How Scared Are South Koreans of North Korea? | ASIAN BOSS 

Will PRC South Koreans should not fear NK but I don't think it would hurt to be slightly more cautious than usual, given the US is somewhat unpredictable now and NK has ICBMs (which makes the problem worldwide, not just in the East). Those two things are two very new--very dangerous--variables that were not an issue in the past few decades. It is rare I'd say to keep the status quo with such significant new variables. There will likely be a new equilibrium that will need to be reached.

Trump is an idiot and there's a good chance of being shot dead on the street. I think they understand the US just right.

That is because they know even if they are afraid they cant do anything about it. Might as well live with it fearlessly.

really, really? Are you that ignorant? In comparison more ppl die from accidentally hurting themselves. Stop using news as your source of opinions or knowledge.

Baepsae, you are wrong here. They were not talking about accidents. Even if it's about accidents, which kind of? Car accidents can be prevented by politics, other countries can prove this. We humans mainly act according to patterns, it's a politician's job to figure out those patterns to prevent damages.

Nikol Petrova lmao love that lady.She understands me

irk that statement is literally how i live my life

That was a little extreme lol. Not everyone will just die in either country. That's not accurate at all lol. So the reasoning doesn't work. Also to use it as a general way you live your life by is silly.. it's like saying "I might as well smoke loads of crack every day because I'm going to die anyway".. yea but you will often die a lot sooner.. and have a far lower quality of life.. it's not just about what happens at the end.. it's the journey too.

Siberius Wolf it's true we all are gonna die might not be today or tomorrow buts gonna happen

@Melissa Wall Shit, is New Jersey as bad as the internet makes it sound?

It's like any other state. It's got it's good points and it's bad points.

Melissa Wall north korea is news worthy as it tortures many of its starving inhabitants.

Don't get me wrong it is news worthy. But when I was in South Korea it was hardly mentioned on the news stations and it was not a front page story. That was the shock to the people I talked to over here. Even before Trump became President North Korea was in the news in the US talking about the starvation of it's citizens, tortures and the development of weapons. That's all I'm saying.

hahahaha...

I get that this is like an everyday thing for South Koreans, but the one girl said NK would attack the US first doesn't make sense to me. I would think that Kim Jong-Un would want the land grab instead of firing a missile that could potentially be shot down, but shooting that missile at South Korea might not get shot down. I would think that NK would go after SK and Japan first, because they have a better chance that China will side with them. Also, the bigger problem I see is that there are two crazy non-thinkers at the button of the nukes, so why wouldn't SK be worried about that? They should also be worried that Trump doesn't know we are supposed to be allies. He doesn't even know that Puerto Rico is part of America.

I personally don't care what jong-un does or how he does it. I don't even care to guess. I only know that if and when shit hits the fence and I am still standing, I will be here to defend what I love. What do you gain with worry? What do you gain with trying to be a political analyst? Nothing but losing your present NOW... I personally would not lose a minute of my precious NOW to crunch any of those news or what. :)

either way it doesn't matter, people would die and thats sad enough.

Ray Age Although I understand your land grab method, hitting USA first should likely be their aim as they have the more powerful arsenal. If South Korea gets hit first, America would be alerted beforehand therefore having some spare time to retaliate or at least be prepared. Trump has more firepower than Kim but his temper is just as dangerous as Kim's. But I'm not going to sit here and worry.

