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...their way to reassure Seoul that the U.S. will stand by its 1953 Mutual Defense Treaty with South Korea. Last week, addressing the Japan Society in New York, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger pointedly asserted that the U.S. was "resolved to maintain the peace and security of the Korean peninsula." Added Kissinger: "This is of crucial importance to Japan and to all of Asia...
...page 40). The Korean forces, combined with huge Soviet air and naval installations in Vladivostok, just 40 miles from the border, with perhaps 1.5 million Soviet and Chinese troops facing off at the Manchurian border and with a lethal U.S. nuclear arsenal on Okinawa, put the Korean peninsula at the center of what may well be the most intensively militarized region in the world. The very existence of these enormous armed forces, in conjunction with the profound antagonism generated by three decades of division, increases the danger that any misstep could lead...
...Korean peninsula has always been a key to the stability of Northeast Asia. It is of vital concern to the Japanese, with over $1.5 billion worth of investments on the peninsula and the enduring feeling that Korea is "a dagger pointing at the heart of Japan." U.S. strategists, looking toward the post-Viet Nam era, are already talking about a Northeast Asia defense line, anchored in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. In all three countries, the U.S. has strong economic interests backed by formal mutual defense treaties...
...have devoted myself to the national security and prosperity of our country. During my stay in office, I would like to achieve the basic aspiration of all the Korean people: the peaceful unification of our fatherland. To achieve it, a durable peace must first be achieved on the Korean peninsula. Therefore my immediate duty as national leader is to prevent a recurrence of war and consolidate the foundation for peace...
...cold and vulnerable to blitz attack from crack North Korean units, they are probably the toughest, best-trained and most combat-ready American forces anywhere. They are also among the most important politically. On the one hand, Pyongyang views them as the major obstacle to its unifying the Korean peninsula under Communist rule; on the other, Seoul sees the American presence (although reduced considerably from its 1953 peak of 325,000 men) as both a deterrent to attack and an earnest demonstration of Washington's commitment to defend South Korea in the event of attack...