By ANDY JACKSON
Marmot?????s Hole Guest Blogger
Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon has cancelled a planned meeting with Japan’s foreign minister Nobutaka Machimura over the visit this week by Prime Minister Junichio Koizumi to the Yasukuni Shrine.
Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon yesterday rebuffed a plea by his Japanese counterpart to keep the two nations’ diplomatic timetable on schedule. “Under the current circumstances,” he said, “it is not proper [for me] to pursue a visit to Japan.” He was speaking at his weekly press briefing.
While I’m on the subject, I saw the dressing down Ban gave the Japanese ambassador over the Yasukuni Shrine visit a couple of days ago. The two sat side-by-side surrounded by dozens of cameramen and reporters while Ban lectured him. The ambassador just had to sit there clutching his left hand and take it. It really looked like he was doing all he could to keep from backhanding Ban. Nice theater.
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ROK Foreign Minister cancels Japan trip
From The Marmots Hole, Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon has canceled a scheduled visit to Tokyo in response to Prime Minister Koizumis visit this week to the Yasukuni Shrine.
The guest blogging Flying Yangban writes:
I saw th…
While I?€™m on the subject, I saw the dressing down Ban gave the Japanese ambassador over the Yasukuni Shrine visit a couple of days ago. The two sat side-by-side surrounded by dozens of cameramen and reporters while Ban lectured him. The ambassador just had to sit there clutching his left hand and take it. It really looked like he was doing all he could to keep from backhanding Ban. Nice theater.
Is it standard practice to do things like that? If so, it is the first time I have heard of it. It is funny though. This kind of public display of ‘dominance’ reveals the deep rooted Korean inferiority complex in all its glory.
Korea should just cool it. Yasukuni is not Dokto.
Korea is a shrimp. Just bow out, and let these whales, Japan and China, duke it out.
As I wrote about a year ago, when I first joined this board, Korea should just stay out of this coming Japan-China war.
Korea has a great shot at winning in a fight against Japan. You have to remember that japan has a huge pokemon problem. With japan’s obsession of catching them all, the pokemon are bound to lash out. The japanese wouldn’t stand a chance against a pokemon revolt considering they can do such amazing feats such as shooting lightning bolts. And plus, what normal japanese man would join an army to try and invade another country when he has a plethora of women in small school uniforms waiting at home?….of course it seems all koreans are in love triangles where one of the participants always has some terminal disease or amnesia. hmmmm….actually its a tough call.
“More than 20,000 Taiwanese and about the same amount of Korean soldiers who died for the Imperial Japan are worshipped in Japan’s Yasukuni shrine.”
http://www.project-syndicate.o.....g1/English
And which country is always complaining about its neighbors rewriting history?
We should just blow up the shrine and put a statue of Al pacino in its place. That way there would be no controversy when people go to worship at the site.
We should just blow up the shrine and put a statue of Al pacino in its place.
Finally someone who makes sense.
I am convinced that the only way to make sense is to unlearn Korean culture. All the time and effort wasted on learning Korean culture is belied by its essential irrationality and self-destructiveness. Oddly, these things perpetrate the race as it grows out of and reinforces Korean racial identity.
The reason Koreans have such a strong sense of racial identity, comparitive to the vast majority of groups on the planet is that they have no sense of self-identity; hence racial identity serves that purpose. Frankl’s emphasis on the role of meaning in this sense is worthwhile considering in this context - meaning vs. sense: better to be an odd duck, even a lame duck than sacrifice your sense of difference, identity and meaning simply for the sake of sense.
Al Pacino gets my vote. And McArthur might be replaced with Weird Al Yankovic. Or does that reek too much of cultural supremecy?