Sukotto
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- 9 Jul 2003
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This is interesting and something that shows my utter
ignorance (I was raised in America - the mid-Northern part - afterall).
The suggestion alone, and that I'd not heard of it,
shows that I could not argue one way or the other.
Recently in an article written by a one Christopher Reed
in an article (in the print version of the "Counterpunch" newsletter)
titled "Is Stalin or Confucious the Guide? Secrets of the Garden of Bliss"
author cites Bruce Cumings, a professor of history at
the University of Chicago (and probably America's foremost
authority on Korea - Reed states) (Cummings is author
of the two-volume "Origins of the Korean War" [1981 and 1990]
and "Korea's Place in the Sun, A Modern History" [Norton, 2005])
"My position," Cumings writes, "is that North Korea is closer
to a Neo-Confucian kingdom than to Stalin's Russia. With
its absurdly inflated hero worship and its nauseating repetition,
the North Korean political rhetoric seems to know no bounds;
to a person accustomed to a liberal political system it is instinctly
repellent. But is has been there since the beginning."
ignorance (I was raised in America - the mid-Northern part - afterall).
The suggestion alone, and that I'd not heard of it,
shows that I could not argue one way or the other.
Recently in an article written by a one Christopher Reed
in an article (in the print version of the "Counterpunch" newsletter)
titled "Is Stalin or Confucious the Guide? Secrets of the Garden of Bliss"
author cites Bruce Cumings, a professor of history at
the University of Chicago (and probably America's foremost
authority on Korea - Reed states) (Cummings is author
of the two-volume "Origins of the Korean War" [1981 and 1990]
and "Korea's Place in the Sun, A Modern History" [Norton, 2005])
"My position," Cumings writes, "is that North Korea is closer
to a Neo-Confucian kingdom than to Stalin's Russia. With
its absurdly inflated hero worship and its nauseating repetition,
the North Korean political rhetoric seems to know no bounds;
to a person accustomed to a liberal political system it is instinctly
repellent. But is has been there since the beginning."