I have criticized Christine Ahn plenty on this blog so she is probably not worth the webpage space to feature her again, but I think it is useful to continue remind readers who these people are.

After North Korea signed the armistice, the North Korean people set out to rebuild their devastated nation according to the juche philosophy that promoted self-reliance and national independence. This inspired two New York Times writers in 1972 to note with astonishment that this country, the size of Mississippi, had developed a “well organized and highly industrialized socialist economy, largely self-sufficient, with a disciplined and productive work force.”

Despite their efforts to remain food sovereign, and because of events beyond their control, North Korea could not sustain the stranglehold of the United States. For five decades, the U.S. has pursued military and economic policies that have held 22 million North Koreans hostage and threatened them with nuclear annihilation. These same mad politics are driving the insane military budgets of both nations, diverting vital government resources that would improve the welfare of its people.  [Christine Ahn]

It is interesting that Ahn doesn’t comment on the fact that North Korea has foot shortage, but Kim Jong-il still has enough money to buy luxury yachts.

Anyway, now it appears that Christine Ahn and her like minded North Korea apologists are launching a campaign against Joshua to shut him up by trying to focus attention on his job instead of his views.  In the East Bay Express, the reporter Kathleen Wentz has written an article criticizing Joshua while showering praise on Christine Ahn.  I highly recommend everyone read the whole article just to appreciate the propaganda value of it.

Picture of Kathleen Wentz from her Twitter page.

Of course the article had to bring up the No Gun Ri issue and the Korean Truth & Reconciliation Commission without providing any context about the issue or the KT&RC.  I recommend reading these postings before believing the propaganda:

• Responding to the Bridge at No Gun Ri
• The Forensics of No Gun Ri
• Revisiting No Gun Ri
• Transcript of Briefing to Seoul Rotary Club
• The No Gun Ri Document Shell Game
• Korean Truth & Reconciliation Commission Faces Disbandment
• The Truth is of Little Concern to the KT&RC

In response to this article Joshua has published his own posting criticizing the article, which was just hilarious at times.  Here is the passage that kind of sums things up:

In the end, Ahn and her mouthpiece, Wentz, still can’t debate how this regime treats its people without the deliberate ignorance of damning facts … and it’s hard to write something that pointlessly long-winded while still ignoring them. They can quibble about how many people live in these huts or behind these walls, but they can’t deny what the images show, and they can’t claim any greater knowledge than the witnesses do.  Don’t they believe the questions are worth asking, especially of Kim Jong Il?  For all their righteous anger about a couple hundred overweight terrorists at Gitmo, have they no concern left for the children of Camp 22?  Do they dispute that, even without Kim Jong Il’s permission to take a census, the number of huts there must have a capacity of thousands?  How do they deny this while going to such lengths to evade the truth?  In the end, their only defense for Kim Jong Il is to hide behind his secrecy.  [One Free Korea]

Like said before make sure to read the whole thing.

Joshua has also written in the past a great posting with all the statements made my Christine Ahn and the organizations that she is part of.  When you read what she has said before in the past it just makes it more incredible how mainstream news outlets continue to give creditability to her by broadcasting her.  For example the NBC Today show had her on after the Cho Seung-hui killings claiming that the lack of national health care for Korean immigrants contributed to the killings:

The scariest thought of all as the Marmot notes is that Washington may be listening to people like Christine Ahn.

So you decide is Christine Ahn a useful idiot?:

“Pro-North Korean regime organizations also will disseminate leaflets. They ought to capture the reality of defector organizations that distribute leaflets and send them to the North. Like them, we will attach leaflets about defector organizations to hydrogen balloons and send them to the North.”

As the scattering of leaflets by defector organizations becomes a major issue, the possibility that pro-North Korea figures will send leaflets containing critical messages about defector organizations to the North has generated significant interest.

Kim Young Man (65), who led the Public Statement of Affairs for the Normalization of Inter-Korea Relations by “615 Persons in the South Gyeongsang Province” and is the permanent representative of the South Gyeongsang Province headquarters of the June 15 Joint Declaration Realization Committee in South Korea, maintained in an interview with “OhmyNews” on the 4th that, “The people who scatter leaflets in the North are those who are misusing the tragic division of Korea.”

He said, “Our organizations opposing them will produce leaflets that disclose their activities and send them also to the North.”

