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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I think if you look at the lineage (if you'll pardon the
use of this term) of the racialist ideas of North Korea's ruling class it would
not be difficult to find affinities with some of the ideas that lay behind Nazi
ideology. The DPRK bureaucracy seems to have inherited much of the Social
Darwinist 'survival of the fittest' ideology that informed pre-war Japanese
fascist ideas and strongly influenced many of the Korean 'enlightenment'
thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as well as Liang Qichao. In
this sense I think we can probably find some common ideological ancestry. But
then the influence of Social Darwinism and racialist ideas was (and is I
suppose) very broad and never limited only to the far right.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Of course we also have to look at the historical
circumstances of North Korea's turn toward racialist ideas - I'm sure
Balazs Szalontai is correct when he connects the dislike of mixed marriages in
the early 1960s with the rift with the Soviet Union.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Apologies to Dr Tikhonov for intruding somewhat
into his specialist area - I'm sure he could provide more informed
commentary on the connections between DPRK ideology and Social
Darwinism.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Owen Miller</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 28, 2006 1:39
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [KS] North Korea says
multiracialism is poison</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0
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PTSIZE="12" BACK="#ffffff">Dear colleagues,<BR><BR>The item below appears on
KCNA today.<BR><BR>Comment is perhaps superfluous,<BR>but I venture the
following:<BR><BR>1. They practise what they preach. See the harrowing
account<BR>which begin's Time's Asian edition cover story this week.<BR><A
href="http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501060501/story.html">http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501060501/story.html</A><BR><BR>2.
How does this differ from national socialism?<BR><BR>Aidan
FC<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
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BACK="#ffffff">AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER<BR>Honorary Senior Research Fellow in
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FAMILY="SERIF" PTSIZE="16" BACK="#ffffff">Rodong Sinmun Censures Theory of
"Multiracial Society"</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
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BACK="#ffffff">Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- A strange farce to hamstring the
essential characters of the Korean nation and seek for "multiracial society"
is now being held in south Korea. In this regard Rodong Sinmun today runs a
signed commentary, which censures the farce as an unpardonable bid to negate
the homogeneity of the nation, make south Korea multiracial and Americanize
it. To deny the peculiarity and advantages of the homogeneous nation now that
dominationism and colonialism are posing a threat to the destiny of weak
nations is a treacherous act of weakening the spirit of the nation, the
commentary says, and goes on: The south Korean pro-American traitorous forces
advocating the theory of "multiracial society" are riffraffs who have not an
iota of national soul, to say nothing of the elementary understanding of the
view on the nation and social and historic development.
<BR><BR> If the homogeneity of the nation is not kept, the
nation and the destiny of individuals cannot be defended from the U.S.
dominationist moves and the attempt of the Japanese reactionaries for invasion
of Korea, which is revealed in their claim to Tok Islet, cannot be checked.
<BR><BR> The theory of "multiracial society" is a poison and
anti-reunification logic aimed to emasculate the basic idea in the era of
independent reunification. The anti-national logic is advocated in south
Korea, contrary to the aspiration of the fellow countrymen. This is ascribable
to the criminal attempt of the pro-American elements including the Grand
National Party to make the north and the south different in lineages, block
the June 15 era of reunification and seek the permanent division of the nation
and the manipulation of the U.S. behind the scene. <BR><BR>
The commentary calls upon the people from all walks of life in south Korea to
decisively reject the anti-national moves of the sycophantic traitorous forces
to tarnish the lineage of the Korean nation and obliterate it, bereft of the
Juche character and national character. <BR></FONT>
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