They have overwhelmingly voted for a president on a platform of signing a peace treaty with North Korea. The US veto over South Korean foreign policy options, t

They have overwhelmingly voted for a president on a platform of signing a peace treaty with North Korea. The US veto over South Korean foreign policy options, the presence of US troops (and, more importantly, their refusal to transfer OPCON over the Korean military despite decades of promises) has been a major impediment to exercising the democratic will of the South Korean body politic. The problem is that Korea is a vassal state and there is no path to expelling occupying troops without conflict, which nobody wants. If you ask more specific and nuanced questions which don't jump to such drastic solutions, then you are quite likely to get different responses. eg. "Should the Korean government command the Korean army?" or "Should Korean voters be able to decide on the relationship between ROK and DRPK?" / "What role should occupying powers (eg. Japan, China, US) play in that?" or "What should be done about US officials guilty of atrocities (eg. Gwangju massacre) and other human rights offences (there's quite a lot of them) in South Korea?"