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.
In fairness, it sounds like my car gets better mileage.
I dunno… Even with a full tank, I bet your car is not going to get very far into the water.
“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
Can you provide context and a source for that claim? Seems very sensational and hyperbolic
Edited to add: it was sensational and hyperbolic. They were referring to asylum centres to reduce the cost of housing asylum seekers. There are issues here but they are certainly not concentration camps - calling them such is at minimum very disrespectful to those who have suffered and died in actual concentration camps.
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.
He means a boat
A telegraph article trying to whip people into a frenzy about foreign people being close by (and possibly having to gasp interact with one) isn’t what I’d refer to as a reliable or credible source.
“I would feel cooped up and I would be walking down to Finchingfield with my mates,” said one local resident who is campaigning against the plans.
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
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
China simps will find a way to say this is also exactly like what America would do
Treason and sedition is a no-no around the world…
There’s a difference between going “yo government y’all suck” and “let’s take up arms and overthrow the government”
“Someone will find a way to make this about America” he said, immediately making it about America.
He was trying to cross a border illegally. So yeah, its exactly what america would do, except maybe they would have shot him.
Yeah the American government always imprisons those who make fun of them. Exactly the same as this for sure.
Chapter 10 in this book gives lots of examples of political repression in US where activists have been harassed, arrested, and even assassinated by the state https://archive.org/details/DemocracyForTheFew16147062951821
The fact that you think US government doesn’t do these things says a lot about the effectiveness of western brainwashing.
Please show me where he was arrested for criticising the Chinese state.
Pretty ironic comment coming from @SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org I thought liberals had labelled him a russian spy
It’s in the article.
and spent time in jail in China for subversion
but he didnt escape from jail and steal a jetski
Yeah I’m sure the Chinese government would freely admit to that being the reason lol
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Does america arrest people LEAVING the country?
This guy was arrested by south Korea, not China.
Oh yeah and america definitely does.
Yeah, and put them in Guantanamo Bay
“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.
I’m not a violent person. I abhor it honestly.
That being said, actual self defense is always valid.
That’s why I train and carry.
Yep. Pacifism without an exception for self defense is just suicide to me.
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
I wonder how long it takes hexbear to blame white western liberals for their leaders weak personality?
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?
No, just quoting a comment I saw there earlier. Observations can be fun if you let them.
I fucking love this story
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That’s crazy, it says he managed it by towing 5 barrels of fuel. I wonder how fast you can go with that kind of weight
not fast enough, clearly
He even drove almost 500 kilometer
SKCG didn’t want to identify him but someone else identified him anyway. lmao why do the agencies even try.
France welcomes him with open arms. Anything to piss off China really.
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Lol
Real OG
Rich boater fucks around, finds out.
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Haha apathy about a citizen escaping political persecution
You’re a piece of shit for this comment
Stop believing propaganda lol
“Everything that isn’t my view point is propaganda”
Cool 1984 tactics buddy, propaganda sadly still has a real world definition for which my calling out your apathy to a scenario (fictional or not) is most certainly not l m f a o
I know you feel like you’re right and justified rn (or maybe you’re just another furry avatar troll) but you look like an absolute prick to everyone else.
Look at that fucking jet ski! This is not some poor victim of oppression. This is a wealthy idiot who fucked around and found out.
Suffering is suffering dude… surely someone who’s actually fucking Queer would understand that no?
Or are you that troll I smelt from the beginning. I love our talks.
Okay but I’m literally a communist, like??? Do you think I feel bad for the suffering of wealthy idiots with giant godamn jet skis who declare themselves enemies of communism?
Look. We’re entering the next Cold War, and it’s probably going to go hot this time.
Pick a side, lib.
Capitalists and leninists can both be wrong. I’m fine with small c communism myself. But staunchly opposed to the system lenin created.
Hey you first buddy
Yeah, somehow China brainwashed me from the other side of the world despite not speaking Chinese lol
It is pretty weird tbh
It can’t possibly be that you have been exposed to propaganda from your own country!
What exactly did he find? A country better than china? (china is cringe)(china genocides due to communism)(genocide is an inherent part of communism)
I agree on most of your points except that :
- genocide has nothing to do with communism.
- China is no longer communist. At all. You got your private property, private economy and the list goes on.
While I agree that a ‘pure’ Marxism application leads to dictatorship, it’s still an interesting ideology responsible for most of social progress in Western Europe for example (look up what role commies had in liberated France and what laws they put into place : we’re talking health care, paid leave, etc…)
China’s a technocratic dictatorship, if you have read Marx, you KNOW he’s rolling in his grave thinking about how China twisted his works.
Eh, kinda yes but really no. Communism always leads to autocracy, which again always leads to genocide. So saying communism doesnt lead to genocide is splitting hairs and doesnt really help with preventing genocides
He found the inside of a jail cell lol
