Ping.
He is a babbling moron whose power is crumbling these days. In the coming days, don't be surprise if he say something even more outlandish.
For a last couple of weeks, he is losing it. Due to domestic problems, which include bad economy never getting better, his ilks are really in trouble now.
He has been shooting off his big mouth just about everyday, going in all direction, confusing everybody, both his supporters and his opponents. I am not exaggerating.
One prominent opposition lawmaker even publicly called for uprising against him. He is not known for bombastic drivel, but a serious man, championing N. Korean human right steadfastly.
#1 - Because we are economically dependent on them.
#2 - The U.S. has many good friends and supporters in South Korea - even if their current president is not one of them.
Hey, I have one cirumstance that would change the prez's tune: if the NK Military rolls down into SK and launches an invasion!
Funny how the prez has a very limited understanding of 'no circumstances.'
Time to bring the rest of our troops out of South Korea. Let them defend their own dirt.
First of all, we have redeployed some of the troops stationed in Korea either this rotation or the one just completed so there is not as many US troops as there once was...
secondly, even if this idiot IS speaking for the South Korean people, and I DO NOT believe that he is, we shouldn't over-react to something this trite, conspicuous and utter stupid in the face of a KNOWN enemy.
they couldn't stop it if they tried. booomers ready for instructions.
This is just gorilla dust for consumption by the homeland weenies. If we decide to take out NK, we'll make SK an offer they can't refuse.
STFU, Roh... Else when we do strike, we may just forget to take out those nine gazillion artillery pieces the North has pointed at your a**.
So they finally perfected "space-nets" to catch our nukes on the way in? Neat.
Note to Roh Moo Hyun: We don't need your permission.
Okay, time to start pulling out. Make no secret of it. Leave a note behind saying "call us when you're ready to be serious."
Ok. Time to pull out. Let's move all our bases to Taiwan.
It may be true, but let me withhold judgement until I hear from a source other than the IHT.
This is great, coming on the heels of Rohs "fence-mending" visit with Bush. You have to give him credit, though - he sure knows how to burn his bridges!!
There are certain strategic advantages to maintaining a presence in Korea but they are fading daily. We don't have enough ground troops there to act as anything more than a tripwire and haven't for decades. We don't really need airfields. Ports of call, however, still present an advantage, as do intelligence assets. So it isn't an entirely altruistic deployment.
It is, of course, possible that at some point in the future China will employ military assets to eliminate an economic rival, but that is not terribly likely inasmuch as South Korea really isn't that direct a rival (yet) and the costs in trade loss with a dismayed West may prove prohibitive. In any case South Korea will diminish as an economic rival anyway just as soon as reunification takes place as they will bear the brunt of the staggering rebuilding costs. What China wants there can be obtained without rolling any armored divisions or taking the concomitant risk of a larger conflict. And their focus is very much on Taiwan.
My guess is that a quiet, staged withdrawal might be in everyone's best interest. North Korea's principal value to the Chinese in its current state is its ability to annoy the U.S. and its regional allies. I do not think Europe takes the nuclear proliferation threat seriously enough to even factor in this. Our strategic objective here should be to make North Korea cost the Chinese more than it's worth. At that point reunification will seem a viable option, especially if it's on the South Korean dime. And personally I would not give the Koreans a penny of aid in that regard - it's their country, their project, their problem. All IMHO and subject to vigorous debate, of course.
Anybody read the South Korea-US mutual defense treaties of late? Anymore need to keep these alive any further?
The communists, amateurs and kids have indeed taken over South Korea.
Is this one of yours?