Presidential Candidate Says ROK Could Become the Ukraine of Asia
I don’t know what point Sim Sang-jung as trying to make because it appears she wants the ROK to not pursue new weapons programs because it would upset North Korea and China? If Ukraine did not have advanced anti-tank and aircraft weapons right now they would have already lost the war. Is this what Ms. Sim wants for the ROK if attacked? If anything should be learned from Ukraine it is that the ROK needs to be militarily advanced and have strong friends to deter the threats from China and North Korea:
South Korea could become “the Ukraine of Asia” in the event of conflict between its ally the United States and its neighbor China, the progressive candidate for South Korean president said during a recent televised debate.
Sim Sang-jung, a National Assembly lawmaker and a former leader of the minority Justice Party, explained her vision for South Korea’s foreign policy on Friday as Russia continued its invasion of Ukraine. Sim and three other candidates are competing in the election March 9.
In her remarks, Sim compared South Korea’s relationships with China and the United States to the ongoing instability in Eastern Europe. Seoul’s relations with Beijing are experiencing a “breakdown,” and talk by other candidates of bolstering South Korea’s weapons programs may cause “considerable tension on the Korean Peninsula,” Sim said during the debate.
“We should learn from what happened in Ukraine now,” she said. “So, to speak, we can be the Ukraine of Asia when some strategic balance in northeast Asia collapses.”
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ROK has had a Mutual Defense Treaty with the USA since 1 October 1953.
Ukraine had no defense treaty with the USA.
China has no interest in a military takeover of the ROK … as that would require taking over North Korea and its 25 million serfs.
China does not need another 25 million to drag out of poverty.
Sim Sang-jung has been drinking the QAnon Kool-Aid.
South Korea can already beat North Korea.
South Korea cannot beat China if, for some unimaginable reason, China wanted to attack South Korea. A couple more radars or an aircraft carrier won’t change that.
Tokdo is a toss-up with the Japanese.
Nobody is going to invade SK.
But NK can hassle SK and tie up the entangling alliance of America while China engages in other mischief.
NK could drop a few shells into Seoul and have 20 million South Koreans with no food, water, or plan fleeing South. What a shytshow that would be. “Korean Evacuation” would replace “Chinese Fire Drill”…
…though “Beat a Korean Retreat” has a ring to it.
What’s America going to do? Ban all drinking and go on double secret alert?
Will they bomb a city or other civilan-heavy target? No. Probably just drop some flashy bombs on the mountains where guns reside, declare victory, and quietly ask how much wheat they want not to do it again.
Oh. Look. While we were fiddlefùcking around with that and designing mandatory homo training, somebody put a mainland Chinese flag up in Taipei.
How, is Korea involved with the Biden crime syndicate?