A look at the tensions in the Korean Peninsula

with Ian Bremmer and David Sanger
in Current Affairs
on Monday, December 20, 2010 * * * * *

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A look at the tensions in the Korean Peninsula with Ian Bremmer, President of the Eurasia Group and David Sanger of 'The New York Times'

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    1. writersblock25  02/13/2012 11:34 PM Report

      Thank you for posting this, Charlie Rose, LLC.

    2. JohnGelles  12/22/2010 08:30 AM Report

      No harder a problem exists for America than North Korea. It is a country with enormously talented technicians ruled by a totally irresponsible political dynasty. If an American president lacked conscience or patience he might lance the boil between Russia, China, Japan and the USA. The result would be, in effect, the murder of many millions of innocent North Koreans and possibly tens of millions of more innocents in South Korea. And all for fear that someday even more would die -- including innocents from all the nations mentioned above.

      Perhaps our relations with Russia and China are just as difficult -- yet they do not seem so. On the surface it seems that the GREAT nations of Russia and China can be treated as near-partners of our own because they will never be tempted to pull a Hitler and end up with Germany 1945 or year zero as it was once called.

      Yet, if this is true or partly true, one would think Russia, China and the USA would remove the North Korean dynasty from power and create a jointly managed North Korea as a buffer between East and West that allowed Japan and South Korea to remain as they are, a really effective bridge between East and West.

      The problem, as it seems to me, is that rational proposals to Russia and China to take such action to prevent an accidental launch of nuclear rockets from North Korea against Japan, South Korea and the USA, is not easy to formulate: would it make us look like amateurs who can't stand uncertainty in one place while it permeates all else?

      Were I the President, North Korea would be worse for my state of mind than Pakistan? Why? Because soon North Korea with little more than 20 million people will present the same offensive nuclear threat as Pakistan with more than 170 million people.

      A higher population does not guarantee rationality, but it tends to convince us that suicide wishes decline as countries grow in population. Is that tendency, itself, rational or merely just too simple? In fact it is fortunate all of us cannot be president at once. We can worry the imminent death of loved ones. Presidents can worry all the time over everything.

    3. Ricardo_Amaral  12/21/2010 01:46 PM Report

      If you want to understand what is happening in the Korean Peninsula then watch these videos with lectures from Noam Chomsky regarding that subject.

      After you learn about the actual history of the Koreas then you have a different perspective of the history of the Korean Peninsula than the regular spin of the American mainstream media.

      *****

      Noam Chomsky on the Korean War – November 13, 2010

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8_kg75N3_k

      *****

      Noam Chomsky - Discusses U S Korean relations 1/4

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq5ittZebZU&feature=related

      Noam Chomsky - Discusses U.S. Korean relations 2/4

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0c3xuHBzG4&feature=related

      Noam Chomsky - Discusses U S Korean relations 3/4

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhHIseRBKSs&NR=1

      Noam Chomsky - Discusses U S Korean relations 4/4

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPZcggFjEgQ&feature=related

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    4. REMant  12/21/2010 12:55 PM Report

      Besides the succession business in the North, which probably involves the military, the South feels it has let its military get a little flabby. I think therefore there is likely to be a lot of posturing, but I really doubt anything significant. If the North mounts any kind of real attack on the South, particularly if it is on an American installation, I would expect the Chinese to move against them as well, because they don't want a war of that magnitude, nor would they expect the North to win one. They surely won't do anything to help them. There is I think an opening here for the kind of work Richardson seems to be doing, which may help the more liberal elements. I don't know if they will get anymore financial support as a result or not, but if they do, I wouldn't be calling it blackmail, because this should probably be viewed as a conflict between feudal and commercial society with the aid benefiting the latter, not the former. I think our policy of starving out dictators wrong-headed.