http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iE0O-KCQp8
F-15Ks armed with those weapons are on alert now.
Posted on 12/19/2010 4:31:39 PM PST by gandalftb
North Korea has deployed multiple rocket launchers along the shore north of Yeonpyeong, Baeknyeong and Gangwha islands in response to a planned South Korean artillery drill on Yeonpyeong, government sources here say. The North earlier threatened an "unpredicted self-defense counterattack" to the drills.
A South Korean government source said, "After making the threat in a message sent Friday, North Korea raised the alert level at artillery divisions on the west coast and deployed the multiple rocket launchers."
The North also reportedly made coastal artillery ready to fire and put some fighter jets on the west coast on standby.
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first and foremost a media circus, not much more
Or they are waiting the 3 hours it takes for these guys to get on station.
Looks like 8PM PST this will start
S. Korea's 2 KDX(aegis) destroyers and F-15’s are on standby
Yonhap reporting same thing. BTW, hearing that the Pentagon press corps is “nervous”
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news...004700315.HTML
Quote:
The North’s military appears to be making preparations for a counterattack, removing covers from coastal artillery guns and forward-deploying some artillery batteries, a military source said. In the run-up to last month’s attack, the North had forward-deployed four artillery batteries and uncovered 14 coastal artillery guns.
South Korea has deployed a 7,600-ton guided-missile Aegis destroyer, the Sejong the Great, and a 4,500-ton destroyer to the Yellow Sea, while putting F-15K fighter jets on standby at an air base in the southeastern city of Daegu, officials said.
“Our military is maintaining full preparedness to respond to possible North Korean provocations while watching the North’s military moves closely,” said a military official, pledging to give an “immediate and strong” response in case of provocations.
Seoul has a population of 20 million people. Population density avgs at over 44,000 people per sq mile.
They have shelters but not for that many people or with the protection against chemical weapons.
I’m not going to speculate what this may mean, but I have to agree with Galrahn’s (InfoDis founder) spidey senses. His sources are legit.
The Pentagon press folks are starting to get nervous. That is a not so trivial sign of events in #koreas 7 minutes ago via Twitter for Android
South Korea wants a Nork response. That way the South Koreans can then retaliate like they didn’t the first time around.
Based on the listed .85 Mach cruise speed, and 2,111 miles from Andersen AFB to Pyongang - maybe 4-5 hours (need to allow for climbout and whatnot.)
You forgot the third option, that makes China a big loser. We honor our defense treaty with South Korea, but make it know that we are cash-strapped and bogged-down in Iraq and Afganistan, thus requiring us to aid the South Koreans in non-conventional ways.
Then we nuke all the hardened Nork military sites.
That would spare us the loss in blood and treasure... and poison some of China’s land and people.
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Always interested in your input from your side of the world, AIT. Hope all is well.
bttt
/hoping things just settle down
” Gettin close again..>Anyone have any news? “
Nothing new from me - I’m depending on this thread to keep me up to speed...
(I gotta get to bed in a few minutes - gotta get up early to feed the chickens - so I hope y’all will keep this thread alive and updated so I can catch up in the morning...)
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‘night. I’ve been checking on twitter from time to time, but not anything new there either.
South Korean should begin the shelling exercises within the hour, as I speak, and it would continue for 90 minutes to 2 hours. We shall see what the North does.
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