The Cause of Anti-American Feelings in Korea
Why anti-American feelings in Korea? It can be easily understood if one traces the history of Korean division. Basically, it is manifestation of the sorrow of Korean people over the division of their motherland and they believe that U.S. is mainly responsible for their misfortune.
It all started when U.S. and Soviet Union agreed to the division and occupation of Korean peninsula at the Yalta Conference toward the end of WW II. The reason for the divided occupation was because no one wanted emergence of anti-Soviet or anti-American regime in the peninsula in the aftermath of the war. It was their intention to continue occupation until establishment of a neutral government was guaranteed. It was apparent in such a situation that Korean people should have agreed to neutral Korean peninsular like post-war Austria.
Unfortunately, U.S. and Soviets soon entered the cold war era and each established its own puppet regime in north and south. Resulting division is still continuing to this date. Patriotic nationalist leaders like Kim Koo, who pleaded a unified neutral government, was assassinated by traitors in the South who had sold their motherland to foreign occupiers.
Soviet troops have long gone but U.S. military is still occupying the South and turned South Korea into their permanent military bases. U.S. has ruled the semi-colonial country for more than half a century by supporting pro-U.S. dictators who suppressed aspiration of Korean people for democracy and unification of their country.
Korean unification is not on U.S. agenda. Only U.S. objective is perpetuation of the division and occupation. For any Koreans who aspire for reunification, it is obvious to them that U.S. is their enemy. U.S. is obstructing unification rather than helping rapproachment of North and South.
It is high time for U.S. to understand this logic and national feelings of Korean people and start thinking about Korean unification, either through military force or peaceful means. Of course, peaceful means will be preferable to war if it can be realized.
If U.S. has no will or means to achieve unification, they are advised to withdraw and leave Korea to Koreans themselves. Whether they will achieve unification by war or by peaceful means is their own business. If Koreans are so stupid as to resort to war to resolve their difference, so be it. History has shown that only way to solve any difference in the civil war is a war, as in U.S. Civil War, Spanish Civil War and more recently the Vietnam War.
Refer to my Korean Blog.
http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/johnkim100530@verizon.net/155
It all started when U.S. and Soviet Union agreed to the division and occupation of Korean peninsula at the Yalta Conference toward the end of WW II. The reason for the divided occupation was because no one wanted emergence of anti-Soviet or anti-American regime in the peninsula in the aftermath of the war. It was their intention to continue occupation until establishment of a neutral government was guaranteed. It was apparent in such a situation that Korean people should have agreed to neutral Korean peninsular like post-war Austria.
Unfortunately, U.S. and Soviets soon entered the cold war era and each established its own puppet regime in north and south. Resulting division is still continuing to this date. Patriotic nationalist leaders like Kim Koo, who pleaded a unified neutral government, was assassinated by traitors in the South who had sold their motherland to foreign occupiers.
Soviet troops have long gone but U.S. military is still occupying the South and turned South Korea into their permanent military bases. U.S. has ruled the semi-colonial country for more than half a century by supporting pro-U.S. dictators who suppressed aspiration of Korean people for democracy and unification of their country.
Korean unification is not on U.S. agenda. Only U.S. objective is perpetuation of the division and occupation. For any Koreans who aspire for reunification, it is obvious to them that U.S. is their enemy. U.S. is obstructing unification rather than helping rapproachment of North and South.
It is high time for U.S. to understand this logic and national feelings of Korean people and start thinking about Korean unification, either through military force or peaceful means. Of course, peaceful means will be preferable to war if it can be realized.
If U.S. has no will or means to achieve unification, they are advised to withdraw and leave Korea to Koreans themselves. Whether they will achieve unification by war or by peaceful means is their own business. If Koreans are so stupid as to resort to war to resolve their difference, so be it. History has shown that only way to solve any difference in the civil war is a war, as in U.S. Civil War, Spanish Civil War and more recently the Vietnam War.
Refer to my Korean Blog.
http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/johnkim100530@verizon.net/155
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