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Doing a Reagan on North Korea
The Korea Times ^ | 2013-02-15 | Oh Young-jin

Posted on 02/15/2013 5:34:59 AM PST by The people have spoken

Have we waged the wrong war against North Korea?

Then, can our new President Park Geun-hye redirect our strategy and finish that feral beast once and for all?

These are complicated questions but the ghost of one “complicated simple” man may beg to answer from his grave: Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States who is credited with giving the Soviet Union a final push toward the brink of collapse during his 1981-1989 reign.

(Excerpt) Read more at koreatimes.co.kr ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: coldwar; northkorea; sovietunion
A history lesson on the three things Reagan did to hasten the end of the Cold War.
1 posted on 02/15/2013 5:35:06 AM PST by The people have spoken
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To: The people have spoken
North Korea only exists because of the policies of China and South Korea.

South Korea is much more powerful economically than the Norks. Time to flex it's muscles.

2 posted on 02/15/2013 5:40:50 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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To: The people have spoken
North Korea only exists because of the policies of China and South Korea.

South Korea is much more powerful economically than the Norks. Time to flex it's muscles.

3 posted on 02/15/2013 5:41:11 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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To: The people have spoken

As time goes by, Reagan becomes more of a giant among men, and especially, among Republicans.

He is the only other person that deserves to be on Mt. Rushmore.


4 posted on 02/15/2013 5:48:28 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: The people have spoken

Gorbachev has said that the thing that forced the Soviets to realize that Reagan was a serious adversary that would follow through on his rhetoric was his firing of the striking Air Traffic Controllers.


5 posted on 02/15/2013 5:50:54 AM PST by Inwoodian
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To: The people have spoken; TigerLikesRooster

If they expect any help from Obama, they are dreaming.

South Korea needs to stand up and let them know that any attack from the North will be met with a heavy response, not a stupid piddling measured one.


6 posted on 02/15/2013 6:00:13 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Former Proud Canadian
South Korea is much more powerful economically than the Norks. Time to flex it's muscles.

It'd be a good job, if the ROK's can knock off the Nork dictatorship and reunify the country. Let's wish them luck.

It's just that the Norks are so damned feral and paranoid, like beaten-and-starved dogs.

7 posted on 02/15/2013 6:05:23 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: exit82
He is the only other person that deserves to be on Mt. Rushmore.

Let's wait a while on that, until we can go find a new mountain and put Ronnie and Sarah up on there by themselves. That would be about 40 years from now. Hope I live to see it.

8 posted on 02/15/2013 6:07:58 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: Former Proud Canadian

“North Korea only exists because of the policies of China and South Korea.”

... and the United States.


9 posted on 02/15/2013 8:24:34 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: The people have spoken

bflr


10 posted on 02/15/2013 10:06:38 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: exit82

Baraq Hussein Obama will be the next on Mt. Rushmore.
It’ll be funded by Soros and Warren Buffet.


11 posted on 02/15/2013 10:13:04 AM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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