Comments on: NIS Chief Testifies in National Assembly

By: OneFreeKorea » The Death of an Alliance, Part 67

OneFreeKorea » The Death of an Alliance, Part 67 — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:57:47 +0000

[...] the head of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service has all but admitted it (more): Another lawmaker pressured him further, asking if it is normal for the National [...]

By: Wedge

Wedge — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:23:06 +0000

This NIS clown is making his agency look about as incompetent as the CIA, something I didn’t think possible.

By: Brendon Carr

Brendon Carr — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:22:57 +0000

See, South Korea is still a better ally than Spain, France, or Canada, yet it only gets poo poo.

Plus about $50 billion a year worth of the US military’s fighting power tied up here in Korea when America needs it elsewhere. In exchange for that commitment of US taxpayers’ treasure, and the blood of American soldiers, we get “Fucking USA” and the periodic love-in from this excellent ally of ours. That’s not “poo poo” — it’s bullshit.

By: judge judy

judge judy — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:47:31 +0000

Kim said it was not appropriate for the committee to ask if the Korean government gave money for the hostages’ release and asked them to forget about it.

what a numbnut this guy is. one week of negotiations and he falls prey to stockholm syndrome.

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:03:51 +0000

#6,
What groups are you talking about? It’s not as if the Canadian government ever was as close to the Taliban as the American one was.

So, the Canadian economy would crash without a healthy American one? The opposite can also be said. Besides, nowadays the US is increasingly competing with China for Canada’s natural resources.

By: globalvillageidiot

globalvillageidiot — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:01:39 +0000

wjk,

Opinion polls are meaningless in this case. It is what the governments of these countries do and don’t do in their dealings with terrorists that counts. (Isn’t that the issue at hand?)

The South Korean government may have paid off the Taliban and appears willing to refer to them with some measure of respect. Canada, on the other hand - and along with its friends/allies - is in the process of trying to fight and kill the Taliban in Afghanistan. (As opposed to sitting around some guarded compound playing “go-stop”, making kimchi, or whatever the hell else Korean forces will soon have to stop doing when they “honor” their deal with the Taliban and fly home.)

The notion that Canada allowing the odd AWOL soldier - or, in the past, Vietnam draft dodgers that were later pardoned - makes it an inferior friend and ally to the US than South Korea is so silly it isn’t really worth commenting on.

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:34:04 +0000

It seems that the Roh Administration is also quietly sitting on the Myanmar deal where Daewoo and Doosan companies gave arms manufacturing technology to Myanmar. People were arrested last December but there has been not a peep.

These guys are really making Bush look good, in comparison.

By: chiamattt

chiamattt — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:32:02 +0000

6. According the Ann Coulter, Canada did send troops to Vietnam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84EjWeTMBZs

By: dogbertt

dogbertt — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:13:15 +0000

See, South Korea is still a better ally than Spain, France, or Canada, yet it only gets poo poo.

1. No, it isn’t.

2. What “poo poo”? Like those great allies, Koreans, flinging shit on U.S. beef? Who needs you, really?

By: wjk

wjk — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:06:21 +0000

this is a very intriguing political development. A liberal Korean branch has decided that a mere terrorist/criminal organization should be treated with as much legitimacy as a state government.

This is following in the traditions of other liberal countries such as Spain, Italy, Canada, and France.

there is much deserved criticism that South Korea has failed its major ally, the US.

But, I think South Korea as a whole is still a legitmate US ally and shares common interests with the US.

Take a look at this BBC poll.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media.....15;300.gif

Mexico is amazingly ungrateful and resentful towards the United States. If Canada was in the survey as well, the Canadians would also prove themselves to be so. Both have economies that will crash without a healthy US one.

Talking about betrayal, how about the French, Canada, and many others refusing to join arms with the US in the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, and so on?

I mean, who freed France? What kind of ally shields AWOL soldiers of an ally?

See, South Korea is still a better ally than Spain, France, or Canada, yet it only gets poo poo.