Comments on: Minister Jeong - WTF?

By: slim

slim — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:18:21 +0000

Jeong is a sad victim of Stockholm Syndrome. Moreover, a Korean friend who knows him cited Jeong as the most egregious examle of the affirmative action programme for Cholla natives that Kim DJ ushered in: People whose main qualification for their post was their regional background. (I am not by any means defending Korea’s ingrained discrimination against southwesterners…)

By: Michael Sheehan

Michael Sheehan — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:21:43 +0000

RE: Mortality rates in concentration camps

Anywhere between 1% and 3% per month, depending upon the ‘humaneness’ of the wardens.

If we assume 200,000 inmates in the NK gulag, the death rate is 2,000 to 6,000 per month or 24,000 to 72,000 per year.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:24:57 +0000

Sounds like the “bubble of transformation” should be bursting over the Blue House, more than North Korea.

By: Peter Schroepfer

Peter Schroepfer — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 03:55:25 +0000

This is one government type that I gave up even trying to defend a long, long time ago.

By: FrankWarner

FrankWarner — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 03:07:17 +0000

I guess you wouldn’t be surprise to know that just about no one here in America has any idea of the fantasies, illusions, delusions and general hysteria with which some South Koreans approach the idea of reunification with the North.

Americans generally think all South Koreans are appalled that North Korea lied about abandoning plans for nuclear weapons, and that South Koreans have no realistic hope of reunifying with the North until the North’s dictatorship is dissolved.

But things aren’t exactly like that, are they?

Frank