Asiatic Black Bear Supposedly Pictured Living in the Korean DMZ
I am very suspicious of this story because I find it hard to believe there is a population of Asiatic black bears living in a stretch of land 4 kilometers wide. This just seems very convenient when the Moon administration has been pushing to turn the DMZ into a so called “Eco-Peace Park“:
A rare Asiatic black bear cub has been photographed while crossing a stream in the Demilitarized Zone, highlighting the heavily fortified Korean border area’s role as a unique haven for wildlife.
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The photo of the bear, which was captured by a motion-sensor camera in October, emerged as the fate of the DMZ is in question amid efforts to improve relations between the two Koreas and persuade the North to abandon its nuclear weapons.
The 2.5-mile wide, 155-mile long strip of land has been largely a no-go zone for more than six decades due to land mines and barbed wire-lined fences in place since the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice instead of a peace treaty.
Untouched by development, animals and plants have thrived with little human contact in the protected ecosystem that includes wetlands, forests, mountains and coastlines.
You can read more at the link, but I wonder if this bear is a cub from bears reintroduced into the wild in South Korea and wandered into the DMZ from another area in Gangwon-do.
next will be a picture of a tiger. photo is a fake. in Korea only area they have re-introduced bears is Jiri San i believe.
So the “DMZ Tiger” was worth rank, money, instant assignment anywhere in the world, or whatever sounded awesome in 1989 along with coming back with the North Korean flag from Propaganda Village. I wonder what this bear is worth? It’s probably just as real.
I can believe that a bear could survive there just fine … buy how the hell did it get there to begin with … swim down from Russia and just happen to decide to come ashore somewhere near the DMZ?
Speaking of damaging content from our agit-prop fellow travelers, here’s one CH might have seen:
https://otx.alienvault.com/pulse/5cd935b9209fa2207798d17f
Placed there as a stunt by commie moon. complete BS. Bears only introduced to Jirisan in a large pen, some slipped out to Mt Sudo near Gimcheon (one even was hit by a bus). To think the bears somehow magically teleported to the DMZ is just silly. Like a say, a stunt by commie moon. http://www.donga.com/English/Article/all/20180514/1318440/1/Korean-black-bear-s-dangerous-migration
Commie Moon probably stole that photo from Google or photoshopped it.
I have been telling the Koreans for years that landmines are the least efficient way to get rid of a bear infestation.
I bet they are sorry now!
I guess it’s fake, but…just to be a little contrarian, they had a big black bear problem at Tyndall. Ratio was about 4 times the population the habitat could sustain. They’d try to relocate them, but always came back. They are scavengers. And they do swim.
Liz – a few years ago on a cross-country trip, I spent the night at Tyndall. It was just getting dark and I was driving through the parking lot of on-base lodging. In the corner of the parking lot was a cinder-block enclosure for the trash bins. As I was parking my car near that enclosure, I saw what I thought was a big dog walk behind it. But when it came around the other side in front of my car, I realized it was a black bear. It took at least a half hour to coax my wife out of the car and go inside our room.
Reminds me of a story of beds, porridge, and a missing child…
Heh, Guitard…yeah, some of them were really big too. They eventually got all bear proof trash cans, after one 400+ pound bear started loitering in front of the bowling alley (think he actually fell asleep on the front steps). With that food supply gone they got kind of confrontational. A dog was attacked in someone’s yard in base housing. Owner fired a few shots at it and it ran away. They wanted to have a hunt for the base…last bear hunt in Florida, they reached their quotas but it was all outside the base, so they asked for an exception to hunt on base. The governor said he’d approve it if they wanted, but he strongly advised against it because the inevitable protests wouldn’t be worth it.