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NYT: U.S.-S. Korean War Drills Begin
The United States and South Korea on Sunday kicked off their largest joint war game in years, with a nuclear-powered American aircraft carrier prowling off the east coast of South Korea while North Korea threatened to retaliate with its nuclear weapons and reportedly put its military on an alert for war.
Rising tensions demonstrated how tenuous peace remained on the divided peninsula after the Korean War was temporarily halted in a ceasefire between the U.S.-led United Nations forces and the communist troops from North Korea and China 57 years ago on Tuesday.
The current spate of tension was sparked when a South Korean warship was blown up in March, killing 46 sailors. A team of investigators from South Korea, the United States and other countries that joined the U.N. forces during the war determined in May that North Korea torpedoed the ship.
I would be one of the ones they would likely send, if it came to war.Yea, lets go in. Whose kids are we going to use, yours? Poor kids are already fighting your wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Yea, lets go in. Whose kids are we going to use, yours? Poor kids are already fighting your wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A man died and another was injured in an explosion in a restricted area in Yeoncheon near the border with North Korea, possibly from a wooden box land mine, police said Sunday.
The explosion occurred around 11:20 p.m. on Saturday in a border city 60 kilometers northeast of Seoul. A 48-year-old man, known only by his last name Han, died at the scene, while a 25-year-old man with the last name Kim was taken to a hospital with injuries.
Police said that the two were carrying what appears to be a boxed landmine that they picked up on their way back from fishing at the Injin River. The area where they were fishing is off limits to civilians.
Police and military officials say that they are investigating the exact cause of the accident and how the men were able to gain entrance to the area.
It has yet to be confirmed whether the explosive drifted down waters from North Korea. On Saturday, military officials issued warnings to locals to take extra caution after authorities discovered eight wooden box landmines, which they said probably floated south from North Korea.
Yea, lets go in. Whose kids are we going to use, yours? Poor kids are already fighting your wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Not to mention North Korea would be totally razed to the ground in the South Korean, Japanese and US counter-attack or nuked before it could fire its nukes.We are not likely to attack North Korea. North Korea has amassed a huge artillery force just north of Seoul. They can level the city in a couple hours. Neither the US or South Korea can do anything about that. And South Korea can not evacuate the city has the North can see them trying to do so.
Yesssiree.Not to mention North Korea would be totally razed to the ground in the South Korean, Japanese and US counter-attack or nuked before it could fire its nukes.We are not likely to attack North Korea. North Korea has amassed a huge artillery force just north of Seoul. They can level the city in a couple hours. Neither the US or South Korea can do anything about that. And South Korea can not evacuate the city has the North can see them trying to do so.
Epic fail.
We are not likely to attack North Korea. North Korea has amassed a huge artillery force just north of Seoul. They can level the city in a couple hours. Neither the US or South Korea can do anything about that. And South Korea can not evacuate the city has the North can see them trying to do so.
Done the numbers yet NK's military is shit compared to SK's (SK's military outnumbers NK in the millions), while at the same time understanding that these are South Koreans and not all Americans.Yesssiree.Not to mention North Korea would be totally razed to the ground in the South Korean, Japanese and US counter-attack or nuked before it could fire its nukes.We are not likely to attack North Korea. North Korea has amassed a huge artillery force just north of Seoul. They can level the city in a couple hours. Neither the US or South Korea can do anything about that. And South Korea can not evacuate the city has the North can see them trying to do so.
Put a whippin on them just like you did the Taliban.
It makes no difference that they have ships, subs, planes, artillery and all of that crap.
You're murka !
Idiot
We are not likely to attack North Korea. North Korea has amassed a huge artillery force just north of Seoul. They can level the city in a couple hours. Neither the US or South Korea can do anything about that. And South Korea can not evacuate the city has the North can see them trying to do so.
North Korea isn't going to attack, neither. The North cannot sustain a long-term engagement. It is beyond their capability. What they hope to do, as you point out, is to devastate Seoul quickly and force the UN into a quickly negotiated settlement. Otherwise, if it doesn't end quickly, then the North's goose is cooked.
The South has the capability, the will and the means to defeat the North.
I served two tours in the ROK. At times, I thought we were there not to defend the North from attacking the South but the other way around.
North Korea's military outnumbers South Korea's military 5:1, and has nearly double the amount of hardware.Done the numbers yet NK's military is shit compared to SK's (SK's military outnumbers NK in the millions), while at the same time understanding that these are South Koreans and not all Americans.
