Of course, one needs to remember that these “protesters” are in fact PAID PROTESTERS that are sympathetic to North Korea (and those other red bastards) for financial reasons. This may well be the perfect time to militaristically press the issue for unification, and absolutely eliminate the communist threat once and for all.

wjk wrote:
“i wonder what these “nationlist” South Koreans would do with Kim Il Sung’s statues?”

Just wait, we’ll show the South Koreans a little trick we did with a tank and some rope in Iraq — what a beautiful day it will be finally to see Koreans reunited and communism utterly defeated. Believe you me, it won’t end with the Kim statue, we’ll rip down the Stalin and Mao ones too.

But until then, he does have a valid point. South Korea is to date, not completely an independent nation. It is a fact that even South Koreans are ashamed of about their country. 50 years after the Korean War and still North Korea is a threat? Come on.

I guess it could seem that way from San Diego.

Part of the reason why Kim Il Sung was able to pull off his divine crap, was that the Koreans were used to thinking like this at least since the Japanese occupation, where the Shinto religion made Japanese and Korean subjects to believe that the Emperor was a god.

Dating much further back than that, the Chosun or previous kings had a near diety, but not god like status, where they demanded just as much from people.

Actually, I am willing to conjecture that the Koreans under Japan had never put in deity status to a mere mortal king as they had for the Emperor of Japan. Thus, Kim Il Sung filled that void and enjoyed it. This is another small reason for Koreans to hate Japan. Japan created a context for Kim Il Sung’s rise and existance. Meaning, Kim Il Sung filled the role of the Japanese Emperor. A human living god who was the supreme ruler of the land.

These fools would probably want to preserve the Kim Il Sung statue, saying it’s a testament to Korean self reliance. Ju Chae. Bull crap. Kim Il Sung is in many ways very Japanese like. Look at himself. A human living god? Just like the Emperor of Japan.

What would be uncalculated and childish. Remember the Tiananmen Incident in 89? The pragamatic reformers within the Communist party already had the upper hand controlling many branches of the governmnent. Zhao ZiYang was even the premier.

But the student uprising, here I call them the radical reformers created a civil disorder. The hardliners within the Communist Party capitalized on this civil disorder to discredit the pragmatic reformers within the CCP. When it was clear that the radical reformers were no match to create a revolution, the pragmatic reformers were forced to play hard ball to keep their legitimacy. Zhao ZiYang was sacrificed as the scape goat in order for pragmatic reformers to appear “tough” in the eyes of the hardliners. He was put under house arrest and for the next few years, the Communist pragmatic reformers had to play “tough guy” in order to fend off accusations of being “soft” by the Communist hardliners.