Comments on: “Resistant collaborators” and “collaborative resisters”

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 03:00:15 +0000

That wasn’t the Marmot. That was me.

By: joesp

joesp — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:57:12 +0000

nothing wrong with having some fun, there, mr. marmot.

By: Get your old books about Korea here at The Marmot’s Hole

Get your old books about Korea here at The Marmot’s Hole — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:29:57 +0000

[...] The Korean version of Frog in a Well is in some ways the most disappointing blog in the IKK. When I first became aware of it last year, I thought it was going to develop into a must-go-to site for information on Korean history. They have that often enough, but we also get a liberal mix of navel gazing and lefty hackdom like “the recent glorious victory of Hizbollah partisans.” [...]

By: noja

noja — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:35:21 +0000

Thanks for the comment. That Park Hon-yong was no “traitor” is quite clear – and it is equally clear that for KIS he was indeed the most serious rival, as he was recognized by the Russians as the No. 2 in the DPRK hierarchy and had quite good power base being acknowledged as the most authoritative leader of the Korean revolution by most veterans of the Communist underground inside the country. Whether he really tried to settle some scores with KIS (“plotted against the Great leader”) is a question we are still unable to answer. Park Hon-yong’s Collected Works and his biography by Prof. Lim Kyongsok were published in the last two years – hope you can enjoy the reading.

By: Mutantfrog Travelogue » Blog Archive » Asian History Carnival

Mutantfrog Travelogue » Blog Archive » Asian History Carnival — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:23:48 +0000

[...] Noja, of Frog In A Well Korea, has an article questioning the difference between “resistant collaborators” and “collaborative resistors.” Since Noja is actually trying to puzzle out the answer for inclusion in a Russian textbook on Korea’s history (being written in Kyushu University!) this could almost have gone in the Lessons section below, but Noja is grappling with definitions of some issues touchy enough to have gotten many of the original actors executed, so I’ll leave it here. [...]