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[Troll_Bait]

I was reading an article about North Korea, and on the second page I found a quote that I found hard to believe.

Page One

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/IG11Dg01.html

Page Two

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/IG11Dg02.html

[Gwangjuboy]

That's the result of 10 years of the Sunshine Policy. Frankly the survey makes for very unpleasant reading.

[Pak Yu Man]

My wife told me the same. Just ask Koreans. They'll tell you the same.

[SuperFly]

Chosun Ilbo? Isn't that a right wing conservative paper that usually employs these types of tactics?

[tigerbluekitty]

I say the U.S. should leave those ingrates.

I don't want to pay taxes to keep them safe when they don't appreciate it.

[butlerian]

However, the US is still in control of the Korean army, so it's not like they'd have much choice who to side with if a war - an unlikely scenario, at least in the near future - did break out.

[ruffie]

Of course they would side with the North. When the dust settles, who else are they going to blame for things like this?

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/09/news/korea.php

[billybrobby]

I've heard of that poll before. I dunno what to make of it. What kind of scenario could they possibly be imagining where SK has the option of choosing between the US and NK? Because a war between the two countries would obviously be a war for control of the Korean peninsula. I mean, are they imagining some scenario where SK and NK join together to kick American troops out of SK? Hell, there need be no war for that, all they have to do is ask. So basically, I just don't even know what the question means.

[contrarian]

I have found it very much depends on who you speak to. In the South East they are pretty solidly conservative, as is the east cost. Seoul is full of a lot of young dweebs who actually done know if their rectum is punched or bored.

I had to remind one student at my uni that if it wasn't for the US he would be starving to death in North Korea - most of the class agreed.

You'll get the usual anti US crap from them. The Japanese were here for 35 years and everyone professes to hate them. The Americans have been here for 57 years and other than occaisonal tensions, usually when some young soldier does somehting really stupid, but not much.

[Guri Guy]

Ungrateful doesn't even begin to describe it. Really sad.

[koon_taung_daeng]

i actually think its a positive thing, that way it will be easier for americans to identify CHARLIE, if their korean kill um.

[mindmetoo]

Of course. But then the moment they take away their Emart they'll beg for the USA back.

[cangel]

Nothing a few MOABs can't handle...

[Rteacher]

Latest news (and some historical background) on "peace talks":
Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:48 PM IST
By Jon Herskovitz

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea called on Friday for military talks with the United States for peace and security on the peninsula, with Washington saying it can discuss a peace treaty after Pyongyang abandons its nuclear weapons programme.

Pyongyang, which often muddies the waters ahead of crucial moves concerning its atomic ambitions, is set to receive a team of U.N. nuclear personnel on Saturday who are to oversee the shutdown of its reactor and source of weapons-grade plutonium.

Six-way talks on ending North Korea's nuclear arms programmes are set to resume on Wednesday in Beijing. The North, which has long sought direct talks with the United States, usually holds bilateral meetings with U.S. officials within those discussions.

"The Korean People's Army side proposes having talks between the DPRK and U.S. militaries to be attended by a U.N. representative," the North's military said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.

The North, officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, said the talks would be for "discussing the issues related to ensuring the peace and security on the Korean peninsula".

U.S. officials have said in recent weeks that Washington is ready to discuss normalising ties and a peace treaty to end the Korean War if the North follows up on its recent progress in disarmament and completely scraps its atomic arms programme.

An analyst said this may be a ploy from reclusive North Korea to drive a wedge between the United States and its ally, the South.

"The comments appear to be intended to exclude South Korea and China in any talks for a peace treaty and to include the subject of removing U.S. troops from the South as part of the talks," head of North Korean military research at the Korea Institute for Defence Analyses, Baek Seung-joo said.


FOUR-WAY DIALOGUE?

There have been reports in South Korean media that officials are seeking a four-way dialogue among China, the two Koreas and the United States to examine a peace treaty. The North may have been responding to these reports, Baek said.

The 1950-1953 Korean War ended in a truce. The United States, which led U.N. forces, was a signatory to the armistice as well as North Korea and its ally, China. South Korea did not sign.

The United States stations about 30,000 troops in the South to support the country's some 670,000 strong military against an attack by the North.

The North repeated an oft-used line that the United States is bringing the peninsula to the brink of nuclear war and called on it to stop joint military drills with the South as well as cut out what it saw as a hostile policy to stifle it.

"It is the undeniable and legitimate right of the DPRK to have in place all the necessary self-defensive means to cope with the threat and blackmail of the U.S. in order to protect its right to existence," the North's statement said.

In a February deal among the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States, the North agreed to close its antiquated Yongbyon reactor in return for 50,000 tonnes of oil aid.

On Friday, staff from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived in Beijing on their way to North Korea the next day. The technicians will prepare to monitor and verify the shutdown of the Yongbyon facilities, which can produce plutonium for nuclear weapons.

The chief of the IAEA group, Adel Tolba, sounded a note of optimism. "With the kind of help which we got from the DPRK in the last few weeks, we think we will do our job in a successful way," he told reporters. He refused to discuss details.


http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2007-07-13T124622Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_India-284523-3.xml

[genezorm]

i would support the north