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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HEY AIT and Tiger any word where Pyongang Patty show up on TV YET I was looking for her on CNN international they have some other lady on
South Korean houses burning on TV has a political impact that will make morning in South Korea - which comes up in a few hours - very interesting. Will also be interesting to see how the market opens over there.
” South Korean houses burning on TV has a political impact that will make morning in South Korea - which comes up in a few hours - very interesting. Will also be interesting to see how the market opens over there. “
‘Interesting’... Yeah....
And how much more ‘interesting’, should there be another attack/provocation overnight? (Here, that is... Pesky time differences...)
“And how much more ‘interesting’, should there be another attack/provocation overnight?”
And the scary thing is that we’re left wondering what Obama is going to do. He actually has be to be a leader now and deal with a real crisis, with millions of lives at stake....but has no military experience and is surrounded by lalas who’ve got their heads too far stuck up his rear end to even know what to do!
” And the scary thing is that we’re left wondering what Obama is going to do. “
Well - maybe in detail... But it’s a lead-pipe-cinch that whatever he finally decides to do, it’ll be *exactly* the wrong thing....
DU`ers are now saying this is exactly what SoKo wants to divert public attention from it`s crashing and burning economy.
The media does`nt seem to take this as anything serious. CNN and MSNBC have`nt even mentioned it,,,and FoxNews has only briefly mentioned it.
What has got to make the .mil and .gov folks in the US and ROK a little concerned (as compared to past incidents of DPRK provocations) is that all this is happening in the midst of a power succession. Who is really calling the shots? Was this Kim, Kim Jr., military brass?
One of the primary ways to keep a lid on potentially escalating situations like this is to keep lines of communication open. But what if you don’t know who you are communicating with or if who you are communicating with isn’t in control anymore?
“The media does`nt seem to take this as anything serious”
And what’s even scarier is how many people are not paying attention. You would not believe how many people I have spoken to today who know nothing about it!
” But what if you don’t know who you are communicating with or if who you are communicating with isn’t in control anymore? “
Which is complicated by the fact that Lee’s Government is on really shaky ground (per TLR’s assessment this morning, earlier in this thread), and we have an Empty Suit ‘answering the phone’ over here....
Is ‘communication’ really possible at all???
It’s not going to go anywhere. If NK wanted to invade, they’d have flattened Seoul, not rattled sabers at some island. They’d have waited until Christmas to take advantage of reduced operational readiness in PACCOM instead of coming off the tail of a big SK manuever exercise. We don’t want to invade. A) we turn China from a containment partner into a regional hindrance and potential NK co-belligerent, B) NK will kill a bunch of SK civvies before being taken offline, and C) SK and the international community will then have to rebuild and reintegrate north korea’s economy. Reintegrating Germany has sidelined west germany for a generation. Trying to create a unified Korean peninsula would sideline them for two or three generations and reduce an ally’s political reliability and military utility.
The only thing that justifies force would be an effective and lasting removal of enrichment programs. I can’t think of a country that produces vulnerable programs in a post-osirak world.
You’d think so, wouldn’t you? This may all be played down as a “misunderstanding”...
A number of Japanese companies have issued an immediate employee travel ban to S. Korea and have issued notices to those employees currently in S. Korea to return immediately to Japan.
” A number of Japanese companies have issued an immediate employee travel ban to “
FYI - just checked US Dept of State Website, and there are, to date, no, repeat, zero, travel restrictions/advisories/warnings for the Korean Peninsula....
thank you. voice of reason right here.
said for effect only, to indicate to people it is an island
I imagine that now North Korea is much like WWII-era Japan, where the Kim Dynasty serves as the figurehead, while the generals really run the show.
I have no doubt the N.Koreans would be this aggressive as well...they are mentally stuck in the fifties...passed their history to the next generations. They will be like animals toward our troops if war were to break out with N.Korea. Further since they are certainly not a part of the world..the Geneva Convention carries no weight with them what so ever.
Shep Smith just said they called zero at 3 AM!!!
How prophetic is Hillary Clinton???
Damn, I remember that commercial and if it was a choice between Hillary or zero I think I would choose Hillary. Hillary wouldn't go on an apology tour like zero did.
I spent three years in the ROK in the 90's, and had the opportunity to work with a lot of ROK Army soldiers and civilians. I came away with the same respect. Certainly they have the leftists amongst them, but for the most part they are some of the most industrious and clever people I've ever met...much like your backbone Americans.
There will be only one way to defeat a mass charge.
Kill them. Every last one of them.
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