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Get out of Zimbabwe now-North Korea Kim Yong Nam told

  1. Posted on Wednesday 13 May 2009 - 15:48
    bruce
    Bruce Sibanda, Harare, Zimbabwe
    VISITING North Korea on its Pyongyang's number two leader, Kim Yong Nam in Zimbabwe has been told to leave the country within 48 hours.

    Job Sikhala, who was last week suspendd from the breakaway MDC faction said the visit was not welcome since North Korea helped train Mugabe's 5th Brigade which was responsible for the massacre of over 20 000 people in Matabeleland and the Midlands in the 1980's.

    Sikhala, issued a statement saying he lost his aunt 'in that horrendous and hellish crime against humanity' now commonly referred to as the Gukurahundi Massacres.

    Said Sikhala, 'North Korea represents the most satanic outpost of tyranny and urged Mr Kim to go and organise elections in his country where people are languishing from unmitigated poverty and gross human rights abuses”

    He expressed outrage at President Robert Mugabe for thanking the Koreans for the training facilities which they provided to the 5th brigade saying this has
    infuriated thousands of Gukurahundi victims.

    At a lavish state banquet on Monday Mugabe congratulated North Korea on its
    rocket launch last month and expressed hopes for even warmer bilateral ties.

    North Korea said it sent a satellite into orbit on April 5 as part of a
    peaceful space program. But the U.N. Security Council and much of the
    international community condemned the launch, which was widely seen as a
    test for a long-range missile.

    Zimbabwe and North Korea, both of which have few friends internationally,
    have maintained strong ties for several decades.

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