As an American whose taxes will pay for our troops in Korea until I die, I think we should have stayed out of the Korean conflict. It's true they have a decent enconomy in the South, and the cars they make are ok, but our involvement made the conflict go on for decades, and it may continue for centuries. SK and NK bait each other like children on a playground, and once again the US has to keep them from killing each other. Will SK ever have a self-sufficient defense against its enemy to the North, or will it always hide behind other countries? Perhaps this war needed to end as Vietnam did (but with fewer American casualties before us pulling out), so that Korea could work out its own social problems without millions starving on barely-arable Northern land.
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