Thousands Support U.S. at S. Korea Rally

YAHOO!NEWS ASIA ^ | 02/09/03 | N/A

[TigerLikesRooster]

Sunday February 9, 6:41 PM

Thousands Support U.S. at S. Korea Rally

South Koreas Christians release green color balloons into the sky during their anti-North Korea and pro-U.S. rally, in front of Busan Station, 400 kilometers (250 miles) southeast of Seoul, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2003. The participants urged North Korea to re-enter the global treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and opposed the withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Korea. (AP Photo/ Yun Jai-hyoung)

[TigerLikesRooster]

Rallies continue unabated. Media barely notices.

[Mr. Mojo]

Fantastic. I got the impression from watching the hit piece on 60 Minutes tonight that every South Korean on the peninsula despised us. They interviewed many people who said that were much more afraid of George Bush than of Kim Jong.

[Captainpaintball]

Why are you posting this? This is pure BS. I caught Oprah on Friday, and sheeee said (actually it was a CNN correspondent) that South Korea is against us! I mean, everyone they interviewed, it seemed, was against us. Even a Korean war vet! Sorry, but it's hard to break free of Oprah's mind control.

[Captainpaintball]

In fairness, from what I heard last night in a radio interview, (Batchelor&Alexander) the universities have acheived absolute victory in Germany and South Korea, and mostly everyone under the age of 35 is against us.

[enemy9oclock]

There have actually been quite a few pro-U.S. rallies in the past two weeks, none of them getting much press in either S. Korean or international press. The one mentioned here was actually far larger than any of the anti-U.S. street rallies plastered throughout our media. There were also rallies taking place at military bases, a rally sponsored by war veterans, and some combined pro-U.S./pro-Japan rallies. This was surprising to me, as our media seems to portray us as an evil presence in the region.

[LibertarianInExile]

Yeah, you sure wouldn't see it in the Korean papers. God forbid. Even the pro-government rags like Korea Herald don't cover it. It's scary how little press any pro-U.S. stuff gets--I wonder why AFN doesn't cover it!?!? You'd think they'd be ecstatic to have something besides 'The new berets are in!' and my favorite, 'Special Alert--Don't knock over Coke machines!!'

[oldvike]

Nice to see this. Although I'm a little confused because last night I was watching 60 Minutes and they had a story about how S. Korea can't stand the United States. In fact, they claimed that SK was more afraid of us than N. Korea.

[Coop]

FYI