North Korea --- Lets Get off the Peninsula Altogether

March 3, 2003

As much as I hate to say it, the US needs to remove itself from S. Korea. It is clear that citizens in both Koreas don't want us there.  I expected an anti-American attitude from the North but now that sentiment is prevalent in the South as well, especially with those under 30. They have learned little from their own history, and do not understand what the US did to give them freedom.

To complicate matters, China has wanted us off the peninsula for decades and has deliberately been of little help in defusing the current  rhetoric and posturing of the North. The North’s actions, furthers their aim of ridding itself of a US presence.

That's Okay. Lets go and leave them to reunify and be one big happy family.

The 37,000 or so US personnel in S Korea can be moved out in months. They are merely trip wires, to be sent to slaughter if a real war broke out. I don't want our citizens to be offered up as sacrifice.

We can setup a place nearby to keep an eye on things so we can preemptively strike should our immediate national interests are in jeopardy. This would also help us protect Japan, which I think is still an ally.

The South can deal with the missile testing, the nuclear power plant restart, and the threats to withdraw from the Armistice Agreement, which the North has broken many times. (Seizing the US warship Pueblo in the 60s and shooting down a airliner killing everyone on board in the 80s)

Maybe the South can give the North what it really wants.... food, money, and fuel. A fine start toward re-unification.

Guess what... the most pitiful thing about this whole mess is: most of Congress is unconcerned and the president refuses to resolve this issue, once and for all.