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August 29, 2006
Mind changing. . .
I just spent a little over two hours rummaging through The Korea Liberator.
For so many years, the United States has been the all-purpose (a) benefactor, (b) defender, and (c) scapegoat that has protected an economically strong, yet politically immature nation from making sound security decisions against a background of the hard reality that surrounds it. With a new presidential election coming, the best thing the United States could do for its own long-term interests would be to help Korean voters perceive those realities and the interests they realistically share with the United States. If Korean voters are capable of perceiving those interests, they will elect responsible statesmen who will sit down with U.S. defense planners to draw up an updated plan for an alliance that fits modern realities. If not, what makes sense won’t matter, and political pressures for a total U.S. withdrawal and a complete abrogation of the alliance will reach tipping points in both the United States and Korea.
Read the whole thing, then take some time and look around for yourself. I had alot of pre-conceived ideas about Korea (North and South) challenged, and some scary possibilities confirmed. I'm adding it to the blogroll if you can't get to it today. It's a link I don't want to misplace, and will certainly visit again, and again.
--Jason
Posted by JasonColeman at August 29, 2006 9:57 PM
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excellent link. I was just in South Korea this past December as my boyfriend was stationed there. We took a trip to the DMZ which is such a politically fragile area. As we drove from Seoul to the DMZ, we saw miles and miles of defended border with little camouflaged bunkers. If you look through binoculars to the other side, you see the same thing there--North and South Koreans watching each other, suspiciously. The U.S. has done and continues to do a tremendous job protecting the free South but the young people in South Korea want the American soldiers out. I think it would take North Korea about 5 minutes to invade once the U.S. left. It's really frightening.
Posted by: shosh at August 31, 2006 2:38 PM
