{"id":552,"date":"2004-10-06T00:47:55","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T00:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:48","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:48","slug":"reprinted_without_comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Reprinted Without Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"

In response to this Atlantic Magazine article<\/a> on Korea’s Great Beloved Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il, Chalmers Johnson (serious author of a number of books on foreign and defense policy) writes a letter to the editor, copied here entire:<\/p>\n

The sheer viciousness of B. R, Meyers’s personal attack on Bruce Cumings (“Mother of All Mothers,” September Atlantic) moves The Atlantic ever closer to the standards of fascist journalism. Cumings is easily the most distinguished historian working on modern Korean affairs in the United States today. To suggest differences in political approach to North Korea between Cumings and Selig Harrison is simply embarrassing, since both authors come to the same conclusions. Myers’s condemnation of any attempts to understand North Korea puts him in a class with Undersecretary of State John Bolton and other know-nothings who have been in change of American foreign policy since 2001. Even though George W. Bush told Bob Woodward that he loathes Kim Jong Il, it was Cumings who first noted what Bush and Kim have in common: neither would have amounted to anything without their daddies.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It wasn’t enough to have The Atlantic demonstrate historian Bruce Cumings’ fawning coverage of the evil North Korean regime. Fellow author Chalmers Johnson had to chime in too, so he could look just as ridiculous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}