Posted on 10/13/2006 3:43:05 AM PDT by Flavius
HE South Korean Government has demanded that the US provide it with a detailed "nuclear umbrella" guarantee against attack from the North.
"Due to public anxiety, I have stressed the need for anuclear umbrella from the US," Defence Minister Yoon Kwang-ung told the National Assembly yesterday, in his first detailed response to Monday's nuclear bomb test by the Pyongyang regime.
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good one.
Let's see. We have 50,000 troops there defending them.
Why shouldn't they demand we provide REAL protection?
If we're not going to protect them we should get the hell out and let the communists take over.
I have loads of toys like my Harley. A plane and a boat and I use them each very conservatively. I am a republican.
Or like some I can live in fear and in a bubble and have a shallow no fun life.
The "digging for decades" is obvious.
The bunker part is based on what some other folks have built (including Saddam).
We call the Russians and ally and they are far less trustworthy than the Japanese.
We don't need them to be like us, we only need them to be civilized. The Japanese can be counted on that much because they understand the consequences of their actions, and they have plenty to lose.
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You should believe it. Any GI on the peninsula can tell you the same, it's part of the 'welcome to USFK' talk.
The commies have had nearly sixty years to harden these sites. The mountains there are as hard as the granite upon which Manhattan is built.
I suggest you take a look at S.L.A. Marshall's seminal book, Pork Chop Hill (the basis for the film). One of the little gems in there is the description of the network of tunnels and caves already in place and virtually untouchable by 1953.
Conventional wisdom is that the first three to seven days would be all NK. It would take that long for the tide to turn. The civilian loss of life in that first week would be staggering by any standard, especially once the bridges across the Han were taken out, leaving 5,000,000 plus (including the US installation at Yonson) trapped in the north side of Seoul.
My post might have sounded confrontational. I didn't mean it to be so. I wanted to point out to everyone on this thread that SK doesn't possess a nuclear arsenal because we would not have continued our presence there if the had. They rely on our quiver.
Thanks for explaining, wtc911!!
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