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N.Korea Deploys Rocket Launchers Along West Coast
Chosun.com ^ | Dec. 20, 2010 09:00 KST | staff

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.chosun.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: korea; nkorea
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To: gandalftb
"NK has just said it would retaliate at time and place of its choosing. "

Which means they likely won't. I believe the NORKS fear SK.

201 posted on 12/19/2010 11:04:27 PM PST by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: gandalftb

Thats what I figured, they would be a fool to do it today with everything and everybody on standby. They will wait and bide their time, when everyones gaurd is down. Next week, next month or 3 months from now, and the south won’t even see it coming.


202 posted on 12/19/2010 11:06:24 PM PST by eastforker (Visit me at http://www.eastforker.com)
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To: gandalftb
All the Asian markets are down and the Shanghai Composite is down 1.04 as I post. See here.
203 posted on 12/19/2010 11:07:00 PM PST by blam
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To: Glenn

The Korean War never ended, They just signed a cease fire.


204 posted on 12/19/2010 11:07:32 PM PST by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: blam

At the end of the day I would not be surprised if all that red was green......


205 posted on 12/19/2010 11:10:32 PM PST by cmsgop ( I spent most of my childhood terrified that The Rhythm was going to get me.)
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To: cracker45

Thank you. Great input!


206 posted on 12/19/2010 11:17:09 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (**George W Bush** bears as much responsibility as CARTER, CLINTON and OBAMA over N. Korean nukes)
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To: HollyB
At least somebody gets the humor around here. Thanks.

;-)

-"Doofus" AiT

207 posted on 12/19/2010 11:19:38 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (**George W Bush** bears as much responsibility as CARTER, CLINTON and OBAMA over N. Korean nukes)
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To: cracker45

If I were you I would do a little homework before spouting off like that to another freeper, we are a tight community, who are you again???????


208 posted on 12/19/2010 11:21:44 PM PST by cmsgop ( I spent most of my childhood terrified that The Rhythm was going to get me.)
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To: cmsgop

Well CNN/CNNI? is back live....


209 posted on 12/19/2010 11:21:51 PM PST by yield 2 the right ( Space blank until I come up with a nice Tagline.)
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To: yield 2 the right

All I see is a repeat of CNN......


210 posted on 12/19/2010 11:24:16 PM PST by cmsgop ( I spent most of my childhood terrified that The Rhythm was going to get me.)
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To: yield 2 the right

#ROK defense ministry won’t confirm drill has ended. Artillery firing still heard on Yeonpyeong by AP reporter


211 posted on 12/19/2010 11:24:22 PM PST by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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To: cmsgop

In the USA its the “dead zone” newswise, even here in Alaska at a bit after 10pm there is no news, everyone has gone to bed.


212 posted on 12/19/2010 11:26:37 PM PST by Eye of Unk (If your enemy is quick to anger, seek to irritate him. Sun Tzu, The Art of War.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Just getting on the thread...looks like S.Korea is done with their drill...and so we wait to see how Kim will or not respond. Serious business on the playing field, that’s for sure...how far Kim will take this is questionable with the political status there as it is in the hierarchy. Not to mention the Un security meeting...as if they can do anything about this.


213 posted on 12/19/2010 11:26:48 PM PST by caww
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To: roses of sharon

Oh reallly, I thought it had stopped...


214 posted on 12/19/2010 11:28:34 PM PST by caww
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To: cmsgop

CNN must be doing just top of the hour live reports....oh well, hopefully this whole things cools off again, but then one day it may just go too far...


215 posted on 12/19/2010 11:29:51 PM PST by yield 2 the right ( Space blank until I come up with a nice Tagline.)
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To: caww

I just wonder how much fire discipline is among the lower ranks of the NORKs, they have been conditioned practically from birth to wage war against the south, must be very hard for them to not panic when hearing arty going off or hearing aircraft that isn’t theirs.


216 posted on 12/19/2010 11:30:17 PM PST by Eye of Unk (If your enemy is quick to anger, seek to irritate him. Sun Tzu, The Art of War.)
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To: blam
Oops, in the excitement of it all, slobbering and slipping all over keyboards, I failed to mention that in addition to the F15Ks up from Daegu, they had a nice array of naval resources deployed:

KDX III 7600 ton-class "King Sejong the Great" aegis ship, in addition the 4500 ton class KDX-II Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin class destroyers (two of those at least), so the Yellow Sea has been pretty active today. ...Open Source, Chosun Ilbo news about 20 minutes ago....I dont know about US resources from Okinawa etc. but if they were not open source I wouldnt be putting them out here anyways. One could hear USAF or Japanese Air Self Defense Force activity briefly in the skies over Tokyo today about the time of the shelling starting, but might have been coincidential and it was not pronounced nor lengthy. Was not fixed wing.

217 posted on 12/19/2010 11:32:47 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (**George W Bush** bears as much responsibility as CARTER, CLINTON and OBAMA over N. Korean nukes)
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To: yield 2 the right

I think the MSM sent everyone home, if they even remotely thought they was going to be a cross border conflagration they would have their first and second line of newscasters ready.

Since all I see is prerecorded stuff it looks like there won’t be any audience for the Norks to perform to.


218 posted on 12/19/2010 11:33:26 PM PST by Eye of Unk (If your enemy is quick to anger, seek to irritate him. Sun Tzu, The Art of War.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Was not fixed-wing?

You mean you heard helos or Osprey possibly instead?


219 posted on 12/19/2010 11:35:17 PM PST by Eye of Unk (If your enemy is quick to anger, seek to irritate him. Sun Tzu, The Art of War.)
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To: Eye of Unk

Good points....


220 posted on 12/19/2010 11:36:24 PM PST by yield 2 the right ( Space blank until I come up with a nice Tagline.)
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