Spreading Democracy: N.W.O. Style

Note: This series of articles comes from the Marine Corps Times and highlights a serious problem now epidemic at U.S. military bases in the Asian area. This trafficking in teen and sub-teen girls, and boys, as objects of pleasure for American troops stationed in the areas involved, has been going on for years and is something the senior field commanders strictly ignore because heterosexual (and occasional homosexual…mostly for officers only…) contacts are considered “good recreation” for bored troops stationed far from home. Many of the sex slaves carry various venereal diseases, and worse, AIDS, but soldiers who contract such diseases are either treated in theater and released or, if the disease is serious enough, shipped back stateside for discreet, isolated treatment. As a point of further interest, troops stationed in areas where sex slaves are located regularly have their personal outgoing mail searched and, when transferred back stateside, their personal luggage as well. This is to interdict, remove and destroy many pictures of nude children that an officer has said were “repulsive in the extreme.” Ain’t Bush democracy ambassadors wonderful? I wonder if Middle America knows what their sons and husbands are up to while Furthering American Democracy? Brian Harring


At a time when the U.S. State Department and the United Nations labor to combat the international trafficking in women, the U.S. military supports a flourishing trade in sex slaves in South Korea.

Hundreds of trafficked women, mostly from former Soviet bloc countries and the Philippines, are forced by local bar owners to work as prostitutes in bars that cater to American servicemen. The women are typically lured to Korea with promises of high-paying jobs but end up being held against their will and coerced into working as prostitutes in circumstances that both the State Department and the United Nations condemn as a form of sexual slavery.

The U.S. military leadership in Korea says it is powerless to put a stop to the practice, which they claim is the responsibility of the Korean police. But the top Korean police expert on prostitution said it is unlikely Korean police will do anything to halt the trafficking because of widespread police corruption.

While U.S. troops continue to be the sex-slave racket’s best customers, U.S. commanders turn a blind eye. And there’s no end in sight.


At least 5,000 foreign women have been trafficked into South Korea since the mid-1990s to work as “entertainers” in clubs near U.S. bases, but the actual total “may be much higher,” according to a new report.

This and other findings in the just-released August 2002 report by the independent International Organization for Migration, based in Geneva, parallel the findings of an Aug. 19 story, “Sex slaves,” published in the Military Times papers.

That story noted the almost ubiquitous presence of foreign women in clubs near U.S. bases in Tongduchon, Uijeongbu, Songtan and many other locations in South Korea. Many of these women, that story and the new IOM report concluded, went there to work as dancers and hostesses with guarantees of good pay and working hours.

Instead, they work long hours for low pay, are virtual prisoners of club managers and frequently are forced to have paid sex with U.S. military customers.

“Women trafficked into the Korean entertainment industry endure working conditions that clearly exploit them,” the IOM report stated. “Some of these women are brought to South Korea to provide sexual services and are required to do so sometimes from the very first day they arrive in South Korea.”

The report said “a conservative estimate would indicate that hundreds of women” are brought to South Korea every month for such purposes. Most come from the former Soviet states and the Philippines.

The IOM report concludes that organized groups are involved in trafficking but stops short of indicting any specific criminal gangs, although such allegations have been made by watchdog groups.

Nongovernmental organizations working to rescue trafficked women and lobbying for policy changes are hopeful the report will boost their efforts.

“It’s been getting some response from the Korean government,” said Goh Hyun Ung, head of the IOM’s Seoul office. Goh said he and members of other private groups are organizing a forum on trafficking which was to be held in Seoul late this month and which officials from the Ministry of Gender Equality, the Ministry of Justice and its Immigration Bureau planned to attend.

The IOM report notes that the first concerns within Korea over trafficking stemmed from mid-1990s reports of foreign women working in bars near U.S. Army posts.

The report also alleges the U.S. military, in an effort to “keep the men happy,” has reached “a sort of collusion with local businesses, local government and military bases to support a camp town entertainment/prostitution industry.”

U.S. Forces Korea is generating a report ordered by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, at the request of 13 members of Congress, on the extent of troop involvement with trafficked women.

The results are not expected for months, but the command’s Eighth Army decided to address the issue as part of an Oct. 10 peninsulawide standdown to discuss “safety, risk management and the South Korean culture.”

Eighth Army spokesman Lt. Col. Steven Boylan said the issue “will be discussed by the chain of command on our command policy as well as other information that might be available at that time.”

The command “does not condone or support any illegal activities such as human trafficking or any other illegal activities of any nature,” he said. Commanders at all levels will take an active role in ensuring that service members, civilians and dependents remain safe and do not violate Korean law.”

Boylan said the briefing has not yet been finalized.

Comment: This is one of the reasons why all American troops were cleared out of Okinawa recently and relocated to Guam. Fear of reprisal attacks by the PRC in the event of our “military actions” against that country is the prime reason but the on-going sexual abuse by American troops of young and very young Okinawans is another. This has reached epidemic proportions and has so infuriated the Japanese government in Tokyo that the move was deemed necessary. Also, the pregnancy and venereal disease rates are simply not to believe. Considering this Neanderthal behavior, it is no wonder that a highly developed PRC spy ring was in place on Okinawa and no one with any knowledge of the rage of the local population is surprised at the enormous, and very important, volumes of information relayed from Okinawa to the PRC on a daily basis. Considering the number of local hires at various Okinawan military facilities, no one ought to be surprised. Brian Harring
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Last updated 04/06/2006

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