Comments on: Invasion called off?

By: The Marmot's Hole Beware the Gando Card!

The Marmot's Hole Beware the Gando Card! — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 03:00:20 +0000

[...] on Japans Tsushima Island (which they also claim as Korean territory) following the Great Dokdo Invasion that Wasn [...]

By: Rhesus

Rhesus — Tue, 11 May 2004 20:16:03 +0000

It falleth like gentle rain from heaven…

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TITLE: Asia by blog
BLOG NAME: Simon World
Yesterday’s Asia by blog has proved a resounding success, if the sole email I got in reply is anything to go by. Durian Nation got the idea. Link back to here or leave a comment if you think there are other posts or blogs that should be going into this…

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TITLE: War Averted
BLOG NAME: The Gweilo Diaries
Thanks to the timely deployment of five warships, two aircraft, five rubber dinghies and 15 commandos, the South Korean navy managed to thwart a invasion of its sacred territory by. . . . North Korean special forces? Er, not exactly….

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TITLE: It’s My Rock, and You Can’t Have It
BLOG NAME: Barry Talks!
South Korean lawmakers seem far too concerned about a lonely uninhabited rock, and are ready to go to war with Japan over it, it seems.

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TITLE: Time for some Corean spanking
BLOG NAME: Blog of the Pythi Master
Here’s something I’ve never tried yet: blogging a comment I made on someone else’s blog. A few blokes, including the Marmot himself, were making a mockery out of the Corean government’s reaction to a recent attempt by a right-wing Japanese…

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TITLE: Eyes on Korea: 2004-05-11
BLOG NAME: Winds of Change.NET
Winds of Change.NET Regional Briefings run on Tuesdays Wednesdays, and sometimes Fridays too. Today’s Regional Briefing focuses on Korea, courtesy of Robert Koehler in Seoul….

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TITLE: Eyes on Korea: 2004-05-11
BLOG NAME: Winds of Change.NET
Today’s Headings Include: The DPRK (North Korea); The ROK (South Korea, incl. elections coverage); US-ROK Issues (incl. Iraq); and random Korea stuff, from photos to sports to religion

By: kimchipig

kimchipig — Mon, 10 May 2004 22:20:21 +0000

If Korean wants to send 100,000 soldiers to “defend” Tokto from four whack-jobs, by all means that is its option.

However, I am still entitled to laugh my ass off about it.

By: The Marmot

The Marmot — Mon, 10 May 2004 22:14:36 +0000

Woojay — I responded to your comment on your blog.

By: slim

slim — Mon, 10 May 2004 18:56:58 +0000

My modest proposal:

Japan should:
1. Unilaterally renounce claims to Takeshima/Tokdo.
2. Invest the first $1 billion of its expected post-war pay out to North Korea to fund construction of a palace on Tokdo large enough to accommodate Kim Jong-il, his entourage and family and his father’s mausoleum.

South Korea should:
1. Demilitarise Tokdo.
2. Use its “special friendship” with North Korea to facilitate the removal of the Kim family to Tokdo — if necessary, apply some ruse such as making Tokdo the capital of a united Korea.
3. Tell Kim Jong-il (when he and his cohorts start complaining about the lack of food, running water and electricity) that Tokdo was created to resemble conditions faced by the vast majority of the people of the DPRK.

The United States should:
1. (After all South Korean personnel have left Tokdo and fishermen warned) Use whatever firepower necessary to completely destroy every bit of Tokdo down to about 100 metres below sea level, taking the DPRK regime with it.

By: woojay

woojay — Mon, 10 May 2004 18:17:33 +0000

Ahhhh, the virtues of the Freedom of Speech. While I usually try to restrain myself from taking part in these mud-slinging festivals in the Marmot’s Hole, especially since my brilliant brother Sugar Shin does such an admirable job of dissing out raving idiots with his deadly humorous wit, I figured this thread has already become such a beehive of emotionally-charged rhetoric that I might as well throw in my own few sentences of trash talk on this issue.

