Comments on: Welcome to the witchhunt http://kotaji.blogsome.com/2006/10/29/welcome-to-the-witchhunt/ Thoughts on Korea, northeast Asia, history and other things Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:11:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: The Marmot's Hole http://kotaji.blogsome.com/2006/10/29/welcome-to-the-witchhunt/#comment-311 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:35:13 +0000 http://kotaji.blogsome.com/2006/10/29/welcome-to-the-witchhunt/#comment-311 <strong>Well, that clarifies things</strong> You have to hand it to the Democratic Labor Party, they don&#8217;t pussy foot around.  They let everyone know exactly how they feel.  A case in point (Chosun Ilbo): [Democratic Labor Party chairman Moon Sung-hyun] said in his arrival speech the Kore... Well, that clarifies things

You have to hand it to the Democratic Labor Party, they don’t pussy foot around.  They let everyone know exactly how they feel.  A case in point (Chosun Ilbo):
[Democratic Labor Party chairman Moon Sung-hyun] said in his arrival speech the Kore…

]]> by: Jimong http://kotaji.blogsome.com/2006/10/29/welcome-to-the-witchhunt/#comment-309 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:41:39 +0000 http://kotaji.blogsome.com/2006/10/29/welcome-to-the-witchhunt/#comment-309 <blockquote>No political party can exist outside national security. The Democratic Labor Party has to reflect upon itself, find the internal “red” part and apologize to the people. </blockquote> Yet, The DLP delegation is in Pyungyang on their official visit, till Nov 4th. to North.

No political party can exist outside national security. The Democratic Labor Party has to reflect upon itself, find the internal “red” part and apologize to the people.

Yet, The DLP delegation is in Pyungyang on their official visit, till Nov 4th. to North.

]]> by: kotaji http://kotaji.blogsome.com/2006/10/29/welcome-to-the-witchhunt/#comment-308 Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:58:03 +0000 http://kotaji.blogsome.com/2006/10/29/welcome-to-the-witchhunt/#comment-308 You could well be right that the real losers will turn out to be DLP voters. As you may be able to tell from my blog, although I'm on the left I'm not a supporter of the DPRK or of the NL faction. However, if they are being attacked for political reasons then that is really an attack on the whole South Korean left which has little or nothing to do with North Korea at all. In fact, what it appears that the South Korean security services may be trying to do is to split the DLP, knowing full well that it is already divided to some extent along NL-PD lines. Already it seems as though some PD factions are distancing themselves from the NL leadership of the party. As for the North Koreans being able to use such people to manipulate elections and orchestrate anti-American demos this sounds highly dubious to me. For one thing, the DLP is a complex and politically diverse party that cannot be 'delivered' in this way. For another, there isn't really any need to instigate anti-American feeling in South Korea as the US already does a good job of that itself. You could well be right that the real losers will turn out to be DLP voters. As you may be able to tell from my blog, although I’m on the left I’m not a supporter of the DPRK or of the NL faction. However, if they are being attacked for political reasons then that is really an attack on the whole South Korean left which has little or nothing to do with North Korea at all. In fact, what it appears that the South Korean security services may be trying to do is to split the DLP, knowing full well that it is already divided to some extent along NL-PD lines. Already it seems as though some PD factions are distancing themselves from the NL leadership of the party.

As for the North Koreans being able to use such people to manipulate elections and orchestrate anti-American demos this sounds highly dubious to me. For one thing, the DLP is a complex and politically diverse party that cannot be ‘delivered’ in this way. For another, there isn’t really any need to instigate anti-American feeling in South Korea as the US already does a good job of that itself.

]]> by: Joshua http://kotaji.blogsome.com/2006/10/29/welcome-to-the-witchhunt/#comment-307 Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:48:39 +0000 http://kotaji.blogsome.com/2006/10/29/welcome-to-the-witchhunt/#comment-307 It seems to me that crying "witch hunt" is about as good an argument as crying "witch." There are certainly good reasons to question the NIS and wait until the evidence comes in before drawing a firm conclusion, but you're misstating the reports to characterize some pretty nefarious (alleged) collaboration as something more like a newsletter. In fact, the reports state that the North Koreans used this cell to try to manipulate the Seoul mayoral election and probably played some role in orchestrating violent anti-American protests. I'd point out that DLP voters were the real losers in all of this, since Kim Jong Il seems to have had more pull over their votes than the rank and file. I wonder how you'd react if the right were accused of something similar. Did you do any posts on Plame-gate, perchance? It seems to me that crying “witch hunt” is about as good an argument as crying “witch.” There are certainly good reasons to question the NIS and wait until the evidence comes in before drawing a firm conclusion, but you’re misstating the reports to characterize some pretty nefarious (alleged) collaboration as something more like a newsletter.

In fact, the reports state that the North Koreans used this cell to try to manipulate the Seoul mayoral election and probably played some role in orchestrating violent anti-American protests. I’d point out that DLP voters were the real losers in all of this, since Kim Jong Il seems to have had more pull over their votes than the rank and file.

I wonder how you’d react if the right were accused of something similar. Did you do any posts on Plame-gate, perchance?

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