Ok I guess I am allowing myself to be trolled again.
I guess it’s a ‘fun’ way to spend a Friday night

1. The US and the Soviet Union divided Korea and jointly administered the country with the division along the 38th parallel. Elections were scheduled but they backed different leaders. Everything else you say is just splitting hairs.

2. The American public doesn’t know where a lot of places are. Your point? Policy makers know where Korea is and that’s really all that matters.

3. US interest in Korea goes back to the 1800’s. Or did people dying then ‘not really matter’? Commodore Perry was all about opening up the Hermit Kingdom.

4. nK doesn’t have the infrastructure or ability to fight a prolonged fight. The US has a single heavy brigade combat team in place on peninsula. Would the ROKA be capable of defending itself? Yes. Will they be able to hold out if China enters the fray? Dunno. Point being, the ROKA is capable of sustaining a defense. Going on the offensive will require help from its friends.

5. You are saying China and nK WILL attack the moment the US leaves Korea… do you honestly believe this??

6. So I see you envision military chaos in Northeast Asia. Right. Yes, and once the INS stop patrolling the southern border, Mexico will rise up and reclaim California, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. Please. get a grip.

7. Yawn.

Like I said before, I would address your salient points but the utter ridiculousness of them make them difficult to counter.

Calling out Dr. Hwang gives you as much credence as the National Enquirer.

For your information, since you seem to be factually impaired, I did not ‘blabber on about my credentials’ I merely stated that you don’t know my background, whether I’m young or Korean or ANYTHING. I hadn’t even made remarks about most of the 7 things you listed and yet you said I was ‘wrong’. How is that possible when I hadn’t said anything?

If you are a Naval Intelligence officer, then I am the Emperor of Korea. For the most part, regardless of your background, if you’re deriving your analyses from classified information, then you’re in violation of a non-disclosure agreement. I use open source information because that is the only legal way to present an argument on here. Basically, stop trying to pass off rhetoric and opinion as fact. As far as your life experiences, sure, use them.. but a single or even multiple tours in Korea doesn’t give you any more insight than any other ex-pat in Korea.

AND just to be nitpicky, your grasp of the English language is horrible. If you’re not a native English speaker, my apologies. Your poor writing skills make me cringe. On that note.

Bluejives may come up short on human decency but the expression of opinions like these is precisely what the US wanted for Korea.

Why don’t you spell them out?

But no credentials will surprise me. The 9/11 happened. No amount of analysis and prior information did deedly-squaat.

Your reply to my post is bland as well. Why don’t you write some facts and ideas instead of blabbering on about your credentials. I need facts. I wrote my observations about the US military, politicians and presidents. Not all of them are written down.

If you want to limit your discussion to the published materials only, then that is your choice. I want to apply my life experiences to the situation at hand. Since I have some background in these matters as a former intelligence officer of the US Navy stationed in Korea, I think my opinions are with some weight.

I was right about Dr.Hwang, two years prior to his being exposed. That is my credential.

I’d go about addressing each of your salient points… but there really aren’t any.
Once again, you randomly assert things that have no basis in reality and expect people to read and believe this.
What do you know of the link between Iran and nK? It looks like you don’t. why don’t YOU do some research and write something intelligible. You obviously have no idea what my background is nor what kind of work I do.

Six-nation talks. What a joke!

The US will slowly diminish its influence in the region. Japan will re-arm to the max to fight China-Korea alliance. The US will stay in Australia to watch the war.

Don’t blame the US. China is a jerk and Japan has to what it has to do. NK is a joke as a nation and SK still loves her brother despite every sane advice against it. Both countries will go down after serving Great Chinese Empire(GCE) in the war effort against Japan.

Only if SKs were smarter, things could turn out different!

Americans are interested in what happens in Europe, South America and Australia,etc. And, totally not interested in Korea. Nobody gives flying f***.