Aizen Kazama That would make sense if North Korea had even a chance of knocking the US out of any war on the Korean Peninsula with the few missiles he has. The fact is, it is doubtful that even Russia or China, with their infinitely larger and more powerful arsenals, could deliver a decisive blow to the North American continent through the US defense umbrella. NK has zero chance. The chances of even landing one ICBM into one target on the NA continent is very very low. The US has very powerful and very accurate missile defense systems and NK’s primitive missile technology has almost no chance of making it that very long distance and getting through. Why do you think they threatened Guam? As a protected American territory in the Far East Pacific it is the only target Kim Jong Un has even a hope of actually striking although he would be a fool to even try. The people of Guam are citizens of the United States and as such are under the protection of the American military. That being said, with today’s technology Guam holds only a tiny fraction of the military significance it once held. So if it were to be wiped out, NK, like Japan found out in WWII, would awaken the sleeping giant of the US military and before they could make much progress southward on the Korean Peninsula they would be swiftly destroyed by the US and their allies. All he would be doing is handing the US the justification it needs in the eyes of the world to utterly eradicate the North Korean menace once and for all. This isn’t the 1950’s - there would be no chance for a stalemate unless China decided to reverse it’s stance on the issue.

You wish.

4maybeso Many people from Nordic countries are here and living happily, having great time. You are always welcome. South Korea is one of the cleanest and safest countries in the world.

No one ever said South Korea is dangerous though. It's the threat of the North they hype up to scare people.

Eunmi24 .. exactly.! That is what we were supposed to get out of it.. nothing more..

If you live in South Korea going out without make up is much scarier than north korea

Dee J yea I’m Korean but I don’t live in South Korea, so I wouldn’t know what’s it like to live in South Korea to understand how they feel.

Dee J Hopefully you’re just being a troll... because having a certain name or type of name doesn’t mean you have to follow current events from your ethnic background/country. Also, fyi she said it’s nice to know how SK citizens FEEL about this issue not WHAT the issue is.

Lol I live in Israel and because of bullshit media I occasionally have to deal with people in chats that think either that we're living in terror getting stabbed in masses, or that we drink Palestinian's blood and slaughter millions of them every day (depends on which crappy media outlet they watch). The problem is that the news cares more about attracting people with dramatic headlines (and keeping the masses intrested with relatable one dimentional reports ) than properly explaining the situation and making an in depth report. It's more like a reality show than an actual report of reality and it's making people's opinions twisted and disconnected from reality. I'm probably a victim of this too, because almost all of the information I know about the events taking place in the world has to have gone through someone that had intrests/biases.

Because I mentioned Israel I'm prebably gonna get a shitstorm here. Before you type some angry comment please THINK FOR A MOMENT ABOUT WHAT I JUST WROTE AND HOW IT MIGHT BE REALTED TO WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO DO NOW k thanks

Ofer Mossinson Interesting. Do Israeli share places like work places, public transportation, malls and parks with Palestinians normally? If so, are there interactions among Israeli and Palestinians? How is this interaction?

Definetly. Most interactions are pretty friendly/positgive, especially if you consider the "Israeli-Arabs" (Arabs with Israeli citizenship ) Palestinians. It is true that in times of high tention (the stabbings last year for example) many Israelis would prefer to keep a distance from Palestinians fearing their safety, and they might do things like change a seat in public transportation for example. Unfortunately at those times nationalist/discriminatory organisations which harass Arabs gain momentum (such as LEHAVA which I think was outlawd but I'm not sure). I wouldn't say Israeli people are more or less racist than other groups around the world, but you often hear about the West Bank and Gaza because they're a huge unresolved mess created by the stupidity and short-sightedness of both sides. I hope sometime in my lifetime I'll be able to see the day when everyone understands this conflict is pointless and just stops fighting.

Ofer Mossinson Thank you for your clarification. As a Brazilian it's very hard to understand what's going on there. Sometimes it looks like there's a fence separating Israelis from Palestinians, and the removal of it would result in absolute carnage!

Trump isint an idiot I think he's sort of smart but he has such an ego

i have to say that we as americans are used to the suave talking politicians that tickle our ears. Trump is not PC New York attitude that comes off as harsh and BIG ego. I kinda like it not a career politician someone who is already has billions that can't be bought off. Sure he has is problems but the USA has him for at least 3 more years or more lets hope he does well.

+Dank Meme let's wait for Trump's IQ test he ordered before we reach any conclusions. We all know his vocabulary isn't there.

