Comments on: Tehran, Damascus, Baghdad… and Seoul? http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/11/23/tehran-damascus-baghdad-and-seoul/ Korea... in Blog Format Fri, 5 Dec 2008 04:30:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: michael http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/11/23/tehran-damascus-baghdad-and-seoul/#comment-57103 michael Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:48:01 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/11/23/tehran-damascus-baghdad-and-seoul/#comment-57103 Well, the Economist said S. Korea was a "flawed democracy": http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200611/200611220020.html That must be an example of British understatement. Maybe the congressman saw the constant anti-American protests in Korea and noticed how they resemble the ones in Iran and Syria. Well, the Economist said S. Korea was a “flawed democracy”:
http://english.chosun.com/w21d.....20020.html

That must be an example of British understatement.

Maybe the congressman saw the constant anti-American protests in Korea and noticed how they resemble the ones in Iran and Syria.

]]> By: Paul H. http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/11/23/tehran-damascus-baghdad-and-seoul/#comment-57077 Paul H. Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:12:15 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/11/23/tehran-damascus-baghdad-and-seoul/#comment-57077 Nothing on his official congressional website, a search of google using various combinations of search phrases turned up nothing dated this week, though lots of hits from earliler. Story is listed as "Washington", I presume Yonhap is a Korean news agency that keeps a stringer (is that the right word?) in Wash DC, maybe said stringer got a one-on-one direct quote from the Congressman while he was on his way out of town back to his Michigan district, thus there won't be anything to back this up from another source. Nothing on his official congressional website, a search of google using various combinations of search phrases turned up nothing dated this week, though lots of hits from earliler.

Story is listed as “Washington”, I presume Yonhap is a Korean news agency that keeps a stringer (is that the right word?) in Wash DC, maybe said stringer got a one-on-one direct quote from the Congressman while he was on his way out of town back to his Michigan district, thus there won’t be anything to back this up from another source.

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