Korea: What if we just left?

[Occhidiangela]

Now, if I was a betting man, I'd bet on the tanks rolling. But I don't always bet correctly.

I bet wrong on The Wall. I did not believe that it would fall in my lifetime. It did.

I did not believe that the Brits and Argies would come to blows. I believed someone would step in and help them mediate their quarrel. I was wrong.

I did not believe a lot of things, and I saw them as a sure bet.

So, even though from all appearances, it seems bloody obvious, I might be missing something important, partly due to the set of lenses I look through.

I don't see it through the "threat to Christians" lens, I see it via a different lens that is at the moment blurry:

What are the long term goals of South Korea? I simply can't imagine that they include being forever "a cannon shot away from total war" for the next 100 years.

Hence the question. I understand the perspective of why our soldiers are there now: to remind the folks up North that we will still pay in blood for South to be free. I just think that there is a bit more to it than that.