@soryang

I was just dropping by with my clipboard loaded, hoping I might find some insight from you on the Korea situation. Under normal circumstances and my long-standing opinion/projection in Asian matters, I would dismiss Korean actions as faux posturing, for local manipulation. South Korea has it tough when it comes to geography. I think of it as a well-oiled ball bearing in the physical juncture where the Three Great Powers, meet and pivot — China, Russia, and the US. My advice for Korea has always been to keep its head down, play dumb, but remain ferocious when it comes to protecting its people from harm. I never once saw North-, South-, or a United Korea as an arbiter in global governance. Did you? Even if it did suddenly decide to take a showboat cruise to the Strait of Hormuz. WTF? Like some sort of Dragon Boat parade? Or a mobile lubricant at the point of intense global friction?

Those were my first thoughts when I saw the following news clod this morning, from my clipboard:

South ​Korea has sent an inspection team to ‌assess the security situation in the Strait of Hormuz but no decision has been taken on sending troops, ​the defence ministry said on Tuesday.

The announcement ​follows a decision by U.S. President Donald Trump ⁠in August to scale back U.S.-South Korea joint ​military exercises, in part because South Korea had declined ​to help Washington in the U.S.-Iran war.

The South Korean team departed for the United Arab Emirates over the weekend and ​is expected to return as early as this ​week, the Yonhap news agency reported, citing the defence ministry.

The ‌presidential ⁠office said on Friday that Seoul was reviewing its options, including military measures, to support freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital ​transit route for ​global oil ⁠supplies. It denied media reports that the government had already decided on ​a deployment.

Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson said on ​X ⁠this week that any South Korean military presence or participation in operations in the Gulf and ⁠the Strait ​of Hormuz would be considered ​support for U.S. "aggression." This could have lasting consequences for South Korea.

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I will say that I have recently been rethinking Korea's national character and destiny. During my lifetime, I've regarded Korea as a bystander and a 'free radical' on the World Stage. It has generally been considered a captured, tamed, and caged nation by the US. The military-forced geographic split of Korea's psyche into North and South camps, which is unnatural and unstable. (Geopoliticaly speaking, imposing a split on a group or tribe is invariably dangerous and volatile, like a lit fuse. Especally when it occur in relative isolation. Iran is a similar Western Trap, in the form of a Fake Nuclear Threat, which SK is helplessly tumbling into. There are two additional fascist traps underway::

(1) Taiwan (a militant split between Chinese nationalist-fascists and Chinese democratic-socialists, aka: Reds or commies). Note: no one involved in this artificial construct is native to Taiwan Provence.

And (2) Ukraine (a proxy nation composed of unaffiliated slavic groups descended from Ukrainians, Poles, Romanians, and former Nazis who had settled in the Badlands buffer zone. This vast buffer zone was created by Russian czars of the Soviet Union. It was named "Ukrainia" (the Russian word for "borderlands.") The buffer zone was sparcely settled, unimproved wild lands that would hold back frequent invasions of Russia by European armies. In 1995, after the economic collapse of the Soviet Union, those badlands were combined by US and EU advisors into a new proto-nation called Ukraine, which contained Kiev, the former capital city of Russia. The Borderlands (Ukraine) was mostly occupied by Russians, especially in the East. For that reason, Russian candidates almost always won the free democratically conducted elections in Ukraine, which began in 1997. This outcome was unacceptable to the Imperialists. In 2014, the US overthrew the new Ukraine Government and promoted the NATO-affiliated NAZI supporters. That's how we got here.

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I hope South Korea can finesse its way forward without aligning with the deadly military forces backed by the Global Elite.

If these fascist traps all fail, especially the nuclear traps (such as the one that failed in Iraq), then the West may be contained from inflicting further evils upon humanity.

There was a lot of discussion of how the Pentagon and CIA exerted undue influence on university administrations, with their sponsorship of research and studies in various fields. Lately, I've seen some recent pieces on CIA "corruption" of liberal arts type research, and other intellectual work with secret subsidies or payoffs to the scholars, in which the quid pro quo, is final edit rights to the CIA. These recent threats and coercive moves to silence freedom of expression suggest a significant breakdown in the control paradigm.

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81M00980R000600230056-0.pdf

David Gibbs: How Intelligence Services Captured Academia & Journalism (Transcript)

Anyway, I know there's a lot of material out there on that topic. Remember- you don't want to be the skunk at the picnic, in the government, in media, or in academia.

The big story in Korea is about Trump's coercion on the South Korean administration to send "combat forces" in support of the Iran war.

Just in: South Korea has sent a fact-finding team to assess the situation around the Strait of Hormuz, as Seoul considers how to respond to a US request for military support in the region.

The defence ministry says no deployment has been decided.

— Raphael Rashid (@koryodynasty) September 8, 2026

Expert commentary on the Blue House response suggests that South Korea is more likely to support peace keeping efforts in concert with France, and UK led European countries (including Germany) after some sort of peace agreement. They won't directly support the US while the war is ongoing is it believed because the war against Iran is unlawful, and a war of aggression. Many are loathe to say the latter explicitly others aren't. Japan is already a part of the European group.

This is the Iranian respone to any sort of support by South Korea to US combat forces related to the Hormuz war.

Following reports that South Korea is "reviewing" sending military assets to the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's foreign ministry has hit back in Korean saying any such deployment would be treated as direct support for US "aggression" and would carry "serious consequences". https://t.co/WeqawKdv9t

— Raphael Rashid (@koryodynasty) September 7, 2026

Gotta go! Thanks for the OT E1! bbl Hope everyone had an enjoyable holday.

@humphrey

CENTCOM Spokesperson claims the underwater drone was an older model... despite photos proving that it's a new Dive-LD model.

This is such a significant loss of technology to their enemy, they just can't admit it.. https://t.co/rFjaupDZJf pic.twitter.com/ilaQCpiMdj

— MenchOsint (@MenchOsint) September 8, 2026

A third American drone is being tracked, again in the same location.

It seems they are trying to locate the captured Dive LD AUV to destroy it & prevent it from being in Iranian hands.
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Moments ago, Iran’s air defenses shot down a second American MQ-1C…

— dana (@dana916) September 8, 2026