How I Really Feel About Chung Dong-Young

Original Post: Chung Milhous Young? Have a look at this comment over on Oranckay’s blog. Can anyone add anything to verify or disprove this? If true, it was a shitty little stunt. Of course, the plausible deniability is that it was all just a coincidence. I doubt we’ll ever know for certain.

Update: OK, I see that Gerry Bevers, who has a great blog for those of us who’d like to improve our Korean language skills, dropped a comment below. I will post it in its entirety:

According to this article, on the morning of December 8th, just as they were getting ready to go cover the opening ceremonies of the human rights conference, reporters assigned to the Ministry of Unification received a text message from the Unification Ministry saying that Minister Chung would be giving a press conference in thirty minutes, causing the reporters to forgo covering the conference. However, when they arrived for the press conference, Chung was not there, and there was no press conference until later that afternoon.

The next day a reporter asked a Unification Ministry official if the Chung press conference was a diversion to keep them from covering the opening ceremonies of the human rights conference. The ministry official responded as follows:

You are not cub reporters, so why would you want to go to a place like that (venue for the human rights conference)? Since when have you shown an interest in North Korean human rights?

On one hand, it’s clear enough that not everything on Naver is true. On the other hand, it all makes sense, in light of Chung’s machinations to keep church groups away from Saturday’s rally. Here’s hoping that Chung’s reception here in Washington is about as warm as our weather this week. The man is a classless, mindless, duplicitous excrement sculpture who deserves to rot in an unmarked grave. Starting tomorrow.