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Robert E Kelly @Robert_E_Kelly
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In last mo., f/ engagers on the left & Trumpers on the right re: NK, I am: a negative ninny, cowardly conformist, libtard, been wrong @ NK his whole career, dishonest, feel sorry for ur kids, so-called 'expert,' disqualified f/ every having an opinion again,practically incoherent
more!: media attn has gone2 ur head; beginning2 wonder who is the adult & who r the kids in the Kelly household; don't come back2 Korea, ur not wanted; JUST STOP; an insult2 call this guy a Korea expert or prof; ridiculous. It goes on, but I think I may quit Twitter for awhile...
It is a weird position to be an anti-Trump (moderate) hawk on NK. Trumpers desperately want SG read as more than it was: a fairly anodyne statement about which Team Trump wildly over-hyped expectations, arguably lying in the last weeks. While the engagers seem disinclined to /2
accept that bringing Trump into any serious diplomacy runs huge risks - such as T gushing @ KJU all week or flirting w/ all sorts of concessions in the presser - and that the working-level talks to come could happened w/out a summit at all, but rather been capped off w/ one. END
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Hmm. I still bet that absorption is a bridge too far. Absorbing 53 M ppl accustomed to liberty with an easily corrupted KPA stationed all over SK strikes me as a near-impossible task. All those new people would overwhelm the songbun system, and cutting off SK from the global /1
economy would kill the golden goose. Ideally, the KWP wants all this. Sure. But realistically, I’d bet the goal is permanent subsidization of the North by the S. Then NK can stay the DPRK without needing to change or be dependent on non-Koreans. Smart gangsters and vampires /2
don’t kill the host. They leech off of it. So take a two-systems-one-nation ‘Koryo Federation’ or whatever. Ease the Americans and other foreigners, including China, out with a peace treaty and some sort of recognition. Then bully the South for cash, kinda like CN bullies HK. END
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No. Moon’s bet his presidency on this; he’ll cleave to it no matter what, even pretending it’s a success if necessary, as Trump is doing. NK outreach is the one big thing the public likes in what’s otherwise been a mediocre POTROK. Foreigners obsessed w/ NK don’t see this, but /1
Moon’s been a hugely disappointing POTROK. He came in on a wave of reformist sympathy and disgust at the rank cronyism of his predecessor and the SK right. (Despite his NK views, I wanted him to win too.) And he’s blown it. Like so many SK presidencies before his,Moon is still /2
ducking the real domestic issues which desperately need fixing: chaebol reform, air quality, Hell Chosun, crashing birth rates, extreme centralization on Seoul, household debt. The SK right couldn’t care less about this stuff, which is why they deserved to lose, but the left, /3
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I follow the Blue House for work, but all it is now is retweeted BTS propaganda. Please stop. No one cares. Really.
LOL. Let it go, folks. I’m not reading the comments anyway
And now you’re trying to hack my account? Jesus. Grow up, children
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This is how determined the UK state is to make this kid die NOW.
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