South Korea out of Afghanistan

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Jesús Torquemada, news analyst. Foto: EiTB

The Taliban have succeeded in throwing the South Koreans out of Afghanistan. The South Korean presence in Afghanistan is not important in military terms. The main military force there is under NATO's control and nobody will miss the two-hundred South Korean soldiers that carry out secondary works.

However, the South Korean presence is more important in economic terms. Karzai's government, supported by the West, needs foreign investment and South Korea was one of the countries ready to invest. Unfortunately, the South Korean government has decided to leave to save the life of the Christian missionaries kidnapped.

South Korea is mainly Buddhist but it hosts many evangelist Christians.

Some of those Christians decided to become missionary in Afghanistan no less, which is a reckless as fundamentalism militants think that preaching Christianity in Islamic lands is a sort of military invasion.

Now that the South Korean case is solved, the pressure is on Germany. The Taliban have a German engineer hostage, they have already killed another one and they are asking the German government for concessions.