AEI scholar Nicholas Eberstadt decided to shoot the breeze with the Chosun Ilbo in an exclusive interview that was posted on the paper’s Internet edition Monday. True to what I mentioned in a post on President Roh’s trip to Europe, far from countering the arguments put forward by Washington neocons, all the Korean head of state seems to have done was supply them with more ammunition — this time around, Big Nick went as far as to call some of Roh’s comments “unilateral and pre-emptive attacks on the United States.”
Eberstadt also discussed the futility of “regime transformation,” contradictions within the Korea-U.S. alliance, and other pending peninsular issues — you’re highly encouraged to read the interview on your own.
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Nick Eberstadt talks
…Mr. Eberstadt does not feel compelled to mince words about the political conditions on the Korean peninsula and it isn’t just the North he’s slicing and dicing…
Before anyone get too excited about Eberstadt’s sly presumption to speak for USGOV, maybe they ought to take a look at theintervieew by the Korea Times. with James Kelly, who actually does.
As I wrote elsewhere, it seems to astound analysts that people like Roh and DJ appear to be betraying Korean national interests by favoring North Korea and China while alienating the US, the only real stabilizing foreign influence with no real designs on the peninsula. But the answer might be much simpler than the logic of national interests - personal interests.
No significant amount of money seems to ever change hands in Korea without some sort of kickback to the middleman. It is highly probable that those who are dealing with the North are enriching themselves at the expense of national interests. This simple logic could explain the otherwise apparently irrational public statements and policies of Roh and others.
Mizai 5. I like your analysis of kickbacks playing a role in the Roh and DJ governments’ policies with NK. Although I think it?€™s more of a fringe benefit than anything else.
To me it appears to be shoddy Chosun journalism that portrays Eberstadt as a spokesman for the U.S. government — not the researcher himself. And just as troubling about the Chosun to me is that their own editorial line is in virtual agreement with the “neo-con” view on North Korea. Yet they can’t resist baiting these folks and even at times circling the wagon around Roh when he is in conflict with U.S. hawks. We are talking about a deeply flawed, psychologically bent publication here, though not in the way the Uri Party censors complain about it.
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An interview with Nicolas Eberstadt (via The Marmot’s Hole), an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) fellow, sounded like a blog (even more so in this Joshua treat). I agree with slim, that using a straight-talking American to talk about Bush Administr…
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