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Well, it's a self-appointed position and many people might be surprised at how popular a withdrawal would be around the world. The European and other countries are already taking that view and their troops are withdrawing. When did invading troops from a foreign country win a war since WWII?
Regarding your first sentence, I assume you mean the Japanese but they have nothing to do with the problems in Korea. There is one similarity in that the Japanese also claimed provocation because of a military build up by potential enemies close to their territory.
I don't believe that Western military involvement in Middle Eastern or Asian countries has made the West a safer place. On the contrary, the West has more determined enemies than previously and, while its young men and women are being killed abroad, the enemy is attacking Western countries from within.
Check the map that CNN is showing. Those islands are so close to the North's coastline that it's shipping has to make a long detour around the exclusion zone. Add to that the frequent military exercises in that same area and you might see why they are hacked off. The border was set by the Western allies during the Korean War (KWI we might soon have to call it) and never changed. North Korea didn't have a merchant fleet at the time so they accepted it. Now they do have a fleet and the south won't help them out by discussing the problem.
I really hope that this fizzles out and I expect that it will. At the moment, grown men in uniform are talking like schoolboys about not being seen to be weak by backing down. When will they ever learn?
Well, it's a self-appointed position and many people might be surprised at how popular a withdrawal would be around the world. The European and other countries are already taking that view and their troops are withdrawing. When did invading troops from a foreign country win a war since WWII?
Regarding your first sentence, I assume you mean the Japanese but they have nothing to do with the problems in Korea. There is one similarity in that the Japanese also claimed provocation because of a military build up by potential enemies close to their territory.
I don't believe that Western military involvement in Middle Eastern or Asian countries has made the West a safer place. On the contrary, the West has more determined enemies than previously and, while its young men and women are being killed abroad, the enemy is attacking Western countries from within.
Check the map that CNN is showing. Those islands are so close to the North's coastline that it's shipping has to make a long detour around the exclusion zone. Add to that the frequent military exercises in that same area and you might see why they are hacked off. The border was set by the Western allies during the Korean War (KWI we might soon have to call it) and never changed. North Korea didn't have a merchant fleet at the time so they accepted it. Now they do have a fleet and the south won't help them out by discussing the problem.
I really hope that this fizzles out and I expect that it will. At the moment, grown men in uniform are talking like schoolboys about not being seen to be weak by backing down. When will they ever learn?
