Chung Dong Yong has gotten into a spat with Lee Myung Bak and it’s not about economics or North Korea for that matter. So, what is it about? Chung is bitching that MB ruined his planned overseas junket.
I was planning a 4 nation foreign relations visit and would have gone straight to the U.S. after the 17th but MB ruined those plans.
I was going to meet with American experts on the Korean peninsula and explain to them how I was going to handle relations with the U.S., Japan, and Russia if I become President. I was also going to hear their views and upgrade the foreign policy structure.
I even had English translations of (my book) “Train Ticket from Kaesong to Paris” prepared and was going to give a speech to the National Press Club.
For a presidential candidate to meet with the U.S. President before getting elected, is a form of backroom dealing and shows disrespect. Because of MB, my plans were ruined and I plan to sue him for that.
IMO, instead of suing MB, maybe Chung should thank him, because he probably would have made a big fool out of himself, had he gone on that junket.
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Just when you thought Chung Dong-young couldn’t be a bigger tool…
how old is this guy? twelve? nine?
loser.
If he wants to meet foreign experts, I’d recommend that he meet with Norbert V. What a contrast that would be!
Why would he stop at Paris? What’s wrong with going on to London?
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What’s wrong with going on to London?
British cuisine.
He could not get through Heathrow Airport. Even Brits are having trouble making through that mouse-trap. That alone is an excellent reason to avoid England.
So, let me get this right: Chung Dumb Young is pissed because he himself was planning on trying to cop some prestige by (disingenuously) playing the sadae card with Uncle Sucker, but MB’s macher-wannabe first fucked-up the game for everybody. And now he’s saying that MB is disrespectful and guilty of backroom dealing. Is this knucklehead on his ouji board at night getting lessons from Goebbels?
He didn’t have to go on the boondoggle to make a fool of himself; he’s quite practiced at doing it at home.
The pie-in-the-sky title of his book alone makes me ill.
In his fantasy world, trains are running through the North, past 당막골-like villages — with the gulags conspicuously out of sight.
It would be one thing if he were just deluding himself. But shunting aside reality, as he and his ilk do, negatively affects the lives of people like would-be defectors from the North who can’t count on the South’s support, family members of abductees from the South, and Kaesong factory workers whose pay goes who knows where.
If Comrade Chung should somehow, God forbid, win this election, he’d still be a loser in my book.
Within all the humor of the above comments, I suspect there is a tad bit of anxiety that the Lucky Losers - er, I meant, Liberal crowd may somehow resume power come February due to some fluke in current events.
While the possibility always remains, I think it is even smaller than we may perceive. When I was in Tokyo during the 1990’s, I witnessed the virtual destruction of Japan Socialist Party. How did that happen? By being successful. By a fluke of parliamentary procedure, their party leader Murayama became the Prime Minister. To his credit, as a responsible leader, he had to discredit his party’s nonsensical opposition platform by assuming a responsible role in government. As a result, the JSP has never recovered its moment of “success.”
In the case of Korea, the Uri-dang never understood just how unrealistic their principles have been and, for a while, even convinced many S Koreans to let them try to govern by them. As a result, Korea’s light on the international radar has dimmed and a vast number of recent college graduates can’t find work.
The failed policies of the Liberal camp are like cement shoes for any of their candidates and, bar some USFK road kill, the conservatives should be back in power — not so much as they are so lovable, but the vast majority of Koreans would rather see the return of competent crooks rather than incompetent fools at the helm of power.
That wording made me wince. Two dead girls are not roadkill. The civic groups and politicians who pimped their deaths for political gain deserve such caustic language, but not the girls themselves.
Re: comment # 11, Amen and apologies.
“If Comrade Chung should somehow, God forbid, win this election, he’d still be a loser in my book.”
All South Korean (and North Korean) people would be the losers in the deal if this even-bigger-fool-than-Roh got elected.
“but the vast majority of Koreans would rather see the return of competent crooks rather than incompetent fools at the helm of power.”
Thanks for the reassurance, Tom Coyner. For Korea’s sake, I certainly hope you are right.