The South Korean, Left-Wing Version of Mitt Romney
When I read what the UNDP's presidential candidate as to say about the ROK-US alliance, I can find one bit of good news in Chung Dong-young's «pro-US» rhetoric. Comrade Chung might be a flip-flopper, but then it's election time in the ROK. But, to what purpose is he flopping?
Finding the center in South Korean politics requires more international relations than opinion polls. The bulls-eye is located somewhere between Beijing, Pyongyang, Tokyo, and Washington. If the progressives in the old Uri Party managed to shift the line on the DPRK leftward, towards aid and reconciliation, the conservatives have kept one foot in the ROK-US alliance. Progressives pay lip service, minus whatever Washington does outside the Korean peninsula, because the US has to sign a peace treaty with Pyongyang. It's galling, but the DPRK is not about to give Seoul diplomatic recognition by sitting down at Panmunjom alone with South Koreans. South Korean progressives need America to do what they can't; conservatives need Washington to defray the costs of what the progressives sow.
When I look at Comrade Chung, I just see a desperate fish.
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