S. Koreans Say U.S. Responsible For NK Nuclear Test

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By UPI Wire
Oct 15, 2006

SEOUL, Oct. 15, 2006 (UPI) -- Four in 10 South Koreans blamed the United States more than any other country for North Korea's test of a nuclear weapon, a survey said.

Of 500 adults questioned by South Korea's Research Plus research firm, 43 percent selected the United States over other countries as the one most responsible for the test North Korea performed Monday, the Korea Times said Sunday.

North Korea was chosen second with 37 percent, followed by South Korea with almost 14 percent, China with about 2 percent and Japan with 1 percent.
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About 20 percent of the respondents said they were not particularly worried by the test and nearly 30 percent said panic buying was unnecessary and another 35 percent said they didn't engage in panic buying because they were desensitized to the issue.


http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_21244479.shtml


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1. There's a huge generation gap in Korea.

The elderly who lived through the Korean war are very staunch pro-American. The youth are very anti-American and are more likely to support better relations and ties to NK.

I'd be willing to bet this poll is split down generational lines.

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2. interesting

if you find anything on that . . .

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3. Check it out...

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200602/kt2006022117121711950.htm

http://www2.gol.com/users/coynerhm/flawed_logic_of_antAmericanism.htm


And here's a catchy little tune that is popular among the Korean youth. You'll see the "fucking USA" slogan repeated on protest signs. Pretty disconcerting, considering the American sacrifice to ensure SK even exists.

http://www.robpongi.com/pages/comboFUCKINGUSAHI.html

A lot of the anti-American sentiment defies all rational logic. I suspect that a lot of it may attributed to the racial and cultural differences.

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4. great links

thank you very much

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5. Interesting.

Thanks for posting.

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6. South Korea's government has much the same views as its young leftist

majority population. They think North Korea's rickety government will eventually fall and they will be able to peacefully engineer a reunion. Many families were broken up by the DMZ--they want reunion. The government was elected on a peace platform, and the Bushites have done everything they can to wreck those dreams. There is also a strong anti-globalist movement in So. Korea similar to leftist movements and leftist governments throughout South America (Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Bolivia, soon Ecuador (and next Peru)--this is also happening in Mexico and Nicaragua--a great uprising and organization of the poor and brown, with a basis in TRANSPARENT elections. (As Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia has said, "The time of the people has come.") In So. Korea it's led by small farmers who have seen their farms, lives and businesses devastated by big U.S. ag dumping, GMO crops and other assaults. It's a really, really big movement, and is allied with the one in So. America.

What these majority-driven governments want is SELF-DETERMINATION--to be free of US militarism and US global corporate predators. Their anti-Americanism is based on legitimate grievances--and quite huge grievances in many cases (absolutely brutal behavior of the US in So. America, for instance). But unlike some past leftist movements, these are peaceful and democratic, and not ideology-driven. They want a FAIR marketplace, not NO marketplace.

Democracy is alive and well elsewhere in the world, in many surprising places. Maybe we could manage to have some here as well--and not continue being the predators, and exploiters, and warmongering pariahs of the world.

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8. self-determination, indeed

:patriot:

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7. "How to win friends and empower our enemies"

By George W Bush. Thanks for the sterling reputation you've created for us G W.