Per capita income
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Japan: around 40K
The US: about the same

NK: less than 1k
China: 1k
SK : 18k

If SK wants to join with its poor neighbors, go ahead. SKs will soon be making 1K per year.

Try surviving on 1/18 of your present living standard. Mass starvation, friend. Eating baby time.

The Chinese will love to have SK joining Great Chinese Empire. They suck everything out of Korea. Huyndai and Samsung will be Chinese corporation in near future. Korea will become a massive Gulag, as NK is already is.

After that, the Chinese will use Koreans to attack Japan.

Starvation and death. That is future history of Korea. Fugh history.

I don’t agree with that. I think S. Korea would be responsible for it’s own ass-whooping after ignoring the reality for all these years. It never should have let the North get this far.

“The problem here is the historic background of Japan and the relationship with its North East Asian neighbors.”

Keyword, historic. That time is over, the government has changed. S. Korea is working hard to keep Japan as an enemy to the unite the people (and perhaps itself with the North?). Again, if it really cared about military threats, it would be worried about North Korea and China, but instead is all buddy-buddy with them while throwing mud at Japan. The history part is just an excuse to be stupid. I think the Marmot said this before, but does Mexico consider if America has made up for it’s crimes before doing negotiations? No. This simply works in S. Koreas favor so they’ll keep doing it knowing that Japan won’t do anything in return because they know that Japan really is not a threat, otherwise they wouldn’t provoke.

Technically you’re right. But knowing full well what would happen, but still going ahead with it, makes Japan responsibily irresponsible wouldn’t it?

“I guess Korea just really is against anything and everything Japanese”

No. It’s not simple as that. The problem here is the historic background of Japan and the relationship with its North East Asian neighbors. It would be a bone headed move for Japan to stir up the hornet’s nest full of old unmended grudges.

1. SK will not do anything.
2. NK will like to do something but what? NK navy is a joke. And, there SCUDs and Nodongs are all destroyed by Japanese pre-emptive strike.
3. China and Russia will babble, but do nothing.
4. The US will not do anything.

The result: Japan 1-NK 0

pawikirogi,
NK missiles are, at this point, threats for Korea to live free. Killing KJI and his cronies ensure freedom for SK and also provides a chance for NKs to be freed from KJI.

If the Japanese attack can provide these, I applaud the attack.

The problem is peacenik pseudo-intellectuals like yourself are letting NK to grow in military strength. And, one day, NK will do no-mercy pre-emptive strike on SK and invade en-mass. And, all your kinds can do at that crisis will be to soil your underwear.

So clueless and unprepared, you are.

No it’s not. Do that, and it’s 100% certain Seoul will be a sea of fire within minutes.

So that wouldn’t be Japan killing Koreans now would it, it would be Koreans killing Koreans. Ahh the brotherly love. The simple solution to S. Korea not getting invaded (again) by the North would be to actually stop supplying them and support the arms embargo and sanctions that Japan proposed. I’m not sure if they’re against it because they are mentally challenged, or if they are against anything Japanese. But either way S. Korea will have no one to blame but herself when she turns into a sea of fire.

The threat of Seoul turning in to a sea of flames is exactly why N. Korea should be put to a stop now, be it shooting the missiles out of the air, off the launch pad, or a full out invasion.

“but rather just shooting a missile on a launch pad…”

No it’s not. Do that, and it’s 100% certain Seoul will be a sea of fire within minutes.

japanese killing koreans again? the japanese better be very careful here cause all hell is going to break out should the nipponese ever do such a thing.

you just watch what happens if the japanese start killing koreans again.

Well considering no one’s talking about ‘killing Koreans’ but rather just shooting a missile on a launch pad… But lets play this out. Say Japan would have shot the missile right off the launch pad, and all hell would have broken loose in South Korea. Would S. Korea have then attacked Japan? What would the international community think of such a situation? Don’t forget, North and South Korea are separate countries. An attack on Japan in that situation would be an unprovoked unilateral attack by South Korea. Certainly all hell would break loose, but which side would America take? She certainly couldn’t just stand back and watch. I don’t think she’d pick a side, but she would ‘put down the uprising’. Which would be the ‘uprising’ in this hypothetical situation? Remember, Japan DIDN’T shoot any missiles period, so this whole post is hypothetical as well as all the comments with it.