Saturday 1 June 2013
Tony Abbott Notes That it is About Time that Australia was Governed by Adults.
I must admit I agree. Yes, this will be a good change after the ALP. At least the Coalition doesn't appear to hate its own guts and its own members; and the Coalition doesn't appear to wish to destroy everything for its own tangential ambitions and dysfunctions at every level. The dysfunction between Gillard, Wong, Shorten etc are becoming evident now that the other rampant dysfunctions have been covered up. I do wish Tony Abbott well. Australia does need a government that doesn't hate itself, and that doesn't treat the people like supplicant idiots.
One Korea, Two Systems
Maybe this is a useful template for Korea...One Korea, two systems, and open the border and enable kinship ties to be re-established, and let controlled trade and some fighting do the rest. It is hard to imagine it happening, but the only other thing imaginable is war, which will reduce both 'brothers' and possibly the world, to the stone age.
I'd think the annual April War Games of the US on the 38th parallel North border aren't helpful.
The DPRK does have nuclear weapons and the capacity to project them, every knows that but the US won't admit it. The DPRK won't use them. Everyone knows that.
I could imagine the DPRK going along the lines of the China Model for massive progress and industrialisation, and I'm sure the offer of advice is there from China, but China doesn't interfere, nor will it betray the North.
With DPRK on the road to massive industrialisation and a freed-up capitalist economy with a solid communist party core, it could do very well very quickly and thus redress the poverty in the North. With this achieved, the North could quickly rise to be an economic 'brother' state of the South, and this would enable massive trade and consolidation of a 'One Korea' with two differing systems.
I'd think the annual April War Games of the US on the 38th parallel North border aren't helpful.
The DPRK does have nuclear weapons and the capacity to project them, every knows that but the US won't admit it. The DPRK won't use them. Everyone knows that.
I could imagine the DPRK going along the lines of the China Model for massive progress and industrialisation, and I'm sure the offer of advice is there from China, but China doesn't interfere, nor will it betray the North.
With DPRK on the road to massive industrialisation and a freed-up capitalist economy with a solid communist party core, it could do very well very quickly and thus redress the poverty in the North. With this achieved, the North could quickly rise to be an economic 'brother' state of the South, and this would enable massive trade and consolidation of a 'One Korea' with two differing systems.
What is DPRK Regime? What is Korea?
To me, when looking hard I see DPRK as a unique combination of early Christian missionary zeal, resident Cult Shamanism, Confucianism, Taoism, Maoist-Communism, Juche, and Militarism. In the South there is Consumerism and Cult Shamanistic Christianity and the Unification Church and the American Army.
When looking back on the History of the One Korean Nation, the early invasions and total occupations by the Russian Empire, Japanese Empire, the British Empire, followed by the Cold War invasions of the USSR and the USA render Korea as a troubled place in the world for many, many decades past... and to come. It was a Nation divided by outside forces.
Why? I can only think that it was fundamentally because of it's critical geo-political position in North Asia; and that position remains even more critical and 'tectonic' in the present and future.
As it is the South is a stable power, and the North is a stable power...I say 'stable' in that neither are likely to change at all. The Regime in the North is very secure; and in the South the politics are stable, although one could note that in both the broken halves of Korea, the passionate nature and the zeal of the people is a distinct cultural reality and will remain so. It is a country that has been torn apart by foreign powers for hundreds of years without much time in between for any kind of national solidarity to arise and define itself.
It has been kept divided for the purposes of others. The level of violence perpetrated in Korea by its history as an invaded, owned, satellite mean that violence is still often seen as the only way to defend itself, whether South or North provinces. Korea has had a 'hard road' for a long time and I expect the number of years it has been divided will equivocate with the future number of years it will take ahead for re-unification. I wish this One Korea well.
When looking back on the History of the One Korean Nation, the early invasions and total occupations by the Russian Empire, Japanese Empire, the British Empire, followed by the Cold War invasions of the USSR and the USA render Korea as a troubled place in the world for many, many decades past... and to come. It was a Nation divided by outside forces.
Why? I can only think that it was fundamentally because of it's critical geo-political position in North Asia; and that position remains even more critical and 'tectonic' in the present and future.
As it is the South is a stable power, and the North is a stable power...I say 'stable' in that neither are likely to change at all. The Regime in the North is very secure; and in the South the politics are stable, although one could note that in both the broken halves of Korea, the passionate nature and the zeal of the people is a distinct cultural reality and will remain so. It is a country that has been torn apart by foreign powers for hundreds of years without much time in between for any kind of national solidarity to arise and define itself.
It has been kept divided for the purposes of others. The level of violence perpetrated in Korea by its history as an invaded, owned, satellite mean that violence is still often seen as the only way to defend itself, whether South or North provinces. Korea has had a 'hard road' for a long time and I expect the number of years it has been divided will equivocate with the future number of years it will take ahead for re-unification. I wish this One Korea well.
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