But wanting to meet Psy in Pyongyang ? Despite his
friendship with the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un, Rodman apparently didn’t
know the first thing about two Koreas .
He was not aware obviously that Psy simply couldn’t be in North Korea to
accommodate his wishes. Asking to meet Psy in North Korea is like wanting to eat
a McDonald’s hamburger at a Chinese restaurant.
Rodman has probably
heard about the Korean War, recalling vaguely perhaps the facts that the North
Koreans invaded the South in 1950 and that the United States and other allied
forces fought, under the United Nations flag, with the South Korean Army to
repel the Communist invaders.
Sure, the Korean War ended in truce
in 1953. What Rodman probably didn’t know is that two Koreas are
still technical at war as they have not signed a peace treaty. And under the hostile
circumstances, no South Koreans are allowed to visit Pyongyang unless the North Korean dictator
invites them as he did for Rodman and his friends.
The various remarks Rodman made in Pyongyang and in the United
States after his return betrayed his ignorance of the situations
in Koreas .
But I am not surprised because I have run into many Americans who, like Rodman,
were unable to distinguish between the two Koreas
and say which side is America ’s
ally and which one is developing long-range missiles and nuclear bombs to fight
the United States .
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