The Koreans are now (almost) fully deployed in Iraq. The locals are grateful:
(Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani) told Reuters the presence in Arbil of Iraq's contingent would benefit the entire region. "The new Iraq is in need of the international community's assistance, so we appreciate the decision of the South Korean government to come here," he said.In related news, concerns about attacks by Korean leftists has cause the US to impose a 9pm to 5am curfew on its troops in Korea. The locals (at least a few) are not grateful.
Expect things to get really bad once the Korean troops in Iraq are attacked. The way they have been acting, the Korean left is begging for a terrorist hit on their troops so they can 'rally the masses' against the US. Their 'frog in a well' vision will skip over the local support that the Koreans have in their area in Iraq and say something like 'we stand with the people of Iraq against the arrogant Americans and demand that our troops be withdraw from their aggressive (road laying, bridge building, etc.) against the Iraqi people. Blah. Blah. Blah.' When that happens, we can expect some of the more unhinged members of the left to do al-Qaeda's work for them in Korea.
I'm not talking car bombings, but the odd stabbing or fire-bomb attack is certainly possible.
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