Well if the two Korea's merged without fighting a war. If a democratic constitution was written up and set in stone. Then I think their should be a draw back of US forces. However I think it would be foolish for the US to pull out of any asian countries now or in the future.

China is a dog on a leash with the US present. But if the US leaves that dog is going to go nuts. Right now the only thing keeping China from invading Japan, Taiwan and probubly even South Korea is the United States. China is a growing super power and wants to increase its influence. China does not want democracy to spread any further and they want to expand their empire both litterily in land but also militarily.

Disagree? Then why is China building up such military might? China wants to build air carrier's they have Nuclear subs they constantly provoke Japan. The chinese Government even made a game a few years ago in which players played as Chinese soldiers invading Japan.

The US needs to remain in place and in a supportive roll accross asia pacific. Their needs to be competition to speak buisness wise. if China is allowed to rule over the area as an unrivalled super power then they could pressure all the countries around them into doing as they please. But right now countries can choose, a great relationship with China or the United States or in some cases both. But if the US left all the countries would be under the dictatorship of a communist super power.

I believe it would be in everyone's best interest if the US withdrawled. Even prior to the North's collapse, I think it'd still be best if we did remove most or all of our bases.

One of the North's biggest propoganda pieces is that South Korea is a puppet government of America. If you withdraw the troops, then the North has lost their main motivation for argument against the South Korean government.

However, we should keep weapon systems as close as possible, in the event of a war by the North, or China. We have enough material in Japan to provide a good enough deterrent for any sort of provocations.

The U.S. together with the U.N might as well be responsible for the mess trying to prevent the communists from uniting Korea.

I don't think it's that goods would be embargoed.  I think that it is the fact a lot of China's wealth is in the form of Western debt they hold.

If there was a war large enough and substantive enough, it is possible the West would deliberately default on all this debt, resulting in the greatest instantaneous transfer of wealth in history (a couple of currently non-existent trillion dollars Europe and America would declare will never be repaid).

Well if the two Korea's merged without fighting a war. If a democratic constitution was written up and set in stone. Then I think their should be a draw back of US forces. However I think it would be foolish for the US to pull out of any asian countries now or in the future.

China is a dog on a leash with the US present. But if the US leaves that dog is going to go nuts. Right now the only thing keeping China from invading Japan, Taiwan and probubly even South Korea is the United States. China is a growing super power and wants to increase its influence. China does not want democracy to spread any further and they want to expand their empire both litterily in land but also militarily.

Disagree? Then why is China building up such military might? China wants to build air carrier's they have Nuclear subs they constantly provoke Japan. The chinese Government even made a game a few years ago in which players played as Chinese soldiers invading Japan.

The US needs to remain in place and in a supportive roll accross asia pacific. Their needs to be competition to speak buisness wise. if China is allowed to rule over the area as an unrivalled super power then they could pressure all the countries around them into doing as they please. But right now countries can choose, a great relationship with China or the United States or in some cases both. But if the US left all the countries would be under the dictatorship of a communist super power.

Why does everyone assume that without the US present in every situation, China will immediately invade everybody?

Taiwan maybe, but Japan and korea?

About the troops in Germany, i think they stayed after WW2 because of the Cold War, remember that Germany (and Berlin) was divided in 4 under the control of  the US, England, France and the Soviet Union, but afterwards, the Soviet Union and the other 3 did not agree at all in the reconstruction of Germany (once again, Cold War), because of this, the US, England and France started a plan for the non-soviet Germany and non-soviet Berlin, and the Soviets did their thing with the rest of Germany, so the DDR (East Germany) and the BRD (West Germany) were born...

So the US troops in Germany was a justified action because of the Soviet Union, of course, that doesn't explain why are they still today, but it explains why they stayed at least until the fall of the USSR and the reunification of the Germanys at the end of the 20th century...