12-03-2024, 11:43 AM
My heart aches for the Korean people.
In their paradigm of governance, their leaders seem to be comfortable with making declarations about their own citizens being " anti-state forces."
It rings harmonically with the phrase "threat to democracy" recently evoked by one party about another here in our country.
The principle difference being that the Korean leadership 'bought in" to their own hyperbole, and wants to invoke "military" intervention within their own country.
I visited South Korea during their last bout of "martial law" when President Park was assassinated.
The people responded well enough, and there wasn't much strife over restrictions that were pretty much limited to a mandatory curfew...
Let's hope reason prevails, and they might see this as a difference of political opinion, rather than an existential threat.
In their paradigm of governance, their leaders seem to be comfortable with making declarations about their own citizens being " anti-state forces."
It rings harmonically with the phrase "threat to democracy" recently evoked by one party about another here in our country.
The principle difference being that the Korean leadership 'bought in" to their own hyperbole, and wants to invoke "military" intervention within their own country.
I visited South Korea during their last bout of "martial law" when President Park was assassinated.
The people responded well enough, and there wasn't much strife over restrictions that were pretty much limited to a mandatory curfew...
Let's hope reason prevails, and they might see this as a difference of political opinion, rather than an existential threat.
