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[Chaz_Bangalang]

Hahahahahaha, the Korea Times..... Is it really serious? I mean is it really supposed to be a newspaper? Toilet paper

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[BoholDiver]

I see about 1 similarity between these 2 stories and about 1000 differences.

So in one terrorist attack, over 1000 people die and over 100 more die trying to help. Sorry if I don't know the correct numbers, but I know they were high.

In the next one that may or may not be a terrorist attack, 46 or so people die and 1 dies trying to save them. Not to disrespect Diver Han, he was a brave and selfless man, but equating his death equally to several hundred people who died in the aftermath of 9-11 is insulting.

Maybe the K newspaper just doesn't have anything else to write.

[BoholDiver]

Oh yeah. An afterthought.

If N Korea is, in fact, uninvolved in this sinking, I'd be pissed off if I were them. It's best not to jump to conclusions or accuse someone of something before having some facts.

[Smee]

A new low? Actually, that looks like business as usual.

And 9/11 was brought out when Namdaemun burned down. 9/11, the Cambodian Killing Fields, Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Katrina all made an appearance back then:

http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2008/02/korean-911.html

[mc_jc]

You can equate the sinking of the Cheonan to whatever- the Kirsk, the Louitania, or even the Pennsylvania during the attack on Pearl Harbor- but how could this incident equate to the loss of 3000+ people.


My question is; what is Tae Han Min Guk going to do about it?

If there is not going to be a reprisal attack, then the sailors on board the Cheonan DID die in vain.
Itaewonguy said it best in another thread [paraphasing]; "Many of these young men didn't have a choice to be on that ship at that given time...they were ordered there under Korea's policy of mandatory conscription...".

If I were a Korean and I had a son on that ship and went missing, I would demand that the government do its damnest to bring my son home. Knowing that the K-gov't is just covering up the mess is a disgrace to the families who lost loved ones there-- The irony of that statement is that an office worker who works for an associate of mine, who is Korean, had a boyfriend is one of the missing from the Cheonan. She and his family have been asking for my associate's help in getting more information on the fate of her boyfriend- it hurts him alot to refuse to help her because he is not in that capacity to assist.

Instead of getting to the bottom of the situation, the Korean government is trying to bury it as long as possible in the hopes that it will die down, like it had done before to avert a confrontation with North Korea.
I think the thanks for all this should go to Noh Mu Hyun and his policy of total appeasement to North Korea during his 5-year tenure- he was by far one of the worst excuse for a Korean president I have ever seen- thank god I made an excuse not to meet him while he was still president.

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[Moldy Rutabaga]

[On the other hand]

[mc_jc]

[On the other hand]

[Reggie]

With the way that so many fellow Americans act like 9/11 was the Biggest Day in the History of the Universe, it's kind of hard to fault the Koreans for also blowing a big sad tragedy out of proportion.

[BoholDiver]

It wasn't far off.

I wish the government here would grow a spine.

[mc_jc]

I was counting Roh Tae Woo, since he was the transitional president between the junta and the free elections held in '92.

[Konglishman]