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Donga Ilbo on the American Backlash: You’ve read it all here before, but just in case you’re wondering if anyone in Korea has noticed, here is your answer:

There are signs of anti-Korean sentiment among Washington D.C. intellectuals. Unprecedented mockery and criticism against Korea has appeared, and anti-Korean sentiment, usually seen among Republicans, is showing signs of spreading to Democrats as well. Even pro-Korean people do not deny the recent spread of anti-Korean sentiment in Washington.

I see Hillary Clinton as an American Park Geun-Hye. The Fact that she’s saying this kind of thing means she thinks it has political traction with centrist “swing” voters. That’s an extraordinarily bad sign for those who’d hoped the American subsidy of South Korea’s defense would be a perpetual entitlement. I’ll say it again: a Korea whose defense isn’t utterly dependent on America will be a more mature, more secure, and less anti-American Korea.