Gordon Chang: North and South Korean leaders 'too cozy'

Fox News ^ | May 26, 2018

[TigerLikesRooster]

Gordon Chang: North and South Korean leaders 'too cozy'

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[dragnet2]

For decades no one was happy the two counties were warring/stalemate etc, now this guy thinks they’re too cozy?

Gezzz.

[dragnet2]

Countries too!☺

[TigerLikesRooster]

If the stalemate is broken in favor of N. Korea, people should worry. Why the stalemate in the first place? Because N. Korea has not stopped aggression toward S. Korea and U.S.. One of the reason why NK should be denulcearized is the need to defang N. Korea in order to stop NK aggression for good.

[BBell]

Maybe South Korea and The United States are playing “good cop bad cop” respectively.

[ameribbean expat]

https://thediplomat.com/2018/05/the-growing-russia-south-korea-partnership/

A lot of things getting shuffled over there. Realignment seems to be in the wind.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Either that or Moon has bad intentions.

[TigerLikesRooster]

If you look into the makeup of Moon's inner circle, you may change your mind. They are die-hard anti-American pro-North (also anti-Japan) group, who once pledged their allegiance to N. Korea. There is no indication that they publicly denounced their past. They still package their past as pro-democracy activists. This is like claiming that Lenin is a pro-democracy activist. He was merely an anti-Czarist communist.

It is laughable that some of them are U.S. permanent residents(or possibly U.S. citizens.)

[TigerLikesRooster]

Russia needs to get their act together. If they are really interested in economic prosperity in their Far East region, they could have done many years ago. They generally neglected the region. Instead their focus was in the West and Mid-East. They did not ditched their connection to N. Korea, either. Somehow they still hang onto N. Korea as their geopolitical leverage.

The new government in S. Korea is all for pro-North, pro-China, and pro-anything if it fits their ingrained anti-American anti-Japanese attitude. But it is up to Putin to work on it earnestly. Up to now Russian Far East and nearby Siberia are only places where they are pumping out oil and gas, but not much beyond. The region is in bad shape economically. Russians living there slowly gravitate toward S. Korea. For example, there are regular trades between the region and S. Korea albeit on small scale. Some well-to-do Russians there go to big S. Korean hospitals for their medical treatment.

[granada]

And if it’s in favor of SK, people should worry.
The hostility towards America will surface very soon.

[TigerLikesRooster]

S. Korean left is like worshipers of N. Korea's Juche cult. If the cult is decapitated, their object of worship will be gone. It would be a great catastrophe for them because their god is dead along with their life-time faith. Anti-American left in S. Korea will significantly lose the power to create organized hostility.

The root of all problems in Korean Peninsula is the grip of rabid Juche Cult. The cult should be broken. It could be quickly or slowly, but it has to be done.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Oh yeah and regarding Kim’s eagerness for a summit replete with hugs galore, “if something is too good to be true, it usually is”

[granada]

There will be neo-left, liberal, progressive.....
Like what has happened in western Europe since the collapse of the eastern bloc.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Possible, but far less dangerous than nuclear-armed neo-Juche Cult. Certain belief can disappear only when a generation infected by it dies off. Before they retire, this generation will legislate all kinds of welfare benefits for themselves which their children and grandchildren have to pay.

[Forgotten Amendments]

This guy’s job is to be a professional war monger. He gets paid big $$$ to frighten us. He is un-American.

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, getting rid of nukes in North Korea is such a mistake...

Puuuuulease!

[ntnychik]

Excellent comments on this thread.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Gordon Chang is an extremely knowledgeable and level-headed student of Asian affairs. I’d pay attention to what he said, just in case.

Example: I went to a summer school Seminar in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1971. One of my classmates became a future president of that country, Mark Ma. He was a very smart, patriotic young man but unfortunately he changed over time, becoming “too cozy” (accommodating) with Red China. That is why he eventually was not re-elected.

Sometimes “wishes and hoping” cloud rational thinking. This might be happening in So. Korea re their government today.

Keep listening to Chang and see if what he says comes true.

[TigerLikesRooster]

As you said, he does not project his hopes and wishes into his reading of events. He has a deeper understanding of what is going on than most media types. His only “fault” was that he predicted the fall of Chinese communist regime too early. Sometimes you cannot predict when a system falls even if it has serious structural flaws. People can be resourceful in propping things which are doomed, extending their life longer.