He also insisted, “People who have seen the leaflets that they have sent to the North will think that all South Koreans think this way. So we want to convey the reality that a majority of South Koreans want peaceful unification and that our people do not think that the leaflets that have been distributed by defectors organizations are ideal.”

He then said, “We cannot disclose the specific time we will send them at this time. Even if legal issues result and our reputation is damaged due to the contents, we will do this for the future of the 70 million of our nation.”  [Daily NK]

Here is the paragraph that had my eyes rolling unlike any other:

Although North Korea civilians cannot speak their minds publicly, the thing that they most long for may be peaceful unification. How they would be delighted if leaflets with the very same wish from South Korean’s come to the North! Through these leaflets, even from pro-North regime organizations, North Koreans will feel a sort of solidarity with South Korea and have some faith that their South Korean brethren will rescue them from famine and rights violations.

So rescuing North Koreans from famine and human rights violations means sending pro-North Korean propaganda that only legitimizes the regime responsible for the said human rights violations and famine.  This logic could only make sense to a Korean leftist. I guess on a positive note at least this guy is admitting human rights violations are going on unlike other prominent members of the Korean left.

Anyway the guy behind these statements is a man by the name of Kim Young-man.  What I have been able to find out about this guy is that he first came to prominence with the Korean left when he was published in the Hankyoreh for admitting to committing war crimes in Vietnam.  I have seen no evidence to support his claims, but just like American useful idiots that claim to commit war crimes, his supporters could apparently care less if the claims are true or not.  Now he is working with the Korea Alliance for Progressive Movement to ensure the killings of civilians in North Korea continues.  Once again the logic of these people is incredible and is why Kim Young-man is a useful idiot.

Presidential candidate Chung Dong-young of the United New Democratic Party (UNDP) said a strengthened Korea-U.S. alliance would be the focus of his foreign policy if he wins the election on Dec.19.

In an exclusive interview with The Korea Times on the occasion of its 57th anniversary Sunday, the anchor-turned-candidate advocated the U.S.-centered foreign policy. He said a more dynamic Seoul-Washington alliance was necessary to promote peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and to help improve the U.S.-North Korea relations.

He said in an unwavering tone that the U.S. troops in Korea should remain stationed here as a stabilizing influence in Northeast Asia.   [Korea Times]

It seems a bit ironic that Chung wants US troops to stay in Korea, but just last week called Korean soldiers conducting plumbing operations in Kurdistan American "mercenaries".    Wouldn’t such logic make US soldiers serving in USFK Korean "mercenaries"? 

Chung said the time has come for the two countries to chart a more future-oriented dynamic alliance. He added that the alliance was not maintained only by rhetoric, saying it will be maintained and strengthened only when the two sides have mutual trust and confidence and transparency in sharing information.

I guess throwing around the term "mercenaries" is not considered "rhetoric" by Chung.  I suppose he also considers these comments where Chung blames the US for the Japanese colonization of Korea, the Korean War, and the Gwangju Uprising, are not "rhetoric" as well.  Chung might as well blame America for Dokdo too while he is at it because it is as equally ridiculous, yet he expects voters to think the US is going to have "mutual trust and confidence" in a person that makes such comments?

Here is the most laughable part of the interview:

“I can dare to say that I commanded trust from Washington when I was the unification minister in 2005. As the minister, I shared all core information on North Korea with the United States in a frank way. This led to the upgrading of our mutual confidence,” said the liberal candidate.

I have to wonder how much "mutual confidence" was built when Chung sent this letter during the Korean hostage crisis blaming the US for the situation. 

Chung continues:

But “my U.S.-oriented foreign policy does not mean that my administration, if elected, will belittle the influence of China, Japan and Russia surrounding the Korean Peninsula. As members of the six-party talks, they are quite important for Korea,” he added.

Despite his unwavering pro-U.S. stance, he said he rejects the idea of “blind worship of or servile attitude to the United States” often called flunkeyism.

With his "unwavering pro-US stance" over the past few years I just have to wonder where Chung’s statesmanship was when the South Korean fifth column was attempting to stop the biggest US-ROK transformation project in decades, the Camp Humphreys expansion?  Chung was too busy hanging out on Dokdo bashing the Japanese while young South Korean conscripts were having their faces bashed and their bodies speared by Chung’s leftist allies. 

As far as "flunkeyism" isn’t that what the current Korean government’s policies toward North Korea represent?

