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The US military presence is from before the country’s current democratic transition, and did nothing to prevent past coup.
by pyrale 2y ago
The US military presence is from before the country’s current democratic transition, and did nothing to prevent past coup.
- maxglute 2y ago>did nothing to prevent past coup That's the joke. US consistently supported SK coup(er)s (there's been several) as long as the couper is anti-communists / aligned with US geopolitical interests. The last two in late 70s were post Combined Forces Command, and including this one, with capacity of US intelligence, it's hard to rationalize US did not know what was going to happen.
- g-b-r 2y agoTheir first president, quickly turned dictator, grew up in the US The korean war veterans must have felt so proud..