The Circus Is Coming!

The jockeying for the South Korean presidential race has started. Like mercurial gobs, parties split into factions and clump together again. The Joongang Ilbo has an interesting article that suggests potential splits in both the Grand National and Uri parties. If North Korea will just stop talking for a while, I’ll get through several unfinished posts about South Korean political figures. I’m not going to graf it; it’s not long and well worth reading.

I’m actually hoping for splits and ferocious ideological power struggles in both parties, particularly the GNP. The Uri’s fresh ideas are all wrung out, and the GNP’s fresh ideas are all stultified and bricked up behind a reactionary wall of defensive politics.