Seoul's Geopolitics of Ransom
As three Talibs brag about how much evil South Korean ransom buys (via Lost Nomad), South Korean hostages not fortunate enough to be kidnapped in Afghanistan or to be recruited from a rich congregation in Seoul, have languished in limbo since May, 2007.
Of course unlike the 23 Christian missionaries and Kim-Sun-il for that matter, the 4 Koreans in Somalia aren?t getting that much media attention, and as a result the Korean government may have decided to ?forget? about the hostages and hope that the problem will go away.
Rather than a matter of public support for dumb evangelicals, perhaps it's cost-benefit analysis. It's a matter of how to use taxpayer won most wisely. Four sailors just can't give Seoul the sort of anti-American bang for the won - that keeps on killing - blundering into a Muslim battlefront can.
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