{"id":65388,"date":"2002-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2002\/12\/19\/amis-de-50-ans\/"},"modified":"2002-12-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-19T00:00:00","slug":"amis-de-50-ans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2002\/12\/19\/amis-de-50-ans\/","title":{"rendered":"Amis de 50 ans<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amis de 50 ans<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t19 d\u00e9cembre 2002 Les Sud-Cor\u00e9ens votent aujourd’hui pour un nouveau pr\u00e9sident. En m\u00eame temps, l’actuelle pouss\u00e9e d’antiam\u00e9ricanisme en Cor\u00e9e du Sud a atteint une intensit\u00e9 jamais observ\u00e9e. Plus que l’\u00e9lection, dont on sait l’orientation syst\u00e9matique \u00e0 cause de la nature des liens entre USA et Cor\u00e9e du Sud, c’est le deuxi\u00e8me \u00e9v\u00e9nement qui importe. La cause initiale, ou disons, conjoncturelle, de cette pouss\u00e9e antiam\u00e9ricaine est la mort de deux jeunes adolescentes de 14 ans, le 13 juin dernier, au cours de manoeuvres de blind\u00e9s am\u00e9ricains.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tDeux soldats de l’U.S. Army furent inculp\u00e9s par la justice militaire am\u00e9ricaine, tandis que l’inculpation par la justice sud-cor\u00e9enne \u00e9tait rejet\u00e9e \u00e0 la fin du mois d’ao\u00fbt. Le verdict a \u00e9t\u00e9 prononc\u00e9 le 20 novembre : acquittement. L’effet en Cor\u00e9e du Sud a \u00e9t\u00e9 celui d’une bombe. Le 27 novembre, le Los Angeles Times>D> \u00e9crivait :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab The acquittals of two GIs in the death of a pair of schoolgirls have sparked protests. U.S. ambassador apologizes on Bush’s behalf.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb The deaths of the two schoolgirls were particularly gruesome. While walking along a narrow rural road to a friend’s birthday party, they were crushed by a 50-ton mine-clearing vehicle that was moving during a U.S. Army training exercise.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Last week, two GIs accused of negligent homicide in connection with the fatal accident were acquitted in U.S. courts-martial. Ever since, one of the most intense waves of anti-Americanism in recent years has swept through South Korea.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Unlike demonstrations against President Bush’s visit to South Korea in February, which were staged almost entirely by left-wing students, the case of the crushed schoolgirls has drawn in a wide swath of South Korean society.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSince the verdicts, there have been dozens of mostly small protests daily in Seoul, Pusan, Kwangju and other South Korean cities. Students have broken into a U.S. Army base, and at least one restaurant has barred entry to Americans.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tEven members of the conservative Grand National Party, which is considered resolutely pro-American, have called for a public apology from Bush for the accident and the revision of the treaty governing U.S. forces in South Korea, one of the United States’ most important allies.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tLe refus de l’arm\u00e9e am\u00e9ricaine de laisser la justice sud-cor\u00e9enne agir selon la l\u00e9galit\u00e9 m\u00eame, suivi de l’acquittement des deux militaires am\u00e9ricains repr\u00e9sentent la d\u00e9marche habituelle des bureaucraties militaires am\u00e9ricaines de refuser, par d\u00e9fense aveugle de leurs int\u00e9r\u00eats particuliers, de prendre en compte les circonstances, les int\u00e9r\u00eats, les sentiments des pays \u00e9trangers o\u00f9 se d\u00e9roulent des faits impliquant les int\u00e9r\u00eats am\u00e9ricains en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral. La d\u00e9marche est \u00e9videmment d\u00e9loyale et stupide, le r\u00e9sultat est \u00e9videmment catastrophique ; et l’absence totale du pouvoir politique US dans cette affaire, pour tenter d’orienter la d\u00e9marche de la bureaucratie militaire US dans un sens politiquement plus habile, mesure la situation du pouvoir en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral aux USA (faiblesse chronique et proche de l’impuissance du pouvoir politique, d\u00e9ploiement et d\u00e9fense sans aucune restriction des int\u00e9r\u00eats particuliers).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tEn quelques jours, apr\u00e8s la d\u00e9cision de la cour martiale US, le climat entre les USA et la Cor\u00e9e du Sud s’est d\u00e9t\u00e9rior\u00e9 \u00e0 un point jamais vu auparavant. Pour ajouter \u00e0 la tension et \u00e0 la maladresse, la Cor\u00e9e du Sud \u00e9tait en pleine campagne \u00e9lectorale et le climat de la phase terminale de l’\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle a conduit tous les partis \u00e0 durcir leurs positions. Des observations faites le 18 d\u00e9cembre par le Washington Times,<\/a> pourtant largement favorable \u00e0 la politique dure traditionnelle de Washington, permettent de mesurer le climat de la Cor\u00e9e du Sud aujourd’hui. Cet article est int\u00e9ressant dans la mesure o\u00f9 sa ligne directrice est d’affirmer que, malgr\u00e9 l’\u00e9lan formidable de l’antiam\u00e9ricanisme, ou \u00e0 cause de lui justement, des voix s’\u00e9l\u00e8vent en Cor\u00e9e du Sud contre la critique syst\u00e9matique des USA (\u00ab South Korea’s anti-anti-Americans are starting to find their voice<\/em> \u00bb).