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[Stout]

The Korean article reported the bullying as "alleged". The New York Times article confirms that investigators came to the conclusion that bullying was indeed involved.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/world/asia/31marines.html?pagewanted=all

SEOUL, South Korea � �If anyone could be a marine, I�d never have joined.� That is the slogan of South Korea�s Marine Corps, and it speaks volumes about the force�s sense of its elite status; it is a particularly bold assertion in a country where most able-bodied men perform mandatory military service.

These days, however, that marine pride, and the discipline of the South Korean military in general, has come under uncomfortable scrutiny.

In June, some marines fired their rifles toward a civilian passenger plane approaching the Seoul airport, mistaking it for a North Korean aircraft in an episode that has raised questions about the marines� training and preparedness. (Fortunately, they did not hit the plane.)

But a series of very different episodes that followed in quick succession this month have proved even more troubling for many South Koreans.

On July 4, a marine corporal who investigators said was bullied by others in his barracks went on a shooting rampage, killing four marines and wounding a fifth. On July 10, a marine private hanged himself. Bruises, possibly from an earlier beating, were found on his chest. Four days later, a marine master sergeant killed himself, also by hanging.

[Julius]

[Stout]

Also these are societies where this tone of intolerance is purposively set from above, in order to ensure that the majority of citizens remain malleable to the designs of those on top.

[CentralCali]

Wow, Stout, you really know how to make an accurate thread title. At least, that would be the case in an alternate universe. In this one, your thread title does not describe reality. The corporal was sentenced to death for murder.

We get it. You hate the military, any military, all military. That does not mean you can just toss out anything at all and expect it to be considered factual.

[Stout]

[CentralCali]

The event itself isn't something you tossed out there. Your thread title certainly is. Try being completely accurate in what he was actually punished for: murder. Your choice of wording is disingenuous.

And this bs from you

[Julius]

[NovaKart]

Really sad that a mentally unstable young man is forced into the military and subject to abuse. And then people wonder why this happens.

[CentralCali]

[TheUrbanMyth]