Worse Than 1984 - North Korea, slave state

(1)The South Korean government's refusal to "call a spade a spade" is (a)seen as weakness by Kim Jong Il, and (b)invites him to continue to increase his threats, as his method of blackmailing more concessions out of them and the U.S.

(2)Many people in the South have been co-opted by the South Korean academia that (a)has received great help and influence from the leftists in America's major universities (indoctrination mills), (b)has components of individuals who have been part of the North's infiltrated, communist brigades, living, working and raising their families in the south for decades, seeking positions of influence in academia and the media, and (c)using the Japan of sixty years ago, which does not exist today as the "nationalist" whipping boy to help keep the South divided from its modern traditional allies - Japan and the U.S.

These same leftists in the South perpetually decry former South Korean strongmen, for the few societal abuses they committed while not simply ignoring but actively seeking to hide and deny the true state of affairs in the North. To the ruling party and their friends, it is an embarrasment if a defector from the North gets any public notice. How many people in the South have seen, courtesy of their government, the satellite image posted in the title article of this thread? Most have not.

I was in Korea in the late 60s, made many friends there and still have friends there. The see the bashing of Japan as coming from the same leftists in Korea that seek to deny the holocaust in the North.

The denial of the truth of the North, institutionalized in the South by its government, academia and the media will lead to complete political prostration of the Southern government to the demands of the North. The North will then spread its dictatorship, politically, through compromised and compliant leaders in the South.

Many, very many in the South already see this treachery developing before their eyes and are hoping to remove their own internal appeasers of the North over the next few election cycles. The North is teetering on a another mass starvation episode, hoping its current threats will earn some more blackmail payola from us. The best people in the South know that getting their spine back will not lead to war, it will lead to the implosion of the North.

I've been there a lot more recently than the 60s. A few weeks ago in fact. While there they had an election that was a major blow to the socialists.

There are many people from the Universities that are traitors. Kinda like the US.

However, beyond that I don't think I agree with you. The anger against the Japanese is more what they did to Korea. Most of the people that lived thru it have died of old age but their kids remember the stories. I met one old guy who was part of a work crew. The guards had shot the supervisor and needed a new one. They told one guy he was it. He refused and was immediately shot. They then asked the next guy who agreed to be the supervisor. japan is not a whipping boy.

(1)You are missing from where comes, in academia and the media the constant mantra that tries to keep the errors of Imperial Japan alive, and wounding, and wounding, and wounding again, and again and again.

(2)The Japan of today is not the Japan of that era and Korean people who get around the world and around Asia know that, as do most business people in Korea (whom I converse with all the time).

(3)The major sources of keeping these wounds festering do come from the left in Korea and the purpose is to keep the wounds active to help keep the South divided from its strongest ally in Asia - Japan.

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