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US orders 16,000 troops and 230 jets to get ready for WAR with North Korea TODAY
Daily Star ^ | 3rd December 2017 | Henry Holloway

Posted on 12/03/2017 7:48:24 AM PST by GonzoII

NORTH Korea better be watching its back today as thousands of US troops and 230 warplanes descend on Kim Jong-un’s doorstep.

Vigilant Ace – a massive joint war games – kicks off today as the US and South Korea rehearse for battle with Pyongyang.

Hundreds of aircraft and thousands of soldiers and airmen are taking part in the drill, which is one of the biggest ever of its kind.

US and South Korean forces will be rehearsing for a full-scale war with North Korea.

Nuclear fears have reignited as Kim fired his latest missile last week – his biggest and most powerful yet, the Hwasong-15.

And there now fears Kim could be readying the dreaded Juche Bird, his most shocking weapons test to date. US President Donald Trump will be looking to flex his muscles as he dispatches his most deadly fighter planes to ready for war in Vigilant Ace.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fourth100days; military; nk; nknukes; norks; northkorea; pearlclutching; trumpasia; usmilitary; vigilantace
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1 posted on 12/03/2017 7:48:24 AM PST by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII

YES! Time to put that fat loud-mouthed turd in his place.

If that NK soldier risked his life running across the DMZ you know DAMN well that he isn’t the only NK soldier thinking the same thing.

My bet is the NK regulars don’t want to fight. They want to run and KJI and his military leadership know this.

Hence the rhetoric and nuclear escalation.


2 posted on 12/03/2017 7:52:58 AM PST by Hammerhead
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To: GonzoII

While I personally want to believe these are acts of posturing, the less blinded I become the more it seems a new war on the Korean peninsula is likely. Prayers for their people and our troops.


3 posted on 12/03/2017 7:53:20 AM PST by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: Hammerhead

NK is about to come apart and the leadership know it.

Time to take care of the family’s business.


4 posted on 12/03/2017 7:54:00 AM PST by Hammerhead
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To: GonzoII

1/4 of the required aircraft and 1/10 of the required troops to do this job.

Absent a nuclear preemption.


5 posted on 12/03/2017 7:56:32 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: GonzoII

I’ve got a bird for fat boy.


6 posted on 12/03/2017 7:57:02 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: GonzoII

We could take this bastard out by sending in a dozen mercenaries to wack him and his generals. Why waste all of those resources on a petulant child?


7 posted on 12/03/2017 7:58:19 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: GonzoII

We could take this bastard out by sending in a dozen mercenaries to wack him and his generals. Why waste all of those resources on a petulant child?


8 posted on 12/03/2017 7:58:20 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: GonzoII

I hope there’s no accidents. Not a very good track record these days. It would look and be very bad to lose a couple dozen soldiers doing this.

Prayers


9 posted on 12/03/2017 7:58:39 AM PST by Pollard (TRUMP 2020)
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To: Mariner

My thoughts exactly.


10 posted on 12/03/2017 8:00:47 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: GonzoII
"there now fears Kim could be readying the dreaded Juche Bird, his most shocking weapons test to date."

We hear talk that our anti-missile "Star Wars" defenses can possibly take out missiles in the boost phase, intermediate phase, and descent phase. That may be true, but our Tomahawk cruise missiles can certainly take out missiles in their "sitting on the launch pad" phase. Since Kim has already threatened the entire US with these missiles, it seems to me that that's the 'phase' we should start with.

11 posted on 12/03/2017 8:02:13 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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Anyone else come to the sudden realization of how our political class have completely failed us, prior to Trump?

We should have never gotten involved in Korea. It was the UN sticking its nose into it and the U.S. bearing the brunt of the costs and military.

If the commies would have overrun it, who cares? They overran South Vietnam but look what has happen, as it happens with all communist or socialist nations.

They turn to capitalism to sustain itself!

So right now Korea would be a unified peninsula with a free market economy. Sure they would maybe have the rulers with the communist mindset, but at least the people of NK wouldn't be starving or locked in brutal labor camps.

12 posted on 12/03/2017 8:02:34 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (10% pure, flat income tax for everyone. No deductions, credits, or loopholes.)
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To: Mariner

The armchair generals are weighing in...


13 posted on 12/03/2017 8:02:38 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: norwaypinesavage

Agree! We should be destroying the pad as NK preps them for launch. Since they’ve already fired missiles over Allies territory, the Casus belli already exists.


14 posted on 12/03/2017 8:05:50 AM PST by StolarStorm
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To: GonzoII

Fake headline sure sucked me in.


15 posted on 12/03/2017 8:06:39 AM PST by plain talk
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To: Mariner
You never go 100% for maneuvers. I don't believe the 3 to 1 force advantage would apply to the North Koreans. They're probably too hungry and thus not very motivated. The biggest loss of life would be on the South through mad artillery fire. The plan for the reconstruction of that stone-age country will have to be as great as the military one. IMHO.
16 posted on 12/03/2017 8:07:10 AM PST by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: GonzoII

Although I’m not expert in such matters it seems to me that this would be a job for the Navy and Air Force.


17 posted on 12/03/2017 8:09:20 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: GonzoII

This was a pre-planned exercise.

It appears we have been doing “Vigilant Ace” joint operations for a number of years.

The headline is over-hyped sensationalism.


18 posted on 12/03/2017 8:09:31 AM PST by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: plain talk
"Fake headline sure sucked me in."

LOL. I didn't even notice it until after the post!

I knew we were getting ready for drills so assumed that is what the report was about.

19 posted on 12/03/2017 8:09:32 AM PST by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: Spacetrucker

Yes prayers for our troops and all the inhabitants of that area. I wish a NK coup could be instigated.


20 posted on 12/03/2017 8:11:17 AM PST by Rusty0604
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