Chung goes on:

`I don’t think Washington will expect toadyism or one-sided concessions from Korea. When we are straightforward and frank in our position, Washington will respect us,” he said in a firm tone.

So by straight forward and frank does he mean by making comments like this about a high level US official:

Lefkowitz reportedly requested a meeting with Unification Minister Chung Dong-young on Thursday. But Chung dodged it, saying that he is “not in the same league,” a source in the government said.

The laughable nature of this interview continues:

“If elected, I will inherit and develop the positive legacy of the two previous liberal administrations but I will also seek ways of retooling their trials and errors,” he said.

“If elected, my administration will be different from the two predecessors.”

"Positive Legacy"?  Kim Dae-jung had some positive legacies such as getting the country through the Asian Financial Crisis but he will forever be tarnished by the Nobel Peace Prize he bought by giving Kim Jong-il a $500 million dollar bribe.  Roh Moo-hyung has had no positive legacy in nearly five years in power.  Roh is going to be remembered as the person who created the beginning of the end of the US-ROK Alliance, the man who allowed Kim Jong-il to get the nuclear bomb, sluggish economic growth, and generally being the most incompetent president in Korean history.  This is the positive legacy that Chung Dong-young wants to continue? 

“If we win the election, we will build up the Republic of Korea which combines the minds of the people into one,” he said, saying his administration will be the “Government of Unity,” embracing industrialists, as well as pro-democracy fighters.

Note that "pro-democracy fighters" is code word for the anti-US groups that attack US soldiers and installations along with young South Korean conscript policemen.  The only unity these people want is not with Korean business leaders, but with Kim Jong-il.  If Chung was so concerned about democracy why is he intent on denying it to North Korean defectors, which during his time as anti-Unification Minister he implemented policies that ensured defectors were sent back to North Korea where they were guaranteed to face life in a North Korean gulag. 

This is what he had to say about his presidential rival Lee Myung-bak:

He said he was fundamentally different in his roots and philosophy from the Grand national Party’s presidential candidate Lee. He described Lee as a pro-chaebol, pro-rich, advocate of outdated “hardpower” like building canals and was a proponent of brutal jungle capitalism. No country in the world including Thailand has been successful by having a profit-seeking business CEO as head of state, he said.

Chung’s attempt to differentiate himself from Lee by declaring him a pro-chaebol president that intends to use tax payer dollars for large public works projects to spur the economy will not work.  As stupid as Lee’s canal may be most Koreans would prefer Lee’s canal where South Korean tax payer’s money stays in South Korea instead of Chung’s plans to send even more tax payer money to Kim Jong-il. 

Make sure to read the whole thing because it is a hoot but I have to agree with Nomad; it must be election time. 

In his book titled "In Kaesong Station, Train Ticket for Paris," Chung recounted a "serious and straightforward" conversation he had with Kim as South Korean presidential envoy in 2005.

"Chairman Kim very much looked like an easygoing and resolute leader. Through the entire conversation, the atmosphere was serious and straightforward," he said, calling the North Korean leader by his official title, Chairman of the National Defense Commission of the communist country.

Here is what Chung claims Kim Jong-il told him:

"The denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is effective for the peace of the Korean Peninsula — that was the dying wish of leader Kim Il-sung … We think we have to stand against the United States because it looks down on us, but if the United States acknowledges us as a partner we can return to the six-party talks, even in July," Kim was quoted as saying in the book.

Chung then headed to the U.S. to deliver the news to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, but Washington was generally skeptical.

"He (Cheney) asked me, ‘Do you believe him?’" Chung said.

Yes it was the dying wish of Kim Il-sung that is probably why he is dead to begin with.  As far as looking down on North Korea, what countries in the world besides South Korea doesn’t look down on North Korea for the human rights violations and nuclear brinkmanship?  I can only think of a few, Sudan, Burma, and Zimbabwe for example.  There is some exclusive company.

I have to wonder when Cheney asked Chung if he believed him if that he said that sarcastically or not?  If Kim Jong-il told Chung that he saws pigs fly off of Paektusan dropping Pyongyang soju bottles over the cheering masses of North Korea he would believe him.

The South Korean Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung is now clearly with out a doubt a useful idiot.  His first signs of ascending to useful idiot status was when he claimed North Korea built a nuclear program because they are poor.  One Free Korea had the best take on this claim by Lee:

Now Lee is coming out and saying that North Korea is not using the money given to North Korea through inter-Korean projects for their nuclear program:

South Korea’s unification minister on Friday denied that North Korea has diverted cash it earned through inter-Korean economic cooperation for the development of its nuclear weapons.

