Thanks.
Very good explanation about the mentality of Koreans.

I see your point on who the koreans pick to critcize. I like to explain it with the “PC” Effect. Russia and China would not care what korea said about them. So for Korea it would be a waist of breath. Now US and to a lesser extent Japan, really do care what is said, so in this way korea gains a foot hold with the “victim” card. If US was as evil as korea seems to proclame, well they would be too frightened to say a word about it. They would pay US money not to hurt them and keep mouth shut. But US is victim of “PC” mentality, and therefore can be easily pushed around with words. The koreans not only know this, but depend on it. When I was in korea in the 90s a korean friend refered to US as a “paper Tiger”. For better or worse, depending on your outlook, Iraq changed that. Now US is warmonger.

Glad you brought that up.

The point is the reason why they hate Americans and Japanese only which are very friendly countries to Korea?
Why they don’t criticize Russia which divided Korean peninsula with US?
Why they don’t criticize China which had conquered Korea for hundreds years and invaded Korea during Korean War?

I think this fact shows very interesting mentality of Koreans.
I hope you would make a new thread to analyze about this question some day.

I said such kind scientific study about number of casualties in No Gun Ri doesn’t work to Koreans.

Even if you succeed to deny No Gun Ri massacre completely with so many evidences, they will find another fault of Americans and continue to criticize US.

Katsura-Taft agreement, Division of Korean peninsula, Korean comfort stations called “Texas” for American GIs, crimes of GIs…..

There are so many topics they could use to criticize US.
They can use anything to criticize US if they have an intention to do so with any kind of efforts.
Why?
Criticizing foreigners and pretending to be victims…..
It is their style to show their nationalism.

Even the traffic accident of GI was called “massacre” in Korea and so many malicious stories were fabricated. You know.

I know you love Korea.
Korea must be your second mother country.

However, it is not easy to treat Korea’s jingoism.
It is not the matter of logic.

A tragedy did happen at No Gun Ri what I’m disputing is the motivations of the soldiers, the sequence of events, and the body count mythology. Most veterans put the body count around 10-15 I can’t find a scenario where it could have exceeded 50. The fact nothing was found tends to suggest that 50 is probably even too high of a number now and the lower number from the veterans is probably the most accurate.

“the latest excavation failed to recover even a single bone or remains.”

It would not be persuadable for illogical Koreans because they started to criticize Americans without evidences in the first place.

When Japanese insisted that there was no evidence that Japanese government ordered to coerce Koreans women to be comfort women, they said Japan was hiding the evidences.

It means they started to criticize Japan without concrete evidence.

I know the controversy of No Gun Ri would not end even if they found there were no remains there.

They criticize Americans because they hate Americans.
No Gun Ri is just excuse for them to criticize US.

Korean’s anti-US sentiment is similar to anti-Japan sentiment.
They are twins of Korea’s nationalism and jingoism.