U.S. Prepares To Limit Relationship With Pakistan

[Xavier_Onassis]

You are unaware of why the north attacked the south.  The south was sending assassins into the north to kill all the partisans that had opposed the Japanese they could find. Syngman Rhee and his pals were basically puppets of the Japanese during the occupation. Also, the US did not station enough troops in the south to defend it. Like most Americans, you seem to know little of the history of Korea before Theodore Roosevelt said "The Japanese should have Korea", and moved in and set up a colony.  Prior to the Japanese takeover, about 80% of Koreans were basically serfs to the aristocracy. The Korean aristocracy that resisted were killed by the Japanese, but those who collaborated became their flunkies. They were the nucleus of the government that was set up in the South after WWII. The point is that it was NOT a struggle between ourt good guys and their bad guys.
 
South Korea was certainly NOT inoffensive in the late 40's and early 1950's.

The US is not going to attack North Korea, and any attacks that the North engages in will be limited.

[Plane]

Assassins?

That does not have any ring of truth.

The North attacked the South because they thought they could get away with it.

They came pretty close, the south was purposefully underarmed , there were not even any tanks present, it was someones idea that North Korea should not attack because the South ws no threat.

     Being no threat was the very reason that the South was attacked.

     If we were certain that North Korea was going to attack us or our allies with Atomic bombs then any thing other than attacking them first would be terribly foolish.

     I hope we have an inside track like a stuxnet to keep their bombs fizzling. Lots cheaper than slamming them.

[BSB]

The problem with our increasingly limited relationship with Pakistan has zero to do with whether they get into a nuclear exchange with India or not. The problem is we won't be able to keep an eye on their small, compared to ours, but substantial nonetheless, nuclear arsenal.

The same is true with North Korea. If they nuke the South that would put an end to the Hyundai/Kia which is good for Detroit. But if one of their nukes gets out in the world, because of a power struggle there, that could become a direct threat to the homeland. Our homeland.


BSB

P.S.  Only slightly joking.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I agree that the possibility of runaway nukes as being the main problem with Pakistan and North Korea.

There is little published in English about Korean history about the period between the Japanese defeat and the start of the Korean War. Korea was greatly polarized at the time and only recently have factual accounts in English become available. Read Cumins' North Korea:Another Country as a start.

The really serious works on this have been written by Korean exiles in other countries and Korean academics in the last ten years or so.

It is not a Goodies vs Baddies story.