Comments on: Foreign Ministry slams U.S. embassy http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/01/25/foreign-ministry-slams-us-embassy/ Korea... in Blog Format Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:26:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: usinkorea http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/01/25/foreign-ministry-slams-us-embassy/#comment-28582 usinkorea Thu, 26 Jan 2006 02:46:39 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=2341#comment-28582 How can the Northern half of the penisula be so good at playing the world and the Southern half so often shows its ass? It isn't just the government. The Chosun Daily was all up in arms about the press release, and it made it sound as if when the press release came out, it was immediately like a bomb among the press corps and they were all over the state department about it ---- the US pressuring SK to do what the US demanded, and such.... There is little sense too it. Maybe they are trying to condition the new players on the US side and the new push on the North --- by jumping on the the new US Amb. and the new post of envoy on NKHR, and now by flying off the handle at any percieved "interference" by the US "in Korean domestic affairs" they are trying to shell shock the US side to get blunt whatever lengths the US has decided to go to with NK on sanctions and Human Rights pressure. I hope that is it. At least it's a plan. And/or maybe they are just so utterly sensitive to "offending Pyongyang" they feel they have to run around like chickens with their heads cut off. That is a stupid reason, but it is better than the alternative which is that SK has so ingrained itself with the "5,000 year history of oppression" mentality, all of this bleeting is simply reflex. How can the Northern half of the penisula be so good at playing the world and the Southern half so often shows its ass?

It isn’t just the government. The Chosun Daily was all up in arms about the press release, and it made it sound as if when the press release came out, it was immediately like a bomb among the press corps and they were all over the state department about it —- the US pressuring SK to do what the US demanded, and such….

There is little sense too it.

Maybe they are trying to condition the new players on the US side and the new push on the North — by jumping on the the new US Amb. and the new post of envoy on NKHR, and now by flying off the handle at any percieved “interference” by the US “in Korean domestic affairs” they are trying to shell shock the US side to get blunt whatever lengths the US has decided to go to with NK on sanctions and Human Rights pressure. I hope that is it. At least it’s a plan.

And/or maybe they are just so utterly sensitive to “offending Pyongyang” they feel they have to run around like chickens with their heads cut off. That is a stupid reason, but it is better than the alternative which is that SK has so ingrained itself with the “5,000 year history of oppression” mentality, all of this bleeting is simply reflex.

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