Korea

[Keith Davis]

Fair enough. Just put it out there to get some response.

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Tofuman <slowdrop at gmail.com> wrote:

> This sounds like an utter nonsense to this ignorant Korean. I can't find
> anything recognizable as a reality in these sentences.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:44 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> acknowledging corporate welfare at the least but it's as if an overtly
>> aggressive, unstable, highly repressive regime didnt exist in Pyongyang.
>>
>> rich
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From Common Dreams:
>>>
>>> e_Cadet <http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/03-0#> • 2 days
>>> ago<http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/03-0#comment-850833581>
>>>
>>>    -
>>>    -
>>>
>>>   South Korean companies rely heavily on the slave labor ($4 a day) at
>>> the Kaesong industrial complex while the North enjoys the fistfuls of hard
>>> currency for providing the slaves at the factories. It's a win-win
>>> situation... unless you happen to be on e of those poor, malnourished North
>>> Korean factory slaves.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile the U.S. continues to rattle its sabres as corporate America
>>> is willing to sacrifice millions of South Koreans (and North Koreans) if it
>>> is profitable to do so. The official position for years in the U.S. has
>>> been to pretend that North Korea doesn't exist by never acknowledging them
>>> diplomatically, never entering into meaningful negotiations, strangling
>>> them financially via sanctions and threatening them with annihilation if
>>> they get out of line. The six-party talks were a scam in which the North
>>> was told "do as I say unconditionally, and only then may we decide to
>>> talk." The other parties were told to promise nothing, keep their mouths
>>> shut and to keep their eye on the ball... namely to pressure the North into
>>> unconditionally dismantling its nuclear program. Naturally this didn't work
>>> which plays right into corporate America's plan to use the North Korean
>>> non-compliance as a reason to continue spending 1 trillion dollars a year
>>> on "defence" to counter the "threat" of North Korean nukes.
>>>
>>> South Korea continues to overpay for stationing 28,000 U.S. troops
>>> there, American defence contractors continue to spew out more and more
>>> WMD's to 'safeguard democracy' and the 60 year stalemate between the two
>>> Korea's continues with no signs of a resolution in our lifetimes. Of course
>>> the entire situation could easily be resolved by pulling U.S. troops out of
>>> South Korea, ending sanctions, restarting talks about unification while
>>> giving assurances that a unified Korea would respect the North Korean
>>> leaders for stepping aside and allowing a functioning democracy to replace
>>> the current regime. Reunification would mean that South Korea could then
>>> build a railroad through the North all the way to Europe drastically
>>> reducing the time and money to export their goods abroad. Billions would be
>>> saved as the newly unified Korea could begin to dismantle its bloated
>>> militaries. Investment from the South would pour into the North as the
>>> tight housing market and lack of industrial spaces would be addressed via
>>> unification. The South Korean "Chaebol" of its main corporate entities
>>> (Hyundai, Samsung, LG, Daewoo and SK Telecom) would expand its workforce
>>> overnight with plans already in place to build new housing and
>>> infrastructure across the North in case of unification.
>>>
>>> The losers here are U.S. defence contractors and corporations that
>>> directly compete with the South Koreans. Is it any surprise then that this
>>> scenario is rejected out right by the U.S?
>>>
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