South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will propose creating a permanent high-level diplomatic channel between the North and South, including establishing the first liaison offices in the nations’ capitals after nearly six decades of division, The Washington Post reported Friday.
“Both North and South Korea must change their ways,” Lee said in an interview with the newspaper’s editors and reporters.
The only way that the South is getting a normalized, happy, long-term relationship with the North Korean regime is if they like having a boot on their throat.
Update: Backing this up is a link from Sierra Faith. The South Korean public is delusional and a decent chunk of the propaganda they are teaching their children comes from North Korean infiltration. Or at least it used to, I haven’t looked up anything on it lately.
SEOUL – When the Korea Military Academy asked its incoming cadets in 2004 to name South Korea’s main enemy, they were shocked at the answer: 34 percent said the United States while only 33 percent said North Korea. [...]
The academy’s then-superintendent, retired Lt. Gen. Kim Choong-bae, was so concerned about the survey results he cut the cadets’ boot camp from six weeks to four.
During the two extra weeks, cadets attended classes on South Korean history to learn how the country got its independence, what happened during the Korean War, and the role the United States played in the war.
Teachers told them about the U.S. Military Academy at West Point class of 1950, whose cadets graduated less than a month before the start of the Korean War. Nearly 50 of those cadets were killed.
“The [KMA] cadets were shocked. They said, ‘We didn’t know that,’” Kim said.
The cadets told academy officials they had leftist teachers in middle and high school who told them the United States was trying to dominate South Korea.
“The young cadets were kind of victims of the wrong education. They were kind of indoctrinated by the wrong education, the wrong textbooks,” Kim said. “Youngsters have no idea what was the Korean War, what was the contribution by the United States. They’ve been educated with a different perspective for the past 10 years.”
See? We’re not appreciated anywhere. And if you don’t think that you can draw parallels to the propagandizing that is going on in American universities, you’ve got your head in the sand.
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