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To: michael97123 who wrote (191871)	7/17/2006 11:09:18 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

With our physical presence gone, would even crazy Kim want to piss off their neigbors by spreading nuke tech?? Just a thought Hawk. I know how important our troops were once in saving and nurturing a successful SK. But shit happens and things change.. I thought the same thing in the past as young S. Koreans were protesting the presence of US forces on the peninsula. And part of me still believes we should send that message to Seoul that we'll not permit our presence to be taken for granted. We have pulled US forces back from the DMZ, from what I understand, to appease Pyongyang's paranoia. But now is obviously not the time to withdraw those US forces. Not in the face of the rocket provocation by the North. But when, or if, things calm down, reducing the US presence eliminates N. Korea's argument that the US represents a threat to them. What's interesting is that S. Korea, after all of this rancor which the government largely failed to dissipate, LATER pressured the US to delay the redeployment of 12,000 US soldiers until 2008: globalsecurity.org The bottom line is that it's far easier for Seoul to engage in their "sunshine" policy, while US forces remain as a trigger to prevent any incursion by N. Korea. But once US forces are gone, S. Korea will likely find their going with Kim Jong Il to be a bit rougher. It's unlikely he will soften his stance towards the south if US forces leave. He will consider it a sign of weakness and construe it as leverage over S. Korea. But I also get sick of seeing the US commitment to S. Korea taken for granted in the manner than it has in recent years. Hawk

To: michael97123 who wrote (191871)	7/19/2006 4:59:01 AM
From: RMF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

They are, and always have been a trip point for a wider war. Kim's father and Kim himself have always understood that. If we pulled our troops out it wouldn't require a political genius to figure out that our political system would make it VERY unlikely that we would ever be willing to let 10's of thousands of our young people go to Korea to fight for our S. Korean allies. We'd bomb the heck out of N. Korea, but that wouldn't stop them from probably overwhelming the entire peninsula. As long as our troops are there the N. Koreans know that we'd fight them with everything we've got.