S. Korea's President Moon Jae-In said his country has a veto on any American preemptive strike on N. Korea. Trump and America's military leaders know where President Moon is coming from and his willingness to start a dialog with the leaders of N. Korea. Moon sees the N. Koreans and Trump escalating their threats and S. Korea sits right smack in the middle of harms way only a stones throw from N. Korea.
Our military leaders have been telling us that if the U.S. attacks N. Korea they would respond on S. Korea with horrific destruction and loss of life. If their predictions are truthful and accurate its easy to understand the predicament the U.S. is in. And its much easier to understand the predicament S.Korea is in. S. Korea's leaders know that and feel they have veto power over any independent action by the U.S.
There is another big problem. The U.S. has 20,000 plus troops in S. Korea and S. Korea could say withdraw your troops from our soil. Those troops would also be in harms way from a N. Korean attack. And contrary to what the story line says, American troops are not in S. Korea only to protect that country. They are there because they are close to China and in Asia where our military thinks they are needed to respond to conflicts in that area and Chinese expansion.
The best prospect for the Korean people is still for the North and South to unite into one nation and one people with out interference. This writer suspects S. Korea's Moon knows that and will try to lay the ground work to do that in time. Future threats from N. Korea and or Trump may speed up his time table.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
