South Korea's military draws up plans for a 'surgical strike' to take out Kim Jong-un's missile ...

MAILONLINE ^ | August 01, 2017 | JULIAN ROBINSON

[arthurus]

In Korea the leakage probably does not matter. There is continuous leakage by Nork agents.

[arthurus]

I watched a video of one of those rods dropped by a high altitude AC blow apart a building in Iraq.

[ThanhPhero]

In Việt Nam when I first went back there the Vietnamese were very small. At 5'10" i stood way out in any crowd of locals. Every time I go back the young adult generation is taller and heavier that the previous time and I have seen increasing numbers of fat people. In 2003 only bureaucrats were of expanded girth. Now a street in Sài Gòn looks like a street on Tampa, maybe 15 years ago and I no longer stand out by my height except that men my age are all under 5'8" They are eating more and more of it is meat. The population is continually stronger and healthier, except for the diabetes which is a very big deal.

[CodeToad]

“No, but I don’t have an agreement to mutually defend my neighbors.”

I didn’t ask if you have an agreement; I asked do you? I could care less why you do.

Why do we have such an agreement and for how long is that agreement, forever?

I am tired of my tax monies defending another nation when they can defend themselves. Why doesn’t Korea defend the USA?

If it is proper for the USA to defend everyone else, then everyone else can defend the USA. Simple transitive property of logic: If A=B and B=C then A=C, meaning if two nations can defend themselves then neither needs to defend the other.

The logical conclusion is that the USA shouldn’t be defending any other nation capable of defending themselves, such as Korea.

[arthurus]

I suspect we stayed in Europe in order to allow Germany an excuse to NOT have an effective military. Our expense to defend Europe and allow the European countries to slack off on defense is money well spent. Given that Germany is once again taking over Europe and through its EU government is beginning to threaten the Eastern EU countries that are balking at taking the Moslem invaders I think maybe we need to continue to preclude Germany developing an effective military, especially if Germany is in charge of a European Army, especially one filled by young men desperate such as is the Moslem population. That energy must be displaced or it will cause upheaval and revolution. The Arab countries are dumping their antsy young men onto Europe and relieving that pressure by venting it into Europe. China has the same problem and will have to deal with it by expansion and/or war. China is already dealing with it to some extent by virtual colonization of large portions of Africa.

Europe needs to contribute to its own defense but we should require them to pay more for our defense of Europe in assets and funds, not in replacing us with an essentially German large military.

[VanShuyten]

“ROK might want to consider re-evaluating their OPSEC policies.”

I think this and the reversal of his position on THAAD is the new ROK president’s attempt at showing that he’s not the pussy the Koreans thought they had elected.

[Kickass Conservative]

Time to get our 747 with the Laser out of mothballs and do some more “testing”.

[Magnum44]

I am tired of my tax monies defending another nation when they can defend themselves.

And I respect your opinion, but we either stand with our allies or we don't have allies. When we and SK are ready to sit down and change our agreements, under the reality that a state of war with NK still exists, then we can do so. But its my own opinion that the state of war needs to end before we can just walk away.

[bert]

Well, you are right

That is a fantastic TV show. It is good on so many levels.

Descendants of the Sun on Netflix

[dfwgator]

If this war messes with my KDramas, I’m going to be pissed. ;)

[bert]

Well, you sold me. I remembered some FReeper recommended them but I for got who.

Folks here complain about the TV desert. There is a bright oasis in Korean TV

[dfwgator]

I’m watching “Goblin” now.

[bert]

One more thing.....

I am currently watching Mi-saeng: Incomplete Life. It is the story of Korean Global traders who have no concept of the hated globalism. The scope of their trade is truly global

I wish the isolationists here that hate globalism would watch to learn the difference. Also, to learn that EU is a dead end. The pacific rim is the future.

[csvset]

Just finished watching Secret Forest. Highly recommend it if you like cop shows.

[bus man]

South Korea's military is drawing up plans for a 'surgical strike' to take out Kim Jong-un's missile and nuclear facilities

I would like to hope that they would have had these plans on file for years now, continuously updated as needed. After all, no one is more at risk from North Korea's aggression than South Korea. So they should be at the forefront of being prepared for their own defense.

And in order to minimize their own civilian casualties, they should launch their preemptive strike on a Saturday afternoon in the summer. They could order an evacuation of Seoul starting on Friday afternoon, and I doubt that North Korea's spies could tell the difference from the normal volume of traffic as the city folk head south to "get away from it all" every weekend. "Everything's normal" they'd radio back to Dear Leader, as Seoul's population/potential casualties drains away right in front of their faces. (I'm being sarcastic; but having experienced the weekend traffic exodus from Seoul, not entirely so.)

[gattaca]

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