mears said:
Do you think the US was right to prop up the south Korean regimes? Just before the Korean war, there were more people in prisons in the south under the draconian 'National Security Law' then the Japanese could ever manage. Even as recent as 1980, with the Gwangju 'incident': south Korean military rulers held an entire city seige, with US support, before coming in after several days and shooting everyone (kids even). The death toll ran into the hundreds, thousands depending which source you go with. But the outside world never learnt of this. Why did Tianamen Square receive such world-wide coverage and analysis, yet the south Korean massacre barely got reported? US support for regimes has been the defining strategy of its post-warII foreign policy...