Lee Jae-joung, Seoul’s point man on the communist neighbor, also stressed that North Korea earns such money "in a transparent and legal manner," saying the government will expand and deepen inter-Korean economic cooperation in the future.

First of all I would love to see Lee pull out an audit report of all the money given to North Korea by the ROK to prove his claims.  I won’t hold my breath waiting for that to happen.  Secondly, even if the money isn’t used directly in the nuclear program, it will instead be used to buy the Dear Leader and the regime elite mansions, booze, luxury cars, etc. which are in violation of the UN resolution prohibiting this. Additionally the money given by the South Korean government to ensure the lifestyle of the regime elite means that money brought into North Korea from other sources can be used for the nuclear program instead.   To Lee Jae-joung’s credit, he still has a long way to go to reach the useful idiot status of former Unification Minister Chung Dong-young.

The students went up on stage and told participants they had distributed anti-war badges around the nation in protest against the Iraq war and said they felt unifying the two Koreas was a way to create “a world without wars.” They also joined the former communist guerrillas in the shouting of their old slogans against “imperialist Yankee soldiers” and the “puppet regime of Syngman Rhee.” Kim, who also instructed his students to operate an online group that opposes the U.S.-led war in Iraq, now serves as an official with the KTEWU’s North Jeolla Province chapter.

Only in Korea are communist guerrillas teaching anti-Americanism considered part of a school’s cirriculum. Any bets if North Korean spies are behind this as well? OFK has more.

From the beginning I could tell this was going to be a softball interview of Sheehan when the host of Heart to Heart, Ahn Jung-hyun opened up by talking about the futility of war. Futility? War worked to pretty well to protect South Korea from communist invasion, not to mention using war to defeat that little thing called Japanese Imperialism that established the Republic of Korea to begin with. So I really can’t agree war is totally futile.

Anyway the first thing that jumped out at me during the interview was how proud Sheehan appeared to be to have met with leaders of the Democratic Labor Party who helped organize her visit. Now if I was interviewing her I would have hit her with a question about if she knew the leaders of the DLP and the Camp Humprheys protesters had recently been arrested as North Korean spies.
It is also quite ironic that after this Sheehan than makes a comment about how the US needs to stop meddling in South Korea when the country that is meddling more than anyone in South Korea by organizing protests to tear down the MacArthur Statue in Inchon, organizing the Camp Humphreys movement, creating a false USFK pollution scandal, and even trying to influence the election of the mayor of Seoul along with a host of other issues, is North Korea not the United States. However, people like Sheehan hate the US so much; their warped world views only allow them to see the US as the boogeyman of all the world’s ills and journalists like Ms. Ahn do nothing to challenge these people on their warped views. Unless of course Ahn believes like Sheehan the US is the real evil in South Korea.

Ahn than asks Sheehan why her son Casey joined the Army. Sheehan went into the typical leftist rant about how the recruiter lied to him and tricked him into the Army, he was a mechanic and wasn’t supposed to see combat, and how he only joined for the college money. Ahn than asks her why Casey went to Iraq and Sheehan explained how he didn’t want to go ,but the Army made him go. Now I would like to direct everyone to this link with provides a biography of Casey Sheehan. Casey reenlisted into the military before he deployed to Iraq. Why would someone who supposedly was lied to by his recruiter and didn’t want to go to war and was just in it for the college money reenlist into the Army knowing full well he was reenlisting to go to war? I guess Casey was duped and lied to by his reenlistment NCO as well?

I wish someone would challenge Sheehan on this. Especially since she keeps saying Casey would support her anti-war movement including in this Arirang interview. The question that needs to be asked to her is if Casey was so anti-war why did he reenlist into the Army, effectively volunteering him to go to war in Iraq? Nobody is willing to challenge her though because Sheehan and her leftist allies would call anyone who asks such questions heartless to ask such questions of a grieving mother such as the holier than thou Cindy Sheehan.

She also keeps making the statements that Casey was a mechanic and wasn’t supposed to see combat. Normally mechanics wouldn’t end up in direct combat, however she fails to mention that Casey volunteered to be part of a rescue party to save some pinned down soldiers when he was killed. Casey Sheehan was one of many heroes that day that died.

