AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Yes hypocrites are always okay with hypocrisy when they get caught not practicing what they preach.
China's strategy in Korean peninsula
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Yes hypocrites are always okay with hypocrisy when they get caught not practicing what they preach.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Oh yeah this is an example of how the US respects South Koreans. The US gets to dictate to South Korea what their opinion is which is why they don't have to consult with any South Koreans at all on anything involving South Korea.
They respect South Koreans so much that the war hysteria is all American driven. Yeah they don't care that the American media's quest for ratings puts the lives of South Koreans at death's door if war starts. Corporate American profits are more important than South Korean lives. Take that China with your human rights violating economic sanctions against South Korea. Maybe the US should bomb and kill people in a random country (other than Syria this time) somewhere around the world just to send China a message again because that would be the right thing to do.
This is an example of your own hypocrisy.
The spread of Gangnam style is a good thing, as it displaces US gangster rap culture. Remember gangster rap is far worse because it glorifies violence and criminals.
But on a more serious note on hypocrisy
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The End of Hypocrisy
American Foreign Policy in the Age of Leaks
The U.S. government seems outraged that people are leaking classified materials about its less attractive behavior.
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Few U.S. officials think of their ability to act hypocritically as a key strategic resource. Indeed, one of the reasons American hypocrisy is so effective is that it stems from sincerity: most U.S. politicians do not recognize just how two-faced their country is. Yet as the United States finds itself less able to deny the gaps between its actions and its words, it will face increasingly difficult choices -- and may ultimately be compelled to start practicing what it preaches.
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Manning’s and Snowden’s leaks mark the beginning of a new era in which the U.S. government can no longer count on keeping its secret behavior secret. Hundreds of thousands of Americans today have access to classified documents that would embarrass the country if they were publicly circulated
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By taking a position equidistant from both halves of Korea China invites South Korea accept its help in engaging in negotiations on reunification and to that end escape US suzerainty and remove US forces from its territory.
Blackstone
Brigadier
I actually agree with most of this. If ROK ever want China's help to ease DPRK into its tender arms, then one of the many things Zhonghanhai will demand is US off the peninsula and an non-aligned United Korea that will likely be Finlandized over time.
Korea would return to the position of Medium Brother between Big Brother China and Little Brother Japan it had in previous centuries. The comparison with Finland is less apt if only because it carries a lot of propaganda ballast.
The treaty actually has made a provision to that spirit. Usually people focus on article 2 "the military assistance to NK". But article 6 of it actually precluded any forced unification by either side including NK. Here is the quote.
It says "Both parties agree that the unification of Korea MUST be Peaceful and Democratic. this solution is in line with the interest of Korean nation and the purpose of maintaining peace in the far east."
Peaceful denies NK to conquer SK, it is kind of Chinese guarantee to SK, just like article 2 gives NK a guarantee. Democratic (not same to political system) means both sides' free will to unify.
I wonder if China knowingly made this text in 1961. That would be a really long term vision. Probably a reflection of China's unspoken disapproval of NK's "adventure" of forceful unification in 1950s.
Equation
Lieutenant General
What If the SK wants the DPRK for themselves? I mean look at all that undeveloped real estate for the elite to lick their chops. Preferably through peace of course, but they would love have their cake and eat it too. Unification of the Korean the peninsula under their rule without any of the DPRK former regime government in power AND without risking any of their own military lives. That's my opinion.
You should remember that the first horrible dictator in South Korea had been murdered in 1960 and replaced with a horrible military dictator as well as the then huge military superiority of US. NK at the time was clearly more democratic than SK.
Blackstone
Brigadier
Not sure if you could make the claim DPRK was more democratic than ROK, you need a lot more non-cherry picked evidence to prove that, but it's right to say neither country was democratic.