South Korea's minister of trade scurries like a sacred rat to Washington

Things aren't going the way Lee Myung-bak, South Korea's embattled president, planned. Mounting, daily protests keep him holed up in the Blue House, so afraid is he of his own people owing to his fateful, arse kissing measure to please Herr Bush, by allowing the reintroduction of US beef to Korean markets. Now he's sent his minister of trade Kim Joon-hun scurring like a sacred rat to beg Herr Bush to renegotiate the deal on US beef. Already a bureaucrat from the department of agriculture is saying loud and clear, there's nothing to talk about. So 18Brumaire asks what piece of South Korean sovereignty is Lee Myung-bak willing to give up to Herr Bush in order to stay in office? We shall soon see. Lee has proved a broken weed.