Around September of 2007, a new and energetic Minster of Information and Communication – Com. Krishna Bahadur Mahara declared, Nepal will celebrate the 57th anniversary of the DPRK to pay respect to the glorious history of Korean revolution and to pay our tribute to the great and the dear: His Excellencies -the Kim s.Then I had just finished reading a book on North Korea and also was fresh from the memory of going to University with 2 very nationalist North Koreans. I was trying to understand what Nepal can possibly get be-friending one of the most notorious leader of modern world..(—umm no no no don’t get me wrong yet- Mr. Bush stands a step further for sure ). Though my plain experiences show that the coolest people actually live in the most difficult countries in the world. The North Koreans that I met were one of the nicest for sure. Nepalese can befriend with them very easily. After all we both are F****ed by politics for long and for sure. After my careful thoughts here are my recommendations for PDRN to learn from DPRK:
ท The adoption of “ Junche” the ideology- Since Nepal is going out of control with over-empowered and awfully over expecting “masses”, may be Junche (which basically talks about self criticism and what we can do for the country- rather than what we can get) may help reducing this profound madness in Semi-urban Nepalese society (if you don’t believe me trying to take a taxi in Kathmandu these days).
ท Bargain money out of UN- As we all know how north Korean (in full cooperation by UN systems) drained out aid money to make the most out of it. Since UN works hard in communities where there is no problem and does nothing much at other places citing security reasons, this idea can work in both party’s interest in Nepal. Remember AID is for Nepal and Government is Nepali.
ท Not be a "defacto" base for US to work on TIBET: Noting that the U.S. forces' occupation of south Korea was a direct product of the policy of aggression of the successive U.S. administrations to use south Korea as a strategic base from which to dominate Northeast Asia- Please don’t make that mistake- with China and India around Nepal can be the “hotbed” for US. This relates to my next recommendation
ท Blackmailing West: Nepal can use the distance between India and China and China and the rest of the world to maintain the status quo and bargain some development AID to Nepal. Remember we don’t have to stand very close to Indians, we can use them and the west: best by playing china card. No no no I don’t mean by doing the exact way that our beloved past king did and sorry about using the word "blackmail" - Turkey got 100 Million USD in Grant for letting US plane fly over its AirSpace during IRAQ War.
ท Going against Indian Imperialism: I don’t know what it really implies but “imperialism” is a big buzz work in MLMP (Maoism, Leninism, Marxism, Prachanndapath – to be lengthy enough). If Nepal can gather some guts and use this “whatever” in our own gain- may be we can at-least voice against building dams and flooding our villages by Indians. Hey by the way it’s not like you guys that Nepalese always travel across the countries. Sometimes they sleep in bed in Nepal and wake up the next morning in India (because the border pillars had just moved in last night).
And the final one- this is my favorite:
ท Most of the revolutionaries (Mao, Castro, Kim, Robert, Hoxa, Pot- that sounds confusing- okay POL POT – not the G -POT) who started “peoples struggle” and been victorious revolutionary have been the most brutal dictators in the history of the world. They failed to manage the politics, grea the development and basically destroyed the countries. Com. Prachanda can surely learn this lesson from DPRK and anywhere else and may be give institutionalizing democracy a serious thought.
Commenting on the news below, thoughts and counter-thoughts are welcome- Sushil
DPRK to increase cooperation with NepalTwo days after Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal got elected as the first Prime Minister of Federal Republic Nepal, paving way for the first ever democratically elected Maoist government in the world, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Sunday that it would strengthen the "friendly and cooperative relations" with Nepal.Kim Yong II, premier of world's most isolated communist nation, sent a congratulatory message to his Nepali counterpart Dahal Sunday for being elected as prime minister of the country, the official KCNA news agency reported.He also wished for the political stability and prosperity of Nepal.
Monday, August 18, 2008
What PDRN can learn from DPRK?
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Is there logic in requesting a constituent assembly looser to be head statute drafting committee
I don’t know why Maoists are so scared of UML. They should have told the world and UML that they rejected MKN in president post because he lost election in 2 places. People rejected him not once but twice. If he is rejected 2 times by people even to be member of the 604 people strong assembly there is no logic in making him a head of it. I found it Kiddish of UML to play power hungry greed move, like they have been doing since 1990 without a success. The fact is very simple; there are 4 power centers in Nepal. UML is the 3rd political force in Nepal. They should be happy to be bronze medallist and stop eyeing the gold. In rule of life you have to earn what you want.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------MK Nepal again offered to head statute drafting committee Former UML general secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal, who earlier rejected request from Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala to head the statute drafting committee, again received the same offer from the Maoist leadership Wednesday.CPN-Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' during the four hour long discussion in Lalitpur asked Nepal to head the constitution drafting commission. The request has come from the Maoist leaders in another effort to forge alliance with UML in the formation of the new government and to rebuild relations that went bitter after the presidential election.Reports say that Prachanda also told Nepal that he could not support Nepal's candidacy for president due to internal problems of the party.In response, Nepal termed Prachanda's offer as positive but would accept the offer only on the condition that other parties back the proposal.
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