If you think that giving your tax money over to North Korea so Kim Jong-il can continue to keep his general well-supplied with cars, cognac and cuties is not such a great idea, who would you vote for? One way to help decide is to see who the Dear Leader hates the most and vote for that guy.
So who is the candidate that Pyongyang loves to hate? Let’s just see a few headlines from today (November 26):
Elimination of Ri Hoe Chang called for by Koreans in China
The General Association of Koreans in China Wednesday issued a statement titled “Let’s decisively eliminate Ri Hoe Chang, a heinous sycophantic traitor and anti-reunification element, in the name of nation.”
Ri Hoe Chang’s Ambition to Seize Power Blasted by Koreans’ Organization in China
The Federation of Korean National Economic Workers in China released a statement on November 20 denouncing traitor Ri Hoe Chang for his desperate efforts to seize power.
The statement accused Ri Hoe Chang, a politician whose days are numbered, of declaring his candidacy for the “presidential elections” recently though he was forsaken by the times and the nation for being dregs of history and working with bloodshot eyes to win people’s favor.
BTW, I wander if “President” Roh minds his buddies in Pyongyang putting quotes around the title of his office like that? Back to today’s headlines:
All-out Campaign against Ri Hoe Chang Called for in S. Korea
The Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration reportedly issued a statement on November 20 calling for an all-out struggle against Ri Hoe Chang….
The key to frustrating Ri Hoe Chang’s attempt to seize power is to form the all-people front of the struggle against irregularities and conservatism, the statement noted…
That is a real (if nut job) organization, BTW. This last one is from Pyongyang itself.
S. Koreans Called upon to Eliminate Ri Hoe Chang
Shortly ago, Ri let loose a spate of vituperation, asserting that “the north should be forced to dismantle its nukes” and “it is necessary to make a switchover in the south-north relations and south Korea’s policy towards the north.” He went the lengths of foolishly taking issue with even the dignified system in the DPRK.
This only brought into bolder relief his true colors as a wicked anti-reunification traitor and anti-DPRK confrontational maniac dead-set against the improved inter-Korean relations, peace on the Korean Peninsula and prosperity common to the nation and reunification.
He is so wicked a traitor and charlatan that he does not bother to speak ill of not only others but of his own clan to gratify his dirty political ambition.
I am sure by this point that Chung Dong-young would like the boys up north to shut their collective pie holes before they help Lee get even further ahead of Chung in the polls and cement this election as a Lee vs Lee race.
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Wow. That’s a lot of hostility. By the way, that website is censored here in South Korea. You have to use OpenDNS to get around the censorship.
How do you do that?
Though I have had disdain for Lee Hoi Chang when he was the head of Hanara, I can’t but think he is actually in earnest in his sudden entry in the race since I can not imagine any other good reason for him to attempt a run other than his concern for Korea’s future.
Chung is irrelevant at this point.
When Korea was suffering under the yoke of Japanese imjperialism ,Park CheongHee would go out on behalf of the Japanese to catch belligerant korean independence figures, and those that were fortunate enough to be caught alive were often brought before Lee Hoi Chang’s daddy who was a judge for japanese imperialist apparatus. Both Park Cheong hee and lee hoi chang later learned to speak Korean, with park later becoming dictator and rounding up democratic activists, while lee becoming a judge and sentencing said activists to prison terms. these kinds of elites make the bush dynasty in washington look like roman orgy in comparison.
1) “When Korea was suffering under the yoke of Japanese imjperialism ,Park CheongHee would go out on behalf of the Japanese to catch belligerant korean independence figures…”
2) “…Lee Hoi Chang’s daddy….was a judge for japanese imperialist apparatus….”
3) “….these kinds of elites make the bush dynasty in washington look like roman orgy….”
The use of “Roman orgy” as a simile in English idiom is always meant as an
absolute negative, and always in a context of sexual morals (it usually implies multiple simultaneous sex partners in a context of slavery and gluttony).
So it doesn’t track with your overall negative metaphor, which is meant as a political comparison of your countrymen’s so-called collaborationist politics with US politics. What you wanted to say (I think) is that “…these kinds of elites make the Bush dynasty look like [a] ‘Sunday-school picnic’…”
Note also that I took the trouble to capitalize “Bush” for you. Your deliberate failure to do this properly was really most insulting, old boy, considering that you were at least sufficiently courteous to capitalize the names of your fellow-countrymen “collaborationist” Koreans. Whatever you may think of his “dynasty”, at least Bush 41 distinguished himself as a young man in risking his life to fly Navy carrier aircraft in the Pacific against the Japanese in WWII.
By the way, what was the relationship between your immediate paternal ancestors and the Japanese between 1910-45?
If you can’t get to KCNA from ROK, try these;
atunnel.com
btunnel.com
c… etc.
Strange, for some reason I have no problem at all with access.
North Korea is calling for the “elimination” of an opposition candidate and making statements that sound very much like threats or calls for violence against him.
This is the part where I point out that our State Department wants to drop these guys from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
swlee - Who is running for President, Lee Hoi Chang, or his daddy?
somebody brought up Roh Moo Hyun and Lee Myung Bak coming up from hopeless situations to become Presidents of South Korea.
I’m already banking that Lee Myung Bak becomes President.
To think of it, most of the South Korean Presidents are self-made men. Very Protestant like, German, English, like.
‘Bust your ass, and life will reward you, starting point doesn’t matter’, type of philosophy.
Lee Hoi Chang is simply not that type.
Although a lot of SK Presidents earned their positions somewhat, those are pretty much all
dragon out of the gutter
type of success stories.
gae chun ae suh yong nan da
type.
in English, a Cinderella story.
Lee Myung Bak says so himself. He overcame incredible odds. He credits his mother’s prayers for him, and God who answered them along with his hard work.
Pity that he’s involved in a charge that he was swindling.
Vast majority of Koreans will not overcome their disadvantageous starting points. Most kids who don’t go to college won’t be Presidents. Most kids going to Gong Go, won’t go to Koryo University like Myung Bak, nor become honcho of Hyundai.
I think one of the reasons they’d hate seeing Lee Hoi Chang elected as president of South Korea is because he is not only critical of the North Korean regime, but he was also born in what is now North Korea. Can you imagine the effect that would have on the North Korean population? They might actually start looking up to Lee Hoi Chang as a role model.
the site was redirected for me too. if you can’t view it (or any sites blocked by the korean government), paste it’s address into a web proxy like the one below.
http://www.phproxy.org/
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