Peace and Reunification activists in Seoul hold a protest by the statue of warmonger Douglas McArthur! The protestors were calling for the immediate withdrawal of all US forces in south Korea and for peaceful reunification on the Korean peninsula.
Peace and Reunification activists in Seoul hold a protest by the statue of warmonger Douglas McArthur! The protestors...
Mason Thomas
Ryan Thomas
REUNIFICATION NOW
Isaiah Ramirez
Any more pics or articles?
Adrian Jones
Having a McArthur statue in Korea is like having a Hitler statue in Russia (or really anywhere, but especially bad in that case), it's absolutely depraved.
Daniel Wright
Few people in Korea want reunification, most South Koreans know that they'd have to rebuild/subsidize the north while North Koreans don't want to live in a Chinese-style country where capitalist enterprises are dominant. Which is why the goal of the recent talks isn't reunification, it's merely both agreeing to both recognizing each other as sovereign, independent nations which allows for embassies to be built and a US pullout as DMZ patrol duties are handed to law enforcement.
Not really, since MacArthur wasn't allowed to nuke his way to Beijing like he wanted. Truman stopped him before he could do that, which is the opposite of how Hitler treated Eastern Europe.
Grayson Adams
Hitler wasn't allowed to invade his way past Moscow.
Nathaniel Jenkins
That is a complete lie, reunification is extremely popular in the ROK and DPRK.
Justin Lopez
I didn't know that statue existed.
How can a country allow this shamless display of imperialism ?
John Gonzalez
By being militarily occupied by the US.
Colton Baker
That's only because he didn't have the toolset MacArthur did (long range bombers and nukes). Truman stopped him before he could start WW3 with China/Russia, forcing a US retreat to the current DMZ. In Hitler's case he would have let his armies bomb everything to the Pacific, while America's civilian leadership (again, Truman) stopped MacArthur before he went into China and forced him to retreat, ultimately resulting in his resignation.
The same can also be said of JFK in regards to the Bay of Pigs invasion, which failed because he refused to allow air support to fly in and bomb Cuba. The CIA remains bitter over this, as they are bitter over both NK and Asia (note how they're actively trying to sabotage peace talks by "leaking" fake news about Kim trying to hide nukes instead of disarming).
Only by people who haven't thought of the financial or political consequences. South Korean businesses don't want to have their gains taxed while North Korean bureaucrats don't want to deal with a powerful corporate lobby or a media spotlight. The current situation cannot continue but both are fine as separate entities with their own worlds, especially considering that having two separate states allows the US to exit while trade and exchange can occur. Things that ultimately lead to reunification anyway, if not formally then culturally.
And again to reiterate, the US is willing to leave if both just agree to recognize each other and not invade each other. This itself is a positive step in SK becoming truly independent.
Bentley Roberts
some people really do not like communism, especially people who fought against them and support the existing regime
Hunter Ross
Only because the USSR had the capability to fight back and was a serious threat. How the fuck can you defend MacArthur?
You mean basically all people in the DPRK, and the vast majority of ROK workers (see pic 1, blue line is support for one-state unification – support for a confederated unification is higher). Oh, and the 80% of ROK citizens who trust Kim Jong-un?
time.com
More lies. First of all, the unification proposed by the DPRK is a confederation with two separate systems. ROK businesses would not be taxed. On the other hand, they are salivating at the chance to conduct trade with China and the DPRK via railways (pic 2), and of course they would also like to be able to purchase ores, fuel, and minerals from the DPRK.
businessinsider.com.au
citylab.com
Again, the corporate lobby is not their problem as it would be a "one country, two systems" unification. The entire WPK is united in its demand for unification and the end of sanctions. Unification (which would necessarily include end of sanctions) would mean a massive boost in prosperity for workers in the DPRK and would further solidify the gains and political status of the DPRK and WPK. It is also the dream of Korean nationalism.
You are a rank chauvinist talking out your ass, you need to shut the fuck up.
A minority of comprador fascists. Syngman Rhee had to murder hundreds of thousands of people in the South to suppress unification sentiment. The majority of ROK people support unification of their motherland.
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Nathan James
I'm not, I'm saying that America's civilian leadership had to step in to restrain him which is exactly what Truman did.