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tOn constate de cette fa\u00e7on, par les voies d\u00e9tourn\u00e9es d’une appr\u00e9ciation tendant \u00e0 minimiser cette \u00e9norme vague d’antiam\u00e9ricanisme, que la question a d\u00e9pass\u00e9 le seul cadre de la protestation populaire, de ce sentiment antiam\u00e9ricain \u00e9pidermique si fortement d\u00e9nonc\u00e9 par le journal dans cet article, \u00e0 partir de cas concrets. Elle a touch\u00e9 les candidats \u00e0 l’\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle et les a engag\u00e9s dans des voies qui devraient amener des cons\u00e9quences politiques apr\u00e8s l’\u00e9lection, quel que soit l’\u00e9lu. En quelque sorte, elle les a plac\u00e9s dans une position assez proche de celle de Schr\u00f6der pendant la campagne \u00e9lectorale de l’\u00e9t\u00e9 dernier.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab A strain of anti-American feeling is not new to South Korea, which relies on 37,000 U.S. troops here to help fend off the North but has balked at its image as junior partner in the alliance. But there is little question that recent anti-American rallies have been different from past, often violent protests led almost exclusively by radical leftist student groups.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb The hundreds of thousands of South Koreans who have turned out in the recent rallies inspired by the case of the two schoolgirls have included housewives, prominent artists and religious leaders, and labor groups. The protests have been largely peaceful, but a U.S. military officer was assaulted by knife-wielding Korean youths Sunday evening. He said later that his attackers cursed the United States and demanded that American forces leave the peninsula.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00bb Mr. Lee <\/em>[ conservative Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Lee Hoi-chang] has appealed to conservative traditional voters who prize the long-standing relationship with the United States. But even he has joined his main rivals in the campaign in saying he would seek revisions to the 1966 accord governing the U.S. military presence in South Korea if elected.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Democratic Labor Party (DLP) candidate Kwon Young-ghil, a leftist former labor leader and a potential wild card in tomorrow’s vote, has taken the strongest anti-U.S. line among the three major candidates. His platform calls for a peace treaty with North Korea and the start of negotiations for the earliest possible withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Korea.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Yoon Youngmo, international-relations adviser for the DLP, said in an interview yesterday that opposing American policies on the ground here is not the same thing as anti-Americanism. Despite the new voices urging a more moderate tone, Mr. Yoon said he believes that whoever wins tomorrow will have to strike a tougher line with Washington. If the new president tries to patch things up and pretend all is well, he will have trouble, for he will be going back on the words he said during the campaign, Mr. Yoon said.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tLa situation sud-cor\u00e9enne est une d\u00e9monstration de plus de l’aveuglement g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du syst\u00e8me de l’am\u00e9ricanisme pour tout ce qui ne le concerne pas directement (c’est-\u00e0-dire ses int\u00e9r\u00eats, ses positions internes, son \u00e9volution interne, etc). On reste confondu devant la chronologie, ou, plut\u00f4t, l’absence de chronologie du verdict de la court martiale, dans le sens de l’acquittement, rendu dans la phase terminale de la campagne \u00e9lectorale. Rien d’autre n’est imaginable, qui puisse d\u00e9t\u00e9riorer plus les relations entre la Cor\u00e9e du Sud et les USA et susciter l’antiam\u00e9ricanisme.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCette stupidit\u00e9 profonde est aujourd’hui la marque du syst\u00e8me, et l’impuissance des forces autour, et notamment des forces qui devraient le contr\u00f4ler, \u00e0 y interf\u00e9rer en est le corollaire in\u00e9vitable. Toute l’activit\u00e9 am\u00e9ricaine aujourd’hui est \u00e0 mesure de ce constat. Les relations USA-Cor\u00e9e du Sud vont continuer \u00e0 se d\u00e9t\u00e9riorer, peut-\u00eatre de plus en plus rapidement puisque c’est la bureaucratie US qui contr\u00f4le de facto ces rapportsUSA-Cor\u00e9e du Sud, par le biais de la position des militaires US en Cor\u00e9e du Sud. A notre sens, cette d\u00e9t\u00e9rioration ne sera pas \u00e9vit\u00e9e par l’\u00e9ventuelle \u00e9lection du candidat conservateur (Lee), pro-US ; au contraire, une telle \u00e9lection acc\u00e9l\u00e9rerait le processus en mettant en danger le r\u00e9gime, par la rupture avec les r\u00e9actions populaires.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amis de 50 ans 19 d\u00e9cembre 2002 Les Sud-Cor\u00e9ens votent aujourd’hui pour un nouveau pr\u00e9sident. En m\u00eame temps, l’actuelle pouss\u00e9e d’antiam\u00e9ricanisme en Cor\u00e9e du Sud a atteint une intensit\u00e9 jamais observ\u00e9e. Plus que l’\u00e9lection, dont on sait l’orientation syst\u00e9matique \u00e0 cause de la nature des liens entre USA et Cor\u00e9e du Sud, c’est le deuxi\u00e8me… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3120,3289,3299,2651,3300,2671],"class_list":["post-65388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faits-et-commentaires","tag-antiamericanisme","tag-army","tag-coree","tag-du","tag-sud","tag-us"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}