It has been this way for the last century and it still is. The US troops can pack and leave right now if they wanted. The US has no strong interests in Korea. I think the Japanese “money” in Washington is what has kept the troops in Korea. And, now the Chinese “money” is flowing into Washington and we may see the US troops leaving Korea in near future.

I bet the substantial number of them has already left.

Truman stopped Korean War. When the McArthur wanted to drop A-bombs to stop the Chinese from invading Korea, wimpy isolationist Truman said no. He did not want to send American boys to Korea in the first place.

Korean war is “McArthur’s war”. Many in Washington, including Truman, had no interest in Korea. “Where the f*** is Korea, anyway? We are not going to fight Russians for a small piece of land.”

McArthur convinced these morans (some may now say that Mac was a moran) to defend Korea. So, SK was born.

Random guy, you and young Koreans are wrong in the following points.
1) America did not split Korea. Kim IlSung did, by refusing a nation-wide election.
2) American public still do not know where Korea is.
3) The US has never been interested in Korea and troops in Korea themselves see no need to defend Korea.
4) Young Koreans are so dumb if they think SK will be able to defend itself without the US troops.
5) China controlled NK and the China-NK alliance will eat up SK as soon as the US troops leave.
6) SK has a very low odds in surviving as a nation fifty years from now. China is getting stronger and Russia is still strong militarily. And, Japan is re-arming. Good luck, SK.
7) The only way to survive in that neck of woods is to stick to the US as much as SK can. Otherwise, SK will be raped by its neighbors once more and be a servant to them.

Baduk, what is your point here? I’m sorry, but you make nonsensical rants with some extremely rectally extracted assertions in perhaps 90 percent of the posts of yours that I’ve read… and I fail to see what you’re getting at here.
What different perspective would I gain from reading _more_ books on Korean history? Rather, what history books are you referring to that would shed light on this issue that would help me see understand this from your viewpoint.

Ok, you say Roosevelt ‘could have easily given the peninsula over to the Ruskies.’ Are you referring to Roosevelts discussion with Stalin at the Cairo Conference over the ultimate disposition of Korea? Nowhere have I read anything that even remotely hints at giving Russia control over the entirety of the Korean peninsula.
Anyhow, how could he when he was dead when Japan surrendered.
(Regardless, if the Russians had taken control over the entire peninsula, I’m sure Koreans would still be speaking Korean. And can you fathom the problems the RUSSIAN Hakwons would be having!?!?!)
Anyhow, I digress.

Truman and the Truman Doctrine. Are you familiar with this? Truman was an avowed anti-communist… Truman stated, “the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.” This was his treatment of communism thus his foreign policy towards Russia. Truman would not have allowed Korea to be just ‘give Korea over to the Russians.’

How about you read some real history books and come back with something other than bs rhetoric.

Bluejives, even though you have something of a point there (but not entirely), I find this sentence to be pretty damn offensive.

Yeah, much is owed to this people (Korean War vets). At the very minimum, a modicum of respect.

Utterly amusing. Insufferable, flag waving, yellow ribboned Americans with weepy memories of American blood lost in Korean soil during the “Forgotten War” always sound like a rejected lover reacting to a “Dear John” letter and trying to come to terms with it even as it hasnt completely sunken in yet, when they learn of such things.

If it should make Mr King feel any better, I’d be sure to remember to give some money to the old folks in exchange for a small “Made in China” US flag. The ones who strategically park themselves by the entrance to Hanareum supermarket on Veteran’s Day, as if to implicitly say, “the only reason why you Koreans can live here and prosper is because of our sacrifices.”

If peaceful coexistence does not work and the North Koreans decide to make an effort to reunite the place like they did in 1950, then the Southerners can always make their own deals. Good luck, boys! Remember, just say, “juche,” if the North Koreans come calling.

Fucking typical asinine-ness of such aforementioned insufferable dickwads.

What is so fucking hard to understand about SK youth not wanting war happening on the Korean peninsula, esp one instigated by US neocons?