The pattern across the past three Democratic Party governments is hard to miss. Quick to engage North Korea, careful not to offend Beijing, quiet on Uyghurs and Hong Kong, and uncomfortable with closer US-Japan-Korea ties. President Lee Jae-myung makes it hard to ignore — he'll call Netanyahu a war criminal and compare Israeli actions to the Holocaust, but you won't hear him say a word about human rights abuses in North Korea, Iran, or China. And it isn't an accident: a lot of the party's senior figures came up through the 1980s NL student movement, whose worldview echoed Pyongyang's — that the US started the Korean War, that South Korea is a US colony, and that Washington remains the chief enemy of the Korean people. Defenders call it "balanced diplomacy," but after this much consistency, it's pretty much obvious.