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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Their desire for alliance with the US has always outweighed their few vocal dissenters. Same as it is with other allies.
I agree...I spent three years in Korea, about half of that in Seoul (Yongsan). By far, most S. Koreans I met were grateful for the American military and loved America and all things American. A loud and boisterous minority loved to stir the sh!t-pot, but hardly represented the majority view of people I met there...get into the more remote areas, i.e., Munsan, Chun'chon, etc. and the support for the US grew even stronger.
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Are you the "Joe" to which a shrine on Hooker Hill is dedicated?
Has it occured to you that SK hasn't built their own nuclear arsenal as a condition for our protection?
And now is my favorite time of year there.
A friend of mine was with the Battalion Scouts at Bonifas (where I met him). He was down at Yongson for a weekend and met the girl who later became his fiancee. She was an MP on duty at Gate Five (me pal goon, iirc) and he came rolling up @ 0200 with some floozie. She tells it..."He was drunk, with another girl and in my kill zone...it was love at first sight."
Yep...Seoul's mosque. I always called it "Allah's Kettle House." Korea is beautiful in Autumn, especially if you get into the more rural areas...picture on my profile (on the HMMWV hood was taken outside of Yoju in early November '96).
A friend of mine was with the Battalion Scouts at Bonifas (where I met him). He was down at Yongson for a weekend and met the girl who later became his fiancee. She was an MP on duty at Gate Five (me pal goon, iirc) and he came rolling up @ 0200 with some floozie. She tells it..."He was drunk, with another girl and in my kill zone...it was love at first sight."
Make that west south west and we're cool. Otherwise you're aiming at US / Canada.
A real nuclear shield aimed at the arty positions along the 38th parallel would definitely stop any bombardment of Seoul...if used for fire suppression.
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I made no comment in this thread about SK building a nuclear arsenal.
1. The article was about our protecting SK. I said we should protect them, even if they have been jerks.
2. As an aside, I said I thought we should make a move to offer missiles with warheads to Taiwan.
That might light a fire under China to place pressure on NK.
Worth repeating.
And we should tell China that if they don't get off their big red butt, we'll help TAIWAN to get nukes.
Bet there would be some sanctions with teeth, after that - like the red army rolling south.
Good idea.(the coffeee I mean.) With all due respect, I wouldn't be in such a hurry to "heavily arm Japan." They can revert to type just as fast as the SoKo's seem to want to. And their "type" hasn't been especially attractive, when the westernized overlay gets a bit thin.
Do you really think the Japanese have forgotten that we nuked two of their major cities a scant sixty years ago?
It was seeing these anti-american protest backs then that made me decide we should have just brought home our troops. I still feel the same.
I hear this all the time and I don't believe it. We can do "Shock and Awe II" the length of the DMZ and shove all those "missiles" and arty back up Kimmy's butt before he gets off the second salvo. We can do it if we have a man in the White House instead of an epicene faggot, that is. Frankly, we're good till 01/09. After that... .
If it is really 40 million to a hundred, then they certainly don't need us around. They can easily handle 23 million starving slaves by themselves, fat prosperous and healthy as they are... On the other hand, if those 40 million don't really give a sh8t who their ruler is, then --hey--they still don't need us around.
If you are willing to pay 25K for a motorsickle, then you deserve to pay 100K instead. The wages of stupidity is penury.
You know this... how?
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