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12-07-2010, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by dannavy85 View Post
You can't trust anything coming from the mouth of a North Korean stooge.
You can't trust anything coming from the mouth of an ex American soldier. They couldn't critically think the North Korean situation that most South Koreans understand.

And I'm a South Korean liberal. Being liberal in South Korea usually means pro-North.

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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire View Post
I'm telling you that there is a difference between the two in the ENGLISH language which you are using at the moment and you would do well to use the appropriate term here.

When you say pro-North... then from a native English speaking standpoint you give off the wrong impression.

Unless you are actually speaking of the desire to have the North Korean regime rule over the whole of the Korean peninsula and approve of the North's actions.

In fact I would say that this is an insult to president Roh and his family as there is no indication whatsoever that he was pro-North. All he was was conciliatory towards the North or "North tolerant" as someone else put it.
There's no difference between pro-North and North-tolerant in South Korea. This is all thanks to the pro-American military dictatorships twice in the South Korean history.

This will help you: think like a South Korean.


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