Ambassador Harris Increasingly Disliked By Korean Ruling Party
It seems that the U.S. Ambassador would not be doing his job if didn’t ask if the ROK President is surrounded by North Korean sympathizers:
U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris has become the center of criticism amid the rocky negotiations on determining Seoul’s share of the costs for the maintenance of the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK).
Multiple press reports have raised concerns about whether the ambassador is giving Seoul the level of respect it deserves as one of Washington’s indispensable Asian allies that shares the common objectives of maintaining peace and stability in the region.
In particular, the U.S. envoy is said to have some “intentional misperceptions” about President Moon Jae-in, which may add to U.S. distrust of the South Korean leadership and government.
This situation is an undesirable one with regard to bilateral relations, political analysts and lawmakers said Monday, as the two allies already have differing views over the definition of “fair and equitable defense costs.” There are also major differing viewpoints on a range of other security-related issues, such as the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) intelligence-sharing pact with Japan. Both of these issues have fueled concern among Moon’s critics that the Korea-U.S. alliance is not what it used to be.A case in point fueling public discontent toward Harris was his meeting with a group of Korean lawmakers, Sept 23. According to reports quoting the lawmakers, Harris inquired about reports that Moon was surrounded by people with “leftist inclinations” who tended to side with North Korea.
Korea Times
You can read more at the link, but like I have said in the past depending on how the North Korea issue and USFK cost sharing negotiations go, the Moon administration may turn to anti-Americanism. This may be an opening salvo in trying to shift Korean public opinion against the U.S.
Check your countries @GIKorea. In your final comment, you said “depending on how North Korean and USFK cost-sharing negotiations go.” I didn’t know we were even that chummy with KJU. 😆 😆
What’s defined as “anti-American”? Is disagreeing with the US demands for South Korea to pay 500% price increase over one year, “anti-American”?
if the South Korean commies don’t like you, you’re doing something correct.
At least Ambassador Harris didn’t tackle the real elephant in the room – Commie Moon.
@Tim, I made it a little bit more clear what I meant which is the North Korean issue and the USFK cost sharing issue could both be used by the Korean left to promote anti-Americanism.
@GIKorea, yes, the wording is now better. Without a qualifier after “North Korean” the meaning carried over into the “cost-sharing” and it appeared to say that the U.S. had some sort of cost-sharing arrangement with North Korea. Oh, and one more thing, my Grammarly software says you should hyphenate cost-sharing. 😉
Punctuation can be a very useful tool. Unlike most of the tools wasting my tax dollars on the fake impeachment circuses and other Congressional boondoggles.
“Annie,” said the Indians, “scalped General Custer.”
Annie said, “The Indians scalped General Custer.”