Posted on 10/13/2006 3:43:05 AM PDT by Flavius
HE South Korean Government has demanded that the US provide it with a detailed "nuclear umbrella" guarantee against attack from the North.
"Due to public anxiety, I have stressed the need for anuclear umbrella from the US," Defence Minister Yoon Kwang-ung told the National Assembly yesterday, in his first detailed response to Monday's nuclear bomb test by the Pyongyang regime.
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South Korean environmentalists chant anti-U.S. slogans near the U.S. embassy in Seoul, April 2, 2001. Their demands: that the Bush administration support the 1997 Kyoto Agreement on greenhouse gas reductions. Yun Suk-bong
Anti-Americanism is growing in South Korea after two U.S. soldiers charged with negligent homicide in the road deaths of two Korean teenage schoolgirls were acquitted by U.S. military courts last month
demand, huh?
What a spoiled rotten bunch the South Koreans are! We've protected these bums long enough. There is no way anyone can protect Seoul from missile attack when it is 25 miles from the NK border. They are extremely fortunate that we have had thousands of US troops there for 50 years (another Democrat war with no exit strategy), and if they keep "demanding" stuff, we should pull our military out and let those loud mouths fend for themselves. Their worthless, long-haired "youth" are always wanting to be re-unified with the North, and one of these fine years, we should let them.
Kipling had the right of it:
O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";
But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play,
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it's "Thank you, Mr. Atkins," when the band begins to play.
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Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap;
An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin' in full kit.
Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy how's yer soul?"
But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll,
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll.
http://www.web-books.com/classics/poetry/anthology/Kipling/Tommy.htm
Idiots.
I know those "America go home" signs and "Evil Bush" placards have just filled me with a warm and fuzzy desire to protect them from the monster under the bed.
We should heavily arm Japan then tell the Koreans (north and south) to go F#@! off.
(Maybe I'd better go get another cup of coffee.)
Yea yea, same old story - "demand" our help when it fits into their picture, but otherwise play the anti-American card in their national politics. The adage "The more things change the more they are the same" does appear to apply, doesn't it?
But in S. Korea's defense, generally speaking, they do carry their weight and are consistent. South Korea has troops in Iraq, they fought along our side in Vietnam and took substantial losses there. You will always find one or two protesters that are against this or that and the antagonist who like with the crushing of the S. Korean girl years ago from a M88 (An horrible accident) will exploit the situation to bolster their political position. Cheap politics can be found everywhere, even in the US.
Time for Taiwan to tell the ChiComs to curb their dog or Taiwan will get its own load of retaliatory nukes aimed at Peking, Shanghai, etc.
Time for South Korea to stop its appeasement policy towards the North and if it refuses then pull our troops out.
Are there still import duties of up to %400 for American products entering the South?
Let's see that means if you are a South Korean and want say a Harley Davidson that here costs $25,000, There you'd have to pay $100,000. Gee that seems fair.
Protect their asses and get shaken down.
Oops... Make that west north west... Yikes...
The old Nike Hercules would be the perfect weapon to put in there. The range is about right and with a ground to ground plug it could hit the Chia Pet almost anywhere he needed hitting. We must have a few old ones left lying around somewhere.
Taiwan already has nukes. They were in the joint development project with South Africa and Israel in the 70s and 80s. It's the reason that China hasn't just steamrollered Taiwan.
Unfortunately, their only delivery system is to have a couple of F-16s one-way them to Beijing, Shanghai, etc., etc. They're thought to be roughly equivalent to our B-61 bomb.
I've never heard that before... interesting.
LLS
Most of all, I think we should give short range missiles with nuclear warheads to Taiwan. Such an offer to Taiwan might encourage China to exert more pressure on NK.
Come on. I don't disagree that there are jerks in South Korea. After all, we can't have them ALL.
But get a grip. Look at the size of these anti-American crowds. The one in front of the Military Museum has at least 50 people!
I've seen these demonstrations many times in the 11 years I lived in Seoul. They are a minority, but they are organized as leftists a-holes are, and they have a sympathetic voice in the press that gives them more exposure than they deserve. (Remind you of home at all?)
Reaganesque Press Conference: "We have provided South Korea with one 20 Kiloton Thermonuclear Weapon. It has the coordinates for Pyongyang, NK programmed into it. The South only has one control knob, it is a green button labeled "Launch." They cannot change the programmed coordinates. We have tested the delivery system hundreds of times, it will not miss the programmed coordinates by more than 6 inches and it will detonate. Thank you and good evening."
That would loosen Kimmie's bowels.
This is why it is wise for Bush to let NK's neighbors take some responsibility.
They would like nothing better than to let the US come in, then they sit back, do nothing, but criticize and cheap shot America.
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