Infighting Until Irrelevant
Both the conservative Chosun Daily and progressive Hankyoreh want foreign policy «coordination» on separate issues, the Mt. Geumgang shooting «event», Liancourt Rocks, and six-party talks. Which is to say, President Lee Myung-bak can't put his departmental ducks in a row.
One problem is that government agencies are taking uncoordinated steps. Kwon's remarks on linking Dokdo with the six-party talks had never been coordinated by the government. And the ministries of Unification and Foreign Affairs are also causing confusion by making quite different announcements over the shooting at Mt. Kumgang.
Hankyoreh calls it «flip-flopping».
Experts attribute the flip-flopping to a lack of a government-wide consensus on foreign affairs and security policy and the Blue House’s inability to coordinate the opinions of government officials. In particular, they say the government committed a serious mistake in allowing high-ranking officials to make conflicting statements after the National Security Council meeting. From a public policy perspective, how the various ROK ministries do or don't get along is very compelling. This all demonstrates why the liberal emphasis on bureaucracies and personalities within states are more meaningful than a state's rational interest, as realism asserts. Call it a labor of love, or wasting time. No one outside of Seoul cares what the Lee administration does, or doesn't do. All this policy dithering only marginalizes ROK diplomatically even more than it already is.
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