What should the west do about Japan-Korea conflict?

[Milky Way Resident]

Originally Posted by Dd714

Forget missiles or anything high tech, DPRK has enough old fashioned WWII era artillery to flatten Seoul very quickly from the northern side of the DMZ.
I would like to understand the S. Korean mindset as well, they seem to have lived with that threat for so long as to just ignore the threat of imminent death at the whims of the loony Fat Man in the north, and focus on K-pop and boycotting Japanese beer.

Many Koreans would love to see North and South reunite at some point.

[Screenwriter70]

Asian conflict is not our problem.

[Dd714]

Originally Posted by Milky Way Resident

Many Koreans would love to see North and South reunite at some point.

Yes of course but that's not going to happen while the Kim dynasty is still around, if it does happen it will be on the Fat Man's terms.

So still waiting for an answer from a S. Korean, I understand the frustrations with Japan and that countries failure to completely address it's historical crimes, but why focus on that at when you have a madman in the north with his finger on the button?

Originally Posted by Screenwriter70

Asian conflict is not our problem.

It becomes our problem because eventually every country comes back to the US and says "help, save my ass". Usually it's a country that just yesterday was critical of the U.S.

[Tomboy-]

Did you mean the past seven decades instead?

Not really warm actually in the past seven decades or centuries.

Officially they have bad relations but South Korean culture is still popular among Japanese youths.

Korea is the victim of invasion, Korea does not harm Japan.

There are still some war crime denial people, causing resentment of Japan in other countries.

Originally Posted by Warszawa

For the past seven centuries, Japan and Korea maintained somewhat warm relations, which marked a difference from the usual hatred and animosity between the two countries. That said, over the past year we've seen a deterioration in the relationship between these two crucial western allies. What do you think the west should do? If Japan and Korea keep fighting, it will be very ugly for western countries