“Amazingly, South Korea’s tough 600,000-man armed forces are under the command of a US four-star general 60 years after the end of the Korean War, backed up by 28,500 US troops that include a full heavy infantry division, North Korea calls itself the ‘true Korea,’ denouncing the South as ‘puppets of the US imperialists.’ Interestingly, some studies show that many South Koreans share this view and are proud of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program though they want no part of its socialism and self-reliant policy known as ‘juche.'”
http://ericmargolis.com/2013/04/korea-one-of-the-worlds-five-most-strategic-nations/
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