Posted on 12/20/2002 6:21:44 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo
More US Soldiers Assaulted by Yu Yong-won (kysu@chosun.com)
The 8th United States Army Command said Friday in a press release that three Koreans at Seoul Station physically and verbally assaulted two soldiers, Thursday morning. It stated that a staff sergeant identified as "M" and a Korean American Corporal "Y" were at Seoul Station to pick up a colleague around 10:30am, when two middle-aged men started to use abusive language and attempted to grab them by throats. The Korean American corporal stopped the two men and the American soldiers were unharmed.
The two soldiers then encountered another man in his 50s who approached "Y" and tried to snatch his tag reading US Army. The GIs tried to avoid the man, but he followed and continued to curse at them. A United States Forces Korea official said that four Korean soldiers and a reporter from a TV station were present and witnessed the scene, but did not stop the assault, and moreover, some laughed and spat at them. The official added that the soldiers only escaped the scene with the help of a man who claimed to have served in the Korean Augmentation Troops to the United States Army (KATUSA).
Prior to the incident, another attack on an American soldier took place around noon, Monday in Itaewon. A soldier who was standing near the pedestrian gate to the 8th Army base was shot in the chest with a toy bullet fired from a passing minivan. The soldier was unharmed, the USFK said.
The 8th Army is seriously concerned with the series of attacks targeting US soldiers stationed in Korea, and is reportedly preparing comprehensive preventative measures.
As Americans we don't allow the actions of a few misguided dingbats to stereotype the entire people of South Korea (any more than Sean Penn's actions characterize the attitude of the American people toward Saddam and Iraq). I was in Seoul recently when a group of "Yankee Go Home" student demonstrators passed through a bus station. They were ignored by the Koreans waiting for their commuter buses. I should add that the student demonstrators, who recognized my party as Americans (active and former GIs all) were polite to us.
Sometimes, like any child, you just have to let him stick the nail into the light socket ... nothing else, no amount of lecturing, reminders, or history will convince them of their danger.
In this case, I would say that it's time to let the teaching begin. After all, it isn't as if the North is going to get much advantage out of the ruins that will be left in the South after such an invasion. Let the blood flow ...let's see if the anti-American college students can hold back the tide of advancing North Korean tanks with signs and chants of peace and brotherhood.
It's time that the lesson that a bloodbath will teach be learned again.
Looks like I have more of a clue then you do. What sort of statement are you trying to make? Last time I checked the USA was the USA whereas Korea is Korea, trying to equate a foreign country with the USA is absurd at best. Or are you suggesting that the defense of another country who is mostly Anti-American is ok, even if our troops get treated like crap? And if you bothered to check, Clinton(in my book he does not even deserve the "President" label) got elected by a minority of the Americans, whereas from all reports Korea's next leader was elected by a majority of Koreans.
That you are agreeing with the communist propaganda from Korea so you must also agree with the communist propaganda in the US.
What the 8th Army should be preparing to do is - to pull out of South Korea and let them worry about the twin light-water nuclear reactors that Bill Clinton *Gave* to North Korea.
Oh, I see, since I care more for America, Americans and our troops overseas you think its because I believe communist Propoganda?. Guess that means most "Americans" excluding you of course, are Communists in your mind huh? Don't you think you would feel more at home at DU?.
Please tell us "Oh enlightened one", what do you think we should do in the face of Anti-Americanism by the majority of a foreign population who Americans risk their lives to keep safe? Why don't you give us a good reason for wanting American solders to put life and limb at risk in Korea?
Beg your pardon? I am not the one that is agreeing with the communist protestors!
Tsk, Tsk, seems you always avoid answering any questions, just lots of blame game. Try answering some of the questions put forth to you instead of doing the ole "Baiting" routine. Or are you taking a Page from the Demoncraps. The only other post from you I will answer is one where you answer the questions put forth to you, instead of the typical "Baiting game" to try and divert attention from the matter at hand.
Do the Pentagon planners in this Administration have any cogent plan for "Koreanization"?
I doubt it. I think they still are stuck in the 1950s and want to continue to run it as a vassal state in that frozen context.
Is there any wonder that we face a backlash and resentment when the country we protect grows up but is still kept suckling on our defense teat, as we do in condescending to the Republic of Korea (by now an adult that can and should be on its own).
Further proof of what you say. It is a modern country, and yet we often treat it like (in US public policy or in the personal behavior of some individual GIs offbase) as some kind of 'third-world backwater colony'.
It 'ain't your uncle's South Korea anymore' (here are some good examples, at Inchon International Airport and elsewhere in Korea). Folks who haven't been back in 10-20-30 years ought to take another look. Might be surprised.........
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