On my remarks below (quoted): Electric power is not necessarily for pure peaceful purposes as you already know. SK has almost no other sources of electricity other than the huge dependency on Nuclear power. So it follows that a large army in the country would need a steady supply of power.
(1) Your basic claim was that the USA had built power plants (secret!), roads, and other infrastructure that had somehow helped propel the Korean economy. I asked "which ones and where". I have yet to get a good answer.
(2) By the time Korea really got into nuclear power, most of the US military was long gone.
(3) Forget the "it follows". Have you actually looked at the concrete facts in relation to when the USA military presence was at its highest in Korea?
(4) "
SK has almost no other sources of electricity other than the huge dependency on Nuclear power"
- (i) Last I checked it did have other big sources? What is your data?
- (ii) What does that have to do with secret power plants (whether or not built by the Americans)? Just about everything about the nuclear electric-power plants that do the job is public knowledge
Between 1953 - 1980s, SK was a net recipient of military and economic aid from the US. It goes without saying that most of this went towards the construction and modernization of infrastructure. SK's highway network is a replica of the US highway system - largely put up with American cash.
Interesting. First, it was about the US military building roads and power plants and infrastructure, and now it's just "American cash" ... But we need not quibble over that. Let's deal with concrete facts:
I have a pretty good idea of the major road networks in SK. Which parts do you have in mind? Once you identify particular highways, we can look at the facts of who did what and with whose money. Let's start with Seoul. Then we can move to the other major cities and the interconnections between.
On secret plants, we can just drop it because I simply passed on information that came my way by virtue of my short stint in the region. It won't be secret if it could be backed by public documentation. But you can apply some imagination. The enemy (NK) is a grenade throw away and one can only imagine any attack would target power plants in the first wave of attack. At least the security preparedness I was privy to made that assumption.
I wasn't asking for "public documentation". I was merely looking for something beyond "Omollo stated it on Nipate; so there!". I was asking for some very basic information:
(a) Why on earth would the US military need secret nuclear power plants in SK?
(b) What exactly have these secret plants contributed to the Korean economy?
(c)
Where on earth could these secret plants be located? Whether it's from your source or from "imagination", can you suggest a few places? (Resist the temptation to say "or near the base".)
