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.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
NK will eventually attack SK. However it will only happen once America decides to scrap its nuclear program and anti-missile shield.
Thanks for the ping.
Like all jealous totalitarians they'll achieve sociopathic thrills at the misery and uproar they're causing.
NK is so far gone they’d have trouble attacking a paper bag.
If I remember about South Korea miltary I take South Koreans over NK 2 to 1 and take the points LOL!
No doubt the South would prevail, with the help of the US and Japan.
But, in the first minutes of an attack, potentially Seoul is destroyed and the DMZ battle zone takes heavy, heavy casualties, the US is a trip wire there.
On the bright side, I doubt there’s going to be an tsunami of PLA soldiers coming over the Yalu this time around.
“It’s always been my understanding that the NK military is well fed.”
And with good reason (think about it).
Meanwhile, the rest of the country requires food donations from other countries.
WHO gets the food?
The recruits themselves are badly damaged by the time they make it into the active military, and little can be done to fix it at that point, even if there were ample food supplies.
It's true that they get the lions share of the resources, but they're far from 'well fed' by any reasonable definition.
“It’s true that they get the lions share of the resources, but they’re far from ‘well fed’ by any reasonable definition.”
Agreed, but the point was, loyalty will remain only as long as being in the military is better off than not being in the military. (at least as it applies to food?)
I believe that one of the SCO wargames simulated such a scenario.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.