This article makes me angry

https://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/htm...00709050067.asp

Korea is throwing its hat everything into the surefire loser's pot.

Why Korea wants to break away from an alliance with a country that has given the greatest peace and prosperity that Korea has ever known in its two thousand year history?

Instead, Korea is thinking about joining the other side. This is just terrible and unbelievable. The other side, will undoubtely use us, then spit us out once their
done with us. The leftwing governments of Kim Dae Jung and Roh Mu Hyun are the culprits. They've pushed all our allies away, while cozying up to the Axis of North Korea and China. It's time for Koreans to awaken from this irrational love affair with China and stop protecting and codling them so much.

lee myung bak he is anti-china political.
of course i will vote him.as next president..
guess,,,who are korea,s future,enemy,,
korean all know it

when you say "alliance" you refer to the big power that has been protecting us and building troops on our soil. But seriously, I wonder if they'd still consider us as an "ally" now after the hostage incident. Who can trust whom these days? America and Japan aren't as close as they were, China and North Korea were never friends except the korean war period. The best solution for Korea is to maintain its current relationship with America, Japan, China, Russia and even North Korea, while keep making them cash money.

korea's future friends?
North Korea, Iran, and of course the Taliban

Enemies?
Themselves

north korea is our brothers
must be unity
but wtf ? iran,,taleban??
noone care for them they all to be die or be killed or be eraserd on the earth

SK's future alliance will be Turkey, Israel, France, and Japan. (i.e. SK have no choice to join with Japan as SK don't want any problems with closest-neighbors). may be Taiwan, as I've Taiwan wants closer relationship with SK, so far it has improved.

SK's future enemies will be Islamic fundamentals (i.e. Taliban), and PRC.

SK's nuetral relation will be India, Iran, Pakis, US, Britsh and may be Russia. Not too sure about NK, will they be able to survive until then?

Nearly everyone's enemy will be one mighty CHINA. Don't know why, but I guess everyone is feeling heat from China.

If there is going to be any WW, the it will be between CHINA VS rest of the World. may be Taliban & Pakis will join China as autonomous state of Islamic Pakistan under China's regime.

Honestly, if you think about it Vietnam will be one of Korea's most reliable allie in the future because Vietnam has good relationship with both North and South Korea. We even send food to North Korea regularly and recently donated some money for floods.

maybe the US sell S.korea interest to Russia. So that two koreas can unify and develope econ cooperation with Russia.

Russia has huge huge amount of natural resources. It needs technology and smarts to develop and manage those.

S.Korea benefit by receiving space tech. experts from Russia.

Yes, Vietnam, I forgot. Vietnam is highly likley join SK as friend after all they too feels heat from China.

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Yay! more trolls! WOOOOOOOOO.

This is Asiafinest after all

Back to the topic, there are no absolutes in international geopolitics-often designations of 'potential adversaries' turn out to be self fulfilling.

In the case of the ROK:

Allies: USA, Japan (if both your countries stop the flow of accusations and counter accusations, get over Yakusuni and solve the Dokdo/Tsushima mess), EU countries, Australia

Unknown: PRC (issues over US basing, support for North Korea), Russia (both countries have highly opportunistic foreign policies but Russia should remain neutral towards ROK in thenext 20-30yrs)

Adversaries: North Korea

You can pretty much tell from this list the future.

bangaroo:

Are you seriously considering Japan to be your future new best friend? from what i know, the country has tried to annex your peninsula at least 3 times in the past 1000 years.

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On the contrary, prior to the nuclear crisis and China's eventual exploitation of North Korea, North Korea's biggest trade partner was Japan.

Korea has and needs no friends, except for maybe blood brother Turkey. The ROK army and navy is the world's strongest military, no one dares to threaten Korea!

you sound ignorant & you sound like you have no friends
everyone needs friends
Korea needs China, Japan, and all Asian countries to suceed. And U.S. military to survive

And you need your anti-psychosis drug. Now go troll elsewhere.

Enemy? America, China, Japan is their enemy.

Korea doesn't need anyone. Everyone tries to force their way in.

Enemy of enemy is Korea's best friend - Japan is our next friend (sounds bit awkward but that's how will be turn out).

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Ignore the troll, just report the retard.

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The Bush administration was Korea's enemy in hostage crisis. A different US government will be praised in South Korea.

wana get colonize again? lol

We'll worry about that after China has turned into a parking lot.

korea ally country = US ,
can join ally RUSSIA .INDIA,. mongol. khazahstan,
and even possible ally = japan and roc (becoz they are democracy country)

Seriously speaking, in terms of close military alliance: US & Japan.

Economic wise: China.

As for enemies, say hello to your fellow brethrens & cousins in North Korea, eveready to spam you with arty & Scuds misiles.

north korea is not enemy
north korea is our brother
s korean think

north korea is a part of korea

never, unlike koreans we chinese will fight to our last men like we did during WWII.

