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Korea: Free trade agreement

Categories: East Asia, South Korea, Development, Economics & Business, Governance, Law, Politics, Protest

Talks over a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and Korea are seen by many as an opportunity to further an anti-American agenda [1], writes Joshua from The Korea Liberator, possibly resulting in no FTA and an accelerated deterioration in the U.S.-Korean relations.

He continues: “With key elections approaching at the end of May, the hyenas pounced with a stunning swiftness…even for sleazy Korean politicians. The scavengers are now questioning the deal—which is fine—but the lowest of them are comparing a possible trade agreement to the Japanese colonization of Korea—which isn't. Comparing U.S. trade negotiators to those who forced hundreds of thousands of Koreans into forced labor and sexual slavery is the sort of gutter incitement worthy of men who can't remember which end of the alimentary canal ought to do the talking.”