Korea

[Prashant Kumar]

This sounds like it was written by the socialist bloc on my campus...

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On 6 April 2013 13:52, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> $4 a day is better than starvation.  Does this criticism offer a better alternative
> beyond idealism?
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> On Friday, April 5, 2013, Keith Davis wrote:
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>> From Common Dreams:
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>> 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>
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>>   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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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