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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

South Korean military personnel are required to answer to US generals as a higher authority than their own.

I've actually heard that the SK soldiers attached to the US military are mostly failsons of powerful people who pull strings to get them put in US formations for their mandatory service, because it's considered a cake-walk compared to the SK military.