Skirmisher
05-29-2005, 12:11 PM
Alright, I can understand North Korean protesters, but come on, South Korean students who have an immensely better quality of life, who have the opportunity to even GET a university education and who owe even their freedom to protest in the first place to those same US forces does piss me off.
We buy their products, we send our troops there to maintain the border for decades AFTER sending tens of thousands to be killed or wounded in combat and have long been a location they were extremely happy to be able to send their children for a college degree.
Yes yes, I am well aware thet the US involved itself in the Korean conflict out of our own self interest, but regardless of why, the fact remains that without the aid from the US, what is now South Korea would not exist on the geopolitical maps of today.
Someone needs to slap these kids around a bit.
South Korean Students Hold Anti-U.S. Rally <------Yahoo News Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050529/ap_on_re_as/skorea_us_protest)
Thousands of South Korean students rallying Sunday against the U.S. military's five-decade presence clashed with police after trying to enter the American base, and at least 12 people were injured and more than 20 were arrested.
Demonstrators marched through Seoul before attempting to enter the main Yongsan U.S. military base in the city center. They called for the withdrawal of the 32,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War.
Demonstrators also gathered near the U.S. Embassy in downtown Seoul demanding talks with the ambassador.
Television pictures showed masked protesters repeatedly charging helmeted riot police, who wielded truncheons and carried shields. At one point, students lay in the street outside the base, chanting and clapping.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency said the protest was the largest of its kind in recent years.
Such rallies were common in the 1980s and 1990s but have lately given way to peaceful candlelight vigils. There were no exact figures on the number of protesters, although Yonhap said they numbered in the thousands.
Several thousand U.S. soldiers based in South Korea have been reassigned to Iraq, and more are slated to depart in the next few years, leaving about 24,500.
We buy their products, we send our troops there to maintain the border for decades AFTER sending tens of thousands to be killed or wounded in combat and have long been a location they were extremely happy to be able to send their children for a college degree.
Yes yes, I am well aware thet the US involved itself in the Korean conflict out of our own self interest, but regardless of why, the fact remains that without the aid from the US, what is now South Korea would not exist on the geopolitical maps of today.
Someone needs to slap these kids around a bit.
South Korean Students Hold Anti-U.S. Rally <------Yahoo News Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050529/ap_on_re_as/skorea_us_protest)
Thousands of South Korean students rallying Sunday against the U.S. military's five-decade presence clashed with police after trying to enter the American base, and at least 12 people were injured and more than 20 were arrested.
Demonstrators marched through Seoul before attempting to enter the main Yongsan U.S. military base in the city center. They called for the withdrawal of the 32,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War.
Demonstrators also gathered near the U.S. Embassy in downtown Seoul demanding talks with the ambassador.
Television pictures showed masked protesters repeatedly charging helmeted riot police, who wielded truncheons and carried shields. At one point, students lay in the street outside the base, chanting and clapping.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency said the protest was the largest of its kind in recent years.
Such rallies were common in the 1980s and 1990s but have lately given way to peaceful candlelight vigils. There were no exact figures on the number of protesters, although Yonhap said they numbered in the thousands.
Several thousand U.S. soldiers based in South Korea have been reassigned to Iraq, and more are slated to depart in the next few years, leaving about 24,500.