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MrHodja
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How seriously should we take North Korea?
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4/3/2013 4:38:02 PM
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I spent 2 1/2 years in Seoul while on active duty and can tell you that those folks don't think the same way we do, and are exceptionally leader-oriented. For instance, the Yoido Full Gospel church, pastored by Dr Cho, was the largest Methodist church in the world when we were there, and its parishioners would not tell you the went to Yoido Full Gospel, they would tell you they went to "DR. Cho's church".
The Korean people are also exceptionally age and status-conscious, and this Kim, by Korean standards, is still a babe in the woods. He probably is smart enough to understand that he has to do exceptional things or the military will send him packing on the next rocket they shoot. The danger to South Korea nd Japan is real (the Japanese used to keep Korean women as sex slaves and considered Koreans to be "monkeys"), but there is little threat to the US mainland, or even Hawaii and Alaska right now, although the threat increases with each passing day. We do have considerable investments in out military outposts within striking range of North Korea, though, and they could well be higher on the North's target list than even targets in the South.
Hopefully Li'l Kim will get the message we are sending him right now and realize that anything but bluster is a no win situation for him. He might hurt us and the South in places, but he won't win.
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