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Tuesday, March 29, 20051112159700
South Korean Repression
"'Quiet Diplomacy' Update," by Joshua, One Free Korea, 29 March 2005, http://freekorea.blogspot.com/2005/03/quiet-diplomacy-update_29.html.
South Korea believes in One Korea, Free From Foreigners. They have realigned as a friend of Pyongyang.
They are against freedom. It is very hard to see the silver lining in this cloud.
[D]ue to intense though indirect pressure by Seoul officials, the North Korean execution tapes, purportedly of "middlemen" who help refugees escape to China, are not yet available for viewing by Koreans in the South. The indirect censure adds to frustration among those documenting the gulags and torture in the North. They charge indifference in the South to evidence of manifold suffering by ethnic siblings across the demilitarized zone.
What is so worrying about this is Seoul's backsliding. They are becoming less internationalist and less free with every news story. China, Vietnam, and Cambodia are all getting better. South Korea is getting worse.
South Korea is not our enemy. They are a more-or-less free society that is heavily integrated into the world economy. But they are not a friend like Britain, India, and Japan. They are not allies.
South Korean policy appears to be a separate peace with that tailbone of the Cold War, North Korea. If they are strong enough to make peace on their own, then they are strong enough to defend themselves on their own.
United States Forces Korea has served its purpose. Bring them home.
23:15 Posted by Dan tdaxp in Greater East Asia | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this | Tags: south korea, rok, korea, usfk
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