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Obama is ball less, he will not do anything.
There's nothing for us or him to do.
Unless NK invades SK we have to sit and hope for the best. Even the SK Pres said to use restaint.
Obama is ball less, he will not do anything.
There's nothing for us or him to do.
Unless NK invades SK we have to sit and hope for the best. Even the SK Pres said to use restaint.
It is easy for Americans to puff up their chests and scream Invade! Bomb the shit out of them!
But it is the South Koreans who will do the fighting and dying. They have dealt with these provocations from the north for decades and they know what the appropriate response should be.
...a deadly artillery attack on South Korean territory, causing its neighbour to return fire and scramble F-16 fighters.
Two South Korean marines died, and at least 12 were wounded. There were reports of civilian injuries and houses were set ablaze as scores of shells fell on Yeonpyeong island.
A North Korea expert at Beijing's Central Party School, Zhang Liangui, told the Herald that Kim Jong-un was deliberately destabilising the environment in order to mobilise the military and consolidate his power.
The South Korean President, Lee Myung-bak, held an emergency meeting and told officials to ''respond sternly'' but to avoid aggravating the situation. The military were placed on high alert.
North Korea accused South Korea of firing first. ''The South Korean enemy, despite our repeated warnings, committed reckless military provocations of firing artillery shells into our maritime territory near Yeonpyeong island,'' the military supreme command said.
The north's military ''will continue to make merciless military attacks with no hesitation if the South Korean enemy dares to invade our sea territory by 0.001 mm'', it said in the statement carried by the official news agency. ''It is our military's traditional response to quell provocative actions with a merciless thunderbolt.''
There have been previous skirmishes along the border - including the deaths of 46 South Korean sailors when the corvette Cheonan was torpedoed on March 26 - but the stakes are getting higher.
The exchange follows the revelation last week of a hitherto unknown North Korean uranium enrichment plant to a visiting US scientist. Siegfried Hecker, who previously directed the Los Alamos National Laboratory, told The New York Times he had been ''stunned'' by the plant's sophistication. North Korea said it was operating 2000 centrifuges.
If verified, this would take Pyongyang towards creating a far more powerful arsenal than the estimated eight to 12 plutonium-based warheads that have been built over the past five years.
The US special representative for North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, arrived in Beijing last night to brief officials on North Korea's new enrichment facilities.
Chinese North Korea specialists believe the brinkmanship is designed to mobilise the country around the anointed successor of Kim Jong-il, his son Kim Jong-un.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman expressed ''concern'' at yesterday's attack and warned against further escalation. He said it was ''imperative'' that six-nation talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear ambitions be resumed.
A French diplomatic source said the United Nations Security Council would hold an emergency session.
The White House said it was ''firmly committed to the defence'' of its ally, Seoul.
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There's nothing for us or him to do.
Unless NK invades SK we have to sit and hope for the best. Even the SK Pres said to use restaint.
It is easy for Americans to puff up their chests and scream Invade! Bomb the shit out of them!
But it is the South Koreans who will do the fighting and dying. They have dealt with these provocations from the north for decades and they know what the appropriate response should be.
Then why pray tell are we even over there?
North Korea's Attack on Southern Island Draws Criticism From U.S., Europe - BloombergNorth Koreas attack on a civilian- populated South Korean island drew rebukes from the U.S. and European governments along with warnings that the exchange of artillery fire threatened regional peace.
South Korea scrambled fighter jets and returned artillery fire after North Korea provoked the peninsulas most serious confrontation in decades by lobbing dozens of shells onto Yeonpyeong island, located near the border of both countries on the peninsulas west coast. The shelling killed two South Korean soldiers and wounded at least 14.
The United States strongly condemns this attack and calls on North Korea to halt its belligerent action, the White House said today in a statement. The U.S., which stations about 25,000 troops in South Korea, is in contact with Seouls government, the statement said.
Tensions with North Korea have risen in the past year after the sinking of a South Korean warship, the Cheonan, in March that killed 46 sailors. President Barack Obama dispatched his envoy, Stephen Bosworth, to Asia this week after reports by a U.S. scientist that North Korea had revealed a new uranium- enrichment plant.
North Korea is seeking to extract concessions from countries that oppose its nuclear program, said Jan Techau, an analyst at the NATO Defense College in Rome.
This is serious. Bases were attacked and people have been killed. Fighters have been scrambled. It's not the 3am call that Hillary talked about but it's close enough. Here is a link with pictures of the shelling and it looks bad.
Scroll down in thread for pics and this thread has good sources:
N. Korea fires artillery towards S. Korean island, official says(houses destroyed, fire broke out)
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Why did the US Army invade and occupy South Korea after World War II ended, and the Japanese were defeated?It is easy for Americans to puff up their chests and scream Invade! Bomb the shit out of them!
But it is the South Koreans who will do the fighting and dying. They have dealt with these provocations from the north for decades and they know what the appropriate response should be.
Then why pray tell are we even over there?
Have they been invaded in the last 50 years?
Are you saying the US Army is not doing any good unless they actually go to war?
Obama is ball less, he will not do anything.
Obama is ball less, he will not do anything.
The leadershup of N Korea is desperate.
They need a war to continue to rationalize their own military authoritarian state.
Obama is ball less, he will not do anything.
There's nothing for us or him to do.
Unless NK invades SK we have to sit and hope for the best. Even the SK Pres said to use restaint.
It is easy for Americans to puff up their chests and scream Invade! Bomb the shit out of them!
But it is the South Koreans who will do the fighting and dying. They have dealt with these provocations from the north for decades and they know what the appropriate response should be.
Why did the US Army invade and occupy South Korea after World War II ended, and the Japanese were defeated?Then why pray tell are we even over there?
Have they been invaded in the last 50 years?
Are you saying the US Army is not doing any good unless they actually go to war?
How many North Koreans have died since then from US bombs?
Report: N. Korea fires on S. Korea, injuring at least 6 - CNN.com
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- North Korea on Tuesday fired artillery into the sea near its tense western sea border with South Korea, injuring at least four South Korean soldiers and two civilians, the Yonhap news agency reported.
At least 200 rounds of artillery hit an inhabited South Korean island after the North started firing about 2:30 p.m. local time, Yonhap said.
South Korea's military responded with 80 rounds of artillery and deployed fighter jets to counter the fire, the report said.
There's nothing for us or him to do.
Unless NK invades SK we have to sit and hope for the best. Even the SK Pres said to use restaint.
It is easy for Americans to puff up their chests and scream Invade! Bomb the shit out of them!
But it is the South Koreans who will do the fighting and dying. They have dealt with these provocations from the north for decades and they know what the appropriate response should be.
Hey numbnutz, a lot more can be done that invade! Moving out aircraft carriers and battleships into position. Hitting their nuclear capabilities. Taking out their military capabilities. Then allowing South Korea to invade and unify Korea under a capitalistic, democratuc and 1st world industrialized nation! Assisting South Korea by shelling NK's military capacities (plants, bases, air strips, planes, military bases etc.)
We don't have to send one troop!
Report: N. Korea fires on S. Korea, injuring at least 6 - CNN.com
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- North Korea on Tuesday fired artillery into the sea near its tense western sea border with South Korea, injuring at least four South Korean soldiers and two civilians, the Yonhap news agency reported.
At least 200 rounds of artillery hit an inhabited South Korean island after the North started firing about 2:30 p.m. local time, Yonhap said.
South Korea's military responded with 80 rounds of artillery and deployed fighter jets to counter the fire, the report said.
Too bad Bush let this sore fester.