That fact is, my friends, Dokdo belongs to Corea, and the Corean army belongs to Corea, period. So whatever the fuck we do with our own military on our own island is none of anyone else’s fuckin’ business. We can send in cruise missiles and destroyers and submarines to intercept the puny boat carrying the four right-wing Japanese imperialists if we want, and we don’t need to give a rat’s ass about what foreigners think about that. I say we send in even more, and show the world that we’re not taking any more crap from shit-headed imperialists and will gladly kick their asses if they get any wise ideas. And you Yanks who want to mock our government for protecting our own territory, perhaps you should smack your foreheads and turn to the troops your President sends to other countries. That’s right, not its OWN territory, not even DISPUTED territory, but FOREIGN territory. Your government lies to its people and sends billions of dollars’ worth of high-tech military hardware to bomb the hell out of a country in the Middle East that’s been impoverished and debilitated by decades of sanctions, then rattles off the most childish and trash-loaded shit-talk about how it’s such a fuckin’ hero and a bestower of freedom and democracy, yet you laugh at our government moving a few troops to protect (both practically and symbolically) a part of our own land? PAHAHAHAHAHA!!! (Force-powered thunderous laughter that can be heard miles away)

There’s no need to go to the international court, no need to waste time haggling with ultra-conservative morons in Japan, no need to pay heed to the kind of crap that people like the Angry Expat Brigade (Mr. Shin Jong Il, I like this term) like to give. It’s our land, and we do whatever we want with it. Your time would be better served tending to other matters than whining about how we defend ourselves.

So, may the Force be with you, my young Padewans.

Signed,

The Pythi Master.

By: kimchipig

kimchipig — Mon, 10 May 2004 08:21:14 +0000

>>If my kids ends up with a Korean passport — enjoying all the rights of Korean citizens — despite their father being American and her mother Mongolian, they’d be 50% American, 50% Mongolian and 100% Korean>>

Marmot, while I respect almost everything you say and admire your sense of homour, I cannot but remind you that your future children will not be given Korean citizenship. You should know by now no matter how well you speak Korea and try to emulate Korean behaviour, you will always be an outsider.

When they are finished with you, they will toss you on the pile of used waygooks and get another one. Koreans tend to not like “The waygook who knows too much.” For example, when my former employer tried to scam me out of a couple of million Won, I knew EXACTLY how to recover it and did in short order. The fresh waygooks did not and the boss got their money.

By: Sugar Shin

Sugar Shin — Mon, 10 May 2004 00:16:59 +0000

Well said, Mr. Marmot. It’s getting hot & nasty here from all sides, I guess.

Notice to Dave in Songtan: Thanks, but I couldn’t deliver my answer-mail to your adress. Maybe your spam-filter or my personal firewall don’t like each other. Couldn’t fix it with my amateurish computer skills. Man, you wouldn’t like my anti-Bush views either: George W. Bush is a red cloth to me and I always act like a friggin’ Raging Bull… it’s habitual.

Good Lord, this must be the No.1 response-post of yours, Mr. Marmot. All sting-ready bees are flying to your honey pot!

By: The Marmot

The Marmot — Sun, 09 May 2004 21:29:50 +0000

I don’t know Dave or his family personally, but I’ll assume he refers to his daughter as “American” not out of racism, but because she carries an American passport. If my kids ends up with a Korean passport — enjoying all the rights of Korean citizens — despite their father being American and her mother Mongolian, they’d be 50% American, 50% Mongolian and 100% Korean. And for the last time, would posters refrain from race-baiting and try to keep comments somewhere close to the subject at hand. I hate to remind people of this, but referring to other commentors’ children as “mongrels” in a manner that was clearly meant to cause offense isn’t cool, and I’d prefer not to see it in my comments section. I don’t want to edit, delete or otherwise police comments, so please, if you’ve got nothing nice to say about the ethnic background of individual posters or their families, keep it to yourself.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 09 May 2004 16:29:54 +0000

>The point: my daughter is American; half Korean thanks to her mom, and half white, courtesy of my DNA. If you refer to her as a mongrel again, I will track you down and beat the living crap out of you. Seriously, that was a poor word choice.

Its very clear by your response you are a ’supremacist’ and probably more racist than you realize. Your daughter is ‘american’ right? Thats the same line my stepfather used and told my mother to never speak korean to me because I was now an american and he pretty much made it known through his attitude and behavior everything ‘american’ was the superior and better way and half. As a matter of fact, he just loved being condescending towards asians whether tacitly or not. My stepfather is a freaking idiot and he couldn’t stand me because I actually revealed to him that he was actually racist just from me being me. Profound? Real life and the ugly but surprising truth to all parties involved. Heh. Give me a break I know more than you, believe me.