Inter-Research And Studies (IRAS)

By Tatiana Gabroussenko " ... Young guerrilla girl Kumsuni delivers letters to comrades, and one day is caught by the police. When the policemen demand the girl disclose information about the guerillas, she spits into the faces of her interrogators. As the policemen drag Kumsuni to her execution, the heroic girl cries out 'Long Live General Kim Il Sung!'" ...Pre-teen boy Ri Kwang-ch'un is a member of a secret anti-Japanese children's organization. Along with others, he helps the "Red Guard uncles". However, one day policemen apprehend the boy. When the "bastards" torture the young patriot, Ri cuts off his own tongue in defiance. His last words are "Long Live the Korean Revolution!" Even if one supports patriotic education of the younger generation, one is still likely to find such notions of slicing off one's own tongue, torture or execution to be much too disturbing and complicated to present to children. Yet the plots ci...

Despite historical facts affirming the Chinese as the rightful owner of the Diaoyu Islands, the Japanese government had continue to flex its muscles over these disputed islands by claiming that these islands are theirs, of which they called Senkaku Islands. Japan is again flexing its imperial muscles onto China after their Second World War defeat in 1945. What right does Japan has to claim that these islands belongs to them? Based on the history of their empire build up? Everyone knows, the Imperial Japanese Empire was built with blood, war and conquering using their military might and aggression against other countries. So, does that mean those conquered territories belongs to them legally? No, certainly not. If they wish to claim that the Diaoyu Islands belongs to them, then they should also claim that most of the Asian continents belongs to them too, as Imperial Japan had once conquered this region before and during Second World War, of which includes many parts of China. T...

We all knew that during the Second World War (WW2) in the Asian continent, the Imperial Japan had aggressively used its military force to conquer many parts of Asia, particularly Korea, Manchuria, some parts of Eastern Russia and largely China. Japan's aggression was later expanded to many parts of Southeast Asia and the Pacific theatre. During these aggression, the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were well-known for its atrocities against civilians. The most famous one was marked in the Nanking Massacre in 1937, when the Chinese Nationalist government's capital fell into the hands of the Imperial Japan. Millions of Chinese civilians, men and women, children, senior citizens, sick people, babies were systematically murdered, women and children were captured, raped and then slaughtered, many cities, counties and homes were torched which caused total destruction of much of China's population. Asides, the Japanese military aggression and atrocities had also expanded t...