Posted on 11/22/2010 10:44:16 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
N. Korea fires artillery towards S. Korean island, official says
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Tuesday fired several rounds of artillery towards South Korean waters and an island near the tense west sea border, the South's military said.
The North's artillery shells fell at 2:34 p.m. in the South's waters off the island of Yeonpyeong, some of them landing directly on the island, said Col. Lee Bung-woo, spokesman at the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff. The South's military responded with its artillery firing.
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It could be a mistranslation to English.
“Given that North Korea maintains an offensive posture” could have been poorly translated from something like “If North Korea continues provoking us offensively...”
if they retaliate (the Chi’Coms) we simply erase the debt. Problem solved.
The only issue is that Walmart will be out of product in a week and a half.
AND, a couple of billion Chinese will be pissed off, and out of work.
THAT is not a good scenario.
Saw this quote posted, can’t confirm atm, but if accurate it’s a hell of a change of tone from China:
Quote:
1358: Yueliu in Beijing, China, says: “This situation is caused by the policies of the United States. The United States and South Korea should come back to the six party-talks instead of holding military exercises targeting North Korea or even China. The US should be responsible for the situation today, though we do not agree to North Korea’s Kim’s succession plan.
Their tubes are OK but they need a lot of oil and gas to run all those vehicles.
이 대통령은 이날 밤 합동참모본부 지휘통제실을 전격 방문해 "아직도 북한이 공격태세를 갖추고 있음을 볼 때 추가도발도 예상되므로 몇배의 화력으로 응징해야 한다는 생각을 가져야 한다"며 이같이 밝혔다고 홍상표 청와대 홍보수석이 전했다.
Yonhap translated it right. The trouble is that Lee did not make it clear whether the retaliation is for the attack already committed or the one which is yet to come. I think he meant the latter. He is not exactly precise with his words.
We will have “grave concern”...with much hand wringing.
Change that to China knows that Obama won't/can't do a damn thing. China has limited the United State's ability to act unilaterally through its ownership of our debt even if we had a strong, decisive, defense minded CIC. The sad thing is we have 25K plus troops there who well may be sacrificed by Obama if this incident escalates.
Well past time to “stock up”.
If you haven’t already stocked up, time to CATCH UP.
At the very least he could order the offending artillery batteries smoked.
could be a mistranslation
guess we’ll find out in the coming hours and days
I’ll bet the conservatives and military brass are giving Lee an absolute fit. The ROK military has been on the receiving end twice now in the span of about 8 months . . .
We have turned into an old SNL Kahdaffi skit:
Cross this line you die. [Step back a foot and draw another line.] Cross this line you die. [Step back, draw another line.] Cross THIS line you die.....
Maybe they already have been smoked. Any one hearing after action reports for the counter-battery fire the ROK fired?
We’re good....
I see this as an opportunity to justify the TSA scan and grope policy, and PERHAPS, should there be a terrorist attack on our soil, declare martial law.
I am all for a three party talk: Japan, the US and ROK, joining together, in a joint action to kick the shit out of this little shit Kim Jong Il and his criminal regime which Douglas MacArthur should have rid of us in 1953. We have had to put up with 67 years of this crap from a third world dictatorship keeping the world's largest county at bay while they build up nukes and spread them around the world. This cancer must be stopped. Nothing else has work.
From the Information Dissemination blog:
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
The Navy View: Korean Peninsula
For those watching events in on the Korean Peninsula, as of yesterday the USS George Washington (CVN 73) was in port, but that ship can get to sea very quickly and may already have sailed.
Also noteworthy, the forward deployed MEU, the Essex ARG, was around Okinawa yesterday. The Peleliu ARG is in the Philippines currently on their way home from deployment.
Should hostilities break out on a larger scale, the US Navy could surge both the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) and the USS Nimitz (6 very quickly. Both ships have conducted training off the west coast this month. At 25 knots it would take less than 10 days before the ships arrived ready for battle.
Already at sea is USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) and USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), where both carriers are currently supporting war operations in Afghanistan. These carriers are about 9 days away, or less, depending upon course and speed - starting when they are ordered to move.
While they do not surface often, when the Ohio SSGNs do surface, they tend to do so in the waters near South Korea.
The US Navy maintains a continuous presence in the region, and in different forms is already there.
Posted by Galrahn at 9:00 AM
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