http://joongangdaily.joins.com.....09011.html

Sometimes when we consider an issue up close, like is done on this forum, we can lose sight of certain facts that need to be looked at with a wider angle lense.

The facts are that South Koreans , for reasons ranging from they are Nork puppets all the way to they are so naive that they think the Norks are their “wayward brothers,” have created a culture of Anti-americanism. This will continue for as long as the status quo is maintained. However, if the States were to detangle itself from its racist unappreciative “ally,” then the US could compete with SK on a equal footing, just like lots of the civic groups want. To do this it would just be a matter of the US withdrawing from SK. THis would help for three reasons. It would civilize and mature US-SK relations as Koreans would no longer get to show the US the middle finger with one hand, while taking NINE BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR TO MAINTAIN USFK with the other. It would also allow the opening of the Korean market to US businesses because the whole you have troops in our country so give us benefits wouldn’t work anymore. It would also allow the US to make a pre-emptive attack on NK with little fear that it could be targeted in retaliation.

Sounds to me like a way to get both NK and SK to watch what they say and do.

Korean youth are likely some of the least “progressive” around.

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“Take Seoul. There are girls and wives there. For three days, Seoul will be yours.”

MacArthur was not Ghenghis Khan, and his soldiers were not mercenaries motivated by rape and pillage. If MacArthur had made any similar statement to motivate his troops, it would have been this:

“Take Seoul. There are women and wives there (who need protecting). In three days, Seoul will be yours.”

If MacArthur did say what I suggested above, then that would mean the Korean translator mistranslated “in three days” by changing it to “for three days.” The mistranslation could have been an accident or intentional, but my Korean students frequently mistranslate “in.” One Korean dictionary definition of “in” is “??™??????,” which can mean, “for (a period of time).”

My grandmother was hiding in Seoul at the time with six kids: five daughters and a son. She was terrified — not of horny Marines bent on defiling her precious daughters, but of North Korean press gangs that had already carried off much of Seoul’s able-bodied male population.