Lol what world do you live in? In Sweden killing political adversaries? I've lived in Sweden winter (Stockholm 2 months) and summer (1 month) and made many friends. None, have talked about killing political coupes like you say. I'm actually pro US gaining controller of Greenland (it would open up enormous economic tailwinds)... Business.. Actual property rights, instead of government owned land with leases. US owning Greenland would be a crazy boom to their economy. I for one, would buy land.

> If this happened in Sweden, we'd have been shooting at the participating soldiers while it went on with machine guns, seeking out people associated with the coup and killing them in their homes etc.

Yeah, that's exactly the kind of resolve one associates with a nation that rolled over, even to the point of active collaboration, when the Soviets invaded one democratic neighbor and annexed chunks of their territory, and when the Nazis subsequently invaded and occupied the other. The "Captain Sweden" meme exists for a reason.

>If you're not going to use it for this, what _are_ you going to use it for?

I don't know, ask my fellow Americans. Our President committed light treason and we not only re-elected him, our Supreme Court gave him absolute immunity from all future crimes while in office as a treat. He's a pedophile and a tyrant, blatantly ignoring Congress and the courts, colonizing and threatening foreign countries, sending masked thugs into the streets, targeted universities and protestors for political oppression and censorship, destroying America's regulatory and scientific infrastructure in the name of purging it of wrongthink (etc etc etc) and neither our government nor 300 million Americans armed to the teeth and ready to water the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants seem capable of doing anything about it.

I'm vehemently against the death penalty because I don't believe the state's monopoly on violence should extend that far (assuming for the sake of argument that it must exist at all) but I have to credit South Korea for having a system that can stand up to pressure. Wish I could say the same for us. We coasted until the civil war then collapsed then stumbled still half-wounded until 9/11 then folded like a paper cup.

I downvoted you because you're spreading baseless conspiracy theory.

Few denies President Park was grossly incompetent in how she behaved during and after the Sewol ferry disaster. Also, the ferry was illegally and unsafely modified and then overloaded. It was a ticking time bomb: its sinking is a classic example of "everything that can go wrong went wrong."

But some people aren't satisfied with that, they think it's impossible that such a big ship would turn over by accident, so they need a villain with a human face. Ergo the conspiracy theory of somebody intentionally killing hundreds of people. And because nobody can explain why anybody would gain anything from such a heinous act, they invent a story of a human-sacrificing cult.

Imagine being a parent who just lost a child to something like that, and being told by people that there is a villain who murdered their child, and the only way to uncover the truth is to fight and protest on streets. For years. Forever. Until the "truth" is uncovered, which will never happen.

It's truly one of the most reprehensible mind viruses I've seen in Korea.