Monday, May 12, 2014

North and South Korean Rhetorical Battle Intensifies by Bob Cummins

     The battle of words between North and South Korea just got more intense.  On Monday, a South Korean official said that North Korea "must disappear soon."  The comments were in response to slurs by North Korea likening Park Geun-hye, the President of South Korea an"old prostitute" and President Obama to a "monkey".  South Korea has been critical of the North's missile programs and tests, these comments from Seoul were stronger than usual.  Kim Min-seok, the South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman said that North Korea isn't really a country and it exists to benefit one person, meaning Kim Jong Un, the nation's dictator.  They try to avoid talking about anything that North Korea could interpret as their collapse because they worry that it would raise tensions. Pyongyang has been using more rhetoric against Washington and Seoul since Park and Obama met in Seoul in April.

     The South Korean seems like a little second grader calling names.  To me, Kim Jong Un seems like a spoiled brat who has everyone in an entire nation under him.  He thinks he can do whatever he wants to do, and he can in a sense.  That is why I agree with South Korea that North Korea needs to disappear.  I do not wish ill toward the citizens, of course, just the government system that is oppressing them.  I had never known that they could be so immature.  I knew they were immature, but not at this level.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/south-korea-says-north-korea-must-disappear-soon-065805445.html

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