Deedee Supine I'm willing to bet they're both smarter than you.

DA P Dude turns 1million into 10Billion and you probably make less than $40,000 salary lmao

공감합니다. 그냥 우리 정부와 군을 믿고 일상생활을 할수밖에 없죠. 안그래도 고민할거리가 산더미인데요.

길티기어 대비가 부족하다. 전쟁이 나면 다같이 싸우고 행동하는 것인데, 대피 훈련 조차 협조하지 않는 쓰레기들이 얼마나 많은가 ? 배낭 준비하고 전쟁시 생존할 준비를 해놓고 일상 생활을 영위 할 수 있고 1 년앞을 보고 계획을 세울 수 있는 것 ....... 현재 니 같은 인간들 상태가 많다고 보는데,... 이해가 가는 측면이 없지는 않다 .. 하지만 니들의 행동중 더 큰 죄가 있다.. 다른 걸 몰라도 대북 입장은 옳았던 근혜가 전쟁을 부추긴다면서 제거하고 , 북이 아무리 나쁜 행동을 하고 도발해도 이해하는 정부를 뽑은 것이 한국민의 가장 큰 죄다. 전쟁이 무섭고 싫다고 무조건 평화 구호나외치고 전쟁 피하고 도망가는 놈을 뽑은 것 . 적이 공격적인데 전쟁을 하기 싫으면 전쟁을 준비하고 맞서야 상대가 쫄지. 트럼프가 심각하게 협박하니까 그동안 한국민을 불안하게 하던 북한 도발이 현재 한달이상 잠시나마 멈춰 있는 것이라는 것즘은 알아야 하며 지적해야 한다, 그리고나서 니가 한말을 해야

생활에 지장있을정도로 두려워하거나 너무 염려할 필요 까진 없지만, 대비를 하고 있다니요?? 전쟁을 준비 또는 대비한다는건 정부나 군이 알아서 할일이라고 생각하면 안되는 것입니다. 전쟁발발시 민간인이 어떻게 해야되는것과 어떠한 행동요령도 훈련도 되어있지 않는 상태입니다. 전쟁발발시 어떻게 군이 민간을 통제되고 민간인의 행동요령이나 통신, 물자, 교통에 대한 어떠한 정보도 없습니다. 말그대로 아비규환이 될것입니다. 이를 통솔하고 규제하는데 훨씬더 많은 인원이 필요하겠지요 신경끄고 사는것보다. 어느정도 숙지하고 살아야지요, 일본이 지진대피 훈련을 자주하더라도 지진의 두려움 생활을 못할 정도는 아니잖아요?? 이와 같은 것입니다. 정부도 마찬가지입니다. 너무 안일하게 생각하고 있습니다. 어차피 죽는거??? 민간이 전쟁발발시 대비한것과 안한것에 대한 인명피해 숫자는 확연히 다를것입니다. 물론 김정은이 전쟁 일으킬 가능성은 아주 낮습니다. 그래도 국가간 대규모 전면전이 있을 가장 위험한 곳은 한반도이라는건 변함없는 사실 이니깐요.

GT_ K 그니까 민간인이 행동할수 있는 요령과 라인들을 정부랑 군이 구축해야 하는거잖아요 민간인은 대피장소랑 물품챙겨놓는거밖에 대비할수있는게 없으니까 그런거죠

GT_ K 동의합니다

I live outside of Seoul and I have same opinion with them. Old generation experienced the war might have different opinions though.

Riding in airplanes in general is dangerous though so he's not exactly stupid for doing that.

Armageddon Knight wtf?

