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| '34 Percent of S Korean Army Cadets Regard US as Main Enemy' | |
| 2008-04-08 | |
| A poll shows that 34 percent of first-year army cadets called the United States the main enemy of South Korea, a former superintendent of the Korea Military Academy (KMA) said. Kim Choong-bae, president of the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, disclosed a past survey of 250 KMA entrants to single out "the country's main enemy'' while serving as the military academy's superintendent in 2004. Kim was quoted by a newspaper as saying, "While the majority ¯ or 34 percent ¯ picked the U.S., 33 percent said they regarded North Korea as the main enemy.'' He said the result was unbelievable, stressing the respondents were those who were supposed to be military officers. The KMA did not make the result public during the Roh Moo-hyun administration, which ended last February. Kim hinted that he had been forced not to notify the public of the result, expressing uneasiness about contents of some high and middle schools textbooks. Citing his meeting with the 250 cadet freshmen, the military expert argued that the hostile sentiment against the "ally" is due to "inappropriate'' education in schools.
Meanwhile, North Korea had been found to label the U.S. and Japan as its main enemies. There has been no document or official commentaries from Pyongyang which describe South Korea as the main enemy of the North. North Korea had reportedly defined the U.S. a "mortal enemy'' and Japan a "longstanding enemy,'' some military officials said. | |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #19 OTOH, and considering how closely IRAN + NOKOR have marched in-step vv Dubya-USA, its prob pragmatic to give NOKOR that same 3 to 3-1/2 Year subjective maxima timeline [r.o. 2012]to attempt to become a de facto SOVEREIGN NUCLEAR POWER ALA IRAN + OSAMA/RADICAL ISLAMISM. AGAIN HOWEVER, UNLIKE IRAN WHICH HAS THE WHOLE OF THE ME + CHAOTIC CENTRAL ASIA [now AFRICA?] REGIONS TO MILPOL MANIPULATE, NOKOR HAS MIL-SUPERIOR SOVEREIGN NATIONS = CHINA + US ALLIES ON ALL BORDERS/FLANKS. Also unlike IRAN, NET > Many PRC Maps depict NOKOR = even both KOREAS as "UNANNEXED/AUTONOMOUS" CHINESE TERRITORY(S) = PART OF CHINA. As things stand, unless is Commie Beijing is so willing the only way for NOKOR to be truly sovereign and independent is to first allow itself to be militarily blown into kimchi smithereenies by either China's PLA or the West [UN Command]. STARVE UNDER LOCAL COMMUNISM, OR DIE IN THE NAME OF NOKOR FREEDOM vv GREAT POWER [China/US-Allies] CONFRONTATION. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-04-08 20:47 |
| #18 As per REDDIT > JAPAN IS DYING [demographically]. Too many Senior Citizens + women proclaim to "hate sex" - may take decades to recover at the normal replacement rate, iff they ever do??? As for the SOKOR Kayyydets > remind me of ROBIN WILLIAMS' post 9-11 comedy skit, IIRC ON HOW FRANCE-EUROS ANGRILY HATE AMERICA UNTIL THE GERMAN ARMY STARTS CROSSING THE BORDER, WHEN HATE OF AMER SUDDENLY, WEIRDLY AND MYSTERIOUSLY TURNS INTO LOVE AND ADMIRATION. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-04-08 20:25 |
| #17 Our enemy is There, fixed it for ya. Order of importance may differ but substance is the same. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-04-08 19:00 |
| #16 South Koren schools and text books are at fault, these people are going on what they have been taught. The question is why they have been taught that? I am all for getting the hell out anyway. We can't afford to keep borrowing money to fight the Korean war of the 1950s and the war on terror today. Our enemy isn't China or North Korea, it is Iran. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2008-04-08 17:00 |
| #15 Unfortunately, as someone who agrees we should evacuate all our troops from Korea, it would create too inviting a target for the Chinese and that would have a detrimental impact on our relationship with the Japanese. So we'll stay as a trip wire, at least until Korea is reunited. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-04-08 15:34 |
| #14 South Korea may ask U.S. to pause troop drawdown Go figure! |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-08 15:23 |
| #13 Wouldn't they miss the money our troops spend over there? Isn't that the main reason we're still in Germany? Abu Uluque, that was true when Mr. Wife moved us to Germany in 1991, and everyone complained about how wild the American soldiers got when they got drunk, and how they drove rent prices up beyond what ordinary Germans (meaning the speaker) could afford (meaning was willing) to pay. When we left for Brussels in 1995, almost all the bases had been shut down and evacuated; everyone complained that they couldn't afford the mortgage on that investment property given how low the rents had fallen, and all the good pubs were going out of business now that the American soldiers weren't there to buy drinks for the girls. (The rent on our house in Bad Soden am Taunus went down by 25% the day we moved out.) There really aren't all that many bases left over there. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-04-08 15:12 |
| #12 self-fulfilling prophecy? |
| Posted by: Iblis 2008-04-08 14:47 |
| #11 Wouldn't they miss the money our troops spend over there? Isn't that the main reason we're still in Germany? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2008-04-08 14:42 |
| #10 Was this poll conducted by the same Zogby group that claimed that (almost) 100% of US troops were voting Donk this year? Enquiring minds and all.... |
| Posted by: BA 2008-04-08 14:41 |
| #9 Who knew that so many South Korean army cadets were getting an American junior high / high school / college / university education? |
| Posted by: MarkZ 2008-04-08 14:39 |
| #8 When the Democrats demand that we withdraw from Iraq, we should instead withdraw from S. Korea, then Kosovo, then Germany. |
| Posted by: Master of Obvious 2008-04-08 14:38 |
| #7 I'm still for completely pulling out of the South. They can take care of themselves and at most they would need only some air support from us if the North invaded. Let them go on their own. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-04-08 14:12 |
| #6 ungrateful children |
| Posted by: Crolusing tse Tung2745 2008-04-08 14:03 |
| #5 Now that phrase makes me think, We have a republican Army? Damn bad idea to be a Democrat. They have no army (Small "a" on purpose) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-04-08 14:00 |
| #4 Nope. These are cadets. Future carreer officers and yes they are voluntary. |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-04-08 13:57 |
| #3 The devil is in the details. For example, if you asked US Democrats which nation is the main source of evil in the world, would you even be surprised if 34% said the US? Remember that their military is conscript, but our is volunteer. This is why over 90% of our military self-identify as Republicans. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-04-08 13:49 |
| #2 No problem. Just relocate our troops to somewhere else, like Okinawa, or Iraq or Afghanistan. Let the South Koreans eat grass, just like their North Korean "friends". |
| Posted by: Rambler in California 2008-04-08 13:24 |
| #1 34% isn't a majority. It is a plurality. And what if we just decided to wish the SoKos best wishes and bail from the peninsula? What would be the outcome, globally speaking? (Me, I'd be a little worried about the warranty on my Samsung TV, but beyond that...) |
| Posted by: Sonny Elmeamp2499 2008-04-08 13:06 |