#ROK: UNDERMINED. Greg Scarlatoiu, president and CEO of The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20250317009651320 https://asiatimes.com/2025/03/trumps-best-bet-to-counter-chi
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🗓️ 19 March 2025
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https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20250317009651320
https://asiatimes.com/2025/03/trumps-best-bet-to-counter-china-is-backing-south-koreas-yoon/
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchezer. Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang, my co-host and friend. |
| 0:09.8 | We go to Greg Scarletto to help us understand a confusing picture politically in South Korea. |
| 0:17.0 | North Korea is the threat, the threat to Ukraine, the threat to the United States, the threat to |
| 0:22.0 | everybody who is allied with the United States. At the same time, South Korea is the best |
| 0:27.3 | counter except, Greg, a very good evening to you. Thank you. Trump's best bet to counter China |
| 0:33.1 | is backing South Korea's Yun. This is an op-head piece in Asia Times. The subhead is more interesting. |
| 0:39.8 | Eun was impeached by a legislature in the grips of anti-America, pro-China, pro-North Korea, |
| 0:45.9 | ideological furor. If that is accurate, what's driving it? What is the present culture saying |
| 0:53.5 | that you want to team up with North Korea and China? |
| 0:57.7 | Good evening to you. |
| 0:59.6 | Hey, very good evening to you, John Gordon. |
| 1:02.5 | We are dealing with a very serious situation here. |
| 1:06.0 | Many of South Korea's leading political figures appear to be under the influence of Chinese authority. |
| 1:13.9 | Among them included are I Jem Yong, the incumbent chairman of the opposition party, Han Dong Hun, |
| 1:21.3 | and I Jun Sok, former chairperson of the ruling party, the PPP. |
| 1:28.5 | You know, this conversation can go on and on. |
| 1:31.6 | It's a competition between us representing democracy, human rights, and in a market economy and China, quite frankly, that's how it is. |
| 1:44.4 | So all you have to do is look at E.J. Myeong's pro-China and anti-USA sentiments |
| 1:52.5 | as exposed by his own comments in his remarks, |
| 1:57.6 | Yes, to China in March of 2024, referring to us to the USA as an American occupying |
| 2:07.3 | army in July 2021. |
| 2:10.6 | You know, Han Dong Hun's father-in-law is the publisher of a magazine introducing China |
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