [character limit reached]
I hear they have a really nice hotel there.
bad yelp reviews
“Let’s work together and topple this invisible wall” Mr. Kwon said in the Twitter post
He described himself as “dedicated to overturning communism.”
showing images saying “use our votes to overthrow the government”
Hoh boy
Voting is the proper way to overthrown the government. The other ways are more violent.
What about when the “proper” way doesn’t work?
Get on your jetski
Don’t forget them 5 barrels 🙃
Nothing wrong violence as a last resort. Especially in reply to violence used against you.
Vote harder
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That’s what happens when you don’t vote hard enough and let a crooked government come into power!
Non-violent revolution. Worked for us in Czechoslovakia.
Yeah I was expecting stuff like “Maybe don’t chain people into apartment buildings because one dude got COVID?”
That be treason.
No country likes treason.
Counter revolutionary let’s run him over with a tank
Hope he gets asylum.
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You may have thought he meant psychiatric asylum but in this case it’s
Protection and immunity from extradition granted by a government to a political refugee from another country.
Oooooh, thank you! Yes, I was very confused for a second
I fucking love this story
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Does hexbear like china?
I think you mis-spelled “fellate”.
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They have too cute a logo for such ugly ideas. It’s not fair!
Hexbear really does live in your head rent free eh?
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not fast enough, clearly
He even drove almost 500 kilometer
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SKCG didn’t want to identify him but someone else identified him anyway. lmao why do the agencies even try.
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Bro studied in Iowa 😐
Lots of Chinese citizens come to the US to study. Look into the Confucius Institute (孔子学院). Many (probably most) universities in the US have partnerships with them (which has led to many conspiracy theories by paranoid people).
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Lol
Real OG
That shirt is giving big “Fuck Trudeau” vibes. It’s funny how libs who claim to be leftists will cheer on Chinese right wing extremists (Kwon Pyong) just because “China bad”.
Word soup
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right wing means things I dont likeoh shid oh fug I misread the comment I thought it was typical liberal accusations of China being right wing 😳 😓
I can see how the phrasing of my comment could be taken that way. Edited for clarity.
Here’s another article that claims him to be a “critic” of the Tiananmen Square “massacre”. A thing that objectively did not happen.
average lemmygrad member
I should learn early 2000s CSS so I, too, can make a website full of fun notions.
More retarded Tankie propaganda. You will never find a legitimate source that backs up your claims.
From the sites “About” page
The second objective is to develop a correct theoretical line in particular… In short: pro-Stalin (against historical nihilism, anarchism, etc.), pro-China (for their chosen road of Reform and Opening Up and against “Maoism” and Sinophobia), and pro-“identity politics” (for a broad understanding of class and against the idealization of “patriotic white workers” as the revolutionary subject, etc.). We consider the populist strategy of courting brittle and ineffective “united fronts” by leaving serious questions of principle unaddressed a mirage.
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I should learn to read! 😅
Never trust a boater.
Didn’t the US 4th Psyops Group literally admit to organizing Tiananmen Square in their recent recruiting video?
Kk tankie
Kk dronie
Good one
