North and South Korea are preparing to announce a permanent end to their war

Daily Mail UK ^ | 4/17/2018 | SARA MALM

[blueunicorn6]

Obama and the Democrats did this.

[EEGator]

That’s wonderful.

[Salvavida]

Sorry, but that is a piece of paper. It's symbolic but meaningless. There would be nothing stopping aggression the very next day because they are two different systems that cannot co-exist.

This is the real issue: "Last week, Secretary of State nominee CIA Director Mike Pompeo said North Korea should not expect rewards from talks until it takes irreversible steps to give up its nuclear weapons."

Then we can go home.

[max americana]

My cousin serves at Red Cloud. He doesnt say anything until one year later but we’ll see.

[11th_VA]

Yeah - we’re still in Germany, but they were preparing to take over a lot in ‘89 when the wall came down. Then they canceled equipment they were UNDER CONTRACT to buy. I almost lost my job back then.

[max americana]

We’re still in Japan too LOl. And Italy. And Africa. Nothing changes.

[PLMerite]

I don’t speak Korean, but I understand that...

[EEGator]

Sorry you almost lost your job.
My comment was mainly nothing changes; we never leave anywhere.
(I understand force projection)

[rdcbn]

This is potentially great news if done right.

The trick is to do it right.

Korea's Moon is essentially a communist and has been sympathetic to the North Korean regime so the danger is that, in the end game, the two Koreas merge into what amounts to a more capable communist state, with both Koreas Finlandized as vassel states by China.

[Prince Caspian]

I’m not up on South Korean K-Pop singers. To me, it looks like someone dancing by the numbers.

[jiggyboy]

EXCUSE ME

I was promised hundreds of thousands of dead South Koreans and a destroyed manufacturing base!

[EEGator]

I bet this is fake good news. This will bite Trump in the ass if he tries to ride this news.

[EEGator]

“To me, it looks like someone dancing by the numbers.”

To me, it looks like my future ex wife...

[dfwgator]

Yes, how did that “Paris Peace Accord” with the North Vietnamese work out?

[EEGator]

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Does it mean we can finally remove the thousands of American troops and quit paying the billions it costs to post them there? Or does that go on forever?"

If they actually de-nuclearize and if they actually pull troops and weapons systems back from the DMZ and all of this is inspected and confirmed (a lot of ifs there), I think we would pull some of our troops out. But not all the way back to the states, maybe to Guam. These troops are not just there as a tripwire for North Korea, but as a deterrent and to defend our interests in the Pacific region.

As people have mentioned, we still have troops stationed all over the world. We start pulling troops back and then our allies may start looking for other partners (China) to work with and not necessarily us. We have a lot of trade at stake there. The reason the British had a huge navy for all of those years was not to protect everyone else's interests, but their own. Like them, we have to work with our partners in all these regions to keep sea lanes and air lanes open for trade and travel, etc...

[11th_VA]

Peace is more important than my job - I realize how selfish that came out. I’m ‘stoked’ that President Trump could add this to his accomplishments ...

[11th_VA]

But not all the way back to the states, maybe to Guam.

All those troops might make the island tip over ...

[Yaelle]

Yay for the Olympics!

[EEGator]

I didn’t mean it like that. I don’t like to hear of anyone losing a job. I don’t trust that this is good news, and will work out.