[AmericanInTokyo]

I guess, "apology not accepted". Sounds like the Democrats back home.

This was no small affair in Seoul, South Korea, the capital of our ally, tonight (Asia Time).

[chance33_98]

Well, I guess we should just leave south Korea. If they ask us back after N. Korea heads in though the answer will be NO.

[twntaipan]

So...pull out the US troops--send them to the borders.

And remind the ingrates in Seoul that had it not been for US blood spilt on their soil they would be eating roots like their North Korean cousins.

[AmericaUnited]

Gee, I guess they need to see what it's like to have the North Korean Army rape and kill tens of thousands of their young girls.

[Mike K]

"We announced this is the day of restoring our sovereignty," the Rev. Mun Jung-hyeon, a veteran protest leader, told Reuters Television. "We have been oppressed by U.S. troops for a long time, 58 years."

I want to see a picture of this guy. This sounds suspiciously like Jesse Jackson. He lost his franchise here and he can't resist the limelight.

[steveegg]

I'm almost tempted to say, "Let the North Koreans nuke Seoul before liquidating Kim Jong-Il".

[Skwidd]

Screw 'em. Let them defend themselves.

[wewillnotfail]

the article says up to 100,000. Why did you inflate the number by 50%?

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Koreans, whether north or south, always act like a beehive stirred-up.

IMO......South Korea is not worth the cost and America should remove all military presense from the penninsula.

If we were to announce our intention to vacate, some would cheer, but the majority of South Koreans would shudder at being left to the mercy of the voracious militant North.

Let Japan and China sort out the problem.

We have bigger fish to "fry" in the middle east!!

[csvset]

Aren't mass protests a way of life in Korea?

[Moose4]

"We have been oppressed by U.S. troops for a long time, 58 years."

The hell with them then. Pull every single damn US soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine (except Embassy guards) out of South Korea. Let them stand on their own DMZ and watch Kim il Wackjob's boys dig tunnels underneath it to infiltrate their country.

Does this imbecile not realize that if it wasn't for us, he wouldn't even exist? His parents would've probably starved or been raped, tortured, and killed before he was even born, courtesy of the worker's paradise of the DPRK.

These guys make the French look grateful!

}:-)4

[Man of the Right]

Our government hasn't visited our Korean policy for a generation. We can't remove our troops now, but why is the 8th Army, 7th Air Force and 2nd Infantry Division in Korea a half-century after the truce? South Korea has the ability to defend itself from North Korea if it wishes. I suspect the two soldiers behaved like swine. There is a good chance the South Koreans have a legitimate grievance against extra-territoriality. However, that raises the larger question: fielding the smallest armed forces since the 1930s, with global military commitments, during a time of war, why are we there?

[prisoner6]

Washington DC (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Americans railed against the South Korean Auto Industry and mourned Americans killed in road accidents, by holding a candle lit march that turned the U.S capital into a sea of light on Saturday.

Many in the crowd of mostly union workers chanted slogans demanding a withdrawal of the Korean Auto Industry presence aimed at selling cheap and possibly unsafe cars, even as tensions rose with Seoul vowing earlier in the week to resume an increased auto export programme to the US.

The protesters, holding votive candles and singing songs, demanded that two Korean companies, Hyundai and Kia, undergo a trial for the rash of road accidents.

prisoner6

[mikenola]

 

U.S. MILITARY KOREAN WAR STATISTICS

BATTLE DEAD*    33,686 (*Includes 4,735 findings of presumptive death under the Missing Persons Act)

Killed in Action	23,637
Died of Wounds	2,484
Died While Missing (MIA)	4,759
Died While Captured (POW)	2,806
Total:	33,686

NON-BATTLE DEATHS    2,830

TOTAL DEATHS IN THEATER:    36,516

DIED ELSEWHERE (Worldwide during Korean War)   17,730

WOUNDED (Number of personnel)    92,134

WOUNDED (Number of incidences*)    103,284 (*Includes individual personnel wounded multiple times)

UNACCOUNTED FOR (Bodies not identified/bodies not recovered)   8,176

Prisoner of War	2,045
Killed in Action	1,794
Missing in Action	4,245
Non-battle	92
Total:	8,176

PRISONERS OF WAR    7,245

POWs Returned to U.S. Control	4,418
POWs Who Died While Captured	2,806
POWs Who Refused Repatriation	21
Total:	7,245

NUMBER WHO SERVED WORLDWIDE 5,720,000

NUMBER WHO SERVED IN KOREAN THEATER 1,789,000

SERVICE STATISTICS	Total	ARMY	USAF	USMC	USN
Killed in Action	23, 637	19,754	198	3,321	364
Died of Wounds	2,484	1,904	16	536	28
Died While Missing (MIA)	4,759	3,317	960	385	97
Died While POW/Interned	2,806	2,753	24	26	3
TOTAL BATTLE DEAD	33,686	27,728	1,198	4,268	492
Prisoners of War	7,245	5,356	926	677	286

[fightin kentuckian]

"We announced this is the day of restoring our sovereignty," the Rev. Mun Jung-hyeon, a veteran protest leader, told Reuters Television. "We have been oppressed by U.S. troops for a long time, 58 years."


Obviously this guy has no clue as to what it was like 59 years ago. Just ask any of the Koreans who were alive during the Japanase occupation and they'll tell you that a demonstration, any demonstration was not even thought of. The Japanese brutalized Korea as would the North Koreans given the chance. However, this guy probably reports to his North Korean handlers on the porgress of the demonstrations daily.

[mac_truck]

The demonstration was peaceful, almost festive against the backdrop of buildings festooned with Christmas holiday decorations, with only a few minor scuffles reported.

Doesn't sound like an angry march on the US embassy, does it?

[Semper911]

I appreciate the stories you post, and your comments are always valuable. Thank you.

[Diana Rose]

We could just turn the south over to the north and let the north Mugabe the place.

[F16Fighter]

Ya know -- all I can think of is the 50,000 American G.I.s and thousands of others who'd made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of these pathetically ignorant human beings. Between they, the Vietnamese, and the Europeans, why should ONE MORE American die on the soil of ingrates?? Do any of these "educational" system teach history?

HIGH TIME WE'VE PULLED OUT EVERYWHERE and left any "defense" to drones and native cowards to protect their own d@mn muck and mire -- we've flushed more than enough American taxpayer money down the drain.

[Guillermo]

"We announced this is the day of restoring our sovereignty," the Rev. Mun Jung-hyeon, a veteran protest leader, told Reuters Television. "We have been oppressed by U.S. troops for a long time, 58 years."

Maybe he would prefer to eat tree bark and grass under the rule of Kim?

[logic101.net]

"under US oppression"? Gee, if we left on Jan 1, how long would it take North Korea to over-run South Korea? I'd say about 3 days. South Korea has not had or needed a serious military for decades, becuase of our presense there. The same could be said for Japan, Germany, and indeed most of Western Europe. For decades we have been footing the bill for their defence.

As far as the spark that ignited this, I don't know. I wasn't at the trial, I haven't seen the evidence either for or against the soldiers. Regardless, their charge here is just silly.


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