| The primary reason we're there is because if the North wants to invade, they will be directly attacking US troops. That means that no matter how successful that invasion is, the US (with its very potent military) is automatically committed the moment the invasion happens. That is currently the #1 deterent to the North invading.
IMO, we have ever bit of business being there until we are asked to leave. Why hand over a very prosperous South Korea to a North Korean rule that would completely ruin everything they've accomplished anyway?
Sadly the only formula for a positive reunification of the two Koreas is for the Communist regime of the North to somehow lose power, the two halves merge, the US and company pull out completely, and China would have to make some unbreakable agreement to never invade. Pretty unlikely.
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