Americans are removed from the reality of people in China and North Korea and the aftermath of the Korean War.
May 2, 2018By Ko Dang-hwan
Mao Xinyu, left, became the youngest Major General of the People's Liberation Army of China, according to Chinese newspaper Ming Pao in Hong Kong, August 2010
Chinese communist (click here) revolutionary Mao Zedong's only grandson Mao Xinyu was possibly killed in a bus crash in North Korea in April that killed over 30 Chinese, according to a report from French radio.
Xinyu, the son of Mao Zedong's second son Anqing who died fighting in the Korean War, was possibly one of 32 Chinese tourists who died when a bus fell from a bridge in North Hwanghae Province, Radio France Internationale's Chinese version reported on April 30, citing a Chinese source.
The report said Xinyu, a Major General in the People's Liberation Army of China, and most of the other Chinese tourists were the children of Chinese soldiers who fought in the Korean War.
The accident also killed four North Koreans.
The tourists died reportedly on their way back from a cemetery in Hoechang County in South Pyongan Province that was for Chinese soldiers who died during the Korean War. Mao Zedong's eldest son Anying was buried there, which leads to the supposition Xinyu could have visited the cemetery to pay tribute to his uncle....
It is strange to think about. But, all those demonized by The West aren't necessarily demonized elsewhere. I am sorry to hear so many people died in the tour bus. Sympathies to all the those grieving their loss.
Mao Tse-tung (click here) was the principal Chinese Marxist theorist, soldier and statesman who led his nation's Cultural Revolution....On October 1, 1949, in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, Mao announced the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Chiang Kai-shek and his followers fled to the island of Taiwan, where they formed the Republic of China....
...In 1972, to further solidify his place in Chinese history, Mao Tse-tung met with United States President Richard Nixon, a gesture that eased tensions between the two countries and elevated China's prominence as a world player. During the meetings, it became apparent that Mao's health was deteriorating, and not much was accomplished because Mao was not always clear in his statements or intentions....
May 2, 2018By Kim Rahn
Kim Jong-un consoles a Chinese tourist who was injured in Sunday's bus accident in North Korea.
North Korean (click here) leader Kim Jong-un visited the Chinese embassy in Pyongyang to express his "bitter sorrow" over the deaths of Chinese tourists in a bus accident in his country, by visiting the Chinese embassy in Pyongyang, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Tuesday.
His visit came only hours after the accident, an unusual move. It was also Kim's first visit to the Chinese embassy in his country since taking power in late 2011. It was unusual for the North's state-run propaganda media to report negative news about the regime.
The rare response reflects the rapidly improving Pyongyang-Beijing relations, following Kim's visit to Beijing and talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping last month.
"Kim visited the Chinese Embassy here at around 6:30 a.m. on April 23 and expressed his condolences over a large number of casualties among Chinese tourists in a bus crash," the KCNA reported....
