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To: Ptarmigan
The regime of Park Chung Hee ended with his assassination by the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency. The assassination was apparently provoked by Park's demand that the protests and riots be suppressed "even if it cost 30,000 lives." --Thayer Watkins, SJC Economics Department
177 posted on 11/21/2004 2:59:01 PM PST by risk
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To: risk; Ptarmigan

Thank you for smacking down that Park worship. I don't understand that ridiculous Korean religion that says former dictators were all wonderful because they did x, when it is patently obvious that they were lowlifes--by Western standards. Maybe it's because some folks have no frame of reference culturally, having watched Clinton run the country here so long like his own cathouse, but jeez, Park was a ruthless dictator if ever there was one.


236 posted on 11/22/2004 2:57:47 AM PST by LibertarianInExile (NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE! Get the UN-ignoring, unilateralist Frogs out of Ivory Coast!)
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