Roh Moo Hyun is a commie appeaser. At least that's what I hear from a friend of mine who is from South Korea. She immigrated here (legally!) 10 years ago but still keeps in touch with family-her whole family hates this creep.
South Korea is so tied into us economically that they'll do anything we say. This is all talk.
Yup, Roh is a pro-North Korean, pro-China 'useful idiot'.
But think on this, he was elected because the bulk of college-age and 20-somethings in South Korea voted for him.
And as the older generation of South Koreans die off, who do you think will be running the country?
The idiots who voted for Roh, of course.
I'm willing to bet that there will be reunification on the Korean peninsula within 30-40 years. AND it won't be in favor of a democratic government.
Roh represents a generation of student activists when South Korea was ruled by strongmen leaders. In their eyes the US supported political repression and used South Korea as a pawn in the Cold War. Today many harbor feelings that the US is unjustly preventing the Koreas to re unite in order to justify their presence in Korea to counterbalance Communist China. Like the US, the breeding ground for such thinking is in the Universities. Learn first hand when I was on a blog for a Korean stock. Read some posting that blamed GWB. Got to blog with the several Korean individuals and their viewpoints would make MoveOn.org proud. There are days I think Buchanan is right, pull back our forces and let the world stew in their own stupidity.