I guess you can't even remember your own country's history. Ever heard of the Long March?

not sure which one ur referring coz there is one where communist is escaping from the chinese nationalist's encirclement and there is a long march by the chinese expeditionary troops to Bruma to help british fight japanese.

This is extremely difficult to predict, because the situation changes every day and a former enemy becomes friend, and friend enemy.


In 2020, I'd predict:

1) China is the main enemy
2) North Korea will have fallen behind so much that it is nearly irrelevant, in fact may even be an ally or unified
3) Japan may be a best friend, or fierce rival
4) Russia may be an ally depending on how it perceives China. If it sees China as friendly, then Russia may be hostile to South Korea.
5) South Korea will have cold relations with the USA.

China main enemy? Why would anyone think that? They are relatively closest and been ally with Korea the longest. If anything Korea would probably ally with China than some western power that is thousands of miles away.

Interesting. Why?

1. You need to pay more attention to some of the discussions on China threat on AF. Who would think that, you ask. Majority of Koreans consider China the greatest threat in the next decade, and Koreans have the most negative view in the world on China's military and economic growth.

2. Learn some history.

I agree with most of it except for 5). SK's relations with USA will start improving once the current anti-American president is out of office for good. But if Korea forms some kind of strategic relations with Russia or even Japan, yeah I guess it's possible that relations between SK and US won't be as good. Then again, I don't see much of a possibility for a strategic relations between SK and Russia and Japan.

dude, u cant possibly ask ppl to ally with u when we being occupying and mistreat them in the past.

1. So you are saying America's military and economic growth isn't a threat to Korea? Why is China the only threat? Please enlighten me.

2. Oh I learned history just fine.

You think being occupied and mistreated by America is okay?

That majority of Koreans consider China the greatest threat in the next decade, and Koreans have the most negative view in the world on China's military and economic growth are not my personal opinions, but statements of fact. The reasons why China is a threat to Korea has been discussed extensively at AF for quite some time, so you don't need to look far to see the reasons behind the China threat.

If you really did learn Korean history, then you'd know that it's dubious to claim that "China" was for the longest "ally" of Korea, because Korean kingdoms allied with different Chinese kingdoms to hold other Chinese kingdoms at bay, and Chinese also invaded Korea many times, more so than the Japanese.

Who's occupying what now? Go study geopolitics you cretin. Americans only knock around weak and enfeebled states (Americans, you can't exactly deny this). Chines on the other hand, have gone to wars with te Indians, Soviets, the Vietnamese.... You tell me who's got the treatening track record out of the two in th last 50 years.

name calling (persona attack) has been reported.

Last time I checked American soldiers are in Korea occupying.

You took votes of all Koreans? Perhaps Koreans have negative view of Chinese because of American oppression towards Koreans.

America is no saint either. I say we kick both China and America out. They're looking out is for their interests. NOT Koreans.

What the fu-king hell? I know of Chinese oppression towards Tibetans and some of the other ethnic minorities in Chinese occupied territories, but I know of no American oppression towards Koreans. And my statements on Koreans' perception of China were from surveys based on reliable statistics with probability sampling.



They're looking out for their interests, but the US shares mutual interests with Korea - kick China out, keep it out and keep it in a corner.



Korea is very much a sovereign nation, unlike Tibet, so your concern for "American occupation" is unnecessary.

The same old audio tape of anti-China propaganda just keeps going, going, and going. What an useless and brainless thread!

An interesting blog: http://silkstreet.wordpress.com/2007/10/24...to-split-china/

Apparently South Koreans have exterior motives to see China being fragmented. Just so they can steal Chinese territory. I wonder why there are several South Korean radicals spewing lies about China on this board.

China has its rightful place in the world. No one can deny that. But that rightful place does not include Korea. Korea's destiny is complete independence, reunification and absolute freedom from foreign domination. Whatever the past may have been, America does not dominate Korea today. American forces will remain in Korea until either of the following events occurs: (1) The Korean people through their government ask us to leave, or (2) The Korean people turn hostile to the American people. Remember, American forces vacated Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark Air Force Base when asked by the government of the PI.

We all know Korea's views towards Chinese are skewed. Well I know that you favor America than anything else so you are programmed to say those things.




You got me there. I'm a realist not some stupid $hit who needs to side with someone who are really oppressed. Chinese needs to be stopped along with America however.



Korea only favors America and nothing else. Even emulating American culture. To me that's not a sovereign nation.

Then you should learn what sovereign means.

Emulation does not equal loss of sovereignty.

If a country (or a gov. chosen by the people) choose to emulate something, THAT is sovereignty. Being forced to conform is a lose of sovereignty.

Why do you have to take word for word everything he says?