By The One Free Korea site has a great posting about the current status of the 6 way talks and the refusal of South Korea to back the US’s stance on the North Korean human rights issue. Here is the money quote from the posting:
How has Korea as a nation come to the point that something which has killed up to 3.5 million of its people is not “essential,” even as an ongoing process within a broader set of talks? Can we contrast this jaw-dropping moral laissez-faire with South Korea’s intransigence in its SOFA negotiations with the United States, following two completely accidental deaths? Why should North Koreans who have lost children, parents, husbands, wives, and siblings ever forgive those who consider their loss an acceptable sacrifice to realpolitik? Isn’t this just a degree less heartless than the North Korean regime itself, which deprived them of food and starved them in the first place?
2:07 pm on February 18th, 2007 1
No surprise if you know the long history of peninsula.
The Roh administration behave in the exactly same way with their ancestors, the rulers and bureaucrats of the Li-regimed Korea. They kept selling many Koreans (not only men) to Chinese counter-part as slaves to maintain their *independence*, until Japan defeated the Qing Dynersty China.
The great president Roh once proclaimed “Japaneses should tone down about the Japanese abduction issue. Comparing the Korean *drafted* workers and *comfort* womens during WWII, the figure is realatively small.”
Very well said. Apparently he learned the history using the Korean official version of history text books.
So, what does he say about the South Korean abducties or deads during the Korean War? If he is smart enough (can’t be), he says nothing. Otherwise, how would he define the figure? I can’t wait how he protect his argument. Oh, I get it! He will start to condemn the US or Japan, or both.
I’m again sneering:) They should proud of this great man.
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