Armageddon Knight no it's not. Look it up

@@ninezerotwo1778 you are more likely to die on the car ride to the airport than the actual plane ride

do you think it's korea a good country to build your future in? Because i need to continue my studies abroad and i don't know what to choose Germany or South Korea

John Lewis things changed. Current Korean govt is basically far left socialists - all have anti American records , and 90 % of Koreans do not have sense of rule of laws , and 90% of them can accept slavery of china . Us Korean FTA is now in the process of renegotiation including nullification of the deal. Trump is president of America . And republicans are patriots and realistic. Not a chance for him to get along with those socialist, anti American, and north appeaser . Not a chance. Alliance is just a paper at the moment. Koreans and Americans are not on the same page. There is a big chance South Korea would even turn adversary to America within a year or so if Current pro North vietkongs govt did continue to resist against trump

Taekwon Yoo 무슨 말씀이신지 ...

This guy is exaggerating.

We said the same thing to the people of South Vietnam, before our Congress betrayed them.

Well, if anything happens here, I am going to die along with everyone else so I ain't going to complain lol People need to learn how to enjoy each day to the fullest without worrying too much about what will happen next.

생각하는게 멋있다는건데 두분다 무슨 말을 하시는 건지;;;

내가 군인 이었을때 인터뷰하지말랫는데 ㄷㄷ

SkeeTBB 오잉??

노모였어도 그럴까?

코 밑에 왕점있다.

Western media also never examines WHY China is like that. Why are the Chinese so obsessed with money, some ask. Well, it makes perfect sense because it is the ONLY thing that will guarantee some degree of safety. Why do Chinese people eat weird things? Well, why do 'weird' things need to be in exclusively Western standards?

exactly. Well, creating a good image of China certainly won't help their governance, that will bring doubts of their current system and make things worse. Plus, English is actually a much easier language to learn and use, and western world definitely took advantage from it, and using English to have our conversation is just one of the perfect examples.

Mainland china is truly being hated even in ASIA.

taller tree catches the wind more often.

I'd rather have to worry about a madman shooting me than my government. My government fears its people. In China, the people fear their government. Have a nice life there, 白左.

sadly the majority of Americans get their news from fake bad news thats the problem or in general don't care.

American media is terrible. I think CNN even helped to elect Trump

To be fair, how easy do you think it is to be even knowledgeable of the 50 states within the U.S? Americans varied vastly depending on where you are. Blanket statements like above has no merits in an argument.

KALISSU I don’t know which is more ignorant - the few idiots they find that don’t know where Germany is or the fools overseas who actually believe that is normal for educated Americans. You DO realize they interview dozens of people and pick only the funniest responses that match their narrative, don’t you? You can’t actually think that University educated people are that unaware or the world they live in? Maybe you do believe that. If so, that’s sad. Because that is exactly what they wanted you to believe and you fell for it perfectly.

it's hilarious how you generalized a whole country

still pretty active on the news tho where have u been? LOL

Well, the North has had multiple missiles prepped for launch for about a week now. Suspicion is that they might involve an atmospheric test, which would demonstrate delivery capability, and may very well prompt the U.S. to conduct a massive air operation against the program + artillery, and maybe the leadership.

I don't know....the Russian investigation is getting closer to trump. He will need another thing to distract the people :)

bananaempijama "closer and closer" Yep, only three huge media "bombshells" were retracted last week, right? But yeah, totes getting close.

20 years??? Its been 70 years.

mcestabon I am 20 years old

Oh, I misunderstood your statement. Sorry.

He's hungry again 😂 do women have to serve in the Korean military as well?

It will never happen. China won't back them if they attack first. That's why they try to provoke a lot.

do you think it's korea a good country to build your future in? Because i need to continue my studies abroad and i don't know what to choose Germany or South Korea

do you think it's korea a good country to build your future in? Because i need to continue my studies abroad and i don't know what to choose Germany or South Korea

we will very sad.. life is not whithe or black. it is more grey... we do not know what happen..

Nekonyancer it's not. We've blurred out their names

진짜 한국의 이미지가 10년만에 갑자기 바뀜

do you think it's korea a good country to build your future in? Because i need to continue my studies abroad and i don't know what to choose Germany or South Korea