seth & defusing korea tensions

[Brad De Long]

>As for the hegemonism issue, its clear to all Koreans that the only 
>significant foreign military presence in Korea for the past 50 years 
>has been the US...
>
>Tim Shorrock

The Soviet Union's installation of and support for the Kim Il 
Sung-Kim Jong Il regime doesn't count as "hegemonism"? Absent the 
Soviet Union, it seems to me that the chances that a regime like that 
of Kim Jong Il maintaining power in North Korea would have been 
zero...

Brad DeLong