So Korea is not gonna do jack s**t until we do something. This is ALL BS by China to tie us up and make us look bad.
China and SK do a huge amount of trade together. This is such NONSENSE! SK is selling tons of Hyundais in America. Use some of that money to build up their defenses more.
Hey SK - Japan is not your enemy. Stop buy weapons to fight a war with Japan.
If after 60 years SK cannot protect themselves from NK then WTF is their deal?
Nonsense, noise, meaningless BS by China.
At least you got the time span right in this rant.
They are ancestral enemies and really, really dislike one another to this day. This is carried so far that Japanese citizens of Korean descent whose families have resided in Japan for several generations are still required to carry internal passports stating they are of Korean descent. Their movement around the country is severely restricted in many cases. They are discriminated against rather broadly and harassed. Japan does not have affirmative action.
Have you ever been to Korea?
The Republic of Korea Ministry of National Defense (MND) and the US Forces Korea (USKF) signed the LPP in March 2002, under which the USFK would reduce the number of its bases from 41 to 23 and return to South Korea roughly 50 percent of the land it was then using, equivalent to some 135 million square meters, by 2011. This included the complete closure of 24 US facilities or compounds within ROK facilities and 4 partial returns of US facilities. It also included 12 new land grants required between 2002 and 2011 to handle the planned movement of US forces.
In April 2002 South Korea agreed to contribute about $463 million to US Forces Korea (USFK) for upkeep for the year. During the Security Consultative Meeting (SCM) in Washington in mid-November 2001, Korea agreed to increase its budget for USFK by 10.4 percent for the year 2002, from $444 million to $490 million. Due to an increase in the proportion of Korea’s payment denominated in won (the South Korean national currency), the actual contribution by Korea was reduced to $463 million. The Korean payments for South Korean nationals hired by USFK accounted for almost half of Korea’s share.
China is just watching and will not lift a finger in response to anything. NK itself could be handled by one carrier group and a couple birds from the midwest. Such an opportunity to put an ordered world back together! NK and CHICOM know that AND that Barry O. is 100% certain to let it pass. No tensions, really.