By President Bush last year began efforts to encourage nations allied with the US like South Korea to join NATO. Now the US Congress is making the same efforts to expand NATO globally:
NATO should seriously consider expanding into a global alliance including democratic countries such as Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Israel, a senior member of Congress said on Friday.
Rep. Tom Lantos, a California Democrat, noted some non-member countries have carried big responsibilities as partners with the 26-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
This is just another example of how little the US government understands the Korean peninsula just like the CSIS report released last month suggests.
Why would Korea want to join NATO in the first place? What benefits would Korea get out of it that it isn’t already getting from the US-ROK Alliance? NATO membership would just mean more global responsibilities for South Korea, would piss off China, the lunatic left in South Kora, backed by their North Korean puppet masters would come out in full force against it, and NATO membership would give no financial benefits to the country.
3:12 pm on June 26th, 2007 1
Yup. Pretty bone-head idea and showing an ignorance about Korean society too.
The only way it would make sense is if the US were looking for items to create tension between the two so it could build toward a downsizing of troops (reformation of USFK).
Since that seems like a totally, totally dead horse, my money would have to go on ignorance being behind this stupid idea.
It would be a great way to make NATO more irrevelant…
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6:03 pm on June 26th, 2007 2
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7:43 pm on June 26th, 2007 3
Yes well not only does this piss of Koreans but the fact they built the neew day care center right next to the onpost housed people just is wrong.
The same people who have cars now have daycare across the street from them while people without cars living off post have to struggle each day to get their kids in for care.
Again this is a fine example of the post being designed by those who have cars and live on post.
I am still trying to figure out why they would name the new baseball park “independence Park” Independence from what…..NOT HAVING to take a CAB or a BUS or WALK to this field
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9:51 pm on June 26th, 2007 4
If we ask Japan, Korea will want to join.
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1:45 am on June 27th, 2007 5
Not to mention the fact that NATO would have to change its catchy name.
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6:48 am on June 27th, 2007 6
NATOPlus
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7:26 am on June 27th, 2007 7
If we ask Japan, Korea and China will flip out…then Korea will join…
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