Posted on 06/03/2009 10:41:14 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Fears mount that North Korea is preparing to attack the South
Richard Lloyd Parry on the Northern Limit Line, Yellow Sea
It was obvious that something was up when the Chinese scarpered. One day there were scores of their fishing boats hoovering up the valuable crabs from the richest of the fishing grounds in the Yellow Sea.
Overnight all but a handful were gone.
Anywhere else the locals would have been glad to have the crabs to themselves but this is no ordinary fishing ground. A few yards from here is the maritime boundary between South and North Korea. “The Chinese fish here because the North Koreans allow them,” a coastguard official said. “If they’ve gone it’s because they’ve had some kind of warning.”
An imminent missile launch into the sea? An armed incursion of North Korean ships? A full-scale invasion of Yeonpyeong, the small South Korean island hard up against the maritime boundary? Too much blood has already been shed in these waters for anyone to risk taking any chances, and for the past week South Korea has been dispatching reinforcements.
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Ping!
can’t they have a fermented bean dung and rusty months tofu stand-off or something and like not mess up the pristine countryside?
Nothing will happen because 0bama has promised us that North Korea is a friendly nation.
Total, Orwellian insanity.
Of course they are. They know that Firefly will do nothing.
these countries are tiny, they aren’t a threat- Obama
In case translation is needed, do they run the same LG commercials outside CONUS? The theme is "LG - Life's Good."
Thunderous explosions were heard out at sea. Soon a South Korean naval ship was unloading the bleeding bodies of dead and injured sailors whose patrol ship had come under fire from a North Korean vessel.“There was blood everywhere, the sailors were in shock, and one of them had his leg blown off,” Mr Shin says. “It’s impossible to describe my hatred for those commie sons of bitches.”
Six South Korean sailors died, although they claim to have killed a larger number of Northerners — who had used the pretext of monitoring the Chinese crab-fishing vessels to cross the Northern Limit Line.
The South Korean Government of the day played down the action out of a desire to avoid derailing its “sunshine policy” of engagement with the North. The current conservative President, Lee Myung Bak, takes a sterner view. * * *
South Korea better wake up. Fast. It's society has been infiltrated deeply by Chinese and NK spies. Peaceniks and NK sympathizers are everywhere. Every day they take to the streets to protest American policies. Kim Jong Il is a demented turdbrain with unlimited power. His army is very strong and has had over 50 years to build underground cities. North Korean believes that can easily triumph. With the UN today -- weaker than ever -- nobody will have the will the fight. Certainly not the Zero in the WH.
This invasion will last until the South starts shooting back....
NK will be toast....
Since when did the UN EVER win a war or conflict?
It is as irrelevant now as it ever was.
Continuing to be extremely interesting. What are the possible alliances?
Assume first strike by NK into SK. (where else could they strike with any hope of success, minimal and short lived as it may be?)
Would China ally with NK or wait to annex it?
(Would other nations worry that a China annexation of NK could lead to strain on SK?)
China doesn’t seem to have any power (or will) to squash Lil Kims’ tantrums (at least outwardly).
Japan would most likely ally with SK.
(thus becoming an ally of China but then a contradiction of a free Taiwan?)(shades of WWII with our “allies”).
Interesting scenarios. This may a situation where most will ignore the situation due to its totality of failure.
Doubt anything will come of it. (?)
“It’s impossible to describe my hatred for those commie sons of bitches.”
Ditto, my friend.
If he needlessy sacrifices US troops in Japan (and they are in harms’ way now, and on his watch), so many of them killed or wounded, and no zero sum response to Pyongyang to settle the issue as quickly as possible, you can bet the Join Chiefs of Staff would/should have something to say about it. Maybe even more.
I think many have vested interests in propping up N. Korean regime for no other reason than their connection to N. Korean regime could be exposed when the regime falls.
These people can be easily turned around to work for Chinese if Chicom gets their hands on N. Korean dossier on these operatives first.
The tyrants of the world have been emboldened by this quisling marxist muslim usurper that is masquerading as the president of the United States. It will be hell to pay for our allies, and it will be hell to pay for us...sooner or later.
They have agents operating in Japan in significant numbers, too. In the past, North Korea gave veiled references and threats to unleashing a WMD attack on specific US military bases in Japan, if not in downtown Tokyo towards Japanese civilians. This could in fact take the form of a suitcase nuke, which for all intents and purposes could a) already be in Japan, and b) would have the necessary delivery system/infrastructure (agents of Chongryon or other infiltrated agents), to do the deed. In fact I have noticed a considerably high presence of Japanese police and security personnel at various Japanese train stations and bullet train stops these days. Who knows what for.
But what will they accomplish except self destruction or takeover by either those that they attack or allies of same?
I doubt that a country without the ability to either feed its populace nor electrify its country can attack and hold even a few miles of South Korea.
Granted, there might be an attempt and destruction, but the repercussions would be disastrous for those in North Korea who would order such actions.
Such logic can be used on paper and not in real life however.
I was wondering if South Korea still make many of the world's commidity chips?
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