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2003-05-12 Korea

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Posted by Anonymous 2003-05-12 08:21 am|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 North Korea, which launched a missile the day of Roh's inauguration, today embarrassed him again by pulling out of its last binding nuke treaty with South Korea at the same time he arrived in the US.

Roh is the Jimmy Carter of South Korean politics. We need to disentangle our policy from this loser's asap and move our troops south, to Japan or home.

Posted by JAB 2003-05-12 14:04:42|| 2003-05-12 14:04:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Here's a good test: move all American forces OUT of S. Korea to Japan. Then announce that there will be no American defense of any hostile actions by the north, but that an attack on Japan will be met with massive retaliation. I wonder what would happen then....?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-05-12 14:37:55|| 2003-05-12 14:37:55|| Front Page Top

#3 I would imagine that the SKor stock market would take a dive.............

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-05-12 16:06:23|| 2003-05-12 16:06:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Bush needs to read this puke the Riot Act. He's essentially Gerhard Schroeder with kimchee breath and fewer ex-wives. The RoK is wealthy enough and populous enough to provide for its own defense. Why should our troops be a speed bump to these ungrateful louts?

Memo to Roh: When Dear Leader invades and crushes schoolgirls under HIS tanks, who you gonna bitch to?

Posted by Ned 2003-05-12 17:27:40|| 2003-05-12 17:27:40|| Front Page Top

#5 President Kim spent the last five years telling us how North Korea was changing, but we've seen precious little evidence of it. I know Mr. Roh was elected on a platform of engagement, but you would have thought that after five years of being tooled around by Pyongyang, Seoul would have learned to stop beating a dead policy horse.

Five more years of this crap... assuming I'm not nuked and/or invaded in the meantime.

Posted by The Marmot 2003-05-12 11:04:46|| [marmotshole.blogspot.com] 2003-05-12 11:04:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Roh has built his theory on the assumption that NK is no real threat so matters of defense are not seen as relevant. Rumsfeld was right to call him on this earlier this year. He changed his tune for a while but has now returned to his delusions.

The SKs see our soldiers as nothing more than hostages preventing us from pursuing a confrontational policy with regard to NK. Many of Roh's younger, more nationalist supporters see the NK bomb as a long term benefit as they will inherit it upon reunification. China benefits from the fact that that the Sunshine Policy is driving a wedge between the US and SK that will force us off the peninsula one way or another. The NK bomb hastens this process.

Of course, none of the parties really care about the humanitarian crisis.

So, our fallback ally is Japan, which is showing signs of taking the threat seriously -- witness recent remarks from their defense minister. Still, you know its a bad situation when we the best we can hope hope for is a more aggressive Japan. We can all thank the delusions of SK voters for this pickle.

Posted by JAB 2003-05-12 18:17:39|| 2003-05-12 18:17:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Roh will never let reality interfere with any of his ideas which make no rational sense to anyone but idiots.
His administration does not have enough information on human rights in NK to say if they are better or worse than the South.
He does want the US to play speed bump. I am making plans to get myself out of here as the government here is pretty much set on self destruction.

Posted by Michael 2003-05-12 22:44:23|| 2003-05-12 22:44:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Michael makes a good point. SK is notoriously bad and finding out what is going on up north, though the north has had success penetrating SK and obviously has plenty of open source info. So any claims about what's happening up there are probably not based on very good intel info.

Posted by JAB 2003-05-12 23:00:39|| 2003-05-12 23:00:39|| Front Page Top

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