According to the Chosun Ilbo, President Roh Moo-hyun had some interesting things to say in an August 27 conversation with Gwangju/Jeollanam-do members of Nosamo, the president’s online fan club.
One of the members secretly recorded the conversation. The 55-minute recording file was posted on the Nosamo homepage yesterday.
Firstly, he said there were no “red warning lights” flashing concerning the country’s politics, economy or society (leading GNP lawmaker Joo Sung-young to quip, “What is he, colorblind?”) He said economic growth was fine, taxes were low and the national debt was exceptionally low.
About the withdrawal of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division from the DMZ, Roh talked like he would have have proposed the rearward redeployment of 2ID even if Washington hadn’t requested it. He said, “We need to stand alone psychologically. So I pulled U.S. troops off the front line and told Korean troops to protect it… Korea and the United States brought it up at the same time so that you couldn’t tell who said it first.” He added, “If you look at the records one by one, you could tell whether it was I who brought it up first or the United States.”
Not content just to stop there, however, the president then said, “Even the prime minister at the time [Goh Gun] said [about the USFK redeployment] that the ‘tripwire’ mustn’t be removed, but I altered the government’s position to have the U.S. troops removed… Then came talk of U.S. troop reductions; I welcomed it and carried out the reductions.”
Whatever you say, boss.
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During my service here it always gave me a warm an fuzzy knowing that the Korean People and Government, entities I was supposed to fight and possibly die for, regarded the value and function of my life as no more than a “tripwire”; in other words, they wanted me to die, it was in their interest that I die, so that it would trigger the US to enter the war in full swing.
My brothers aren’t F#$%ing tripwires.
He invented the Internet.
Haha, that post was even funnier than Silly Sally’s recent comments over at my blog!
He needs Kaopectate for his verbal diarrhea.
A village somewhere is missing its’ idiot.
Give the man some respect – you don’t get an 89 percent approval rating for being stupid. Oh, wait, that’s the disapproval rating…
He must have been a really powerful dude - because the base realignment plan dates back to before 2000 and it was in 2000 that it was pretty much cemented, though I believe the Koreans thought it would never come to pass because they could delay it to death as usual.
And seeing as how Roh wasn’t elected until late-2002 — there must have been one hell of a conspirarcy going on behind the scenes if Roh had this much power back in 2000….
By the way, has the embassy moved yet?
That one went back about 1989….
It is so incomprehensible that the future of Korea can be totally derailed by one pompous idiot.
All those military experts who have spent their entire lifetime on looking, thinking and deciding NK war capabilities wrote a report to the president and he threw the report to the garbage can. He declared, “we don’t need the US military to defend this country”.
Where did he get this idea? What supporting evidences that he can give, other than childish insistence that he is right?
This man is the 3rd worst Korean in the history of Korea. He comes right after Kim IlSung and Kim Jongil. He comes in the first place in stupidity.
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