(LEAD) N. Korea honing capability to attack Seoul: USFK commander

Yonhap News ^ | 2012/03/29 | Lee Chi-dong

[SuperLuminal]

Just what obamao needs to issue a lot more of those intrusive EO's...

SK under attack and a NK nuke threat to HI would certainly be grounds for suspending elections for a few years. Even the Chicago princeling would agree to that...

[grey_whiskers]

the more and more it appears Obama will lose, the more we will start seeing these provocations from enemies like Iran, NoKo, Russia and Venezuela.. They need to get their licks in before we get our guard back up.

Self-fulfilling prophecy: the more they do, the weaker he looks.

Trying to stage riots within the CONUS over pampered law students whose boyfriends are too cheap to pay for their own birth control, or over teenagers with a history of disciplinary problems, who then get shot while committing battery on someone at 3 AM with multiple concurring witnesses against them, is not going to fly.

And then you have the report released last summer suggesting that a 10kt nuke in D.C. "really isn't all that bad".

If Obama combines these things with simultaneous wars in Korea, Iran, and the concomitant skyrocketing gas prices and such, he will irrevocably STOP all Communist progress in the US: Marxists will likely be found hung from lampposts all over the country.

Cheers!

[GeronL]

South Korea needs to be on the ball, they need to be able to blunt any attack.

[Rocky]

If an army travels on its stomach, the North Korean army won’t make to the city limits of Pyongyang.

[hinckley buzzard]

I saw a portion of this general's testimony on CSPAN. He sure has a lot of medals. And wings, down to his belt buckle. The only thing missing that I could see was a blue rifle--the CIB--Combat Infantryman's Badge of honor signifying action under enemy fire. He doesn't have it.

Just sayin'.

[hinckley buzzard]

Indeed. I feel obliged on these threads to keep repeating a little-publicized but reliable report that during NK's last artillery barrage against the border isalnds, fully half their arty rounds were duds. NK is a paper tiger, after about four hours.

[GeronL]

SK retaliatory strikes missed their targets, but I am pretty sure they did that on purpose.

[SoCal Pubbie]

How about the Combat Action Badge. Does that count?

[hinckley buzzard]

The NKs don't know anything else but fight...

Baloney. Use your head--the Norks haven't fought anyone since 1953.

They have zero officers with combat experience.

They have zero noncoms with combat experience.

The North Korean Army was routed in the Korean War, and they haven't fought a battle since.

South Korea, which has a military that tested itself admirably in Viet Nam, would destroy the Norks the way we did the Iraqi "Elite Republican Guard" in 1993.

[hinckley buzzard]

IDK. He's Army right? He should have the CIB.

[hinckley buzzard]

You may be right. I looked up the CAB. They didn't have it when I was in the service. I didn't recognize it if he has it because I wasn't looking for it. My mistake if he does.

[SoCal Pubbie]

He’s an airman. “After attending the Officer Rotary Wing Aviator Course, he commanded the Aero-Scout Platoon and later became the Operations Officer, A Troop, 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

From 1981-1982, he attended the Armor Officer Advanced Course, United States Army Armor School, Fort Knox, Kentucky. Upon completion, Thurman attended the AH-64 Aviator Qualification Course, United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence at Fort Rucker, Alabama, and he then served as Executive Officer, 3rd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas.

During 1989-1991, Thurman served as Executive Officer for 1st Battalion, 32d Armor, 1st Cavalry Division and Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, Saudi Arabia.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Thurman

[Eric in the Ozarks]

What about all those geezer looking NK officers who accompany Kim ?
They seem to have a chest full of campaign ribbons...