Forecasts Call for Sunshine. Or Not

Call Karl Rove. Somebody needs help with their message control.

Monday‘s headline: Pyongyang Makes Positive Assessment of Inter-Korean Relations

South and North Korea have joined in a struggle to unify the two countries, a senior North Korean official said Monday. Jong Tok-gi, a secretariat section chief of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, said anti-unification activities become more vicious this year but the inter-Korean intention to forge unification has become stronger.

Tuesday‘s headline: N. Korea Blames S. Korea for Stalled Talks

North Korea blamed South Korea on Tuesday for a stall in the dialogue between the two countries and demanded an apology. In a lengthy report, the North’s Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland cited a mass defection of North Koreans to the capitalist South earlier this year–and a joint military exercise the South held with the United States – as “anti-reunification acts.”

Just to make things even more curious, if South Korea’s naked appeasement of the North has been so effective, why do they feel the need to bring in this guy to do their talking for them?