After two deaths, there has been a great emotional response among a number of Koreans here. It is really heartbreaking to grab a paper every morning and find no hopeful news. I can't even imagine what the families must be going through at this moment.
But it's also frustrating to hear all these comments around me that we should send our troops, rescue the hostages, and wipe them out. Wipe them out?! Taliban? In Afghanistan? Give me a break. We have absolutely no information or necessary equipment. The U.S. doesn't seem like they plan on helping out Korea much either.
It is definitely an extremely tricky situation - I do realize that Korean government feels like they cannot just sit there and watch their citizens getting killed. Who sent them over there though? They went ahead, in spite of all the warnings. Korea is stuck in this situation because some people were ignorant of the extent of the risk they were putting themselves in, and sending troops is only going to end up in far more casualties than "just" 22.
Korea has nothing to prove by sending its army over. It is only going to kill more people, and perhaps create very unnecessary motivation for them to do anything further.
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