[jhpigott]

Watchcon has been raised

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news...001800315.HTML

Quote:
The militaries of South Korea and the United States have upgraded the surveillance alert against North Korea as tensions were rising from the North’s artillery bombing on a South Korean island, military officials said Wednesday.

“The two sides raised the surveillance alert to Watchcon-2 from Watchcon-3 Tuesday night,” a South Korean military official said.
Quote:
Watchcon, divided into five levels, intensifies in the degree and frequency of intelligence gathering and analysis each time it is raised. Watchcon-2 would mean there are indications of a vital threat. In war, the level is raised to Watchcon-1.

The South’s military has also raised its non-wartime security alert to its highest level, known as “Jindokgae Hana,” for islands near the Yellow Sea border, officials at the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. So far, no unusual activities by the North’s military have been detected, they said.

[jhpigott]

http://www.breakingnews.com/

“UN Command in S. Korea calls for officer level talks with N. Korea army through Panmunjon Mission - NBC
via user12:40AM GMTNov 24, 2010 “

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news...002200315.HTML

“U.N. Command proposes general-level talks with N. Korea
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Yonhap) — The U.S.-led United Nations Command (UNC) has proposed holding general-level military talks with North Korea to discuss the North’s artillery attack on a populated South Korean island, the UNC said Wednesday.

“UNC has called for general officer-level talks with the Korean People’s Army, through their Panmunjom Mission, in order to initiate an exchange of information and de-escalate the situation,” the UNC said in a statement.”

AFAIK, this is the first time this has been called for in decades. TLR and AIT - is that correct or am I off?

News like this makes me think they don’t know who they are dealing with on the other end of the line

[TigerLikesRooster]

Not on Defcon yet.

We should have smoldering holes on the cliff of N. Korean shore which houses NK artillery by now, but we don't see them, do we?

[caww]

I realize there are procedures they follow...and this is a highly charged situation...but it does seem that though the international community could go into N. Korea and take control they have not in the past and have opted not, apparently, to do no more than the normal even in this situation. I do not think that they will do much more than what has been done in the past... Stop food and continue with more sanctions etc. Just my take at this point.