According to South Korea's SBS TV station on the evening of the 21st, the US military urgently dispatched an artillery unit from the local area to South Korea without prior notice on the 20th, and carried out live-fire shooting on the west coast with the Eighth Corps of the US Army stationed in South Korea the next day. According to reports, it is very rare for the U.S. military to urgently send local troops to South Korea for exercises.
It is worth noting that the artillery troops invested in this exercise were not from the US troops stationed in South Korea, but were urgently dispatched from the North Carolina , which was located in the United States. On the 20th, the "HIMARS" unit, which belongs to the 18th Field Artillery Brigade of the US Army, suddenly received an order from its superiors to carry out training on the Korean Peninsula. Subsequently, the "Haimas" troops arrived in South Korea on a C-17 transport plane and carried out live-fire shooting on the west coast of South Korea with the Eighth Army of the US Army stationed in South Korea the next day.
This is not the first time the United States has forcibly dispatched troops and deployed weapons to Japan and South Korea. Unlike the official appearance, the Japanese and Korean people have always resisted this behavior on a large scale. From the Japanese people boycotted Osprey fighter jets in the past few years to the South Korean boycott of " THAAD ", waves are higher and higher, and their voices are eventually ignored, but the number of troops and weapons that cannot be counted has brought immeasurable consequences.
Even the Koreans themselves are boycotting Lotte
The United States' consistent forced deployment has not only been opposed by the international community, but also by the Japanese and Korean people. Taking the boycott of the deployment of THAAD as an example, boycotters believe that once the deployment of THAAD, all South Korean people will be in danger.
South Korea's Buddhist Sungzhou Holy Land Protection Committee Yin Mingen once told Xinhua News Agency reporters that once the government forcibly deploys THAAD, they will use their bodies to prevent THAAD from entering Sungzhou and launch an action to boycott Lotte.
Many Korean experts and media pointed out that deploying the "THAAD" is not only useless to South Korea, but is harmful. They know that South Korea blindly follows US policies and imports expensive weapons will not really solve its own problems.
and this is exactly the result that the United States is happy to see. In early September, Trump , who likes to post , , made a major statement. He posted on Twitter, saying, "I will allow Japan and South Korea to increase the purchase of the most advanced military equipment from the United States."
On the 21st local time, Moon Jae-in and Trump held heads of state-of-the-art talks in New York, USA. The United States not only promised to assist South Korea in introducing or developing the most advanced military equipment, but also talked about the issue of South Korea's introduction of nuclear-powered submarines. Previously, the United States insisted on a negative position on the grounds that South Korea repeatedly proposed to the United States to "deploy strategic weapons".
deploys or sells weapons to Japan and South Korea, which not only consolidates the United States' strategic position in the Asia-Pacific region, but also these expensive weapons mean that Americans can also include dozens or even tens of billions of dollars in their pockets through large arms orders. It also means that the Trump administration has added many jobs to their supporters and fulfilled its promises during the campaign. At the same time, it can also allow the Trump administration, which has been criticized by the outside world recently, to show some achievements that can be shown to the outside world. This is very consistent with the temperament of businessman Trump.
sprinkle salt in South Korea's wounds with holes and then
so much money to buy weapons, Japan and South Korea obviously did not please the "master" of the United States.
Trump has advocated more than once during his campaign to increase the defense expenses allocation of South Korea-US military alliances, so in the future, the United States will definitely require South Korea to bear more defense expenses.
At present, the South Korean economy is in trouble due to the THAAD issue, but the United States is not willing to give it a hand, but instead it sprinkles salt on the already-hit wound of the South Korean economy. It not only needs to charge the deployment costs of THAAD and abolish the negotiations on the South Korea-US Free Trade Agreement, but also needs to take another move in the defense fee sharing negotiations. This is undoubtedly a worse injury compared to South Korea.
Therefore, the reason why South Korea "was facing a great enemy" in this year's defense expense sharing negotiations is to beware of the American lion's big talk, and at the same time it also confirms Moon Jae-in's dissatisfaction and vigilance with this unilateral hegemony of the United States from another aspect.
is subject to the United States, and South Korea spends money to seek hardships
, but at least, South Korea has no other choice yet.
South Korea's large-scale introduction of advanced American weapons is based on the US's commitment to transfer advanced core technologies. However, the fact is that as the largest buyer of American weapons, South Korea has no negotiating power. When fulfilling the contract, South Korea can only be dragged forward slowly by the United States. For this reason, South Korean public opinion complained that he was generous when purchasing American weapons, but the technology that was really necessary for South Korea's "independent national defense" could not be transferred.
Not only that, the United States once used inferior products as good as good products, selling defective SM-2 missiles of up to 1.9 billion won per batch of defective SM-2 missiles to South Korea, but did not provide any compensation for many years. The United States also often threatened South Korea by stopping weapons exports as a bargaining chip.
The consequence of this is that South Korea, which had just begun to have some influence in the world, inevitably became a pawn of the United States and lost the right to dominate the fate of its own country, just like Japan back then. If Japan still wants to use the United States to pretend to be powerful and have some ambitions and plans, South Korea's original intention is just to rely on the protection of the United States to exchange for peace. Unfortunately, when boarding the US pirate ship, it can only serve as a pawn for the United States to seek self-balancing interests in the Asia-Pacific.
Of course, this is at the expense of South Korea's own development. Judging from the consequences of the US forcibly deploying THAAD, South Korea is already paying for the US forcibly deploying weapons.
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