Posted on 03/10/2013 10:18:12 AM PDT by LibWhacker
South Korea vows strong response if provoked
North Korea's armed forces are reported to be awaiting a "final order" from the country's supreme leader Kim Jong-un before launching a campaign against South Korea.
Ahead of a ten-day joint computer-simulated drill to be conducted by the US and South Korea on 11 March, the North's most widely circulated mouthpiece Rodong Sinmun said: "Our front-line military groups, the army, the navy and the air force, the anti-aircraft units and the strategic rocket units, who have entered the final all-out war stage, are awaiting the final order to strike."
The mouthpiece said the North's nuclear weapons are also in full readiness.
"Puppet regimes in the US and South Korea will be turned into a sea of fire in the blink of an eye," said the daily, raising tensions further in the Korean peninsula.
South Korea and the US have been conducting a joint field training exercise codenamed Foal Eagle since 1 March, and this is likely to go on until the end of April. Follow us Follow @IBTimesUK Google Plus
Nearly 10,000 South Korean troops and 3,500 American forces along with fighter planes are involved in the manoeuvres.
South Korea says the exercises are intended to secure its territories, but Pyongyang charges that they are aimed at the North.
The North has also announced that it will conduct a two-day nationwide military exercise in response to the US-South Korea drill.
Local reports suggest that Kim has also been visiting strategically important military installations in the country in the wake of the volatile situation.
A military source in Seoul has told the Yonhap news agency that Pyongyang is likely to fire short-range missiles or resort to other forms of attack during the drill. The source vowed to retaliate with greater force if South Korean sovereignty is violated.
Baghdad Bob comes to mind.
Eh, more like South Korea vows strong response from the US if attacked...
Lol, that still makes me laugh every time you post it, thx. :-)
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Note how Clinton canceled for a few years with no results.
McAurthur was right... Should have nuked them...
Now they’ve got nukes, as well as some 20,000 conventional artillery pieces targeted on Seoul.
Just damn... And their “dear leader” thinks Dennis Rodman is a deep thinker!
Mark
I took to heart a statement by a soldier who had been stationed in Korea for many years: “For at least a decade or two, US forces have been in South Korea to settle down the South Korean army and keep them from beating seven bells out of North Korea.”
He can’t talk about our puppet regime like that and get away with it
The South can hold their own. Their armed forces are very good. If this goes down ROK units will not fold like they did in 1950.
Oh!boy.Are we watching the comedy channel or what?
UN is lucky to be able to wipe his own backside.That clown is not calling the shots over there.The military is.
The Norks are making noises now so they can get more Freebies from the west.Most notably us.
This is what I've often heard too, but looking at a map it just doesn't appear possible. Seoul is 20 miles from the DMZ. That limits artillery tubes that can shoot that far to 5" and above. Artillery rockets have longer range, but only large rockets.
There is also a limited amount of realestate to put those units it. B-52 rototilling and MOABs could make that a tough place to hang out.
The north might do some damage early on but the south will stomp them into the modern world in short order.
And I would fly them low and fast enough over Pyongyang to shatter every window in the city, then ask Un if he still wants to play.
Kimmie is too busy scoring 18 holes in one on just the back 9...(Nork mMath works as well as their nukes)
He wouldn’t. Even his dad wasn’t that nuts.
All out war may mean a million refuges trying to get across the border...
I think that this is more of a threat to South Korea than war with DPRK.
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