2) SK force will only enter at the invitation of the people in NK, and will not be viewed as occupying force.

2) is delusional I think.

I’d agree with DDA, especially since there will be no body which will represent “the people of NK” (or, more likely, there will be contending bodies, each claiming such standing). And re “occupying force”. Well, Russians came to Poland as “liberators” in 1945, but few years later they came to be seen in a very different light. Perhaps a majority of occupiers begin their careers as liberators.

However, South Koreans are still better equipped to deal with the manifold problems of post-Kim NK. I think that no foreign forces, especially no US forces, should be involved in the operations (of course, I am talking on asumptions that the glorious People’s Liberation Army will not solve these problems once and for all). Ideally, handling the North should be left to the South. They will make mistakes and create much chaos, to be sure, but everybody else will make even more mistakes and create even greater chaos.

1) SK speak the same language and understand the culture
2) SK force will only enter at the invitation of the people in NK, and will not be viewed as occupying force.

1) is only half-true. I’ve seen South Koreans ask, in meetings, what word suchorsuch means. Makes one wonder. And as for culture, there’s a gap so wide now that two generations have been raised on Juche that I think it’s clear that reunification will need quite some time to help close the cultural gap.

2) is delusional I think.

“When North Korea Falls,” by Robert Kaplan, Atlantic Monthly, October 2006, http://www.theatlantic.com/doc.....plan-korea (see commentary on Coming Anarchy, DPRK Studies, Left Flank, and ruNK, full text at Marmot’s Hole).

When I led rec…

1) Stop selling gasoline to NK!
2) Stop supporting NK in UN!
3) Do not see KJI and don’t f***ing talk to him. Isolate the sucker.
4) Have no contact whatsoever with NK.
5) Use pro-Chinese generals in NK to assassinate KJI.

However, the Chinese communist party and Chairman Hu will do none of these. Do you know why? Because KJI is his dog.

Kaplan’s dumb-folding comparisons of the war theatres in Agfhanistan and Iraq with the on-paper-wartime-situation in the ROK is so dimwitted.

Yeah, serving for Korea’s security but getting disrespect in return is in fact a humiliating job. But actually the only party going on in Kandahar City are the sounds of Taliban grenade launchers from the mountainsides or the “festive” explosions of street bombs in Baghdad. Hmmm, compare that with a night in Itaewon and you’ll get the perspective straight.

I think the most “humiliating experience” is to bite a bullet, loosing your limps or getting a shrapnel right in your head in the middle of nowhere in Afghaniraq.

The Chinese will do whatever is in their national interest. And for thousands of years it was to have direct or indirect control over the Korean peninsula at their borders. There would be not much options for the ROK to stop the Chinese from invading a collapsing DPRK. Maybe the rest of North Korea’s Army will kick some Chinese sorry asses, if they have the power left to do so. In fact, I think North Koreans are more nationalistically fanatized or have nothing to lose and therefore more guts to take on the coming Chinese or they’ll end up like the Tibetians. South Korea will stand by, watch the fucking shit unfolding up North with shrugging shoulders and walk on. Buying new clothes and cellphones has become a more important purpose in life than anything idealistic like re-unification. We are such a fucked up people. A bad joke.