Posted on 12/04/2010 9:38:21 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
South Korea will swiftly and strongly respond with force until North Korea surrenders if the communist state launches another assault, the South's new defence minister said Saturday.
Kim Kwan-Jin issued the warning during his inauguration speech after President Lee Myung-Bak officially appointed the retired four-star general as the new defence chief following a parliamentary confirmation hearing Friday.
Kim Kwan-Jin replaced Kim Tae-Young, who came under fire over the military's allegedly feeble response to North Korea's deadly shelling of South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island near the tense Yellow Sea border on November 23.
"If North Korea launches another military attack on our territory and people, we must swiftly and strongly respond with force and punish them thoroughly until they surrender," the new defence minister said.
"We do not want war, but we must never be afraid of it," he said, adding South Korea faces "the worst crisis since the Korean War," which ended in an armistice in 1953.
The sinking of a South Korean warship in the Yellow Sea in March and the shelling on Yeonpyeong left "indelible wounds" on the South's military pride and honor and had deeply disappointed its people, Kim Kwan-Jin said.
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I’ll believe it when I see it.
Judging by past history SK will have a very limited counter strike and only at the area that fired that them.
Start bombing NOW!
Not explosives!
Aid! Food! Fuel/Burnables!
Cell Phones!!!!
Kill em with kindness!!!
Let’s hope they’ve recalibrated their arty in the last few days. If not, the Norks have nothing to fear.
South Korea: We’ll KILL YOU! Uhhh...NEXT TIME!! (maybe)
Idiots.
I do not believe that China will send troops to die in Korea again, especially for lil Kim or his chubby baby. I’m well aware that MacCarther had the same thought.
Without Chinese troops and arms, but especially food, North Korea would cease to exist. South Korea could handle this on their own.
The kicker is that any war would certainly destroy much of Seoul, as there is no way to destroy the North Korean artillery without nukes or ground assault.
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