Appearing on CBS, Democratic Labor Party lawmaker Roh Hoe-chan expanded on yesterday’s Hankyoreh Shinmun’s theme, saying, “Because the United States hopes Korean troops will remain in Afghanistan and has wanted Korea to even send combat troops, it won’t say anything about the hostage situation.” He also said another reason why the United States was keeping silent was that if Washington told Seoul not to accept the Taliban’s demands, it could be read as meaning the United States thought it would be good even if the hostages died, and if it told Seoul to accept the demands, it could cause problems for the US occupation policy in Afghanistan.
He was also kind enough to blame the United States for the hostage situation (because, according to “sources,” the United States has been asking Korea to send combat troops since the beginning of the year) and for the death of a Korean soldier in a suicide bombing attack on Bagram Airbase in June (because the real target was a visiting US official).
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It cost me 70,000 Won to fill up my car and now I don’t have enough money for Domino’s. Stupid America! Curse that Henry Ford!
I find solace in that most Koreans would not take Roh’s comments seriously.
Perhaps if he were to volunteer to swap himself for one of the hostages, he might actually manage to do something that has merit but as it is . . .
Nice to see the DLP exploiting this story to further its anti-
American agenda. Very classy. I’d expect nothing less from them.
Bah, don’t mind him. As a member of the DLP (10 seats in the National Assembly during last elections) he’s way out of the loop:
http://english.yonhapnews.co.k.....0315F.HTML
By now, you would expect that’s what the hani would write. So why get your knickers bent over this?
Overwhelmingly, Koreans are blaming the hostages and the church. Many are saying they should’ve known better and that we should just let them die, and that tax money shouldn’t be wasted on them.
Hang on, we have the peoples’ paper saying the emperor has no clothes, and cm decries the fact, when all know the US has its nose to the ground and sphincter up top the air and exposed, deserving of a colonoscopy of the twin tower kind.
This is a US mess, the failure to deliver to the world upon the end of the Cold War.
dlatn,
That comment was a piece of modern art.
“dlatn,
That comment was a piece of modern art”
And fiction
Isn’t it funny how there’s always an anti-American angle to be found in every situation involving Korea?
9. Every fucking time!
민주노동당= common thugs in the guise of a political party. Four or five of them tried to jump me in Ulsan back in ‘03 for 1.) being American and 2.) asking them their opinion about the thousands of pedestrians killed in Korea every year (they were exploiting, I mean commemorating the one-year anniversary of the deaths of the two girls hit by the US Army vehicle).
What has this situation got to do with the US, anyway; I mean aside from the fact that we have mobilized every paramilitary group in the region? Will Korea ever embrace the concept of accounability and own up to their responsibilites?
No.
It’s not Korea that’s blaming the U.S., it’s the sad Roh administration and the DLP.
This is classic Roh and DLP : when in doubt, blame the U.S..
Take solace in the fact that Roh is likely the most unpopular Korean leader in recent history, including the pre-democracy dictators. So, no, I don’t believe anything close to the average Korean is blaming the U.S. over this tragedy.
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[...] Note the term "decisive influence" in the above citation. In other words if the captives are not released it is America’s fault for not using it’s "decisive influence" to make the Afghan government release Taliban killers that would go on to kill, rob, and rape more Afghan civilians just to release the Korean missionaries. It isn’t just the leftist media creating this current narrative in Korea either, the Democratic Labor Party is echoing the same sentiment: [...]