Mal aus gegebenen Anlass ein Blick über den Horizont.
Beim browsen stiess ich auf einen drei Jahre alten Artikel des legendären Christopher Hitchens auf Slate.com, welcher ein damals gerade erschienenes Buch von B.R. Myers (The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters) über die nordkoreanische Ideologie (Juche) besprach.
http://www.slate.com/articles/…ion_of_racist_dwarfs.html
Wesentlich daran ist die Darlegung, daß die nordkoreanische Ideologie genausowenig kommunistisch ist, wie der Nationalszialismus sozialistisch war, sondern eben die rassische und ethische Überlegenheit der koreanischen Rasse propagiert und sich allem fremden Einfluß widersetzt.
"... The whole idea of communism is dead in North Korea, and its most recent "Constitution," "ratified" last April [2009], has dropped all mention of the word. The analogies to Confucianism are glib, and such parallels with it as can be drawn are intended by the regime only for the consumption of outsiders. Myers makes a persuasive case that we should instead regard the Kim Jong-il system as a phenomenon of the very extreme and pathological right. It is based on totalitarian "military first" mobilization, is maintained by slave labor, and instills an ideology of the most unapologetic racism and xenophobia.
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Myers also points out that many of the slogans employed and displayed by the North Korean state are borrowed directly—this really does count as some kind of irony—from the kamikaze ideology of Japanese imperialism. Every child is told every day of the wonderful possibility of death by immolation in the service of the motherland and taught not to fear the idea of war, not even a nuclear one.
The regime cannot rule by terror alone, and now all it has left is its race-based military ideology. Small wonder that each "negotiation" with it is more humiliating than the previous one. As Myers points out, we cannot expect it to bargain away its very raison d'etre.
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Sollte man zumindest zur Kenntnis nehnem, finde ich.
