4,000 Thousand South Koreans Hold Anti-US Protest Day Before Anniversary of the Start of the Korean War
These protesters may have wanted to rethink their protest date considering the 67th anniversary for the start of the Korean War is this weekend:
Thousands of protesters marched near the U.S. embassy in Seoul on Saturday, accusing U.S. President Donald Trump of “forcing” South Korea to deploy the controversial American missile defense system China opposes.
The protest came as South Korea’s new president Moon Jae-In heads to Washington next week for his first summit with Trump amid soaring tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions.
Around 4,000 people participated in the first anti-U.S. rally under Moon’s presidency. It was also the largest protest since South Korea and the United States agreed to deploy the system, known as the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD).
Protesters marched with placards that read: “Trump, stop forcing (South Korea) to deploy THAAD” and “No THAAD, No Trump.”
The crowd included residents from the southeastern county of Seongju where the system is being deployed. [Korea Times]
You can read more at the link, but Yonhap had the protest number at 3,000.
What I am wondering is how many of these protesters are actually from the village bordered by the THAAD site outside of Seongju? How many were from the anti-US leftist groups that typically turn out to protests like this? You would think that would be basic information a reporter would try and find out.
Secondly their turn out for being a weekend in Seoul is actually quite weak which is an indication of the public support the South Korean leftists have on the THAAD issue. Recent polling data shows that 53% of Koreans support the deployment and 32% are against it. The only thing that I see that could change those numbers in favor of the leftists is if President Trump makes unreasonable compensation demands for the deployment on President Moon. Hitting the pocket books of South Koreans is something that could quickly get the South Korean public to side with the leftist protesters.
Nothing would please me more than to get the hell out of South Korea. They are ungrateful and I think that Kim Jong Un would run over their little spoiled brat army. They are showing no respect for the men and women who died for their freedom. So everyone of them can kiss my A–. And I beg President Trump to pull all the American Troops and equipment our of South Korea and allow Kim Jong Un to have it.
I know it sounds like a joke but I swear I’ve seen that dude in the jungle hat in other protest photos.
US defense contractors make too much money in South Korea to ever leave.
lol americunts. do not think the world is only the US. upgrade your brain cells.
4000 F’ing commies.