Than later in the interview Sheehan throws out this bombshell that the US has killed 700,000 civilians in Iraq. The Iraq Body Count site puts the civilian death toll at just over 54,000. Keep in mind this website bases it’s numbers off of media reports that have often proven to be inaccurate. Of course after Sheehan threw out that 700,000 number, Ahn didn’t challenge her on that either.

Sheehan than continues on about how the US military is committing war crimes in Iraq without substantiating it and how in the US people are losing all their civil liberties, which of course I would have responded, okay what civil liberties have you lost? You are still allowed to go on television and broadcast falsehoods and lies as facts and the government hasn’t shut you up yet if this so called civil liberties gestapo is running around taking people’s rights away.

She then tries to make her self out as some kind of martyr being persecuted by the government because she has been arrested multiple times. Earth to Sheehan, you were arrested on multiple occasions because you broke the law! If I did what you did I would have been arrested too, along with anybody else. If anything the authorities have been using the kid gloves on Sheehan because they know if they arrest her it will make the headlines she so crave. Case in point, the picture below:

She sure looks happy for someone supposedly being persecuted. In fact she has been having the time of her life apparently.

However, there is one thing I agree with Sheehan on, but for different reasons that South Korea should bring the Zaytun unit home from Iraq which it was just recently was decided will happen by the end of 2007. I am willing to bet Sheehan is going to take credit for that too.

The fact that Sheehan is a blabbering propaganda machine is to be expected, but why do journalists like Ahn Jung-hyun not challenge this woman on anything, especially Korea related subjects that Sheehan knows nothing about. Like no mention from Ahn about how the USFK camps are being reduced from 41 to 10 including the fact Korea is receiving some of the most valuable real estate in the country, Yongsan Garrison in Seoul. Nothing either about how USFK is down sizing from 37,500 to 25,000 soldiers and possibly even more. I could go on and on about just the Korea related questions Sheehan should have been asked but it appeared Ahn was to intimidated to challenge Sheehan on.

Thus that is the problem with Sheehan, journalists are intimidated by her, which just begs the question of when does one stop being a grieving mother and becomes someone who can be legitimately challenged on her views and the many out right lies and falsehoods she preaches? Unfortunately in Korea the falsehoods have prevailed.

Prepare your stomach because here we go:

Miles before our bus reached the village on the evening of November
20th, we were stopped by approximately 200 South Korean riot-police who were decked out in their full riot regalia with bullet proof shields. We were traveling with Father Moon, an elderly Buddhist priest who has been an advocate for the villagers for a few years now. Father Moon got out of the bus and negotiated with the police captain for what seemed hours in the near freezing cold, but was only about 20 minutes. Finally, in what the villagers said was an unprecedented move, they allowed us entry into the village (after we passed another heavily guarded checkpoint). Villagers must present ID to get into their own village and visitors are rarely allowed to go in. Why? Because the village of Daechuri is under-siege in a criminal collaboration between the governments of South Korea and the United States of America and the governments don’t want the world to see what their crimes are doing to yet more innocent civilians.

First all, Ms. Sheehan those guards wearing Darth Vader suits aren’t doing so just because you showed up at Daechu-ri; they are wearing that equipment because your so called friends regularly attack them with sharpened bamboo poles, metal pipes, and rocks like this:

Or how about this:

Better yet maybe Sheehan should watch this video of her friends in action.

Then the fact that Sheehan thinks Father Moon is a Buddhist when in fact he is a Catholic Priest just goes to show how clueless she is about her so called friends in Korea. Sheehan then fails to realize the reason ID is shown to get into the village is because the North Korean sponsored anti-US groups had been squatting in the village for weeks before they were expelled by the South Korean police but only after they put up a violent clash and injured 117 policemen with their sharpened bamboo spears, metal bars, and rocks. Not to mention the fact her new Korean friends have links to North Korean spies.

Sheehan continues:

The village of Daechuri has the unmitigated gall to be located next to a US military base, Camp Humphreys, which is slated for an eleven-billion dollar expansion that would include a golf course for the use of
soldiers stationed there. The only problem is (not for the governments)
that the village of Daechuri and their thousands of acres of farmland,
mostly rice paddies, are in the way of the juggernaut of US military
expansion. The people of Daechuri have been cut-off from their farmlands by razor wire, guard towers, and armed foot patrols. Over two-thirds of the residents have the small village, but that leaves about one-third of them there to stand against the mightiest Army and the greediest government in world history.

