Comments on: Jasper Becker on Seoul’s dance with the dictator

By: CorpyCarly

CorpyCarly — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 23:11:46 +0000

I’m as big a fan of righteous indignation directed at Roh and the Sunshine Policy as anyone else, but Mr. Becker does himself no favors when he includes something like this in his argument,
“Nor is Seoul necessarily correct to assume that the collapse of the North would lead to an exodus of desperate people to the South. After ridding themselves of the criminal regime, wouldn’t those in the North be just as likely to stay in their homes than to flee south as paupers?” Uhhhh….probably not, dude. Most NK’s would be acting irrationally not to flee South to displace the foreign labor that fills Southern factories.

By: baduk

baduk — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 23:03:18 +0000

Bush can ass-kick Rho into shape. The “sunshine” policy will start a war in Korean peninsula. The “sun” stands for “nuclear bomb flash”.

By: Kushibo

Kushibo — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:12:26 +0000

Don’t answer, JTB! Kim “Ray” Jong-il is going to try to bio-nuke your ass!

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:10:56 +0000

Are you by any chance in the Houston area, jtb?

By: oranckay

oranckay — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:27:43 +0000

For a guy who knows so much about China, you would think he would factor the China factor into the equasion. SK believes it has to work with NK because it believes NK isn’t going to collapse and decades of confrontation got nowhere. Sure, SK could stop helping NK but China won’t, or won’t anytime soon, and with China keeping NK going the choice left SK is the same low intensity military confrontation of the last 50 years or being friendly with NK. It ain’t that simple, for sure, but China’s attachmnet to DPRK would make any attempt by SK to make a big deal of NK something of little more than rhetorical value. Even if you don’t agree with that, you’d think a long term China resident (Becker) might have something to say about it.