Your language is so strong. Do you beat a person to death with your cane when they bump into you? I understood that you blame america for this problem and\or for not finding a solution. Am I wrong? You seem to write and write.. and write and write.. but anybody who reads between the lines, and lines and lines sees that you want to push blame on america.

Fisking!! gives you great power!! I have to keep special watch on each and every word.

You may see Washington conservatives bitching about some Seoul government representatives having too friendly a relationship with Pyongyang while doing extremely little to actually help the North Koreans victimized by Pyongyang as non-hypocritical, and that’s fine.

But what I see as the problem is this: there are lots of DPRK citizens being tortured, killed, or allowed to die, or fearing for their life, both in North Korea and China, and something MUST be done about it.

But in both Washington and Seoul there are two regimes that are so ideologically driven that they are unwilling to hammer out an effective, workable compromise that would be acceptable to both.

No, instead the childish ideologues have to throw insult after insult at each other, not meeting this person, sniping at that person, etc., etc. Like two different high school cliques with some sort of grudge.

And while all this happens, more North Koreans in China get captured and sent back, more North Koreans get killed.

Hyde’s public chiding, while technically right in content, brings us one step further from where we should be, the same as Chung not meeting Lefkowitz.

He may score political points with people already on his side, but at whose expense? Does this help us or hurt us in trying to find some way to actually help the people who need it?

And that’s why I see this as hypocritical: if he is so concerned about North Korea (and I think he is) then he should be pushing the US side to do far more than it is, while putting a lid on his public rhetoric, which would best be delivered privately, if there is any hope of its recipient actually being receptive to it.

Chung Dong-young is an asshole. I hope voters are frequently reminded of his “comrade” comment next year and the next. And I don’t envy Ban Kimoon the job of having to “explain” idiotic remarks or actions from Chung or Roh.

But let’s leave it to the conservatives and moderates in Korea to dress down Chung publicly. Really, does Hyde actually think that a conservative American politician publicly rebuking a leftist politician in Korea is going to actually make that person come around?

Like it or not, for at least the next two years, the left-wing government in Seoul and the right-wing government in Washington are stuck with each other. Do we really have to let that many more suffer because these two sides can’t get their fucking act together enough to overcome ideology and see that there is enough common ground to work from?

Kushibo, did you forget writing this?

What are they doing on this matter? This is hypocrisy, on par with (in league with?) Roh-Chung on the matter.Calling this kind of thing hypocrisy and saying the problems being faced are “all the fault of the Americans,” as ‘Shingles’ said I was doing, are two entirely different things.

Also, as one could easily see, I’m quite critical of the Roh-Chung axis of weasels, too.

I never said any such thing and I resent the implication.

Kushibo, did you forget writing this?

What are they doing on this matter? This is hypocrisy, on par with (in league with?) Roh-Chung on the matter.

Spewer is right on the mark.

Anyway, I just saw a story that the S.K. gov’t is coming around (at least Ban Ki-moon is) to acknowledge the nork counterfeiting:
http://english.chosun.com/w21d.....10025.html

It’s a start, at least.

I never said any such thing and I resent the implication.

I have said that the United States can do far more than it has been, and should make that a priority ahead of bashing others.