http://rokdrop.com/2006/12/04/oplan-5029-raises-its-head-again/ Korea From North to South Thu, 24 May 2012 12:26:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://rokdrop.com/2006/12/04/oplan-5029-raises-its-head-again/comment-page-1/#comment-241512 US & Korea Discuss North Korean Regime Collapse Planning Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:41:42 +0000 http://rokdrop.com/2006/12/10/oplan-5029-raises-its-head-again/#comment-241512 [...] 5029 last came up back in 2006 and the then South Korean Roh Moo-hyun government did not want to do any real planning for fear of [...] [...] 5029 last came up back in 2006 and the then South Korean Roh Moo-hyun government did not want to do any real planning for fear of [...]

]]> http://rokdrop.com/2006/12/04/oplan-5029-raises-its-head-again/comment-page-1/#comment-2159 The Taft-Katsura Agreement; An American Sell Out of Korea? at ROK Drop Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:16:33 +0000 http://rokdrop.com/2006/12/10/oplan-5029-raises-its-head-again/#comment-2159 [...] What concerns me most is these backwards views are slowly but surely making it possible for history to repeat itself.  Korean politicians today are becoming more and more like the Yangban of the Josen dynasty of the late 19th century.  They are more interested in keeping the status quo and cementing their own power than ensuring the national security of the country.  The current leftist government much like the Yangban are highly suspicious of the military and have thus sought to limit the power of the ROK military as much as possible.  Thus you see massive cut backs in soldiers, a lack of national military strategy, along with deliberately causing a complacency within the ranks towards the nation’s main enemy North Korea.  Now combine this with the simultaneous steady degrading of the US-ROK alliance which may ultimately end up with the exit of US forces from Korea and you have a country that has exposed itself to an external military attack, much like in the late 19th century.  There is one main reason why for over 50 years that northeast Asia has been so peaceful, the US military presence.  Another eerie similarity is the fact that Japanese agents had infiltrated and manipulated the Korean government long before the actual Japanese occupation in order to set conditions for the eventual take over of Korea by Japan to happen.  The same thing is happening today as North Korean agents have infiltrated not only the government, but South Korean society as a whole in order to set conditions for a future North Korean take over of the country.  The Japanese were infiltrating Korean society 20 years before the take over of Korea, imagine where South Korea will be in 20 years if North Korea is allowed to continue to manipulate the direction of the country.  [...] [...] What concerns me most is these backwards views are slowly but surely making it possible for history to repeat itself.  Korean politicians today are becoming more and more like the Yangban of the Josen dynasty of the late 19th century.  They are more interested in keeping the status quo and cementing their own power than ensuring the national security of the country.  The current leftist government much like the Yangban are highly suspicious of the military and have thus sought to limit the power of the ROK military as much as possible.  Thus you see massive cut backs in soldiers, a lack of national military strategy, along with deliberately causing a complacency within the ranks towards the nation’s main enemy North Korea.  Now combine this with the simultaneous steady degrading of the US-ROK alliance which may ultimately end up with the exit of US forces from Korea and you have a country that has exposed itself to an external military attack, much like in the late 19th century.  There is one main reason why for over 50 years that northeast Asia has been so peaceful, the US military presence.  Another eerie similarity is the fact that Japanese agents had infiltrated and manipulated the Korean government long before the actual Japanese occupation in order to set conditions for the eventual take over of Korea by Japan to happen.  The same thing is happening today as North Korean agents have infiltrated not only the government, but South Korean society as a whole in order to set conditions for a future North Korean take over of the country.  The Japanese were infiltrating Korean society 20 years before the take over of Korea, imagine where South Korea will be in 20 years if North Korea is allowed to continue to manipulate the direction of the country.  [...]

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