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You fail to realize one key point.

While the current South Korean government, the Millenium Democratic Party, controls the Executive, the opposition, conservative Grand National Party, controls the Legislative. It is primarily a solid line of these votes, coupled with defecting MDP votes, that got this through as a landslide.

Get your facts straight and drop you anti-S. Korean bias.

You are pretty much a lone voice of dissent here, IMHO.

Get your facts straight and drop you anti-S. Korean bias

Well, your view of the facts definitely means this is more good news. But your conclusion that we should all applaud the South Korean government doesn't follow. My post specifically says that I'm not sure that the South Korean people are against us, but that the South Korean government *has* been making less than friendly noises and that I don't think this one small gesture should lead us to warmly embrace that government. Rather, I think we should be giving them the cold shoulder and encouraging the South Korean people to elect a more US-friendly executive.

I don't know where you get "S-Korean bias" from. I'm not. In fact, everything I said is, I happen to know, the point of a view of a New York-based journalist who does Korean-only news broadcasts in that area. Encouraging South Korea to stop prematurely cozying up to North Korea would not be "biased" against the South Korean people -- it would be good for them.

Especially since I made an express distinction between the people and the executive, I find your reference to "bias" rather hollow and disingenuous. Accusing someone of that because they disagree with your position is a low level of debate normally reserved for leftists. I find your posts to generally be of a higher level than your last, so whatever. Thanks for the facts. And if you have anything *substantive* to say regarding why we should all be super-friendly with the Korean government based on this gesture, I'd be more interested in hearing it.

Oh, and finally: your point that I'm a minority of one. I don't think so. I think *many* people in the Bush administration have serious reservations about where the leadership in South Korea is taking their people. And, to judge from the pro-US rallies in the streets, so do many of their people. And so do many Korean Americans in the United States.

One of the great things about Free Republic is that you so infrequently encounter modes of argument along the lines of "if you disagree with me you're racist" or "I have more votes for my position in this thread so I win."