Comments on: Take the OFK Challenge: Name One Time Selig Harrison Was Right About North Korea http://freekorea.us/2009/08/22/take-the-ofk-challenge-name-one-time-selig-harrison-was-right-about-north-korea/ Wed, 23 May 2012 10:34:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Joshua Stanton http://freekorea.us/2009/08/22/take-the-ofk-challenge-name-one-time-selig-harrison-was-right-about-north-korea/comment-page-1/#comment-68673 Joshua Stanton Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:01:25 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/08/22/take-the-ofk-challenge-name-one-time-selig-harrison-was-right-about-north-korea/#comment-68673 I see no need to hold myself to a higher standard than Harrison himself, given the baseless and irresponsible charges he made in his Foreign Affairs piece. He owes us a retraction. I see no need to hold myself to a higher standard than Harrison himself, given the baseless and irresponsible charges he made in his Foreign Affairs piece. He owes us a retraction.

]]> By: Adam Cathcart http://freekorea.us/2009/08/22/take-the-ofk-challenge-name-one-time-selig-harrison-was-right-about-north-korea/comment-page-1/#comment-68672 Adam Cathcart Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:43:28 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/08/22/take-the-ofk-challenge-name-one-time-selig-harrison-was-right-about-north-korea/#comment-68672 Selig Harrison's role undoubtedly deserves more public attention, and I'm glad that the author of this blog could provide some balance in the San Francisco Examiner piece quoted here. However, I'm a bit disappointed in this particular post (and in similar dismissals of Harrison around the web, such as on ROK Drop). If you're going to impugn Harrison, you might also consider reading and then doing the favor of analyzing <a href="http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/111/har061709.pdf" rel="nofollow">his Congressional testimony</a> (including the Feb. 12, 2009 hearing on "<a href="http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/111/47419.pdf" rel="nofollow">Smart Power: Remaking U.S. Policy in North Korea</a>") or explaining how having more information about the current cast of the DPRK Foreign Ministry is a bad thing for the rest of us. I appreciate your breakdown of his alleged failings on the nuclear issue, but let's leave the nasty epithets to the North Koreans. <a href="http://adamcathcart.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/mitch-koss-hyundai-selig-harrison/" rel="nofollow"> On a side note on the Examiner piece: it's unfortunate that Harrison Salisbury, one of our great reporters of East Asia, is no longer around to tell his tales. Selig Harrison’s role undoubtedly deserves more public attention, and I’m glad that the author of this blog could provide some balance in the San Francisco Examiner piece quoted here.

However, I’m a bit disappointed in this particular post (and in similar dismissals of Harrison around the web, such as on ROK Drop).

If you’re going to impugn Harrison, you might also consider reading and then doing the favor of analyzing his Congressional testimony (including the Feb. 12, 2009 hearing on “Smart Power: Remaking U.S. Policy in North Korea“) or explaining how having more information about the current cast of the DPRK Foreign Ministry is a bad thing for the rest of us. I appreciate your breakdown of his alleged failings on the nuclear issue, but let’s leave the nasty epithets to the North Koreans.

On a side note on the Examiner piece: it’s unfortunate that Harrison Salisbury, one of our great reporters of East Asia, is no longer around to tell his tales.

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