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• Reader Comments (8)

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  I have to make a report about south korean crisis. could you maybe help me and send a timeline of crisis in korea if available? thak you

  Posted by annika on Apr 29, 2003 at 12:40 PM

  Why wouldn’t you and your president Roh go back to Phengyang to kiss your god-Kim Jung Il’s ass. 

  Posted by Michael on Apr 29, 2003 at 1:20 PM

  I returned from S. Korea on 4-20-03 from a visit representing my church association at the annual meeting of our partner church association in Suwon, S. Korea.  My Korean friends and I are very alarmed by the Bush administration’s approach to North Korea.  There are far to many people’s lives at stake to use “speak like a bully and carry a big stick” diplomacy.  I will appreciate any directon people can give me to further educate myself on this issue.  I am especially interested in organizations that will help me make my voice and concerns heard by my government.
  I will be writing peresonally to my representatives in Washington.
  

  Posted by Roger Babbitt on Apr 30, 2003 at 1:06 AM

  When you look around the world at up and coming democracies, you can see them getting to the heart of democracy much better than we do.  How long has it been since we have had a president capable of expressing a respect for values and principles with out being laughed out of the room?  How long will it be until we have people representing us that we can be proud of? 

  Posted by Madison on Apr 30, 2003 at 12:20 PM

  I am currently teaching English in South Korea because I wanted to try living in a democracy rather then paying tax to the evil bushy regime.
  I feel that moving the US base out of Seoul is a good start but once they can move them on to the aircraft carrier anchored of the coast and float them back to San Diego, South Korea will be much better off!

  Posted by Pete Farrell on May 1, 2003 at 4:24 AM

  Perhaps the US should never had intervened in Korea. If it hadn’t, there would exist now a unified Korea, and who knows, Korea might have been the place where the vaunted and much awaited communist utopia came into being. 

  Posted by Jon on May 2, 2003 at 1:03 PM

  I just have a clarification to make.

  Roh in not the “16th president of the Republic of Korea”. 

  A list of ROK presidents in order:  Rhee, Yoon(briefly), Park, Jeon, Noh, Kim YS, Kim DJ, and Roh:

  Who else?

  Posted by NaYoung Lee on May 2, 2003 at 5:42 PM

  If a tree falls in the forest and no
  one is there to witness it falling,
  did it really fall?

  If Kevin Kim and the North Korean
  apologist Bruce Cumings* ignore
  the issue of death camps in North
  Korea, does that mean that such
  camps do not exist?

  *Cumings has written that North Korea had nothing to do with the
  bombing of KAL flight 858 in 1987,
  that US prisoners of war during
  the Korean conflict were well
  treated, and that Kim, Jong-il
  is actually a family man. 

  Posted by Matt Park on Dec 3, 2003 at 2:31 PM

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