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Originally Posted by Sangetsu

Comical, challenge the US government? There would be no South Korea if it were not for America, would there? The vast majority of Korea's gross national product is consumed by America. America could bankrupt Korea with the signing of an unfavorable trade agreement. And it wouldn't harm America even 1%

Interesting news today about the arrival of three US Ohio class submarines in the Pacific region. Any one of these three submarines by itself surpasses the entire naval might of China, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea combined. The power of 3 of them together is scarcely imaginable. Tell me exactly what kind of challenge Korea can enforce against America, I'm very interested to hear about it.

Whoa there, chickenhawk. If you really hate North Korea, why won't you pull Rambo stunts and kill some Red Communist soldiers with your own hands. While I'll remain peaceful without thinking of military interventions. We young South Koreans know North Korea sometimes do crazy stuffs but we don't necessarily hate it. Think of this as tough love.

Here's a semi-neutral article for you: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/op...yers.html?_r=1

I was born in South Korea right before the 1988 Summer Olympics. This is a generation that usually sympathizes with North Korea beyond ideological reasons. To us, America antagonizing North Korea is irrational.

Second, finance is the bigger weapon than nuclear weapons IMO. Better worry about your country's epic amount of debt than some war vessels near China. You are better off kicking out Chinese military and industrial spies in the USA.

Third, Government protests Russia (website). As a conscious Korean-Canadian, I <3 Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev who try to bring better indirect stability to East Asia than the American foreign policies.

And, for the sake of your argument, if your suppositions are entirely true, so what? It's not like anyone really needs to foment a phony crisis to make North Korea look bad, they do a wonderful enough job by themselves

On the other hand, thank goodness the pro-NK party just won the South Korean regional election last month. This wasn't a victory of democracy. This was how a South Korean pro-American party is collapsing from the inside a couple of years ago along with on-going financial-related corruptions.

I hope you understand some of the current situations in South Korea. I know it's very hard for average Americans to understand this.