(LEAD) N. Korea loads two medium-range missiles on mobile launchers

Yonhap ^ | April 5, 2013 | By Kim Eun-jung

[Jet Jaguar]

ping

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Me thinks this is all a globalist ploy aimed at getting Americans on board with an 0bama call for nuclear disarmament. Let’s see whether or not this crisis “goes to waste” or not.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I know what would be happening right now if Ike, JFK, Nixon or Reagan were president, and it wouldn’t be the US sitting around waiting for an attack.

[hulagirl]

I’m a big enough weirdo to find the whole thing vastly suspicious. I just can’t take it seriously; is it just obama trying to seem bad ass, like “I got this guys”? Or, if they truly are getting ready to fire one off, why don’t we take it out now?

[Jet Jaguar]

I wish I was back at Osan now.

I could probably answer with a non-opsec revealing response.

[BerryDingle]

Is the kimche about to hit the fan bump.

[SpaceBar]

Bluffing or not, they’ve lost one important tactical advantage and that’s the element of surprise. I’m thinking diversionary tactics where everyone’s attention is over the skies of east asia, then Tehran attacks Tel Aviv, or some similar scenario.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

PULL!!!!

[GeronL]

The only response to an attack from the north that will have any impact on NK’s leaders is to strike a target, defense ministry or something, INSIDE PyongYang

[GeronL]

Their subs could sink a ship (Cheonan), they could shell an island (they did that too), they could send sabotuers and terrorists through a tunnel under the DMZ or and them by sea (thy did that before too) they could launch a missile they could do a lot of different things. They have even blown up a Korean Air Lines plane with a bomb.

Until the south begins hitting them back HARD, the Nork leaders won’t take them too seriously

[South40]

[mn-bush-man]

Wag the dog.

What’s really going on while “the world” is focused on NK??

[Golfinsocal]

Perhaps this will remind Obama how important it is to maintain the ability to conduct multiple wars simultaneously...would hurt to be looking left when a right was heading into your glass chin.

[Brad’s Gramma]

What’s really going on while “the world” is focused on NK??

Betcha you could ask 10 people tomorrow and no one would even know about this...

While I (tend to) agree with you, this country is clueless.

[fatnotlazy]

Obama really doesn't care if we are attacked or not. Actually, he might even welcome an attack. Good reason to declare martial law and make himself dictator.

[Yosemitest]

Watch

North Korea Secret Places - Part 1

How Google Earth owns North Korea Part 1 (Spotting military targets)

How Google Earth owns North Korea Part 2 (Spotting military targets)

To those of you who really care, there's an expandable topo map of Korea that's worth studying.
Like Lt. Col. North said:

"Official Washington's response to this new round of North Korean saber rattling has exacerbated anxiety in Seoul, Tokyo and U.S. Pacific Command headquarters in Hawaii.
Last week, the Obama administration launched a rhetorical counterattack against Pyongyang and widely publicized the deployment of strike aircraft, U.S. Navy surface combatants and ballistic missile defense assets —
including two sea-based radar platforms and ground-based missile interceptors to Guam.

One senior military officer put it this way:
"All this should have been done very quietly and reassured our allies.
Instead, the Obama administration is turning this into their version of John Kennedy's 'Seven Days in May.'
If they keep this up, everyone out here will have nukes."

Well put.
The folks who canceled White House tours to save money need to get out their history books.
The first occupant of the White House to receive a Nobel Prize was famous for saying,
"Speak softly, and carry a big stick." "

South Korea SHOULD be angry at the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF.
There's at least 4 million or more people in Seoul alone, that will be the first to feel the fire, if things go bad.
When my last tour in Osan AB was over in 1995, they were worried about two renegade generals in North Korea that wanted to start the battle and get North Korea's loss over with, so the people of North Korea could get out from under the dictatorship, and begin to rebuild.
South Korea was worried about having to support all those starving people in North Korea when North Korea collapses.

There's no good way to handle this.
A lot of people are going to die.
But if we must handle it, then do a preemptive strike, a very LARGE preemptive strike, and tactical nukes will have to be used at the very start.
If we're going to do it, then do it right, and don't try to play small skirmishes and get more people killed.
We know where the North Korean Leaders live and sleep, so destroy them first.

Skivy 9, do your job, and do it right!

[AmericanInTokyo]

True enough.

[Jumper]

Iran will also do something equally desperate.

[JoeProBono]