[KS] Re: Recent Posting on Kim and Nobel

[David Richard McCann]

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I take it there is irony meant by the use of the word hero, though in
reference to what is not clear.  The writer seems to be asserting that
the present president voted to keep people starving, prevent the growth
of the economy, and block jobs, though it isn't clear whether the writer
means to claim that actual votes on those three matters were presented
to the Assembly and voted on.  Or is it just another way of saying
something that means "opposition," roughly?  The writer claims that the
present president opposed the ROK, which is an interesting and novel way
to describe a political career.  However one reader might respond to
that phrase, another reader might think Yes, the present president did
oppose the truck that tried to run him down, and presumably did oppose
in some way the men who kidnapped him from the hotel in Japan and were
preparing to drop him into the Eastern Sea.  In that sense as well as in
whatever sense the writer may have intended, Kim Dae Jung might be said
to have 'opposed the ROK.'  But when the writer puts those little
quotation marks around the word <cruel>, in case readers may have missed
the point of his use of the term <so-called> in reference to Park, Chun,
and Roh, it makes me wonder what that self-styled, so-called "Observer
of Korean politics" has been doing all these years to wind up in such a
mean temper this Monday morning.

David McCann