tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post585823651794603441..comments2024-03-28T13:53:04.287-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: North Korea: an insider's perspectivePeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-44115933850888045572017-09-07T18:54:03.358-05:002017-09-07T18:54:03.358-05:00@Judy
Kissinger wasn't around then. George C....@Judy<br /><br />Kissinger wasn't around then. George C. Marshall, however was, and his incompetence set the stage for Korea and the Chinese intervention when he disarmed the Nationalists. Worse, he bragged about doing it. Marshall was Secretary of State when MacArthur was relieved, and while one can make an argument for that, Marshall was part of the cowardly coterie that backed down in the face of Chinese intervention.<br /><br />China's losses in Korea were catastrophic, amounting to nearly a quarter of their entire Army. We had the ability to stand down China, but Truman and Marshall couldn't bring themselves to do the right thing, and so we live with the result of their kicking the can down the road.<br /><br />The wisdom of one of the founders of the US, who said let war come now, so my children can have peace, can be seen. Truman and Marshall's generation could have solved the problem then. They didn't so we have to live with their cowardice.Quartermasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-59608051522410750952017-09-07T17:41:24.818-05:002017-09-07T17:41:24.818-05:00Andrew,
you didn't go back far enough. Our Sta...Andrew,<br />you didn't go back far enough. Our State Dept considered the Soviets to be the best in the world, since their founding. Supporting Mao was to be expected. <br />They need to be tossed, along with the UN.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722792638246578812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-51113309636094344492017-09-07T00:41:32.223-05:002017-09-07T00:41:32.223-05:00Peter, I read it a few years ago when it came out....Peter, I read it a few years ago when it came out. Those excerpts barely scratch the surface; even reading it, it's impossible to grasp the enormity of what 3 generations of Kims has done. The term "Orwellian" gets thrown about a lot these days, but nothing compares to North Korea, nothing. <br /><br /> If the current regime were to magically disappear overnight, and the world were to pour in to rescue them, almost everyone over the age of ten would be lost. Maybe younger, given the chronic malnutrition (a Northern and Southern Korean side by side look like ancestor and descendant, with 200 years of health science between them). <br /><br />Nuking them might be a kindness.Antibubbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10194983440707702769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-62607081406896906742017-09-06T19:47:36.222-05:002017-09-06T19:47:36.222-05:00Good article that mentions Juche. It's extreme...Good article that mentions Juche. It's extreme nationalism / racism, reminds me of Imperial Japan before the US modernized Japan.Ray - SoCalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11293232996007277071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-74266974992021948572017-09-06T19:46:08.973-05:002017-09-06T19:46:08.973-05:00Wow on the Pentagon using an NGO on NK. Words fail...Wow on the Pentagon using an NGO on NK. Words fail me. I wish Trump would do something to get the Dr. out of Pakistan that helped get Bin Laden.<br /><br />More details:<br /><br />https://theintercept.com/2015/10/26/pentagon-missionary-spies-christian-ngo-front-for-north-korea-espionage/<br />Ray - SoCalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11293232996007277071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-25642603498758360222017-09-06T19:08:09.749-05:002017-09-06T19:08:09.749-05:00Judy, it's worse than that. You can pretty mu...Judy, it's worse than that. You can pretty much lay the basis of all the failures in Modern Asia directly on the State Department of that paragon of US Presidents, Franklin Delano (I'm a socialist, yes I am) Roosevelt.<br /><br />Failure of FDR's administration to support the Nationalist Chinese vs openly supporting the Maoists has given us the eastern world we now live in. <br /><br />Holdovers from FDR that Truman and the succeeding presidents inherited just continued the stupidity.Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-22903996545146639962017-09-06T14:01:15.223-05:002017-09-06T14:01:15.223-05:00And all we have to do is see who in the State Dept...And all we have to do is see who in the State Dept. was involved in the late 40s-early 50s to have some idea why this was allowed to go on. Bet you fifty-cent his last name is Kissinger.Judyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06530748998376076224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-75430683258089244242017-09-06T13:10:17.983-05:002017-09-06T13:10:17.983-05:00Uncle Lar,
China has been using NORK as the '...Uncle Lar,<br /><br />China has been using NORK as the 'rabid, chained dog' to control politics in the Asian sphere. Basically, "Be nice to us or we won't be able to control North Korea..."<br /><br />This is why the current administration's insistence on the ChiComs actually doing something about their pet dog, and punishing the ChiComs over inaction, is so important. Previous administrations just glossed over China's role in all of this.<br /><br />And... there is quite a bit of trade between the two countries. Of course, China being China, I am sure it is all in China's favor.<br /><br />But now, even the ChiComs realize that they have little to no control over their pet rabid dog, and they are doing what ChiCom always does when faced with an untenable situation. Waffling. Severe waffling, with a heaping side of procrastination and an additional serving of blame shifting (it's all the US's fault...)<br /><br />The true shame is that serious students of the Korean issue have been saying this for, oh, since 1945 (or at least since the cease fire) and everyone else has been saying, "Meh, it's just North Korea." So, now we have the mentally challenged, emotionally messed up kid next door who just got into daddy's gun collection and doesn't give a heck about what will happen.<br /><br />Change will have to come swiftly and massively. Unfortunately, the only way to cause this change is going to result in a lot of dead bodies everywhere.Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-35959471733507689932017-09-06T11:18:45.020-05:002017-09-06T11:18:45.020-05:00Thanks for sharing this type of info.Thanks for sharing this type of info.waepnedmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07114411043832799988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-47666108617950804272017-09-06T11:14:06.296-05:002017-09-06T11:14:06.296-05:00Not a student of NORK politics, just a casual obse...Not a student of NORK politics, just a casual observer, but it's puzzling to me why China hasn't just taken Kim out. Offer a few million and guaranteed sanctuary to the one who pops him. <br />The US of course has a stated policy that we just don't do that, at least not any more, but if they did stage a nuclear attack against us I double that policy would stand for a New York minute.Uncle Larhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04008207593205949098noreply@blogger.com