Comments on: BREAKING NEWS: Rescue Operation Begins: Reuters

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:41:10 +0000

Sorry, #38, not #37

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:40:29 +0000

#37,

You should read a bit about Yi Pom Sok, the liaison between the Nazis and the Chinese Nationalists.

Metropolitician goes into some detail in the following post.

http://metropolitician.blogs.c.....of_th.html

By: Fantasy

Fantasy — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:26:50 +0000

Nice quip, pa.

By: peninsular aborigine

peninsular aborigine — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:22:00 +0000

You mean the “umgekehrte Hakenkreuzen”?
Backward Nazis’ll never learn!

By: Fantasy

Fantasy — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:51:36 +0000

“My point exactly - it is therefore not so odd when the Taiwanese like Nazis as when the Koreans do.”

Odd or not, the German Permanent Representation (it is not an embassy, as Germany does not recognise Taiwan as a country) in Taipeh kicked up an enormous fuss about the omnipresence of Nazi symbols in Taiwan…

By: Send in Delta Force! « m a r k a n d e y a

Send in Delta Force! « m a r k a n d e y a — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:20:32 +0000

[...] by Brian on August 1st, 2007 There’s a thread over at The Marmot’s Hole on the possibility of Korea sending combat forces to Afghanistan on a rescue mission to save the [...]

By: Herod

Herod — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:44:37 +0000

No you haven’t looked into this; in neither of the links you loftily refer me to, as if to an authority, do you explain the contradiction between a) the Koreans’ enthusiasm for Hitler (not just Nazi uniforms; see Henderson’s reference to the popularity of Mein Kampf on Korean college campuses as far back as the Rhee era) and b) the fact that the Nazis were allied with the hated Japanese.
This contradiction is all the more striking when you consider that anti-Americanism is often attributed to America’s perceived closeness to Park Chung Hee. (And will soon no doubt be attributed to America’s closeness to Karzai.)

By: WangKon936

WangKon936 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:34:46 +0000

Ugh… tired.

I’ve already looked into this earlier.

Go to here:

http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/.....ment-97680
http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/.....ment-97713

By: Herod

Herod — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:04:27 +0000

My point exactly - it is therefore not so odd when the Taiwanese like Nazis as when the Koreans do.

By: wjk

wjk — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:01:42 +0000

Herod, Republic of China, Chiang Kai Shek and Kuo Min Tang and the whole caravan were allied with Nazi Germany before Imperial Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Wei-kuo