The South Koreans are a bunch of appeasers and cowards.
"The South Koreans are a bunch of appeasers and cowards"
True, and the United States has a bad habit of supporting appeasers and cowards (France and South Vietnam somehow spring to mind), but the ROKs have a real worry that if communism in NK collapses, they'll be stuck with a poverty stricken dungheap that would cost hundreds of billions of dollars to rehabilitate. "West" Germany had a tough time absorbing the former DDR; the DDR had an economy and living standard about equal to Italy's (not too bad); North Korea is bascially Haiti with smokestacks!