Nmm wrote:

Talk to some people
who have visited the DMZ in Korea. It's Trigger Happy Americans that
make that a live fire zone.

It's a scary place--the tension makes both sides a little nuts.



The American supported governments with
the aid of US forces killed student protesters en masse in the 1950s.

Hell, they were using pepper gas on students (and a few of us journalists) in 1988. When the Germans found out the Koreans were using the stuff on civilians, they stopped selling it to them. A Phillipine source took over the supply.