The mines between N & S Korea are in an area where no one is supposed to go and is guarded. Mines are to protect against a military invasion. (This is all assuming that they are there, I don't know what is there)
Also, Vietnam, yeah...where else have we hail tailed it out of? And even then, that was 40 years ago, nearly, and much has changed about military strategy and technique.
And re: the "why would we leave them and cause more bad feelings"...even IF we are in a country v. country war in the future, why would we make things worse by leaving mines around to kill civilians?
Finally, the thing about the treaty is that even if someone signs it, that doesn't necessarily mean that they will abide by it. That possibility of contradiction with the treaty puts citizens into a false sense of security just as the U.S. currently sat in a false sense of security because bin Laden hadn't hit us in a few years...but he still was and is out there wanting to destroy us regardless of any agreement
We've retreated in almost every war, or fight we've been in, usually we end up taking the area back, but the last few wars we've fought in, we've retreated more than we've advanced.
The DMZ dpes not protect anything, the DMZ is the physical embodiment of a stalemate. There are over 10,000,000 mines of ours between the two countries, and they aren't even necessary. The only reason they don't attack us is because we have nukes. The reasons we don't attack them are because they have a standing army of over 1,000,000. Those are career military persons, the ones that are not "weekend warriors." Also, they have the gourella techniques of fighting, we have proven time and time again that we can't fight that.
War techniques have not changed at all since Viet Nam. Just look at the war in Iraq. The only difference is the steriotype and the weapos.
We leave mines because we care.
/me thumbs up.
When we destroy the civilians, we destroy the moralle, the less they want to fight, the more they will die.
Sure, a treaty won't prevent anything from happening, but it's more likly that it wont. We had NATO, that prevented the USSR and the rest of the eastern bloc from attacking us. The more people that sign a treaty will cause enough pressure on a country to follow the rules of that treaty. Say, five people versus one, the one is most likly going to lose, ei. WWII.