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I Love South Korea

So China is trying to get their hands on S. Korea.

With the US asking to pay more for security personnel in S. Korea, China sign a "defense agreement" with S. Korea to stick their noses at the West.

A recent survey by the Korea Institute for National Reunification showed that 96% of Koreans are opposed to Seoul paying more for the US military presence.


But calling this a "defense agreement" is like calling a glass of water the Pacific Ocean. All China is doing so far from what I know is installing a few phone lines and other minor things.

We may never know what might happen down the line but not exactly the way I want Korea to be unified.
Abrienda · 26-30, F
I am not sure what the United States gets out of defending countries that are a) ungrateful and b) fully capable of defending themselves.
Abrienda · 26-30, F
@SW-User I live there sweetheart. I am European. But you are just another American hating foreigner living a lifestyle in the USA he/she/it could never have in their native land. You are proof that the Americans really DO need to do better background checks on the people they let in their country.

And I commented cause I hate it when people like you who owe their very freedom to the United States show their ingratitude.

You studied in Europe? Where? Sorry, Albania or Bosnia isn't "Europe." And what did you study - Advanced Floor Cleaning? Existential Fruit Picking?

Go to bed loser.
SW-User
@Abrienda Yep. Here's my Facebook albums


I grew up in the US and have probably traveled to more places than you have.
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@Abrienda I like to thank you for allowing me to show of my traveles with you. I can also post albums of my traveles in the U.S., China, S. Korea, Hong Kong, Signapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia if you are still interested
I served two tours of duty in South Korea, and it's just my opinion, that this money issue will be resolved, and S. Korea would never sign a defense agreement with China. But if that WERE to happen, I don't believe it would bode well for the South especially if the U.S. forces currently there were pulled out. And no doubt, Kim Jung Un would delight in such a situation. Just this veteran's opinion.
SW-User
@soar2newhighs it's okay. I don't expect most people to know what's going on.

No need to apologise 🤗
@SW-User I guess all this nonsense with these hearings that are on going daily pretty much is/has overshadowed other significant news events. Glad you raised the post though. Thanks! The only thing that (No pun intended) trumps the hearings is our rabid obsession with sports on TV.
SW-User
@soar2newhighs hahaha Yeah. There is so much going on in the world sometimes I think these hearings are just a distraction. We have China signing peace deals in one country and fighting protestors in another hahaha
Sort of on a related subject, I came across this https://news.yahoo.com/u-vietnam-coast-guard-ship-080244155.html And yes, it has to do with China and its declaration of sovereignty over certain oceans.
SW-User
@soar2newhighs You're pretty knowledgeable. That's awesome. Do you read on news outside the US for fun hahahaa
@SW-User Being I served in both South Korea and Taiwan, I am interested in what is going on in those countries. If I see something such as your post on South Korea and China, I tend to follow it, and the same with various news items I see on the Internet. Something I remember and this is going back a good 20 years or so, was reading an extensive article on the ascending Chinese military. I have also read a number of books relating to that as well, and I find it interesting and somewhat frightening. One book I read was not about China's military as much as it is about their involvement in Africa, though they are having some impact in Africa when it comes to military matters. https://www.amazon.com/Chinas-Second-Continent-Migrants-Building/dp/0307956989

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/china-militarizes-its-influence-africa-36667
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@soar2newhighs You are awesome.
Thanks for hearting my reply. I also served in Taiwan, and if China has any moves whatsoever planned in and around the South China Sea, it will be (IMO) directed at and about Taiwan, not South Korea.
SW-User
Bye bye South Korea, it was nice knowing you. :(
SW-User
@SW-User hahaha Supreme Leader Kim is full of freedom 🙄
SW-User
@SW-User indeed, see nothing to worry about, I mean China will totally defend your people and turn against its other ally the North. No worries. :|
SW-User
@SW-User hahaha China thinks it's smart. Messing with the wrong part of Asia
Unifying Korea will require a lot of help from the rest of the world. What needs to happen first is for North Korea to open up to the outside and allow free voting.
@SW-User China supports North Korea for its own purposes. It's just a tragedy for the people who have to live there. I think the worst thing Kim could do is open the border and tell the people they can leave if they want and no one will stop them. You literally have a country of people with PTSD who have no idea what the rest of the world is really like.

Kim Jong Il used to tell them that the sacks of rice sent by the U.S. to keep them from starving was tribute paid by a terrified America to keep North Korea from attacking it.
SW-User
@LeopoldBloom I understand by there is more going on. N. Korea answers to China. China wants to look good and at the moment, wants to own land.


A unification of Korea will both make China look good and give China more land.
@SW-User It may happen eventually, right after the Israeli/Palestinian federation is established.
[c=#359E00]send them back to their place[/c]
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@YukikoAmagi hahaha who?

 
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