Anyway, what is interesting to me about the speech is that, besides directly stating he was giving up major concessions to the North for nothing more than a chance at friendship, and that he was actively working as North Korea's ally among global leaders,….he is indirectly stating that South Korea's future lies in actively aligning with China and Russia.

the summary of his words, at least those GI Korea quotes, either point to that — or — that he is a complete and utter dumbass who believes South Korea can cut (severely) limit ties to the US and Japan – and remain standing alone (with the North).

I guess that could be it — that he wants the South to try geopolitical Juche like Pyongyang.

But, if he has any area of his brain that isn't damaged, by saying SK should cut ties to the US and Japan, he would mean it needs to find other nations to align with — which would be China at least.

And he did specifically say in his advocating cutting ties with Japan that it would please China and Russia….

Why is everyone so disturbed now that he is OUT OF OFFICE? The time for throwing all the stones was when he was IN OFFICE.

Why is everyone surprised what Roh is saying now? He is the originator of the "revisionist history" push? He is trying to establish HIS VERSION of history — and to the leftists it becomes the REAL history. This is pure Roh crud — in the same way he used his "truth committees" to establish the "truth" as the leftists saw it — and then used the "facts" to batter and disgrace honored Koreans long dead while elevating communists to the level of "freedom fighters."

But things are NOT over yet. The conservatives are after his ilk. Has anyone been keeping a body count of his former aides and ministers? Loads are going down for corruption? They even went after Roh himself over the transfer of Presidential records so he could launch his Deomocracy 2.0 site — and they are only holding off on prosecution because he is a former President.

But while condemning Roh for his past, watch out for the present. His former Foreign Minister is becoming the head of the Korean Red Cross — the funnel for aid to the North. Keep track of his old ministers and watch where they end up. Of course, his old ministers are voluminous as his revolving door policy on ministers amounted to an average time of I believe six-months in office for ministers.

The bloodbath is only starting. Roh protected the "juche" followers while in office, but it should be significant that Lee Myeong-bak was inaugurated on 25 Feb and the first "juche" fugitive, Yun Ji-gin, (after 9 years) was arrested on 27 Feb. His wife's organization was just raided this month — and the raids are going to continue. The NIS/DSC sudden jump into power — along with the arrest of the North Korean spy is only a taste of things to come.

The KTEWU, KCTU and Hanchongryeon are all on the hit list. The KTEWU is the first up now with their stats being published and now an investigation is underway.

Roh did untold damage to his country in his time in office. LMB is trying to reverse this. For the first time, the ROK-Japan will jointly test the waters around Dokdo for radioactivity in 2009, instead of nearly going to war like they did in 2007 under Roh.

As to the military, Roh wanted to replace the Ministry of Defense positions with civilians — those of HIS ilk. He had succeeded in neutering the NIS by putting left-leaning/North Korean supporters into the key positions — and Roh wanted to do the same in the MND. However, the normally conservative MND fought him tooth-and-nail — while Roh killed them with slicing their budget to 2.7 percent of GDP (a drop from the 8 percent of GDP from Kim Young-sam backward). Kim Dae-jung were no friends of the military. Just last week, the Hankyoreh was crying about how the MND had NOT been converted to a civilian monolith as Roh had wanted. Well, things are being reversed very rapidly — and military spending is on the increase. The people that Roh put into office will silently disappear.

Because LMB's popularity rating is hovering near 20 percent, he must proceed carefully. The leftists are doing everything they can to destabilize the government. Remember that the anti-US beef protests had NOTHING to do with beef or health safety, but only the ousting of LMB and the conservative GNP. The radicals couldn't win in the election boxes, so they tried to take it to the streets and anarchy.

However, Roh inflated the bureaucracy and mass firings will cripple LMB if he did it in one-fell swoop. LMB is going to be axing a lot of folks — and you're going to see a lot of it in the future. LMB is using the BAI as his hatchet man to root out the corruption — and because they are Roh appointees, they will heading to the doors. However, it will be all in the name of rooting out government inefficiency and corruption (like the Public Corporations illegally providing free housing to thousands of workers under the Roh administration).

Thus Roh and his leftist supporters have earned the enmity of the conservatives at all levels and they are out their with their axes. Roh is out of office, but the blood bath for him and his followers is only beginning.