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2003-06-20 Korea

Norks Bluster, Sorks and UN Blather about US Proposal

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Posted by JP 2003-06-20 08:59 am|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hope our troops are relocated to the south on a faster pace every time one of the SK invertebrates tries to play down the conflict. Even better, pull em out completely in favor of an Aegis deployment between NK and Japan

Posted by Frank G 2003-06-20 10:59:59|| 2003-06-20 10:59:59|| Front Page Top

#2 The Norks (great name!) rattle their cages and the Sorks shake, cower, and appease. Man it is S.O.P. Why should the Norks not do this brinkmanship and foamism? It does not get them what they want, but they get some rice and an opening. I think that we need a new approach after 50 years of this nonsense. S.K. needs a message and accellerated US troop repositioning and then withdrawl should get the message across. The S.K.s also have to start cleaning all the 5th column propaganda out of their schoolbooks and everything else, or they are going down, with or without us.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-06-20 12:00:57|| 2003-06-20 12:00:57|| Front Page Top

#3 5th column propaganda? What 5th column propaganda? (As I look out my office window at the big Korean banners reading "Disband the Anti-Unification, Pro-American Grand National Party!" and the "Expel the Murderous US Military!") Ahh... life on a Korean university campus.

Look, that repositioning is going to take a lot longer than you think - Seoul is going to stall that every step of the way by using, among other things, anti-American NGOs to protest the new base sites south of Seoul. Heck, they're not even moving south directly; first, the 2ID is going to consolidate in Uijeongbu (about a 30 minute subway ride north of Seoul), and then redeploy south of the Han. Already, people are complaining in Uijeongbu about land transfers. These guys should be pulled out immediately - there's no reason for the USFK to continue being a pawn in domestic Korean politics. As I've said nearly a 1000 times, if Seoul doesn't want to be a team player, it should be kicked off the team.

Weenies, indeed.

Posted by The Marmot 2003-06-20 12:52:49|| [marmotshole.blogspot.com] 2003-06-20 12:52:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Marmot: If the Sorks ask us to file an environmental statement, or similar delaying tactic, we need to tell them "OK, we'll just move the troops back to the states while the details are worked out". In other words, fix the timetable for moving out of the current ~~targets speedbumps~~ bases, and let the move-in date slip as required.

Uijeongbu? If I'm mispronouncing that transliterated name correctly, isn't there a MASH unit thereabouts?

Posted by snellenr 2003-06-20 14:39:12|| 2003-06-20 14:39:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Uijeongbu is a pretty big military town, but as far as a MASH units goes, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps someone else could tell us?

Posted by The Marmot 2003-06-20 16:00:13|| [marmotshole.blogspot.com] 2003-06-20 16:00:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Marmot: sorry, my comment was a lost smiley situation -- in the U.S. TV show "MASH", the camp was supposed to be located in a place called (phonetically) "Wee-john-boo", which seemed a fair guess at how to pronounce "Uijeongbu".

The Internet is a *really* good way to make yourself feel parochial... :-)

Posted by snellenr 2003-06-20 16:11:42|| 2003-06-20 16:11:42|| Front Page Top

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