They can smell the weakness of "The One" all the way over there.
Posted on 11/25/2010 3:53:59 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
N.Korean Shelling 'Aimed for Maximum Damage to Lives, Property'
North Korean coastal artillery batteries fired a considerable number of 122-mm Multiple Launch Rocket System shells that can kill or wound people or animals at Yeonpyeong Island on Tuesday. The shells have an extra-high penetration capability and are filled with special gunpowder that causes massive conflagrations.
A military source on Thursday said analysis of about 20 unexploded shells collected from the island showed that many of them are not ordinary 76.2-mm coastal artillery shells but 122-mm MLRS shells.
These so-called fuel-air shells have deadly killing power, generating high heat and high voltage. Military authorities believe that the North has deployed them warfare-ready since 1985.
Analysis of reconnaissance aircraft photographs revealed that the North deployed a 122-mm MLRS battalion of its Fourth Army Corps at Kaemori, South Hwanghae Province on the day of the attack. One battalion has 18 MLRS vehicles.
This shows how carefully the North premeditated the provocation. Using such shells against civilians lays the North wide open to international condemnation.
Meanwhile, the North Korean military's liaison office at the truce village of Panmunjom on Thursday wrote to the UN Command turning down a proposal for talks about the attack. "The West Sea of Korea has turned into a sea of conflict due to the Northern Limit Line drawn arbitrarily by the U.S. in our territorial waters." The NLL is the de-facto maritime border.
"What took place shows that it is South Korea that has violated the armistice agreement and it is the U.S. who has sown the seeds of conflict in the West Sea," it said. "If the U.S. military wants to see tensions on the Korean Peninsula reduced, it should prevent South Korea from launching military provocations, such as maritime incursions and artillery fire to defend the NLL."
It called a regular South Korean military drill in the West Sea a "de-facto act of war," adding, "Yeonpyeong Island was subject to severe punishment according to our military's self-defense measures."
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They can smell the weakness of "The One" all the way over there.
I'm glad the author cleared my confusion up. I thought those NK's were firing off some of those warm and fuzzy artillary rounds, designed to scare, yet leave self esteem intact.
um... duh?
Most of the shells apparently landed in the water but isn’t the usual point of firing artillery to destroy lives and property?
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“20 unexploded shells”
20 out of 200? That’s a fairly high fail rate.
This is an excercise to make a statement. The statement being that NOTHING has, or will change under the new administration of North Korea. IOW don’t anyone get the idea there will be a softening of any position by the Viper’s controlling that State.
Who writes this stuff?
I’m sure Hillary Clinton will write a sternly worded letter warning them that she might write a sternly worded letter.
I suspect that there was a language issue involved.
Thanks for posting these translations of the local news service on this. It’s useful to know what the locals are being told, and I think people should realize that the original Korean text may not translate to English in a manner they are accustomed to reading in the American Press.
I’m sure HRC’s sternly worded letter would be twice as effective as Obama’s sternly worded letters. Obama’s are all covered in ice cream stains, and well Hillary’s are........Where’s Shakey Janet Reno these days?
Good Point. Thank You. Still sounds like some rag out of Portland though.
She'll get the EU and the World Health Organization, to discuss and pass gun and rocket control laws against North Korea and condemn second hand smoke.
Just what the hell was N Korea trying to do?
Did they just attack without any provocation?
Suddenly that morning they decided to shell a populated island and kill people?
Did they give any reason? or just start shooting...
WWRD (What Would Reagan Do) - Do what he did to Khadaffy
Too bad Truman didn’t let MacArthur finish the job in 1951.
I read the original article in Korean from which this one is based on. What is said in Korean article is that these rockets are primarily anti-personel weapons by design(their words not mine: they could be accurate or may be not. I am not in a position to judge,) meaning that they are not really for destroying armor or hardened targets.
The original article also said that, contrary to initial report that NK aimed primarily for military targets, it now appears that they also deliberately targeted civilian buildings, the ones where lots of civilian can be usually found(town hall, town office, etc.)
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