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So you are saying this is all South Korea's fault? Typical apologist.
I know it may be hard for you to comprehend the intended humor, but the picture was supposed to be of you.Why are you posting your personal pics on here?
Doubt it, I'm not white.
So you are saying this is all South Korea's fault? Typical apologist.
I know it may be hard for you to comprehend the intended humor, but the picture was supposed to be of you.
Doubt it, I'm not white.
Sure you are. You're some white dude posing as a black dude online. Think I haven't seen your lot many times over? Poser.
BBC News - Border clash prompts South Korean missile warningSouth Korea says it will retaliate with missile strikes against the North if faced with "further provocations", after an exchange of fire in which two South Korean marines were killed.
President Lee Myung-bak was responding to the shelling of an inhabited island close to a disputed maritime border.
The South returned fire in one of the worst clashes since the Korean War.
US President Barack Obama called the incident an "outrageous, provocative act" by Pyongyang.
He was speaking ahead of an expected telephone call to President Lee.
The South Korean military had been carrying out an exercise near Yeonpyeong island, and the North accused the South of opening the hostilities - something Seoul denies.
The South says North Korean shells started falling in the waters off the island at 1434 local time (0534 GMT) on Tuesday.
At least 50 landed directly on the island, most of them hitting a South Korean military base there. In addition to the two deaths, 16 South Korean marines and three civilians were injured.
The South fired back some 80 shells. Casualties on the northern side are unknown.
So you are saying this is all South Korea's fault? Typical apologist.
So are you saying you beat your wife? Typical wife beater! 
Doubt it, I'm not white.
Sure you are. You're some white dude posing as a black dude online. Think I haven't seen your lot many times over? Poser.
Who said I was black jack ass? black people and white people are the only 2 races in the world.
So you are saying this is all South Korea's fault? Typical apologist.
So you are saying this is all South Korea's fault? Typical apologist.
Red herring.
If you were my wife I probably would be a wife beater.
The wife beating analogy works if you say "it was the wife's fault."
Red herring.
If you were my wife I probably would be a wife beater.
The wife beating analogy works if you say "it was the wife's fault."
PS genius, you pulled the accusation that I'm a North Korea apologist out of your ass just like I pulled you're a wife beater out of mine...Get it now?
I happen to have a dear loved one serving in the US Army over in South Korea, so you can STFU any time now, asshole.
JakeStarkey:georgephillip, you mind giving us some links that lead to some validated sources?
Pop Quiz on Korea:The North Koreans "invaded" in response to a US occupation that was killing thousands of Koreans who wanted the Americans to go the hell home.I guess the north shouldn't have invaded the south then. You know, that whole actions having consequences thing.
The fact you're too brainwashed to know your own history is the only bull I see.
If the North Koreans had succeeded, South Korea would be sharing the North's prosperity right now. American bastards!
Pop Quiz on Korea:The North Koreans "invaded" in response to a US occupation that was killing thousands of Koreans who wanted the Americans to go the hell home.
The fact you're too brainwashed to know your own history is the only bull I see.
If the North Koreans had succeeded, South Korea would be sharing the North's prosperity right now. American bastards!
"After the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, Japan acquired control over Korea, annexing it formally in 1910. In 1905 Japanese Prime Minister Katsura Tarô met secretly with U.S. Secretary of War William Howard Taft, producing the Taft-Katsura Agreement in which the U.S. recognized Japan's interests in Korea. What did the U.S. receive in return?
a. Japanese agreement to limit emigration to the U.S.
b. Japanese recognition of U.S. colonial rule over the Philippines.
c. Japan's renunciation to all claims to the Hawai'ian Islands.
"At the Yalta Conference in February 1945, U.S. President Roosevelt and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin discussed the postwar future of Korea. Stalin advocated independence as soon as possible. Roosevelt
a. agreed to immediate independence
b. advocated a trusteeship of 20-30 years, citing the positive example of U.S. rule in the Philippines
c. suggested Korea remain a part of the Japanese Empire, to be occupied by Allied forces.
"In August 1945 defeated Japanese forces formally turned over authority in Korea to the broad-based Committee for the Preparation of Korean Independence, led by Lyuh Woon-hyung, which in September proclaimed the Korean People's Republic (KPR). When U.S. forces under Gen. Reed Hodge arrived in Inchon to accept the Japanese surrender, they
a. ordered all Japanese officials to remain in their posts, refused to recognize Lyuh as national leader, and soon banned all public reference to the KPR
b. recognized Lyuh as the legitimate head of state
c. negotiated with Lyuh to facilitate swift attainment of independence of a united Korea.
"How many people, military plus civilians, died in the Korean War?
a. 500,000-1 million
b. 1 million-2 million
c. about 4 million
Bonus Question:
As of December 31, 2002
"Current South Korean public opinion polls indicate that the foreign country people most fear is
a. the U.S.
b. North Korea
c. China
?
