Posted on 04/04/2013 7:52:18 PM PDT by Kartographer
The most probable outcome of all these tensions is a low-level "tactical" strike from North Korea. But don't worry, it'll be "a relatively small attack that won’t leave many people dead," Sue Mi Terry, a Columbia University professor who served as a senior analyst on North Korea at the CIA from 2001 to 2008, told Wired's Spencer Ackermann.
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What you haven’t heard are the large number of incidents over the years where the NKors try it on, to greater or lesser effect, and often gets seriously slapped by SKor.
For example, some years ago the NKors crossed the naval border with warships, and the SKors were there, Johnny-on-the-spot with more capable warships. One of the NKor ships foolishly opened up on an SKor ship with of all things, small arms fire.
The SKor ship responded with its Phalanx CIWS at pretty much point blank range, and about cut the NKor ship in half, horizontally.
And violent incidents happen on the DMZ all the time. I new a former Warrant Officer who was manning an LP/OP when they lobbed over a mortar round that seriously crippled him up. But he was a font of information on the subject.
He said one incident he was amazed got zero press was when the NKors sent an entire platoon across a river at night, who then snuck into an SKor barracks and murdered a bunch of men before retreating. They made one mistake, however. They tried to do it again at the same river crossing, which was now heavily armed and watched 24/7. Cost them an entire platoon.
As far as the SKors go, their soldiers are intensely trained and chomping at the bit to fight the NKors, so it was said for many years that the US was there to prevent the SKors from invading the North.
Out of decades of crap like this happening, the only event which got any attention was the axe incident on the border, and then, only because there was civilian witnesses.
Oh, and one thing, after the bombardment of Yeonpyeong island, the SKors responded with counter-battery fire, which with western technology is insanely accurate. The NKor units that fired on the island were probably reduced to scrap.
They don’t exist without China. Since The Korean War the chicoms have said jump and the norks have said how high. They would only be doing this on China’s orders.
“They don’t exist without China. Since The Korean War the chicoms have said jump and the norks have said how high. They would only be doing this on China’s orders.”
None of those statements are true. Although the person known as Kim-Il-Sung, whether authentic or an impostor as suggested by some Soviets, was once a member of the Chinese Communist Party, he was ultimately a Major in the Soviet Red Army when the Soviets installed him as the leader of the Communist DPRK. The DPRK was subsequently heavily modeled after the Stalinist Soviet government and military. Although the PRC (People’s Republic of China) committed itself to the Korean War as an ally of the Soviet Union, this was before the PRC and USSR split over the dispute about who and how Communism was to proceed and be led. The DPRK subsequently has palyed the PRC and the USSR/Russia against each other for influence in DPRK affairs, which has further soured relations between the PRC and DPRK. The DPRK renouncement of Communism and adoption of Juche and the cult of personality of the Kim family has further troubled relations between the PRC and DPRK. aT THIS POINT THE prc would prefer to see the deposing of the Kim regime and a restoration of a Communist Party along the lines of the current Chineese model and fully dependent upon the PRC and Chinese Communist party for policy leadership in international affairs. This is why the Kim regime has been purging senior officers to discourage a Chinese inspired change of leadership by senior DPRK officers during the recent famines.
Yes, the DPRK is heavily indebted to the PRC for diplomatic support and help in evading the internaiotnal trade sanctons in arms and other goods, but the PRC is viewed by the Kim regime as a threat to his control of the DPRK. Heence the PRC influence is limited in scopee and direction to the favors desired by the Kim regime. This is another reason why the DPRK reached out to iran and other potential allies such as Pakistan to lessen its dependency upon the PRC and replace some of the lost resources which came from the former Soviet Union. The DPRK is very much a Hermit Kingddom acting on its own volition to the extent of which its dependencies upon its allies and benefactors allow.
The norks don't have the technology or resources to build a bicycle or to feed itself yet they seem to have the technology and resources to build nuclear weapons and possibly putting one in polar orbit.
Someone is feeding them and giving them the technical expertise to build these weapons.
Someone is helping them avoid sanctions.
I suggest that "someone" is China.
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