>>Probably because you don't have any friends currently serving in Korea....I have friends who are stationed there in the military as well as friends who are civilians working there.
A viewpoint from this end of the planet:
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/ruinous-uschina-relations-the-big-danger-from-north-korea-20101124-187bf.html
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1