{"id":5907,"date":"2007-01-04T18:06:45","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T23:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/korea\/2007\/01\/5000-years\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:22:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:22:50","slug":"5000-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2007\/01\/5000-years\/","title":{"rendered":"5,000 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of those phrases that anyone dealing with Korean history must learn to live with is the &#8216;5,000 years&#8217; business. Today I came across one of the most creative uses of this cliche yet from Kim Jong-il&#8217;s &#8216;unofficial spokesman&#8217; Kim Myong Chol (crazy guy, not very crazy name), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/atimes\/Korea\/IA04Dg01.html\">who claims<\/a> that last October&#8217;s nuclear test was the fulfilment of a 5,000-year old Korean ambition:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the 5,000-year-old aspirations of the Korean people is to acquire powerful national defenses equipped with long-range deep-strike capabilities of hitting the enemy&#8217;s heartland and turning it into a sea of fire, instead of letting Korea become a war theater. For the first time in Korean history, Kim Jong-il has fulfilled this historic aspiration as he has put the Korean Peninsula under North Korea&#8217;s own nuclear umbrella, neutralizing the US nuclear umbrella. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can just imagine the neolithic people of the peninsula, kicking back around the cave fire, having just feasted on a prime cut of deer meat, saying to one another, &#8220;you know what we really need, it&#8217;s a great big thermonuclear weapon and a nice ICBM to deliver it with.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of those phrases that anyone dealing with Korean history must learn to live with is the &#8216;5,000 years&#8217; business. Today I came across one of the most creative uses of this cliche yet from Kim Jong-il&#8217;s &#8216;unofficial spokesman&#8217; Kim Myong Chol (crazy guy, not very crazy name), who claims that last October&#8217;s nuclear test&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[129,211,61,231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historiography","category-korea","category-nationalism","category-north-korea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1xh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6167,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907\/revisions\/6167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}