From the outset of the new year, south Korea has come under fire. Both China and Japan are kicking south Korea hither and thither while the U.S. is disregarding it. South Korea has already become a drum which those countries beat as they please in pursuit of their interests. It is standing completely isolated due to the diplomatic storm coming from the U.S., China and Japan. This is a product of the failed diplomatic policy pursued by the Park Geun Hye regime for the past four years.

This is the gist of the articles of south Korean media, noted the Chinese paper.

Rodong Sinmun Friday observes in a commentary in this regard:

This is a due outcome of the servile diplomacy of Park Geun Hye.

From the outset of her office Park advocated "balance diplomacy" as a policy and cried out for raising her "status" in the international community by playing the role of a "balancer" in Northeast Asia where the U.S. and China are competing with each other for hegemony.

However, the said "diplomacy" was nothing but diplomacy of toeing the U.S. policy and remaining hostile to the north.

She was at U.S. beck and call and regarded doing so as her greatest pleasure.

While defying the mindset of the south Korean people manifested at the candlelight rallies, she tried hard to turn south Korea into a nuclear outpost and forward observation post of the U.S., complying with its pressure for greater upkeep of its forces and for the payment of expenses for the deployment of THAAD.

Park considered pro-Japan and pro-U.S. actions as the same major policies. She cooked up a humiliating "agreement" on the issue of sexual slavery for the imperial Japanese army and signed an agreement on protecting military intelligence with Japan.

What is serious is that the U.S. deployment of THAAD and the military nexus among the U.S., Japan and south Korea spark off an arms race in the Asian-Pacific region.

The Park regime has become an outcast reading the faces of big powers, sandwiched among them.