Seoul Mining

I don't see the big deal, yes they have made them but theres no evidence that they have been used in conflicts in Africa and the Middle east.

More likely they are used to protect South Koreas border with North Korea which no innocent civilians are going to be walking by casually...

They sponsor Everton too, so it's not just us....

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RB, the problem isn't with landmines themselves. It is with the customers use of them. It's business, at the end of the day. They make a large amount of other, more beneficial products.

Supply & demand of course Campo, but as, as a country, they haven't agreed to the non use treaty, it smells of protectionism to me.

They will be making nuclear weapons next as they also haven't sign the nuclear weapon proliferation treaty.

I aint a pacifist by the way if conflict is to protect or homeland or genocide elsewhere.

Bricks, what's next to South Korea? one of the worlds biggest armies and a leader who hates South Korea and has launched military attacks on their country.

If it turns out that they have been sold to warlords in Africa then its bad but there's no evidence for this!!

Most of it is sabre rattling Moses, like they are trapped in the cold war.

How many landmines do you need to cover a 2 km wide "no mans land?"

Most of it is sabre rattling Moses, like they are trapped in the cold war.

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Blowing up a jet isn't sabre rattling, neither is blowing up a ship....

They are full blown terrorist acts, we have started wars because of acts like these,

from themoniter.org;

South Korea said in October 2009 that it “is exercising tight control over anti-personnel landmines and enforcing a moratorium on their export for an indefinite extension of time.

i.e. the company can't export them.

That to me Moses sounds like they did export them prior to 2009.

There are probably 100's of thousands of them need digging out of the ground around the world.

Korea banned exports in 1997, the same year as the international ban

Personally I don't think we should associate ourselves with companies that have manufactured products which are meant to hurt/kill people, regardless of the reasons countries need them for