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Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

http://hyvmaa.blogspot.com/2006/07/consequences-of-betrayal.html

mateomiguel · Joined: 16 May 2005

I think the big question for all us Americans is... would we stay if our army left?

I don't have an answer myself, I would have to think about it.

Bo Peabody · Joined: 25 Aug 2005

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On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

I was wondering about what sort of track record this blog had in terms of making accurate predictions.

Then I realized that the blog contains no articles besides the one under discussion.

So, not much of a track record at all, I guess.

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

True, but it still has me thinking. Just how much will the US put up with before leaving? SK doesn't even agree that we should be stopping the North from counterfeiting billions of our dollars. And they certainly believe they can talk whatever trash they want.

I mean, the last time a Korean government displayed this much foreign policy acumen they wound up with 40 years of colonialism, 60+ years of division, and a combined 100+ years of dictatorship.

Junior · Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Location: the eye

i for one would be happy to see the US depart. koreans have been living in a fools paradise far too long.

We teachers would probably stay here until the first missiles come over the DMZ.

EFLtrainer · Joined: 04 May 2005

Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee · Joined: 25 May 2003

South Korea: Plugging the Intelligence Gap
July 28, 2006 16 01 GMT

Summary

South Korea's first completely indigenous satellite, the Arirang-2, was launched atop a Russian rocket July 28. The multipurpose satellite is equipped with a multispectral imaging camera, also making this Seoul's first imaging spy satellite, thereby reducing Seoul's reliance on U.S. satellite imagery and marking a step toward addressing a critical intelligence gap in South Korea's defense structure.

Analysis

South Korea's Korea Multipurpose Satellite 2 (KOMPSAT-2), also referred to as the Arirang-2, was launched atop a Russian Rockot from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 11:05 a.m. Russian time July 28. The Arirang-2 is Seoul's first completely indigenous satellite, developed by the Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), and carries, among other equipment, a high-resolution multispectral imaging camera capable of at least one meter imagery or better. Though ostensibly designed to update Korean maps, this is in essence South Korea's first spy satellite, one capable of imaging North Korea and anywhere else in the world. As such, this begins to fill a critical intelligence gap in South Korea's defense.

Though the Arirang-2 was launched successfully, it will be a few days before it will be clear if all systems are operational. For Seoul, the satellite marks a new phase in South Korea's nascent space program. Long hindered by Cold War agreements with the United States limiting South Korean rocket and missile technology, Seoul has developed an ambitious plan to design and build satellites and space launch vehicles and emerge as one of the lead nations in space technology.

Systems such as the Arirang-2 serve more than economic and technological goals or issues of national pride. South Korea has long been "blind" with regard to North Korea, at least as far as satellite imagery is concerned. South Korea's military and intelligence services thus have had to rely on U.S. satellites or purchased commercial imagery. At times, this has created a delay in gathering information, slowing the decision-making process and creating tensions between Seoul and Washington. Arirang-2 addresses this gap, at least in part.

South Korea is in the midst of restructuring its military and defense posture, seeking to develop a more indigenous defense capability. The lack of reconnaissance systems, such as satellite imagery, was a critical gap Seoul needed to fill. While there is much more to be done, should it prove successful the Arirang-2 will give Seoul more control over its information and intelligence on North Korea -- marking a substantive advance in Seoul's domestic defense plan.

Guri Guy · Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Location: Bamboo Island

You reap what you sow I guess. South Korea will have to defend itself and foot the bill. Taxes will go up. They will blame the Americans of course. Rolling Eyes

bucheon bum · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

Neil · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Location: Tokyo

If the North attacked wouldn't the US just send it's troops from Japan?

shoeboy · Joined: 23 Apr 2006

Junior · Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Location: the eye

NK is waiting until the US is too preocupied with other conflicts.

If American forces are spread thinly across Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran maybe, then i doubt they would care about Soth korea. or taiwan for that matter.

The whole thing has the potential to happen all at once. if the war on Islamic terror goes full scale, china will grab Taiwan and Nk will get it on with the south in the ensuing chaos.

if there comes a time US forces are everywhere in the middle east and nowhere in the US, i can see the US itself being attacked.

shoeboy · Joined: 23 Apr 2006

Just read in the todays Korean Herald:

"Vice President Dick Cheney...said US troops will remain on peninsula until stability and peace spread to the North."

Whole big article for those who aren't refusing to read the evil, anti-Daves, Great Satan that is the Herald.