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Fears mount that North Korea is preparing to attack the South
The Times (UK) ^ | 06/02/09 | Richard Lloyd Parry

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 ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: militaryprovocation; nkorea; nll; northkorea
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To: Sig Sauer P220

NK will eventually attack SK. However it will only happen once America decides to scrap its nuclear program and anti-missile shield.


41 posted on 06/04/2009 6:06:30 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Climate change alarmists are Warm-Mongers. Now that's funny right there. I don't care who you are.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Thanks for the ping.


42 posted on 06/04/2009 7:38:24 AM PDT by GOPJ (Fight the Machine - STOP supporting the MSM.)
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To: This_far
But what will they accomplish

Like all jealous totalitarians they'll achieve sociopathic thrills at the misery and uproar they're causing.

43 posted on 06/04/2009 8:01:04 AM PDT by GOPJ (Fight the Machine - STOP supporting the MSM.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

NK is so far gone they’d have trouble attacking a paper bag.


44 posted on 06/04/2009 9:32:21 AM PDT by Thud
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To: TigerLikesRooster

If I remember about South Korea miltary I take South Koreans over NK 2 to 1 and take the points LOL!


45 posted on 06/04/2009 12:03:15 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: AmericanInTokyo; TigerLikesRooster

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.


46 posted on 06/04/2009 12:08:58 PM PDT by swarthyguy ("We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds," ISI Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
They have agents operating in Japan in significant numbers, too
pachinko parlors!
47 posted on 06/04/2009 12:41:38 PM PDT by AdmSmith
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To: TigerLikesRooster
If NK attacks, it's with the tacit blessing of China, who will bluster and bemoan the attack in public, while shipping arms to the NKs covertly.

I sure hope SK and Japan are prepared. The US is good-for-nothing right now.
48 posted on 06/04/2009 12:43:48 PM PDT by Antoninus (Queer is boring.)
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To: Antoninus
No, I do not think that China would support this, the financial consequences would be terrible. The Chinese economy would suffer hence no Chinese involvement. My bet is that there will be an agreement between Washington and Beijing, Moscow will, as always, try to throw sand in the machinery.
49 posted on 06/04/2009 1:21:26 PM PDT by AdmSmith
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To: Sig Sauer P220

“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?


50 posted on 06/04/2009 1:54:18 PM PDT by This_far
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To: This_far; Sig Sauer P220
'Well fed' in relative terms to the average North Korean. Even the military is crippled by widespread malnutrition, with the average size, weight, and intellectual capacity stunted by years of inadequate nourishment.

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.

51 posted on 06/04/2009 1:59:19 PM PDT by Steel Wolf (Oh, well. Back to the drawing board....)
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To: Steel Wolf

“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?)


52 posted on 06/04/2009 2:07:37 PM PDT by This_far
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To: TigerLikesRooster
China will move in with its partners(probably Russia) to restore order. S. Korea and U.S. may be invited in to make it an international efforts.

I believe that one of the SCO wargames simulated such a scenario.

53 posted on 06/04/2009 4:51:15 PM PDT by Thunder90
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