Blame America! Blame America!

Well, it didn’t take long for Pressian and the Hankyoreh to start blaming the United States for the recent death of a Korean soldier in Afghanistan…

This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on March 2, 2007 at 4:32 pm, filed under Asides, Korea in the War on Terror, ROK-US Issues. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

4 Comments

  1. Wedge your flag
    Posted March 2, 2007 at 6:44 pm | Permalink

    That actually took longer than I would’ve expected. Those guys are slowing down in their old age.

  2. Zonath your flag
    Posted March 3, 2007 at 12:51 am | Permalink

    Nice to know that both of these media outlets are living up to the high standards of decorum and class that we’ve come to expect from them.

  3. Irrawaddy your flag
    Posted March 3, 2007 at 2:28 am | Permalink

    Yes, but Naver’s headline says “Before SSG Yun was killed, there was intelligence about a terrorist bomb”.

    -In the context of Afghanistan, that would be like a Seattle weatherman telling us that there might be rain today.

  4. beechtreem your flag
    Posted March 3, 2007 at 9:01 pm | Permalink

    Its fair to blame America but Korea shares the blame. When Canadian soldiers die, Canada shares the blame. But America is equally culpable. So are the soldiers who die for participating in these crimes. It should be understood however that words like America, US, Canada, Korea are metonymns for the power-centers and not the country as a whole.

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