I wouldn’t exactly call North Korea’s the Institute of Disarmament and Peace senior researcher’s An Song-nam’s “analysis” of North Korean behavior the stuff to base U.S. policy on, but in a way, I guess he did get to the heart of the matter:
It is par for the course that the US should apologize and withdraw what it said about the DPRK “ending its tyranny” and gives up its hostile policy aimed at “regime change” in the DPRK. It also should make clear its political will to move toward peaceful co-existence. Through all this, the US should put its money where its mouth is.
He said it, not me.
(Hat tip to Lost Nomad)
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Someone once wrote (quoting from memory): “Countries can agree to receiving US aid very slowly, through monetary reforms and loans to help their change to a free-market economy….Or countries can receive a lot of US aid very quickly: in the form of the US Military storming their cities.”
And you know what? He’s right.
not very interesting, but no lack of creativity either. obviously written for the south korean audience and does a fantastic job of pushing all the right buttons there. i assume that it was delivered in korean then released to the press here. i’m surprised that he understands exactly how to whip up the anti-foreigner sentiment here.
evidently “northeast asia” just includes korea.
Speaking of putting cash where orifices are, this K Herald
headline has a nice double entendre.
(So THAT’s where he hid it!)
cheers
Aidan
Hunt begins for Kim Woo-choong’s booty
The government yesterday vowed to track down and seize any hidden assets of Daewoo Group’s former chairman …
Hey! Who’s calling me a Yank? Change that flag at once!
Aidan Anglo-Irish
Hunt begins for Kim Woo-choong?€™s booty
I thought Kim was walking a little funny at the airport.
Sorry about the flag, sir. Program follows the IP address.
Marmot, you have celebrity commenters now! Who’s nextAndrei Lankov?
Just tell me that Kim Woo-Choong didn’t name Daewoo (”Big Woo”) after himself!
re: Kim Woo-Choong
My bro-in-law used to work for dae-woo ages ago. One story I’ve heard is that all these engineers with fancy degrees couldn’t dam up the last 50 feet of so of a bay due to the heavy water current, where they were building a shipyard(?). The dude’s got hella pissed, and piloted a busted-down ship no longer in service, and sunk the bugger where they were trying to finish up the barrier. After that, it was trivial to finish the barrier.
The guy was a bare-knuckle entreprenuer who built the whole empire out of his gut and sheer bloodymindedness. Not unlike those in America back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (Ray Croc comes to mind), but this guy has done it from the ravaged ruins of Korea after the Korean war.
Perhaps it’s a good thing - times change. But I’ve got a warm spot in my heart for guys like that (fuck accounting regulations - laws are cooked up by crooks themselves anyways ;-). Certainly a lot more respect to them than to these douchebags with whiny-ass Ivy League MBAs nowadays.
um… getting back to a question, i don’t know if “Dae-woo” was named as “great woo”. That would be pretty narscistic, and I don’t think people in Korea named companies after their or anyone’s name, typically, but you never know.
Troll, I too have some admiration for those Korean entrepreneurs. The founders of Hyundai and Samsung come to mind. They worked their way from nothing in country that was pretty damn poor to begin with, and literally helped to make South Korea the wealthy place it is today. (Which is in no way to take away from the blood, sweat, toil, and tears of all the people who worked for low wages under them in those heady years to do their part to make Korea one of the “rising tigers.”)
I didn’t necessarily mean just these Korean guys. I was lamenting on some of the US businesses, actually - in particular, the situation with GM (their management) makes me sick.