Comments on: BREAKING NEWS : Summit Pushed to October

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:34:49 +0000

I wonder if U.S. military stores in Korea sell those ship-in-a-bottle kits.

By: captbbq

captbbq — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:23:12 +0000

I don’t imagine General Bell would say anything publicly about this, but I wonder what he’s thinking about all this…

By: Janus

Janus — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:11:55 +0000

So does this mean ULF can proceed as originally scheduled?

….oh

By: mcnut

mcnut — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:20:32 +0000

SO NOW THE MILITARY TRAINING is definitely not gonna happen

hahahaha if the korean gov’t and military doesnt give a fuck why should the US

By: Inter-Korean Summit Rained Out or Is It? at ROK Drop

Inter-Korean Summit Rained Out or Is It? at ROK Drop — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:27:53 +0000

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By: sanshinseon

sanshinseon — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:23:29 +0000

Damn, some of the 600 academics gathering for the World Congress for Korean Studies in Busan Aug 23~25 (soon!) had been invited on a free one-day tour (RT by bus from Seoul) to Gaeseong on the 28th — I was looking forward to that, being an invitee — but it was *canceled* just 3 days ago because of the Summit beginning on the same day! I wonder if they’ll now be able to reinstate it … probably not What a waste…

By: Hwarang

Hwarang — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:21:20 +0000

I thought the 7 billion package was for flood relief, and wasn’t connected to the summit. Someguy is right, though — by waiting a little while, they can ask for more incentives to come to the table again.

I bet Roh is pretty pissed that they want to move it to October, which will probably be too late for him to get much political leverage out of it.

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:37:16 +0000

Quite simple, if he went so soon after they got the 7 billion won, giving more money would have raised eyebrows. In October, few people will remember.

By: Iceberg

Iceberg — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:58:35 +0000

S.Korea gives N.Korea a 7 billion won package so Noh can head to Pyongyang to receive KJI’s package. Poetic.

By: mins0306

mins0306 — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:54:55 +0000

This change was pretty obvious though, right?

Actually, I thought that this will go through since the S. Korean gov.t is giving N. Korea a 7 billion Won package sometime next week.

I guess N. Korea wasn’t happy with the figure. Or maybe they weren’t happy with the ramen being included in the package.