Not to mention that the Lee Administration has also been subjected to rigorous questioning by the ruling party and opposition lawmakers over its slow response on the attack. President Lee Myung Bak warned of massive retaliation but was careful to avoid any imminent action.
South Korea is the world’s 13th largest economy, and Asia’s fourth largest. However, South Koreans feel helpless and angry not with North Korea, against which protests have been small, but with the government’s failure to take more robust action.
Unfortunately, our government looks like responding too timidly. They have been talking of retaliation, looking back on the Cheonan incident in March.
Nowadays, the more significant concern is the likelihood of another attack from North Korea.
It is because of the joint HO-GUK exercise on November 28, 2010.
What can happen next?
by: Gil Won Seo, from GEO Class 3-4, Professor Irving Gussow's class