The South Korean government must just be scared poopless of the North and China. Having the US there is a great deterent. I just wonder when China is going to grow tired of North Korea embarrassing it and just crush them. Sorry I mean liberate, like they did with Tibet and Inner Mongolia.

>What I found interesting was the fact that South Korea pushed for a slower transition. Especially since there are numerous cases of teens and a faction of the country now wanting the U.S. military out of SKorea.
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>>"The US and South Korea have reached a deal to hand control of South Korea's military back to Seoul by 2012. The agreement ends a 50-year pact that gave the US wartime command of South Korea's army, dating to the Korean War. Under pressure in Iraq, the US had wanted to hand over in 2009. But South Korea pushed for a slower transition."
>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6391799.stm
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>>Wow, that took a while. Another example of successful nation building. The North... not so much.