They should do it at night.
Pyongyang is very easy to find at night...even from space. They can nuke it from orbit...just to be sure.
Posted on 09/11/2016 3:33:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Seoul government has developed a plan to obliterate the North Korean capital, according to a media report. South Korea said it would destroy all parts of the city should there be an impending nuclear threat.
The South Korean Yonhap news agency Sunday said that in the event of a likely attack from the North, Seoul was prepared to use intensive bombing to wipe the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, from the map.
"Every Pyongyang district, particularly where the North Korean leadership is possibly hidden, will be completely destroyed by ballistic missiles and high-explosive shells as soon as the North shows any signs of using a nuclear weapon. In other words, the North's capital city will be reduced to ashes and removed from the map," said the Yonhap source.
Information on the detailed bombing operation emerged after the South's Defense Ministry published the "Korea Massive Punishment and Retaliation" (KMPR) plan to the country's national assembly. The operation would particularly target leader Kim Jong Un and members of the upper echelons of government.
'Guardian angel'
While the South has no nuclear weapons of its own, it threatened to optimize the use of its conventional weapon arsenal. "The KMPR is the utmost operation concept the military can have in the absence of its own nuclear weapons," the source noted.
The South has developed a scenario in which it would mobilize its Hyanmoo ("guardian angel of the northern skies") surface-to-surface ballistic missile arsenal. The missiles, which are to be further developed and tested next year, have ranges of up to 1,000 kilometers (621 miles).
North scoffs at sanctions threat
A separate source told Yonhap that the military had launched a special operational unit dedicated to destroying the North Korean military leadership.
North Korea said on Sunday that an effort in the UN to ratchet up sanctions after its fifth and biggest nuclear test was "laughable."
The North on Friday detonated its most powerful nuclear explosion to date, saying it had developed the expertise to equip a ballistic missile with a warhead.
North Korea on Sunday restated an earlier demand that it should be recognized as a nuclear state, singling out US President Barack Obama in particular for criticism. The North says both missile and nuclear tests are necessary for it to address a US nuclear threat to its independence.
"Obama is trying hard to deny the DPRK's strategic position as a legitimate nuclear weapons state but it is as foolish an act as trying to eclipse the sun with a palm," said a Foreign Ministry statement quoted by the official KCNA news agency.
Need a decapitation strike coupled with a sponsored coup d’état.
South Koreans are some tough bastards.
If south Korea did... the north Koreans would have to act like nothing happened.
The South Koreans realize they are on their own as far as Obama and Hillary are concerned.
If South Korea obliterated Pyongyang, that’d be a couple billion dollars in improvements.
Thought hussein was going to straighten the norks out about 8 yrs ago with “smart diplomacy” or some such.
When I was stationed there (twice) over a generation ago, the South Korean troops would say Tungil! (Reunification) when saluting.
Yeah, like the Arab Spring.
South Koreans are some tough bastards.
Yes they are. I saw a ROK NCO discipline some of his troops once and he wasn’t funny.
GOSH I WONDER IF SK WILL SECRETLY DEVELOP NUKES.
Gosh I WONDER.
“The South Koreans realize they are on their own as far as Obama and Hillary are concerned.”
I will wager they started working on or buying bombs the moment Obama responded to the Chonan incident with a “strongly worded diplomatic note.” With the level of technology they have they could have nukes in months, not years. They can be tested the same way the South African’s tested theirs. You wait until the satellites are over the horizon and set them off in the middle of the ocean. No witnesses. (No Greepeace, either.)
Launched? I'd say this has been part and parcel of South Korea's war plans for a long time.
Pretty much.
Or may be like Japan: “A screwdriver and some assembly away”.
South Korea will bomb North Korea back to the stone age. No, wait...
Urban renewal, Hermit Kingdom style.
Ballistic missiles are terrifying, but not cost-effective without a big fatty on top. Ask the Germans.
500 of the 2,500lb FAE’s might have a real impact.
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