Kidnapped South Korean...

[Booster]

They just showed the poor South Korean man who was kidnapped in Iraq pleading for his life. Now, is it just me, or if you were from South Korea and you were pleading with South Korea to pull their troups out of Iraq, wouldn't you do it in Korean, not English? I'm starting to smell a big rat on these kidnappings - well, not just starting. Any thoughts?

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[NMDemDist2]

2. OMFG post a warning before sending people to the "Savage Nation"

ICKKKKKK :puke:

[mike1963]

11. WTF are you babbling about? That link is to an insane nutjob site

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[LittleApple81]

3. Hmmmmmm... Where did they show him, by the way? They

might the US to get the message too, and how many of us speak Korean? And there are plenty of Koreans who speak English.
Or maybe they wanted to understand what the guy was saying... how many of the kidnappers speak Korean? I bet not one.

[Booster]

4. hmmmmmm

good point - never thought of that. I know if I were as distressed as he seemed to be, I'd be yelling obscenities in my own language.

[Moderator]

5. Moving to General Discussion

Not Latest Breaking News.

[slackmaster]

6. The captors don't understand Koreans at all

If they kill the Korean hostage South Koreans will want revenge.

If they want to get a country to break ties with the US by kidnapping one of its citizens they should have picked a Japanese person.

I don't mean any disrespect to anyone, but to kidnap a Korean and expect South Korea to capitulate shows profound ignorance of the Korean culture.

[candy]

7. Why do you feel Japan would be a better choice?

[Kinkistyle]

8. Probably because of Japan's Constitution

Even if Japan wanted "vengeance", they'd be bound by their Constitution and wouldn't be able to retaliate. The S.Koreans, if they so choosed, would be able to launch attacks against the insurgents.

In any event, I don't think the Al-Qaeda much care who they kidnap and kill, as long as they see them as aiders and abetters of American imperialism.

[slackmaster]

10. Cultural differences

Japan as a nation has renounced violence from top to bottom and would be likely to capitulate to a kidnapper's demand in order to avoid bloodshed.

[Kinkistyle]

9. Maybe he is trying to appeal to the "overlords" by speaking English.

I am talking about Bush and Co. and ultimately the people who put Bush into office, John and Jane Q. American. I am sure he knows, just like everyone else, that S.Korea is putting troops in Iraq only because the Korean government believes it will get cooperation and concessions from the U.S. After all, S.Korea has its own military concerns to think about without sending its troops to a totally unrelated area.