From your article:
Trusting him =! wanting him to be their leader or wanting to share a government with him. All Koreans want is peace, and peace is extremely unlikely if they attempt to unify whereas peace is guaranteed if they (and America) decide to recognize each other and treat each other as equals. Which is ultimately what Trump is fighting for because Trump has other priorities to deal with, just as JFK did in regards to Vietnam and Cuba. And again, it is worth repeating that both countries can still end up choosing reunification after agreeing on a border, embassies, and diplomacy in general. But that's a few steps beyond what America, SK companies, and NK's leadership is willing to tolerate right now. Hence why they focus on something simple like a train project, rather than a top-down modernization of NK's entire public works (which would include their prisons).
Yes, they want to exploit the DPRK a thing the DPRK leadership does not want. A confederation is not going to happen for this reason because neither side is going to compromise, be it company mafias treating workers like shit or workers organizing into armed unions. The only way anyone gets to this point is through diplomacy, a situation that only happens if both are considered two equally sovereign and independent nations.
Jaxson Cruz
Re-unification even that of the One country two systems type is a con to make the DPRK implement market reforms and to open it up to regime change operations
James Reed
You need to shut your mouth, you can't refute a single thing I have said. All you can do is ignore the blatant and open desire for unification among Koreans.
Anthony Roberts
I did refute what you said: Koreans want peace, not unification. Unification doesn't benefit anybody except maybe American businesses who'd use their influence in Seoul to strongarm their way through North Korea, like they used the BDR to enter into the DDR.
Despite Trump being an imperialist he's moving this process forward because he wants to use the US troops stationed in Korea elsewhere, say to keep Iraq occupied. And he's doing this despite constant attempts within his party and his cabinet to sabotage it by leaking false and misleading statements to the media, who want to goad him into breaking off negotiations and going to war with a Bush-style preliminary strike. Trump having US diplomats sit down at a table with NK diplomats is an affront to everything Pence, Mattis, Bolton etc have all done in the service of promoting war (see Mattis's statement about the Olympic games not affecting relations much, even though everyone else knows it does).
This is ultimately a triumph for NK anyway, because instead of being a target for US bombers they're probably going to get official recognition of their statehood and an embassy. This lets them exist, which itself angers all the older imperialists within America. The only way this happens is without reunification, because the only way the US moves troops out is if everyone agrees to diplomacy.
Colton Sanchez
Except they literally want unification. Fuck off you lying, chauvinistic sack of shit.
Ian Walker
A few protesters does not make an entire country. Most Koreans aren't ideologically driven, like most sane people they just want to live their lives. A major war would disrupt that, as would trying to merge two (at present) incompatible societies together. Even the people most annoyed at the US military presence realize that unification would only invite an American military response/coup, and that ultimately treating North Korea as an equal lets them engage in the work that inevitably creates cultural unification (then formal unification) anyway.
More importantly, by having both Koreas recognize each other (and America recognizing both), both get the ability to be fully independent and determine their own futures, including a future where they reunify.
Jonathan Scott
You're literally lying and making shit up. You haven't refuted anything I posted.
Wyatt Taylor
especially when you kill all off them
Nicholas Long
I did, and instead of trying to argue the facts you're just denying everything for no real reason.
Leo Jackson
Daily reminder that the North started the Korean war then cried for 60 years after their invasion force got owned
Nathaniel Jackson
The obliteration of capitalism is a moral obligation of communism. Their invasion force didn't get "owned" by the way. They pretty much cucked the shit out of the amerifat puppets down in worst korea.
Wyatt Martinez
communism is when there's a hereditary monarchy with a god king lol
Parker Russell
Isaac Butler
herditary monarchy controlling mop =/= workers controlling mop liberal
James Brown
fucking nothing is past Moscow you dumb fat american
Mason Gutierrez
That is what the DPRK has though.
Hudson Hernandez
this
Cooper Rivera
I didn't deny it I just said it would be a bad idea
Alexander Cook
why the fuck is Danny DeVito there?
Jose Brown
The Soviets had the bomb by then, it would have set off a nuclear war that would have destroyed the bourgeois' monopoly on the MoP. McArthur, like any solider of the West, is simply an attack dog, and his masters' reigned him in.
Gabriel Peterson
I thing during that time they also had a plan for a full scale nuclear war. The Soviet Union did not have nearly enough nukes and the Americans were just that genocidal enough they could enact it without a sweat.
I personally don't know if the air defences of the Union could take out the bombers in time if they did invade.
Ryan Morris
Underrated