So its all everyone's fault except America's. America seems to be the savior of the world in your eyes while it destroys every country on earth.Yohan wrote:Nonsense, most South Koreans are not interested into offering half of their salaries for unification and re-education of all these people from the North.starchild5 wrote: Its Amazing that Korea has over 10,000 years of history and for just 50 years they want to remain divided and not want to unite. All polls are conducted by Americans.
Who gave America the licence to be a global policemen.
Why the hell America even in Asia?
Can't Korea, japan, China take care of themselves as they have done for a million years now..Why should America poke into everyones life
Unification can be only considered after a major change of the North Korean government and this will not be the case as long as China is not doing anything about that. Even then, I doubt any unification will take place, but maybe some more communication might start between North Korea/South Korea and Japan.
China takes care of itself and ONLY about itself without any consideration of others and this is the problem, China is threatening all smaller countries around.
Tibet is already occupied. China is now busy to take away all fishing grounds and off-shore resources near Philippines and Vietnam, it is claiming huge land from India, Arunachal Pradesh, calling it South Tibet, it is entering with its military frequently tiny Bhutan and claiming even territory from this little nation.
Of course China is also claiming land from South Korea and Japan. Even North Korea does not trust China anymore.
As long as North Korea will continue with its nuclear experiments and is firing rockets towards Japan I prefer the US-military to stay in Japan, otherwise Japan will be force to arm itself with nuclear weapons. Same is true of course also about the policy of China to enlarge its territory and which has also nulear arms.
Another question mark is about Russia.
US-military is free to leave of course South Korea and Japan, the question is what to do with all these servicemen? Who will pay for their expenses including their salaries? The Japanese government is very much willing to pay for its presence. The choice for Japan is either nuclear arms or to stay together with the US-military. The political tendency in Japan is more about to stay together with USA.
There has been wars in Asia for ever between countries but it got lot worse when America showed up.
No THANK YOU. Even if America goes away. Asia can take care of itself as it had for 1000s of years even before America existed. We don't want Americans to dictate what is best for Asia.
The devil is in the details. Who gave America the right to hold Nuclear Weapons while rest of us cannot?
Why is America refusing to even talk to North Korea?
ince the end of the Korean War 60 years ago, the government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) has repeatedly put forward virtually the same four proposals to the United States. They are:
1. A peace treaty to end the Korean War.
2. The reunification of Korea, which has been “temporarily” divided into North and South since 1945.
3. An end to the U.S. occupation of South Korea and a discontinuation of annual month-long U.S-South Korean war games.
4. Bilateral talks between Washington and Pyongyang to end tensions on the Korean peninsula.
The U.S. and its South Korean protectorate have rejected each proposal over the years. As a consequence, the peninsula has remained extremely unstable since the 1950s. It has now reached the point where Washington has used this year’s war games, which began in early March, as a vehicle for staging a mock nuclear attack on North Korea by flying two nuclear-capable B-2 Stealth bombers over the region March 28. Three days later, the White House ordered F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets to South Korea, a further escalation of tensions.
Here is what is behind the four proposals.
1. The U.S. refuses to sign a peace treaty to end the Korean War. It has only agreed to an armistice. An armistice is a temporary cessation of fighting by mutual consent. The armistice signed July 27, 1953, was supposed to transform into a peace treaty when “a final peaceful settlement is achieved.” The lack of a treaty means war could resume at any moment. North Korea does not want a war with the U.S., history’s most powerful military state. It wants a peace treaty.
2. Two Koreas exist as the product of an agreement between the USSR (which borderd Korea and helped to liberate the northern part of country from Japan in World War II) and the U.S., which occupied the southern half. Although socialism prevailed in the north and capitalism in the south, it was not to be a permanent split. The two big powers were to withdraw after a couple of years, allowing the country to reunify. Russia did so; the U.S. didn’t. Then came the devastating three-year war in 1950. Since then, North Korea has made several different proposals to end the separation that has lasted since 1945. The most recent proposal, I believe, is “one country two systems.” This means that while both halves unify, the south remains capitalist and the north remains socialist. It will be difficult but not impossible. Washington does not want this. It seeks the whole peninsula, bringing its military apparatus directly to the border with China, and Russia as well.
3. Washington has kept between 25,000 and over 40,000 troops in South Korea since the end of the war. They remain — along with America’s fleets, nuclear bomber bases and troop installations in close proximity to the peninsula — a reminder of two things. One is that “We can crush the north.” The other is “We own South Korea.” Pyongyang sees it that way — all the more so since President Obama decided to “pivot” to Asia. While the pivot contains an economic and trade aspect, its primary purpose is to increase America’s already substantial military power in the region in order to intensify the threat to China and North Korea.
4. The Korean War was basically a conflict between the DPRK and the U.S. That is, while a number of UN countries fought in the war, the U.S. was in charge, dominated the fighting against North Korea and was responsible for the deaths of millions of Koreans north of the 38th parallel dividing line. It is entirely logical that Pyongyang seeks talks directly with Washington to resolve differences and reach a peaceful settlement leading toward a treaty. The U.S. has consistently refused.
Just Sign THE FREAKING PEACE TREATY America and LET PEOPLE LIVE IN PEACE..
