Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09SEOUL12
2009-01-05 01:59:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Seoul
Cable title:
MEDIA REACTION IN SEOUL
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UNCLAS SEOUL 000012
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STATE FOR EAP/PD FOR SWALKER, EAP/P, EAP/K
STATE PASS USDA ELECTRONICALLY FOR FAX/ITP SCHEIKH
STATE PASS USTR FOR RCASSIDY
USDOC FOR 4430/IEP/OPB/EAP/JDONIUS
TREASURY FOR OASIA/MGREWE
CINCPAC FOR J-74
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL MARR ECON KS US KPAO KMDR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION IN SEOUL
Subject: Media Reaction; Seoul
Gaza, Arab-Israeli engagement
"Global response to Gaza"
Right-of-center JoongAng Ilbo editorialized (01/05): "The U.S.
should clarify its position on an immediate and unconditional
cease-fire. The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting last
Saturday but failed to release a statement calling for an immediate
cease-fire, as the U.S. was insisting that Hamas should stop their
rocket attacks before agreeing on a cease-fire. The U.K., Germany
and Japan, the U.S.'s traditional allies, have not clarified their
official positions, while European countries as well as Arab nations
are censuring the Israeli invasion. If the global community is
divided over such an intense conflict, we will never stop the
gunfire in the Gaza Strip."
"Massacre and Peace Are Incompatible"
Left-leaning Hankyoreh Shinmun editorialized (01/05): "The U.S. is
also heavily responsible (for the current situation in the Middle
East.) As a nation which has provided huge military assistance to
Israel, the U.S. was practically the only one nation in the world
that supported Israel's invasion of the Gaza Strip. In fact, this
attack is similar to the attack by the George W. Bush administration
on Iraq. It is not too farfetched to say that the Bush
administration, which failed to learn anything from the Iraq war,
incited Israel to stage war."
Stephens
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EAP/PD FOR SWALKER, EAP/P, EAP/K
STATE PASS USDA ELECTRONICALLY FOR FAX/ITP SCHEIKH
STATE PASS USTR FOR RCASSIDY
USDOC FOR 4430/IEP/OPB/EAP/JDONIUS
TREASURY FOR OASIA/MGREWE
CINCPAC FOR J-74
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL MARR ECON KS US KPAO KMDR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION IN SEOUL
Subject: Media Reaction; Seoul
Gaza, Arab-Israeli engagement
"Global response to Gaza"
Right-of-center JoongAng Ilbo editorialized (01/05): "The U.S.
should clarify its position on an immediate and unconditional
cease-fire. The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting last
Saturday but failed to release a statement calling for an immediate
cease-fire, as the U.S. was insisting that Hamas should stop their
rocket attacks before agreeing on a cease-fire. The U.K., Germany
and Japan, the U.S.'s traditional allies, have not clarified their
official positions, while European countries as well as Arab nations
are censuring the Israeli invasion. If the global community is
divided over such an intense conflict, we will never stop the
gunfire in the Gaza Strip."
"Massacre and Peace Are Incompatible"
Left-leaning Hankyoreh Shinmun editorialized (01/05): "The U.S. is
also heavily responsible (for the current situation in the Middle
East.) As a nation which has provided huge military assistance to
Israel, the U.S. was practically the only one nation in the world
that supported Israel's invasion of the Gaza Strip. In fact, this
attack is similar to the attack by the George W. Bush administration
on Iraq. It is not too farfetched to say that the Bush
administration, which failed to learn anything from the Iraq war,
incited Israel to stage war."
Stephens