Posted on 04/27/2017 8:49:21 PM PDT by Rabin
When the US went ahead and started setting up an anti-missile defense system in South Korea on Wednesday, it brought out bottle-throwing protesters, riot police...
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Today, South Korean and US national security advisers agreed that the deployment was moving ahead smoothly, South Koreas presidential office said.
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Raben
Oh. Are the New York political folks in the northeast, on the west coast and in D.C. starting to their minds? Remember, North Korea’s no threat. All of the nuke tests were duds! Don’t listen to the warmongers. ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyCPgVwMSsU
As for the South Koreans, if they don’t want our military forces there, that’s fine. Let’s pull them all out and focus on building anti-missile defenses here.
[Little heapin’ helpin’ of irony, sarcasm and ridicule there. I told you so long ago, and you didn’t listen. You’d better watch Iran, Russia and China, too.]
...starting to change their minds, even.
President Trump also noted South Korea needs pay for the THAAD missile defense system, which the U.S. began moving to a deployment site in South Korea earlier this week. He pegged the cost of the system around $1 billion.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/331021-trump-takes-aim-at-south-korea-trade-deal-defense
I saw the pictures the other day, realizing that South Koreans my not like our occupation presence. I haven’t read much recently but wonder if the resent the US and see us as obstacle to reunifying within North Korea.
I don’t believe that South Korea really wants to reunify. They don’t want to deal with the massive influx of North Koreans.
Is he saying he wants to sell the THAAD system to Korea? Do we really want to sell our most technologically advanced missile system to a foreign country, even a friendly one?
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