道具背景图片:Once, again, North Korea outfoxes the South

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Once, again, North Korea outfoxes the South





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Attempt at secret negotiations embarrasses Lee Myung-bak government.





North Korea has again stunned the South and put its leaders on the back foot, not with a military attack but with the revelation of heretofore secret attempts at negotiations by the South at the same time the Lee government was presenting a tough face to the world.


The North Korea on June 1 disclosed a secret South Korean proposal to hold a series of three presidential summits over the next year, delivered in Beijing by officials from President Lee Myung Bak’s office, South Korea’s intelligence service and the unification ministry. Apparently, according to Reuters, the north’s representatives “told them to go back to Seoul at once.”


Given the need for absolute secrecy about a politically sensitive project, the North’s disclosure of the attempts to initiate inter-Korean summits is regarded as very unusual and could well be a sly move by the North to lure the south into a propaganda trap. Certainly what the North Korean allegations have done is to provoke broad resentment from both South Korea’s right and left and probably provoke reaction in China, the US, Japan and Russia as well.


Whether North Korea’s assertions about the proposals were valid, the secret approach to negotiations for summit meetings by Lee’s government consequently crumbled. Lee has extended the offer of a summit several times, on condition that the North apologize for the sinking of the South Korean gunship Cheonan and the shelling of an island off the South Korean coast.

Lee also invited Kim Jong-il to attend a nuclear summit along with some 50 other world leaders in Seoul next year.


As usual, the North has kept the South on a string, sounding momentarily positive at the beginning of the year by saying it wanted to ease tensions, only to pull back at the last minute and once again deliver an attack. Inter-Korean relations have grown directionless, like a yacht without a rudder.



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North Korea-China ties sealed in blood

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Many interpretations have been made of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il's May 20-26 railway tour of China, his third such visit in 13 months and his seventh in the 21st century. Kim made the week-long, unofficial visit at the invitation of Chinese President Hu Jintao, who is also general secretary of the Central Committee of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC).

As the Sydney Morning Herald May 30 grudgingly reported, China extended unprecedented red-carpet treatment to the visiting North Korean leader. Such a level of welcome has never been extended to any visiting American president or other foreign leaders.

"EIGHT of China's top nine leaders turned out last week to meet the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, as he toured the country for the third time in 13 months, in a special armored train.

"Chinese leaders justify such red-carpet treatment - unheard of for leaders from any other country - because the two socialist nations have always been 'as close as lips and teeth'."

Kim Jong-il separately met and had talks with Hu Jintao, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and other senior CPC leaders including Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang,

Another explanation for China's red-carpet treatment is the perception of North Korea as a far more dependable friend than other nations. True, the Chinese may form a marriage of convenience with any other country of their choice, but they have only Kim Jong-il and his heir designate Kim Jong-eun to turn to for lasting friendship.

That explains why Premier Wen said during an October 2009 visit to Pyongyang, "No matter what changes take place in the international situation, the Sino-DPRK relations will go on advancing."

Nearly two months later, visiting Chinese Defense Minister Colonel General Liang Guanglie, said in the North Korean capital, "The Sino-DPRK relationship, sealed in blood, will last forever."  

A Lost Opportunity?

LMB, you fluffed it!  You can't only look after your image but give no face to your brethren the North Koreans at the same time.  Which human being will like that?  You can't say in the same breadth that you are ready to talk to the North Koreans while tacitly demanding an apology in public as a precondition.  That's not the stuff of Statesmen.  Sorry, LMB, you gone over the edge on your brinksmanship and North Koreans reaction is not unexpected.  Who's your bl**dy advisors and managers on this matter?  So, now that you have got an egg all over your face, you will have a harder job to retrieve your legacy.  You may just have lost a valuable opportunity for re-unification.  What are you going to do?
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