Posted on 12/23/2010 9:23:21 PM PST by Nachum
SEOUL, South Korea – One month after a deadly exchange of artillery fire, the two Koreas ramped up their rhetoric, with South Korea's president pledging unsparing retaliation if attacked again and a top North Korean official threatening a "sacred" nuclear war if provoked.
South Korean troops, tanks and fighter jets put on a thundering display of force Thursday as President Lee Myung-bak visited with soldiers at a base near the border, while North Korea's elite marked a key military anniversary by lashing out at the South for encouraging war.
For both countries, the rallying cries and military maneuvers mainly seemed designed to build support at home. But they raised fears anew of all-out war on a peninsula that New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson called a "tinderbox" after returning from a visit to the North Korean capital this week.
The two Koreas and their allies called a truce in 1953 to end three years of devastating war, but violence has flared up from time to time, most recently in the disputed waters off their west coast. North Korea does not recognize the maritime line drawn by U.N. forces, and the territorial dispute in the Yellow Sea has erupted into deadly naval skirmishes.
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Obama is to busy vacationing to worry about the Korean problem.
Bah! Obammy has to worry about human Rights Violations in the US, pesky right wingers and evil US corporations!
Two Purple Heart awards.
One thing he always said about the DPRK Army: Do not underestimate them. They are disciplined, agile and tactically ingenious.
Actually after MacArthur landed at Inchon we had the war won within months. After we pushed the north back to the Yalu however, the Chinese came into the war and that is when the SHTF big time. If Truman would have kept his temper under control and let MacArthur have his way we would have won that war and never would have had to fight in Vietnam either.
"One month after a deadly exchange of artillery fire"
South Korea never fired back. An exchange would be two-way. What this was was a one-way, unprovoked artillery bombardment of South Korea.
The AP is trying to establish moral equivalence between a non-agressive democracy and an agressive, nutso, totalitarian communist dictatorship.
The AP is on the NORK's side.
That's true. And we did it with numerical superiority from August 1950 onward. And, near control of the air space.
The DPRK Army was really only about 6 Divisions.
But to dismiss their relative effectiveness would be mistaken.
They kicked our ass for the first 2 months of the war, often with lesser numbers.
They were very mobile and very aggressive.
SecDef Gates should order all U.S. DoD staff and service personnel dependents immediately. DoS should order all U.S. civilians out by 1 February 2011.
The DoS should then say that civilians who remain behind do so at their own risk and will get no special treatment if the NorKs attack. U.S. civilians can die just the same as South Koreans.
Unfortunately, many of the U.S. nationals living in South Korea think that being an American gives them some kind of protection and absolutely will not leave until a NorK tank battalion is seen advancing up their street. By then it's too late. But like 1950, these “best and brightest” will not listen. The NorKs will butcher them just like the South Koreans.
It was a NORK tactic to drive civilians before them and through mine fields...while holding the village children back in the promise they would let them survive.
Then kill the children too when they were no longer needed.
They also killed all but a "select" few prisoners they took. They would go through the ritual of tying their hands behind their backs before shooting them in the back of the head...rather than just shooting them at surrender.
Weird and quite vicious.
Or they could just be stupid and uninformed.
Either is plausible.
MacArthur wanted to nuke the ChiComms.
Good idea? Bad idea?
If there is a “Korean War, Phase 2” — Phase 1 being the 1950-1953 fight — there's going to be a lot of South Korean and foreign national casualties. The foreign nationals are stupid enough that they believe the NorKs won't pull the trigger on a resumption of the Korean War.
I think this is whistling past the graveyard and foolish. However, these were the same kinds of people that were trying desperately to get out of South Korea in June-July 1950 as the NorKs advanced south.
Excellent idea. World War III would be a distant memory.
We would have defeated communism instead of merging with it.
The background radiation would be back to normal by now.
Instead, we are still facing WWIII, but have made our enemies strong,
while disarming ourselves.
Sounds like suicide to me.
Video speaks for itself . . .
Video speaks for itself . . .
NK THREATENS NUKE WAR ON SO.
DEAR END TIMES LIST . . . COULD WE PLEASE HAVE SOME PRAYERFUL PONDERING AND BRAINSTORMING?
ASSUME:
1. That there IS some super cataclysmic something headed earth's way around the end of 2012.
2. Either it's true--and a great diversity of sources seem to claim it REALLY IS TRUE--governmental, non-Christian, Christian etc.
3. Or, it's not true but the elites believe it's true because of lies from the critters.
4. We know that God is not going to let the earth be totally depopulated. However, Scripture does indicate 1/3 of the population will be destroyed roughly in one war/incident/collection of troubles. And, another 1/3 of what's then left will be later destroyed.
5. IN ANY CASE, LET'S PRETEND, putting ourselves in the minds of the evil elites . . . that there is a super disaster headed earth's way that THEY BELIEVE will depopulate at least people on the surface of the earth.
6. DO YOU THINK THEY WOULD BE INCLINED TO START WWIII BEFORE THEN? Why? Why not? For what purposes?
7. Do you think they might wait to see if anyone on the surface really did survive and use war then to eradicate what's left?
8. What other considerations in all this might be worth tossing around?
THX IN ADVANCE.
Thanks for the ping, Quix.
Those who trust in Him KNOW where they are going...it is the trip that is fraught with uncertainty...
Well put.
Thx.
Thanks for that video. More big trouble is brewing for the Korean peninsula, ignited by the Red North.
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