Secretary of State John Kerry has promised that the US will defend South Korea militarily from North Korea, saying that its “treaty ally” could count on the massive American military for its defense.
North Korea and South Korea have traded threats recently, but these regular rounds of escalated rhetoric don’t necessarily lead to fighting. Kerry, however, termed North Korea’s threats “unacceptable.”
Kerry made no mention of the repeated US threats nor those of South Korea in the comments, as nuclear-capable American bombers have been looming over the Korean Peninsula for over a week now, and North Korea’s comments have centered around those driving their own belief that a “state of war” now exists.
White House officials also say that the sum of America’s national security team is “focused” on the situation in Korea, though since the US reaction so far has been to deploy more weapons to the region, they can hardly be said to be a calming influence.
Though the US often makes a show of pledging to defend South Korea, it is also entirely unnecessary, since South Korea has an enormous military in its own right. A new Korean War would be hugely damaging to all involved, but few doubt that South Korea would inevitably win, and many experts are saying North Korea’s poorly fed military would likely see mass defections within a matter of days of launching a ground invasion.
WAR, the new heroin.
It was US policy toward nations by dividing their countires.., US is still doing the same in Syria and have done so for ladt 60 years…, if US is what is saying that is.., à democracy.., then US government neds to think about Syrien people and not supporting terrorism or the dictatorial regimes as Saudi Arabia or Qatari or for that matter the Israeli apartheid regime that are killing peoples.., human that is kerry.., What in reality this man is saying is that US Will defend South Korea as US have so much invested there…, people.., what people.., human life what is that.
One of the biggest mistakes of warfare is to underestimate your opponent -these are not low-IQ arab, rag-tag insurgents here.These North Koreans are an entirely different breed of cat. They are, well-equipped highly-brainwashed, tenacious, and ruthless, and have gotten by with so little for so long -that they could at very least cause major damage -and the conflict could spread to involve other parties with strategic interests in teh area ( ie Russia, China ).
Mr. Kerry, apparently answering his own question …. 'how do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake'. Mr. Kerry's answer is to make sure there is never a last man to die. As long as the killing goes on infinitely, then no one has to be the last man to die for all the mistakes.
Unless there has been some massive catastrophe in South Korea in the last few years S Korea is quite capable of defending itself from N Korea. The S Korean army is well trained, well eqiupped disciplined and motivated. In my 26 years in the Army active and reserve they were some of the best troops I ever saw. We've known this since the Carter admin. He proposed pulling troops out of Korea but the Empire never leaves occupied territory unless forced to..
Unless there has been some massive catastrophe in South Korea in the last few years S Korea is quite capable of defending itself from N Korea. The S Korean army is well trained, well eqiupped disciplined and motivated. In my 26 years in the Army active and reserve they were some of the best troops I ever saw. We've known this since the Carter admin. He proposed pulling troops out of Korea but the Empire never leaves occupied territory unless forced to..
Yes, how can South Korea still need American help if their economy has been the wonder that it has been said to be? I would be curious to know how much buried resentment there is in Germany and Japan after their long occupations. By the same token is there no long-standing hatred in Spain and Russia and China for what America has done to them. I was born in the USA, but in the South, and I have never once flown into NY without taking joy in knowing that one day it would make a magnificent ruin and hoping to live to see the day when that arrogance is brought down.
"…few doubt that South Korea would inevitably win, and many experts are saying North Korea’s poorly fed military would likely see mass defections within a matter of days of launching a ground invasion…"
Hmmm… is that the same as "we will be greeted as Liberators"… Are these "few" the same "experts" who predicted an Iraqi war that would last "months" and be paid for by "Iraqi oil profits".
Are we really that stupid?
Kerry, NK is not like that scared kid that you hunted down crouched down behind a shed and murdered back in vietnam…
Let SK do their own dirty work, they can clearly afford it.
Let SK do their own dirty work, they can clearly afford it.
Everyone notice that wherever the US "focus" comes to rest, nations under that gaze start to fight amongst each other?
Any excuse to "protect our friends". South Korea has been messed around by the USA's interference ever since the "end" of the Korean war. DPRK (North Korea) has been threatened for 63 years by the USA, has had huge losses from US actions and when it makes a few tentative steps against the constant belligerence, we must offer violence as a response.
Here's the serious reporting and accurate analysis:
"The side that is escalating tensions without restraint is not Pyongyang, but Washington. It will take several months to restart the reactor, which Pyongyang said would be used for civilian energy purposes, and at least a year to produce enough material for a nuclear bomb, should Pyongyang use the reactor for that purpose.
The latest US deployments, on the other hand, follow on the heels of the Pentagon’s decision to fly nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers and B-52 bombers to Korea. Washington claimed this was to signal its nuclear deterrence capabilities and prove to its allies in South Korea and Japan the
obvious fact that the US militarily outclasses tiny North Korea. In reality, it was a blunt threat to the Chinese regime that the US is willing to use nuclear weapons."
[Full article: http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/03/kore-a…. ]
NK is being lured into being a test subject for the new improved drug B-2 B61-11 "groundbreaking" treatment by Dr. DGE (Disguised Global Empire), the corporate/financial/militarist/media/legal and political Global Empire that would love to "do Iran" or "do Korea" just to send the right signal to the rest of the "GAP" and "New CORE" BRICS countries.
Maybe the 28 year old is dumb enough to be prodded into catching the hot potato the Global Empire is dying to throw.
Best,
Alan
BTW, the absence of ANY "Views" by so-called left/progressive intellectual authors today on any of the progressive web-sites, certainly seems to prove Chris Hedges' point (early this week) that the progressive thinkers are so tied up in focusing on the multiple "trees" of ABAW (anything but anti-war); 'identity politics', "cultural issues", and domestic 'symptom problems' caused by the disguised Global Empire, that they can't see the "Forest" of the coming war, OR the Global Empire about to start it!!
Watch the racist traditional 'double cross' of both North and South Korea by the American MIC, or just a build up of both sides to be funded by U.S..tax payers when North and South Korea refuse to pay for a contrived conflict and weapons procurements not of their doing.