Comments on: Well, that didn’t take long http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/ Korea... in Blog Format Sun, 6 Jul 2008 02:30:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: ghola http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46218 ghola Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:06:49 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46218 yeah but, we're not at "war" stupid, coldhearted reptile. yeah but, we’re not at “war” stupid, coldhearted reptile.

]]> By: ghola http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46217 ghola Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:03:15 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46217 as long as there is cabbage, koreans will be eating kimchi forever and ever and ever. god help us. as long as there is cabbage, koreans will be eating kimchi forever and ever and ever. god help us.

]]> By: Andy Jackson http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46215 Andy Jackson Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:13:43 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46215 So Roh is actually doing what the GNP says now? I guess that means he will be getting out of the private school business soon. I am still waiting for your point. I said in your post and in this one that I support emergency aid to North Korea if it is monitored. Kang supports something similar (although he does not go far enough on insisting on monitors, IMHO). What I am against is Roh's using flood aid as a pretext for slipping more unmonitored goods to his little poofy-headed buddy in Pyongyang. If the GNP wants the same thing (and so far it appears that they do not) then they would be just as wrong as Roh. So Roh is actually doing what the GNP says now? I guess that means he will be getting out of the private school business soon.

I am still waiting for your point. I said in your post and in this one that I support emergency aid to North Korea if it is monitored. Kang supports something similar (although he does not go far enough on insisting on monitors, IMHO).

What I am against is Roh’s using flood aid as a pretext for slipping more unmonitored goods to his little poofy-headed buddy in Pyongyang. If the GNP wants the same thing (and so far it appears that they do not) then they would be just as wrong as Roh.

]]> By: oranckay http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46179 oranckay Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:52:13 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46179 Mention of the fact the GNP called for emergency aid/storm relief before Uri or Roh would've been nice. Kang only started talking about a fact-finding mission (as mentioned in your post) when the government decided to do what the GNP told it to. Mention of the fact the GNP called for emergency aid/storm relief before Uri or Roh would’ve been nice.

Kang only started talking about a fact-finding mission (as mentioned in your post) when the government decided to do what the GNP told it to.

]]> By: usinkorea http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46128 usinkorea Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:35:26 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46128 I predict the sun will rise tomorrow. I predict Koreans will still be eating kimichi 6 months from now. I predict the sun will rise tomorrow.
I predict Koreans will still be eating kimichi 6 months from now.

]]> By: Are You NKay? :: How Much? II :: August :: 2006 The North Korean Human Rights Movement from the perspective of a LiNK member http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46125 Are You NKay? :: How Much? II :: August :: 2006 The North Korean Human Rights Movement from the perspective of a LiNK member Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:50:41 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46125 [...] The floods are said to “last for years“. Filed under: North Korea @ 10:50 am [...] [...] The floods are said to “last for years“. Filed under: North Korea @ 10:50 am [...]

]]> By: Travolta http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46111 Travolta Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:26:59 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46111 Ive met intelligent Koreans who understand the government is supporting Kim Jong Ill's evil regime because the South doesn't want to/can't deal with the North, at least not without massive help from the rest of the world (AGAIN). YET, these same people at the same time say they have a love for the Northen people as if they are one great family. So they support their oppression cos its better than unification, and they love them at the same time and dream of the day when unification will happen. Am I wrong or is that double think? This seems to be quite common in Korea (and probalby all over the world for that matter). What ever happened to logic? Ive met intelligent Koreans who understand the government is supporting Kim Jong Ill’s evil regime because the South doesn’t want to/can’t deal with the North, at least not without massive help from the rest of the world (AGAIN). YET, these same people at the same time say they have a love for the Northen people as if they are one great family. So they support their oppression cos its better than unification, and they love them at the same time and dream of the day when unification will happen. Am I wrong or is that double think? This seems to be quite common in Korea (and probalby all over the world for that matter). What ever happened to logic?

]]> By: snow http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46098 snow Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:06:08 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46098 Nothing short of an actual attack on the South will change the appeasement-monkeys' approach to their beloved brethren. Nothing short of an actual attack on the South will change the appeasement-monkeys’ approach to their beloved brethren.

]]> By: iheartblueballs http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46077 iheartblueballs Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:09:55 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46077 I won't name names, but I will pull out quotes. "In a way, these missile tests were the best thing that could happen to South Korea. For it can no longer ignore North Korea’s threat in front of the international community as it seemed to be doing prior to the launches. It must now actually do something besides downplaying. And quite unlike how I felt leading up to these tests, I think South Korea will actually show that it does indeed have guts and good sense. I believe these missile launches have changed everything regarding what we saw before coming out of the south." In all fairness, it did change everything coming out of the south. Roh and his cabinet of appeasement-whores actually waited until a natural disaster to resume financing North Korea's military, whereas in the past, they didn't even bother with a fake excuse. I won’t name names, but I will pull out quotes.

“In a way, these missile tests were the best thing that could happen to South Korea.

For it can no longer ignore North Korea’s threat in front of the international community as it seemed to be doing prior to the launches. It must now actually do something besides downplaying.

And quite unlike how I felt leading up to these tests, I think South Korea will actually show that it does indeed have guts and good sense. I believe these missile launches have changed everything regarding what we saw before coming out of the south.”

In all fairness, it did change everything coming out of the south. Roh and his cabinet of appeasement-whores actually waited until a natural disaster to resume financing North Korea’s military, whereas in the past, they didn’t even bother with a fake excuse.

]]> By: fred_random http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46075 fred_random Mon, 14 Aug 2006 03:46:18 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/14/well-that-didnt-take-long/#comment-46075 Why set an exception for humanitarian aid? As Gen. Sherman of the Union Army in the American Civil War understood, any deaths of the civilian population are the responsibility of the regime in power in NK, not the ROK, US or any outside force. It's their totalitarianism that's ultimately causing the misery, even when the proximate cause is a natural disaster. No aid should be sent. Period. I only wish the US understood that in the cases of Afghanistan, Iraq and now Lebanon. I can only see assistance from the ROK as a way for the political class there to avoid ending up like the politicians in unification Germany did -- paying to keep the North's economic collapse away long enough for it to become the next administration's problem. Why set an exception for humanitarian aid? As Gen. Sherman of the Union Army in the American Civil War understood, any deaths of the civilian population are the responsibility of the regime in power in NK, not the ROK, US or any outside force. It’s their totalitarianism that’s ultimately causing the misery, even when the proximate cause is a natural disaster. No aid should be sent. Period. I only wish the US understood that in the cases of Afghanistan, Iraq and now Lebanon.

I can only see assistance from the ROK as a way for the political class there to avoid ending up like the politicians in unification Germany did — paying to keep the North’s economic collapse away long enough for it to become the next administration’s problem.

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