3. If USA is South Korea's most important ally, North Korea has been an existential threat for 7 decades. Yet during Olympics North's "charm offensive" is gaining real traction.
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14. In short: America is alienating an important ally & a Stalinist hellhole is winning a propaganda victory. But Americans (including centrists & liberals) don't understand this because they can't imagine viewing world from South Korean eyes.
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15. Anyways, I have some more thoughts on this here:https://newrepublic.com/article/147004/madman-accidentally-bring-peace-korean-peninsula …
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16. What's interesting about this whole discussion is how many people are in denial about the way Trump/Pence bluster is shaping perceptions in allied countries like South Korea.
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If you need 13 Tweets to explain your first ignorant Tweet that you had to delete I would venture to say you should have NEVER Tweeted it in the first place.
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Really strange that a thread in which you are clearly critical of the NK regime is being dragged as cheerleading for that regime. Some people are willfully obtuse.
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nationalists can't handle anything with more nuance than "North Korea bad, USA good"
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This is good. A full break between US and SK will help stabilize the region.
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Only in America does something so obviously true need such a long explanation (and justification). From everything I've read, Koreans want peace and reunification. This is important to them. Pence should have respected that. But Pence is first and foremost a prig and a scold.
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imagine the US having a chief executive so insane that after more than half a century, the south koreans decide they better talk with the guy upstairs for their safety and security. the south koreans are more worried about the
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Nobody's in denial. It's just...who don't we have a rift with?
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