no FULL-SCALE war... but a lot of low intensity warfare???
Posted on 06/05/2010 12:27:10 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak assured Singaporean business leaders Saturday that there will never be a full-scale war on the Korean Peninsula despite rising tensions between the two Koreas in the wake of the March sinking of a South Korean warship.
"The South-North Korean issue should be resolved by all means but it is clearly not an easy task," Lee said in a meeting with a dozen Singaporean business leaders, including Tony Chew, chairman of Singapore Business Federation, according to presidential spokesman Park Sun-kyoo.
"But there is no chance of a full-scale war at all," the president was quoted as saying, adding he will also try to prevent the recurrence of a skirmish between the sides.
Lee was apparently seeking to dispel worries over the security condition on the peninsula where tensions have escalated since the South accused the North of torpedoing one of its warships, the Cheonan, and sinking it, killing 46 sailors.
South Korea has pressed ahead with punitive steps in spite of the North's threats of war.
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Oh man, that’s a promise with the half-life of a soap bubble.
Unless your strategy is to surrender at the first sign of a NK invasion...
I can see you’re into playing Korean war game scenarios. ;-)
That would be the one real way to stop a war, but the after dinner purging would be a real downer.
I agree. The USS George Washington will be off the North Korean coast for some anti-submarine drills with the ROK Navy. The North will be very ticked off with a aircraft carrier off their coast.
South Korea admits it is getting tougher to bend over and take it but they are committed to see that strategy succeed.
no FULL-SCALE war... but a lot of low intensity warfare???
Now that was funny, can I use it?
My hunch is China would be very upset about that.
Of course. Thank you.
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