We had about 500 troops in 1950 after using the preceding five years to impose a right-wing dictator, Syngman Rhee and his security forces, that included former Japanese collaborators, on a South Korean population that wanted no part of Rhee or his western benefactors.The North Koreans "invaded" in response to a US occupation that was killing thousands of Koreans who wanted the Americans to go the hell home.I guess the north shouldn't have invaded the south then. You know, that whole actions having consequences thing.
The fact you're too brainwashed to know your own history is the only bull I see.
What nonsense. The north invaded in an attempt to reunify the peninsula under communist rule. They failed and millions of Koreans died as a result. As far as your attempt to blame the US "occupation", we had virtually no troops in Korea at the time the north invaded. Most had been withdrawn the year before.
JakeStarkey:georgephillip, you mind giving us some links that lead to some validated sources?
Link 1 from the Left:
"Korea was a Japanese colony from 1910 to 1945.
"As the Japanese prepared to surrender to the Allies, they did what they did elsewhere in Asia: they turned over power to local people in the hope that the western powers wouldn't colonize, or continue to colonize, Asian nations.
"(One of the principle outcomes of the Pacific War was that it indeed helped produce the end of colonial administrations in the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Malaysia, etc.)
"Leaders of self-governing people's committees opposed to Japanese occupation formed the 'Korean People's Republic' in Seoul on September 6, 1945.
Note: Korean War began 25 June 1950.
"It had a broad-based leadership ranging from right to left.
"When Lieutenant General John R. Hodge, leader of the U.S. occupation of Korea, arrived in Inchon soon thereafter, he ordered Japanese authorities to remain at their posts, refused to acknowledge the newly-formed republic, and indeed even banned all reference to it.
"The U.S. would be in charge of what was seen as a defeated enemy nation. This attitude produced widespread resentment and resistance in Korea.
Imagine that.
Possibly the Koreans who had been united from the 7th Century until 1945 thought they could manage their own country.
One of the few things Koreans from North and South agree on today is that the reason they're no longer united is "due primarily to the actions of the Truman administration and the US military."
North Korea for Dummies
refers to the rebellion on Jeju island, South Korea, beginning on April 3, 1948.
"At the Potsdam Conference (July–August 1945), the Allies unilaterally decided to divide Korea—without consulting the Koreans—in contradiction of the Cairo Conference.[38]:24[46]:24–5[60]:25[61]JakeStarkey:georgephillip, you mind giving us some links that lead to some validated sources?
Link 1 from the Left:
"Korea was a Japanese colony from 1910 to 1945.
"As the Japanese prepared to surrender to the Allies, they did what they did elsewhere in Asia: they turned over power to local people in the hope that the western powers wouldn't colonize, or continue to colonize, Asian nations.
"(One of the principle outcomes of the Pacific War was that it indeed helped produce the end of colonial administrations in the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Malaysia, etc.)
"Leaders of self-governing people's committees opposed to Japanese occupation formed the 'Korean People's Republic' in Seoul on September 6, 1945.
Note: Korean War began 25 June 1950.
"It had a broad-based leadership ranging from right to left.
"When Lieutenant General John R. Hodge, leader of the U.S. occupation of Korea, arrived in Inchon soon thereafter, he ordered Japanese authorities to remain at their posts, refused to acknowledge the newly-formed republic, and indeed even banned all reference to it.
"The U.S. would be in charge of what was seen as a defeated enemy nation. This attitude produced widespread resentment and resistance in Korea.
Imagine that.
Possibly the Koreans who had been united from the 7th Century until 1945 thought they could manage their own country.
One of the few things Koreans from North and South agree on today is that the reason they're no longer united is "due primarily to the actions of the Truman administration and the US military."
North Korea for Dummies
No, the Japanese never turned over power to the conquered peoples because they would have murdered their oppressors, particularly the Korean. I served two tours there, and even then they hated the Japanese.
You did not document thousands of deaths caused by American occupation.
American, British, French, Dutch authorities all had the Japanese maintain civil and police power until the governing nations sent units. If you are suggesting that the Americans supported a continuation of European imperialism at the local inhabitant's right to freedom, you are correct.
Far more death, destruction, and devastation to the peoples and the infrastructure would have occurred if the Japanese had surrendered to the locals. They knew better.
Addendum: having read the rest above, you are anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist who believes the aspirations of the Korean people were thwarted by the imperialists instead of having them thwarted by the native communists. If it is a choice between bad and worse, the South Koreans got the better deal.
Having lived in Korea as an American soldier and later as a civilian, I can tell you the people, although they detested Rhee and later the government of generals, they wanted nothing to do with the communist North other to unify it and put the leaders against the and have them shot.
