Posted on 11/26/2010 1:11:38 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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If you ever get a strong sense that they will fire those, best to take out as many as possible before they do.
Thermite.
Oh crap...
What great command of the "Engrish Wrangwridge".
Is that anything like the old Raid bug spray catch phrase: "Kills bugs Dead"?
This is a perfect example of why I can't stand reading news in Korean... or in English, written by Koreans.
That they need to consult with 'experts' to realize that firing MLRS onto civilians is actually *BAD*? Really? Gosh, I'd have NEVER, EVER suspect that without my betters telling me so!
It really ticks me off to no end to see the South Korean press trot out 'experts' to tell people how to think.
Okay. They have this ability. I don’t think anyone has any idea just how much ordnance they actually have to sustain an attack. Not saying it wouldn’t be awful or messy but this is a country that has had nothing to trade for decades except some nuke knowledge to Iran and Syria. You can’t make bombs out of dirt.
But they can’t fire while digging out so they would be out of commission.
It's the ONLY way to avoid 10mil SK casualties.
Japanese Defence Minister Toshimi Kitazawa said the possibility that North Korea's nuclear arms development is fairly advanced cannot be ruled out.
"North Korea's uranium enrichment activities are a highly worrisome development ... We cannot rule out the possibility that their nuclear arms programme is fairly advanced," Kitazawa told a news conference, Reuters reports.
That, of course, begs the question why are our American servicemen within range? Why are they not moved back far enough to get away from the artillery which might contain chemical or biological even if they remain exposed to atomic attack? The American army is being used as a tripwire?
A tripwire against a desperate and deranged nuclear power? Hello?
Let's switch our thinking around entirely:
All the pundits tell us that the key to solving the Korean crisis is to encourage China to control their puppet and tell China that they should do so if for no other reason than they want to prevent a spillover of millions North Korean refugees into their country in the event of war. But suppose the pundits have it exactly backwards; suppose the Chinese are already pulling the strings and are using the North Koreans to push back the Japanese and intimidate them. Do not forget that the Chinese and the Japanese have been at each other's diplomatic throats over oil and other minerals in offshore islands.
Further, the Chinese can hope to so intimidate the Japanese that they pry them away from the Americans. When Obama begs the Chinese to do the right thing and control North Korea, they can exact a price.
In the Orient things are not always as they appear.
At any rate, those Chinese Carrier Killing ICBM's are the real danger. Their super sonic cruise missiles are also a threat.
BEIJING -(Dow Jones)- China opposes any military activity in the country's exclusive economic zone without its permission, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Hong Lei said Friday.
Hong's comment was in reference to an announcement by the U.S. and South Korea that the USS George Washington, an aircraft carrier, would conduct exercises with the South Korean navy in the Yellow Sea west of the Korean peninsula. The move comes after the exchange of artillery fire between North and South Korea earlier this week.
I did say it would be messy. As to the invasion scenario i would suspect thats been thought of already. The best way would be U.S. troops assuming the border guard duty while the South Korean forces did the dirty work. Far less chance of China intervening in that case.
One more thought on the NK artillary. Its all well mapped. They would be squashed like bugs in the first minutes. Yes they would get off a few salvo’s but that would be it. Theres nothing that says they would be accurate or that all their ammo would work. They literally have nothing to spend so i’m not sure just how much they can actually invest in their armaments.
” China opposes any military activity in the country’s exclusive economic zone without its permission, “
IMO, those, including our own Government, who are placing their reliance on China to resolve this situation are clinging to a vanishingly thin reed....
China signalled its position quite clearly when its first considered action after the shelling attack was to cancel Ministerial-level meeting (Defense, IIRC) in Seoul - and this latest pronouncement pretty much reinforces that....
I’ve suspected for some time, now, that China, in its calculations (”Never assume that your adversary is making the same calculations that you are..”) sees more upside than downside, for its interests, to the situation-as-is, and possibly, even, some advantage to be gained from open hostilities....
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