Comments on: Well, It’s Not Like North Korea is Japan or Anything

By: Hatch SZ

Hatch SZ — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:01:18 +0000

By his thinking, Japan need not apologize to Korea for the colonial era because it did not lose to Korea eventually. It lost to the US.

or rather it is ‘not legally realistic’

By: globalvillageidiot

globalvillageidiot — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:17:59 +0000

He still likes to claim that a civil war was inevitable either way, but Cumings has long ago toned down his previous assertion that the south invaded the north.

By: peninsular aborigine

peninsular aborigine — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:24:00 +0000

I don’t understand this. Is he a leftie who actually acknowledges who attacked whom?

(I do realize that it is not as simple as that, but it is important to note that the repulsive Bruce Cumings was wrong, is wrong, and will be wrong and that he can lick me world without end.)

By: DPRK Studies

DPRK Studies — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:12:55 +0000

Roh Moo-Hyun Almost Got It Half Right…

On one hand, this could make good sense; if one is truly looking for reconciliation there no need to continually rehash the past. If Roh had included something about how the North should also not except an apology from South Korea either (though I’m …

By: Yes You Gotta Love It at ROK Drop

Yes You Gotta Love It at ROK Drop — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:58:21 +0000

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By: Foreign Dispatches

Foreign Dispatches — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:36:21 +0000

What, No Apology Juice?…

Like American Congressmen who only seem capable of demanding apologies over events long past from countries considered allies, the Korean government displays a rather selective attitude on matters of apologetics and compensation….