'Don't go too far' South Korea leader tells Bush

The Times ^ | March 5, 2003 | Robert Thomson and Richard Lloyd Parry

[pankot]

I have a simple solution: Pull all US troops out of S. Korea and tell the North the South is theirs. Then we put them on notice that one false move and the entire Korean peninsula will glow in the dark for the next 100 years.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Bring our troops home.

[Solamente]

Stand-off?

North Korea broke their end of the deal from day one, arm rogue nationsand terrorists, are threatening to nuke the USA if we don't continue to send them more money, fuel, and food.

Stand-off?

[Jeff Head]

... well, uh ... I guess I'm pretty dense huh? Here I brought up the Manchurian Candidate thing and then didn't even catch the quote and humor you passed back. LOL!

Anyhow, Roh is definately singing their tune. It's stuff like this, that will lead to something like this IMHO.

Best Fregards.

[ruready4eternity]

Somewhere in the middle of this Propaganda crap there is a thread of reality, lets not worry to much about their words, lets just send a message fat and finish them off.
Iraq is about 2 weeks away from being bombed.

[Cautor]

I saw pull the US troops out of South Korea and let the students in the south welcome their cousins from the north with open arms. Then we can nuke the lot of them as far as I'm concerned.

[Almondjoy]

It clearly isn't what you went to school for.......

[Gritty]

said Mr Roh... “I’d like to highlight the benefits of a dialogue with North Korea. When we look at history, the greater a leader is, the more effort he makes to create dialogue.”

Well, George Bush has been trying to "dialogue" for six months on Iraq and where has that gotten him? Is he looked on as a "great leader" by either side for doing so, or just a schmuck?

On the other hand, Bill Clinton dialogued with North Korea for six full years, and look where that got us! Can anybody in his right mind say Bill Clinton is a "great leader"? The description "Great Failure" (charitably) come to mind!

[Siobhan]

A South Korean Manchurian President.

Exactly. He sounds like someone has either turned him or reworked his mind in some sort of Sun Myung Moon-ish brainwashing.

[45Auto]

"Mr Roh made clear that building a personal relationship with Kim Jong Il would be a priority"

The only rational 'personal relationship' that anyone could have with an insane person utilizes a straight-jacket, or a heavy dose of Haldol. Or in Jong Ill's case, a sudden, acute dose of lead poisoning.

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #29

He is a natural liberal. You do not need to brainwash him. He was that way for a long time.

[Just mythoughts]

Why not Putin, afterall N. Korea has always been their pet project, and why has Putin been so mum on N. Korea. The most Russia has done publicly on N. Korea in past month was Putin sending the mental Il horses for his birthday. Did Putin go to China to update the MOSCOW/BEIJING PACT of 1950?

Hey, why not Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter they would make good go betweens for N. Korea.

[maui_hawaii]

You took the words out of my mouth. Asian Bill Clinton...

That about sums it up, except that Roh is a bigger _____(whimp) even then. Not to mention that SOB liar he is replacing, with his 100 something million dollar bribe diplomatic breakthroughs and all.

[maui_hawaii]

He is a natural liberal. You do not need to brainwash him. He was that way for a long time.

Kind of like being born gay.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #34

Yeah. I wonder if his wife's family background also affected him in any degree. His father-in-law, who died in a S. Korean jail back in 70's, was a member of S. Korean Worker's Party(Communist Party) in Kyong-Sang Province. He was a part of the team who conducted a show-trial at one of the local villages around the time of the Korean War. According to the news account, he was one of those in charge of crowd control at the trial. People were sentenced to death in that trial, and were executed. He was picked up by the S. Korean authorities after the Korean War but later was let go. He was picked up again in 60's and locked up in a prison until he died. This was reported by local media as a minor item in the back page. Partly because surviving family members of the executed at the village were following Roh Moo-Hyun on his campaign trails, staging mini-protests.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I didn't know that. Hmm.