First of all USFK is not expanding it is downsizing from 41 camps to 10 and reducing soldiers from 37,500 to 25,000 and I wouldn’t be surprised if the number goes even lower. Plus the Korean government is gaining the land from the closed US camps including some of the most valuable real estate in the whole country, Yongsan Garrison. The Camp Humphreys expansion is needed to make room for the soldiers being consolidated on the camp. As Sheehan even noted herself, the vast majority of the villagers voluntarily took the compensation payment and left. Plus the vast majority of Koreans support the Camp Humphreys expansion. 8 in 10 Korean are against the methods her friends are using to protest at Camp Humphreys while 7 in 10 Koreans support the base expansion.

More from Sheehan:

We heard stories of May 4th, when 20,000 Korean olice descended on the village with heavy-hands and strong arm tactics hat allowed the barbed wire fences to be constructed, thereby effectively cutting the farmers off from tens of thousands of dollars worth of un-harvested rice. We heard stories from village elders who lived through Japanese imperialism and occupation to the US Korean police action that killed 2.5 million Koreans, and are now having their lands and ways of life robbed of them by “Pax Americana.” My heart broke for the people of Daechuri and was filled with disgust for whom the people of Korea call “Georgie Bushie” and whom I call “BushCo.”

First of all watch the video I mentioned before to see why the Korean police had to forcibly remove the squatters that had taken over Daechu-ri. Plus the rice she mentions was illegally planted on the farmland by the squatters.

This paragraph here is the ultimate example of how incompetent and clueless this woman is about Korean affairs:

Not only is the expansion of Camp Humphreys hurting the people of
Daechuri, but it will have the effect of further de-stabilizing a region
already on pins and needles due parially to US intervention. You can bet your turkey left-overs that North Korea is watching these developments very closely and only the people of Korea and this region will pay for US infiltrations in South Korea. I know I don’t feel any safer by the raping and pillaging of Daechuri…in fact the expansion of Camp Humphreys will only do what Georgie Bushie is becoming infamous for: making America and the world less safe and secure. As an aside: I took a straw poll of about 400 South Koreans and 100% of them said that Georgie Bushie is far more frightening than Kim Jong-Il and they want the US out of Korea so they can put their divided country back together again.

Is this Cindy Sheehan’s attempt to be the next South Korean anti-Unification Minister? This paragraph is about as clueless as something coming out of Lee Jong-seok’s mouth. “US infiltrations in South Korea”? WTF is she talking about? Would she prefer that US soldiers remain within North Korean artillery range instead of a consolidated camp outside of NK artillery range and under the protection of PATRIOT missiles from ballistic missile attack?

By the way if you are still reading this without stomach pains congratulations, anyway here is more from Sheehan:

What can we do stateside to help these people? We can lobby our
congressional reps to hold hearings into the tragedy of Daechuri. We can donate money to help the villagers get fuel for heating their homes during the bitter Korean winter and to obtain food, since they can’t access their fields for harvest.

Now Sheehan is saying the villagers are can’t get food because they can’t access the fields they illegally planted. This is ridiculous and her final paragraphs are even more ridiculous:

I hope when Americans play golf on the golf course that will be
constructed over the rice fields that sustained and gave sustenance to the villagers for generations, they stop and reflect for even a brief
moment that an entire village was destroyed and hundreds of people were displaced for their recreation.

Golf! A village was obliterated for golf. If this is the “American way”
then we obviously need a new way, as speedily as possible.

The village was not “obliterated for golf”. The village was “obliterated” for the various reasons I mentioned above.
I feel bad for the residents of Daechu-ri who don’t want to move but this isn’t the first time imminent domain has been used in Korea for the national good and it won’t be the last. Sheehan and her friends would have a lot more creditbility with me if they went out and protested every imminent domain case in Korea every time a highway is built, KTX tracks constructed, or new shopping centers and apartments put up. Yet they won’t because none of that involves the US military.

Sheehan is a master propagandist and she demagoges issues in order to hit emotional cords in people. Her article is written to influence people emotionally while being very loose on facts, substance, and context. It just shows she cares more about leftist causes and promoting herself than she does understanding and making educated opinions about Korea, which has ultimately made her a useful idiot of the North Korean sponsored anti-US groups she calls her friends.