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Originally Posted by RobinMask
My justification is that North Korea always provoke, always attack, and their behaviour never changes. Eventually they'll issue forth an attack that can't be ignored, and their latest attack wasn't exactly something easily ignored in itself either. It's better for South Korea to be prepared and ready to respond, that way they can defend themselves when the time comes. If they take your approach of 'just leave it' then one day North Korea will take action and the South won't be ready, they'll instead completely lose and we'll be asking 'why didn't they prepare and get ready when they had a chance?'. It's naive to say 'it could provoke the North, we must stop!', because that only works in the short term. North Korea is going to attack at some point - whether now or later - so even if it's 'provocation' they might as well get ready, because regardless of what they do it'll still lead to the same thing.
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I don't recall saying this.
South Koreans should be prepared for attacks; however, they shouldn't fire missiles in disputed territory or send submarines in disputed territory. It just seems all to easy for the North Koreans to retaliate with the reason of provocation. They know it's disputed and they know sending submarines and testing missiles in the areas will provoke NK.