So South Korea, who *is* your friend?”

Chilling stuff. First, get rid of US forces, then get rid of that pesky democracy in the South and voila, no more Cold War structure, just hello Dear Leader, bye-bye Japan.

Anyways, I don’t think setting up a hotline is going to amount to any strategic/military partnership bewteen Korea and China. Afterall, the United States and Soviet Union had a hotline too.

China wants to jumpstart talks for its own free trade agreement with South Korea and continue helping the country move toward reunification, Premier Wen Jiabao said yesterday.
“by increasing contacts and research, we will actively push for a quick result, and I hope that these efforts will lead soon to a free trade agreement,” China’s number two leader told Korean reporters in Beijing. . . .
“It is very abnormal that even after half a century has passed since an armistice was reached on the Korean Peninsula, there is still no peace regime established,” said the premier. “I think we have to remove any Cold War structures in order to establish a peace regime.”

Here is a clue: “Cold War structures” is a common code phrase used by pro-NK elements when describing the conservative political elements in South Korea.

So South Korea, who *is* your friend?