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Two Koreas Show Off Joint Industrial Zone-(just hmm)
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| February 27, 2006
| Kelly Olsen
Posted on 02/27/2006 3:48:29 AM PST by Flavius
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posted on
02/27/2006 3:48:31 AM PST
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Flavius
To: Flavius
North Korea sank to its lowest point in the 1990s as a series of poor harvests caused by bad weather, combined with economic mismanagement, led to a famine that killed an estimated 2 million people.Was there - in fact - any bad weather? Or is this the same bad weather that always hovers above communist countries?
To: agere_contra
Glad to see South Korea and North Korea have gotten so friendly. Can we withdraw our division from that ungrateful country. Let the energetic South Korean "students" defend their own country. A more worthwhile activity than constantly protesting the US. We could use the soldiers in Iraq or to defend our own border.
To: Patriot from Philly
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posted on
02/27/2006 4:23:32 AM PST
by
Dallas59
((“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party))
To: Patriot from Philly
Yup it's time. 50 years is plenty. The south has 10 times the industrial capacity and GDP of the North. they can take of themselves.
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posted on
02/27/2006 4:25:55 AM PST
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: Kozak
In South Korea we have enabled a perpetual adolescent who constantly whines about US soldiers. Every car accident involving a US soldier is front page news. It is ridiculous.
We need the troops elsewhere. Plus the tripwire strategy is limiting our options. Let the South Korean forces be the trip wire. The South Koreans can attrite the North Korean forces before we decide to intevene.
To: Flavius
Let's put all these issues aside and do some business.
To: Patriot from Philly
Let the South Korean forces be the trip wire.
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Hey genius, ROKs are the "trip-wire" and have been for years. US troops are further south than nearly half the civilian population so wtf are you yammering about?
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posted on
02/27/2006 4:34:38 AM PST
by
wtc911
(You can't get there from here)
To: Flavius
The older generation loves Americans. They make really good movies also. Oldboy, Brotherhood of War (very pro-American and anti commie), Symathy for Mr. Vengeance, Bittersweet Life (awesome flick).
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posted on
02/27/2006 4:36:27 AM PST
by
MattinNJ
(Allen/Pawlenty in 08-play the map.)
To: wtc911
No, the American troops are at the DMZ and Seoul, Korea is close to the DMZ - 20 miles south I believe.
The military recognizes that the forces would not be able to stop a North Korean invasion. The theory is that an invasion would cause many GI deaths-the tripwire-thus triggering a full scale involvement by the US.
From what I've seen recently, the South Koreans would welcome North Koreans as their cousins and turn on the US.
Recently, the US military has recognized the folly of keeping the US soldiers so far north and have moved many forces further south.
I suggest we move the forces out of South Korea all together. They are a wealthy country, very anti-American, and can defend their own country.
To: MattinNJ
The older generation loves Americans.
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So does much of the younger generation. They just don't get the press coverage that a few loud-mouths do, but that's the same everywhere. Korea will re-unite and after a decade or two of the South investing in the North they will become a power in the region. The real fun will be in watching the Chinese and Japanese trying to deal with it.
btw...check out "JSA"...
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posted on
02/27/2006 4:41:17 AM PST
by
wtc911
(You can't get there from here)
To: wtc911
LOL, JSA was the movie that got me into Korean flicks. I'm hoping "Bittersweet Life" gets widely distributed in the U.S. It was made by the director of "Tale of Two Sisters" and I've seen copies of that in Wal Mart of all places. Bittersweet Life was awesome. The main character is the right hand man for the head of a mob. They both wind up betraying each other and mayhem ensues. This flick had everything, beautiful scenery (Seoul at night was practically a character), great acting, a few great fight scenes,and a scene right out of scarface. I highly recommend it.
I've seen a lot of Japanese and Korean flicks over the last few years and I've noticed that Korea seems more advanced than Japan. Their apartments, appliances, clothes, cell phones, cities etc.. are all gleaming. Japan seems rundown in comparison. If it was just a few flicks I would chalk it up to circumstance but it seems pretty consistent.
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posted on
02/27/2006 4:51:39 AM PST
by
MattinNJ
(Allen/Pawlenty in 08-play the map.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
02/27/2006 5:08:58 AM PST
by
nuconvert
([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: Patriot from Philly
I agree, the plan to move our forces from Seoul to the
South was a good start. Also, about a third of our troops are coming home. My daughter (in the Army) came back from a year in Korea last summer. She said that the older people love the USA and remember what we did for them in the War. She said that the young people (many of them) have a blind spot for N. Korea and want reunification.
To: Flavius
Let's hope S. Korea doesn't wake up with fleas.
To: Patriot from Philly
You are wrong on nearly everything.
There are fewer than 300 US troops in the entire DMZ and it's been that way for years. the large majority of US troops are not in Yongson (in Seoul) but much further south and even the size of the post at Yongson is being reduced.
Roughly 35% of all South Koreans (men, women and children) live within range of NK guns. The majority of US troops are further south.
The trip-wire theory (US troops at the first line) you cling to is decades old and long abandoned.
There are some anti-American young in South Korea but no more than there are here. They get the cameras spinning when they make noise. The purpose, as always, is to create the impression that the noisy few are the majority. Did they fool you? Looks like it.
"From what I've seen recently, the South Koreans would welcome North Koreans as their cousins and turn on the US."
What did you see, where did you see it? Your vision means that the ROKs would welcome a giant step backwards. And btw...they are cousins.
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posted on
02/27/2006 5:45:01 AM PST
by
wtc911
(You can't get there from here)
To: GeorgefromGeorgia
Your daughter sounds like she understands the situation in Korea very well. I was in Korean in the mid 80s and liked the Korean people. I am disappointed that they turned so anti-American, but that does seem to be the global trend.
Reunification may not be a bad thing for the Koreas, but the North is still ruled by a crazy despot.
My understanding is that the South Koreans don't want reunification too fast because they have come to enjoy their prosperity and fear the reunification with their starving cousins will have a negative impact on their quality of life. Sound spoiled, don't they?
To: wtc911
Recent public opinion polls in Korea indicate a strong anti-American view. The move south has been a recent development and the US military's response to growing anti-Americanism. I believe Rumsfeld referred to it as "rubbing up against each other too much."
Hundreds of thousand of South Koreans took to the street to protest a fatal traffic accident involving a US tank while at the same time ignoring an incident where North Koreans purposely murdered South Korean sailors.
I agree-someone on this thread has been fooled.
To: Patriot from Philly
My daughter says that Koreas are very bad about running out into traffic. Also, that the US soldiers were not at fault in that accident.
To: Patriot from Philly
"Recent public opinion polls in Korea indicate a strong anti-American view."
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Hard to argue with somebody who uses un-named foreign opinion polls as the basis of his position. btw...did you know that Kerry was going to cream Bush? I heard that a bunch of opinion polls said so.
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:11:34 AM PST
by
wtc911
(You can't get there from here)
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