Eruption of pent-up anger
There is a growing tendency against the US in south Korea. 60 percent south Koreans asserted independent diplomacy with the US, 54 percent said the reduction of the US forces in south Korea and 96.3 percent rejected south Korea's share of defense cost for the US forces. The civil organizations including the Progressive Federation of Students and the Solidarity for the People’s Sovereignty carry on dynamic action in demand of permanent suspension of the south Korea-US joint military drills, the dissolution of the south Korea-US alliance and withdrawal of the US forces from south Korea through one-man demonstration, galvanization of public opinion through internet and exhibition of placards amid spread of COVID-19. The south Korean mass media is building public discontent at the south Korea-US relations. The US puts a brake on the south Korean authorities’ policy toward north Korea and puts pressure upon south Korea to increase the defense cost share and postpone wartime operation control, the mass media including “Hankyoreh” and “Oh, my news” said. South Korea should have the temerity to say "No" to the US and it should not accept gangster-like demand of the US, they added. The US sees the south Korea-US alliance through spectacles of a merchant. The US considers south Korea no more than tributary, even some conservative mass media sharply condemned. The south Korean people would not comply with impertinent requests of the US which has occupied south Korea for 75 years and inflicted immeasurable misfortune and pain upon the south Koreans. The anti-US struggle will be more intense as long as the US army occupies south Korea. |
