Why We Should Withdraw Our Troops from Korea: Just the Latest Reason
GI Korea has an update on the case of a female American soldier who was sexually assaulted by a Korean soldier during an exercise. The soldier was found guilty. And how much time did he get? Zip. The 2 1/2 year sentence is an insult by itself, but the court suspended the entire sentence.
And people ask me why I consider Korean courts incompetent to try American soldiers. Granted, the assault ended when the young American woman gave her assailant a good smack, but this was an attempted rape. The crime showed preparation, specific intent, and a substantial step toward completion of the offense. This result is an outrage. This man should do time, and his name should be entered in a sex offender registry.
Typical. What is it about rape that inspires yawns from the Korean judiciary? Of course, were this an American soldier attempting to rape a Korean national the book would have been thrown at him amid wailing about the inequities of SOFA.
Since it was a Korean soldier, I believe the court in this case was an ROK military one (ROK soldiers fall under military jurisdiction no matter if the commit the crime on or off duty, I think), rather than a civilian court. Indicating incompetence on both civ/mil sides.
I’d bet the would-be assailant apologized profusely to the court. In this case, hate the system and the player.
But I don’t think that is a reason to withdrawal our troops. There is the larger picture, but we’ve been down that path.
Oh, C’mon! What did you expect for a mere billion dollars per month for sixty years? Respect, gratitude, equal treatment under the law? Bah.
US Troops are nothing more glorious than guard dogs, kept tied up in the back yard of the Korean Yangban, to be used and abused according to the whim of the Great Han Race.
Nah, that’s not quite true. If this punk kid got caught sodomizing a real guard dog, he’d actually spend one night in jail.
American troops occupy a lower rung on the status ladder than dogs in the minds of their Korean “allies”.
If you watched TV over the holiday weekend you could have even seen American “dogs” doing cute little tricks for the Korean cameras on various New Year’s Specials.
“Aw, look, he speaks. Wow, he’s eating kimchi. Oh, look at him in that hanbok. Good boy. Sit. Stay.”
The real question is, will US authorities make their voice heard on this issue? If they don’t do a media blitz now, they will miss out on a window of opportunity. If you want to fight the hanchongryun freaks, now is the time.
If you want to fight the hanchongryun freaks, now is the time.
The freakiest of Hanchongryun freaks occupies the Blue House, and Gen Bell already got his chops busted once recently for using the word “fight” in regards to Korea-US alliance problems. This problem too shall pass unnoticed.
Unfortunately, the treatment we must endure here in the ROK largely goes unpublished and unnoticed. The only time the media has given us any attention was when they misrepresented the prostitution situation over here. Thanks!