Tiny South Korean island watches Pyongyang

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:32:50 GMT

The political tensions caused by a beligerant regime will be cause for the loss of livelyhood and the extesive saber rattling will have deeper long term implications for the island's population. Unfortunately they are between a rock and a hard place with nowhere to run and nowhere to hide if a suburb of hell opens shop on the mainland.

Tiny South Korean island watches Pyongyang

Curt Hauser, Indianola, Iowa — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:11:40 GMT

Sounds like a wonderful place to visit, to bad the North is busy saber rattling.

Tiny South Korean island watches Pyongyang

Gary Milwaukee,Wi. — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:00:55 GMT

It's time to call North Korea's bluff.They couldn't fight their way out of a rice paper bag.Maybe the Dumb One can invent a stronger bag?

Tiny South Korean island watches Pyongyang

Barney L. Cornett — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:10:40 GMT

Somebody really ought to do something about that little "Maniac" in North Korea!

Tiny South Korean island watches Pyongyang

Paul Santos, Dededo, Guam, USA — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:11:23 GMT

South Korea needs to stop being dependent on the United States for protection. Before South Korea was a poor backward country so it was understandable that South Korea was dependent on the United States for protection. But it is now 2009 and South Korea is a flourshing industralized democratic economic powerhouse. So South Korea needs to start carrying more of the weight regarding its own protection. After all, South Korea is not part of the United States and the United States is bogged down in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Tiny South Korean island watches Pyongyang

Marcia The MBA Surfer Girl Dana Point, CA — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:17:55 GMT

I for one am not worried, China has N. Korea on a very short leash. I am sure MRS Clinton has been doing behind the scences telephoning to Bejing. The Chinese (thanks be to God) are more interested in ruling the World Finances (smart), so some economical threats will be applied to Bejing (Tarriffs on Chinese Goods headed for the USA, Customs regs could tighten etc.) and before you know, that litte nerdy, Humpty Dumpty looking guy, in that stupid outfit he wears, will tow the line.

Tiny South Korean island watches Pyongyang

Ray Manhattan, Kansas — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:10:53 GMT

Mr. Paul Santos from Dededo, Guam is absolutely correct is his brief assessment of the Korean situation. (Guam is a U.S. Territory, but should be a state, and is more important to us in the long run than is Korea, because it is U.S. soil)

The Republic of Korea (South) does indeed need to start carrying most of the weight for its' own defense. We have allowed them to "skate" for about at least 10 years now for sure. I spent five years in Korea, and today's young arrogant generation there could care less about the Korean War, and definitely want us to leave. Next year will be 60 years that the United States has maintained military and naval forces on the peninsula, beginning with the Korean War of 1950-53. This is ridiculous!! (There are some other places that we should not be, but I will stick to the Korea subject here) Time to leave and give South Korea what it needs to defend itself, and let the two sides slug it out. Let the South Koreans defend their borders so we can go home and defend ours!

By the way, this mess is something the U.S. inherited at the end of World War II. When the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan in 1945 (a big mistake), their forces were only supposed to occupy Manchuria and accept the surrender of the Imperial Japanese Army there. That they did, but the agreement was that they would not enter Korea. But they did, so the U.S. drew the 38th Parallel line and managed to occupy the south half. The Soviets built up a strong North Korean Army, and the Americans built up a weak South Korean Army, so that by 1950 the North decided they could take it all. And they nearly did, and the U.S. fought the disastrous Korean War which we "won" by the skin of our teeth, and we have been there ever since. We also had to fight the Chinese when we got too close to their border. We might have won the whole peninsula, but President Truman was scared of getting into a war with the Soviet Union so we defended a "reorganized" border which is today called the Demilitarized Zone referred to as the DMZ.

But it is time to leave South Korea and many other places. The United States is a Constitutional, Democratic Republic and not an empire. Let the Koreans resolve their issues. One hundred years from now it will make no difference whatsoever if the United States was ever on the Korean peninsula no matter who eventually wins. Compare this to Vietnam.
Time to leave. South Korea should be able to take care of itself. In any event, the situation on the Korean Peninsula cannot be compared to Iraq or Afghanistan. However, one hundred years from now it will make no difference whatsoever that the U.S. was ever in any of those countries. All the more reason to get out of Korea and fix our own problems at home, so we will still exist one hundred years from now.

Tiny South Korean island watches Pyongyang

Patrick, KY — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:25:06 GMT

Perfect use of a cruise missle...take out the whole Ill clan.....