In other news, dozens of Democrats who had previously said that North Korea was a more pressing threat than Iraq are about to start saying the exact opposite ..... absolutely no film at 11.
Posted on 02/05/2005 8:10:25 PM PST by Paul_Denton
Big News Network.com Saturday 5th February, 2005 (UPI)
The United States would dispatch 690,000 troops to help defend South Korea if war broke out on the peninsula, Seoul's Defense Ministry said Friday.
Some 2,000 military planes and 160 warships would also be sent in the event of an attack from communist North Korea, the ministry said in its White Paper.
The reinforcements would include several carrier battle groups capable of launching multilateral naval operations and air strikes against North Korea's border artillery forces, as well as self-guided weapons to hit the North's air force facilities and weapons of mass destruction, the paper said.
The United States currently stations 32,500 troops in South Korea to help the host country deter a possible invasion from communist North Korea.
But the South's defense policy guideline removed its 10-year-long references to North Korea as the South's main enemy, a move intended to speed up the process of inter-Korean reconciliation.
Instead, the Defense Ministry will refer to North Korea as a direct military threat, according to the paper. The change could trigger a protest from anti-communist conservatives.
BTTT
Where is that 690K number coming from??
A few dozen megatons in the right bunkers would be a better option, tactically speaking...
Apparently from the South Koreans.
We don't have that many troops to dispatch.
I agree.
LOL, I'm sure the President was glad to hear about this.
After the initial attack, I'm not sure we would need that many. Our airpower would thin the North Korean herd soon enough. The question is, what would be left after the inital attack. North Korea has some pretty sharp teeth these days. Their conventional missile strikes alone would wither the South in quick fashion.
I think this fool has had too much Khimchi. America would drop a couple of megaton peacemakers, and Kim Dong Il would have his Dong flattened.
I feel a draft.
We have no business entering N. Korea. They are not a threat. We need to jaw-bone with them and understand the complexities of the situation.
I'm John Kerry and I approve this message.
/Lib speak off
Korea said they would vapourize our troops. If they drop a bomb are we going to send tens of thousands of troops in the contaminatied area?
This kind of talk from the S. Koreans is going to shake up the N. Koreans! They need to cut that out!!!
I never knew South Korea had a conscript military. I can see why though.
President Bush replied "Who?"
The U.S. could turn that place into molten slag and I doubt Kim Dung Ill is insane enough to take the gamble.
Makes one wonder what this story will look like in 2 or 3 more days... :)
Well if Kim Dung Il tried that, the US's nuclear retaliation would wipe that place off the earth.
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