Military drills leave S.Korea insecure

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Military drills leave S.Korea insecure

08:27, August 20, 2010      

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South Korea and the US have been actively engaging in several military exercises this summer.

There are new reports that the two sides are planning an anti-submarine military drill in the Yellow Sea in early September. A South Korean military official has reportedly been saying that military exercises with the US are planned every month till the end of this year.

Will the record-setting size of the military drills and stronger alliances with the US provide Seoul with the security it is looking for?

North Korea, already agitated, has sent strong-worded messages, warning that it will not be bullied. It is very difficult to calculate the situation. A provoked North Korea might trigger a chain reaction.

New military drills will only send more hostile signals to the North. It is this hostility that has been the source of insecurity and has forced North Korea to take more risky actions.

Since the sinking of the worship Cheonan in March, South Korea has been trying to maximize its stake through the incident, provoking North Korea, cementing an alliance with the US, and diverting internal pressure from the current administration.

Whatever the explanations the US and South Korea offered, the military drills surrounding China's offshore sea obviously have the intention of targeting China.

Whether the US aircraft carrier George Washington, which South Korea hopes to be an extra deterrence factor, would appear in the Yellow Sea, the Sino-US relationship has been implicated since it touched the nerve center of security in China.

Seoul may not have fully realized the consequence of upsetting China-US ties.

South Korea needs to keep clear-minded that its security has to be built on goodwill with its neighbors, and the strategic balance of the region should be unchanged.

A stronger South Korea-US alliance might jeopardize the trust of Seoul with its neighbors, and lead to more insecurity.

The hawkish trend of the Lee Myung-bak administration has also aroused public opinion, that pressed it to take more hard-line actions. The situation on the Korean Peninsula is stuck in a vicious cycle.

Seoul has to think clearly if it wants to break the vicious cycle. Its security will come from a stable Northeast Asia.Source: Global Times

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