Posted on 08/21/2015 6:28:43 AM PDT by Enlightened1
A North Korean military official says a meeting of senior party and defense officials led by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Thursday night and "reviewed and approved the final attack operation."
He gave no details on what kind of military retaliation North Korea would see as appropriate punishment for South Korea's shelling of its territory on Thursday.
Kim Yong Chol, director of the general reconnaissance bureau of the North Korean army, on Friday denied South Korean allegations that Pyongyang has been raising tensions on the peninsula.
He denied the North fired anything across the Demilitarized Zone and says South Korea has not offered conclusive evidence where the rocket was launched in the North, or where exactly it landed in the South.
He suggested human error might have been a factor on the South Korean side and says the South's decision to retaliate with its own barrage was dangerous and rash.
Kim says: "Skirmishes can lead to all-out war."
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Over the last four years, each and every time the Norks got feisty and threatening, one thing stopped it every time:
The Check Cleared.
Obozo?... Silence.
Here is an article discussing radionuclide evidence that has been collected at locations in South Korea, Okinawa, and Russia.
I will attempt to summarize it as follows: there is some convincing evidence that NK did succeed in detonating a very small nuclear device in the spring of 2010, as they announced.
The phrase "detonating a nuclear device" does not mean that they have a nuclear bomb. It means that they (probably) induced an explosive nuclear chain reaction to take place in an underground cavity.
The article is interesting, anyway.
I’m slow, sorry. What is the significance of not asking for food? That they will soon get it from the South?
What evidence, other than your listing, do you see that this is any different than any other bluster made by the North or the South?
This is definitely the one thing that U.S. and South Korean military planners worry about. The NK navy and air force will cease to exist within 24 hours of hostilities, then the air defenses will be worn down over the next several days. Their ground forces, while large, have no real operational experience in today's high tempo operations and without air cover are going to suffer horrific losses. The issue is with the artillery. I read a few years ago in a study that with ROK, U.S., and Japanese aircraft flying strikes 24/7 that it would take at least a week to knock out all of the artillery in range of Seoul. By that time the city would be mostly rubble.
That was the assumption up until January 20, 2009.
The Norks have a nuke capability.
Granted, they may have to deploy it on an ox cart, but they have stolen enough knowledge and sacrificed enough of their own people that they have developed a nuke capability.
That ability should not be underestimated, nor should the willingness of the little chubby dictator to use that capability be underestimated, also.
He's certified batso and he has a particular animus against women (the president of SK is a woman) and he has never recognized that the war was over a long ago.
He will be trouble...mark my words.
I have little doubt that SK will mop the floor with NK but will China come to their rescue? Border tensions with China and NK have been high but that does not mean they will not aid them.
China has their own problems now though... wars often come on the heels of financial problems.
As I posted to a Freeper above...the Norks have a very limited nuke capability, which may necessitate deployment with an ox cart, but be that as it may, anything the little fat ass psychopath can do, once he has committed to do it, he will do, even if it entails making some poor souls sneak across the border with it on their backs.
They are beginning to suffer the effects of the failing Chinese economy...in that what the Chinese once subsidized to them, they are demanding more substantial return.
Nork has nothing to offer.
Period.
They will reach desperation level in about three more months.
The country has already suffered greatly...there is some speculation as to whether they would fight or exchange their pitiful weapons for a potato.
Time will tell.
All of the years since, the Norks have “pricky dicked” around
and been a pain in the a$$. They will continue to do so.
With the “unhinged” leadership they now have, they are not only dangerous, but “insanely” dangerous.
We have a grandson in Seoul, US Army. Watching this ominous development.
The little dictator may actually believe he’s immune to radiation from a nuke. No one in his circle of cronies and hangers-on is going to tell him he’s not.
Excellent. They got three bushels of wheat, twelve sticks, two tons of rocks, and a whole bunch of dissidents to add as filler.
“The Military preparations of the North Koreans are at an all time high, and the language of their propaganda is unprecedented... The same is true for the South Koreans... That and North Korea isn’t asking for more food or money from anyone...”
Fact. When a financial crisis hits, usually the military/industrial complex needs to be supported. China is facing a financial meltdown. The Norks are threatening war. Obama is weak and probably will blame Israel.
Coincidence?
Li’l Kim can’t move unless China gives him the green light. And China doesn’t want to jeopardize its lucrative trade with the ROK (let alone with the USA) just so Li’l Kim can play Napoleon. So it’s probably just more huffing and puffing from the NORKs.
This CiC would order a stand-down and get-out.
And NK has to pick its battles: lobbing something at Japan would serve no purpose whatsoever, better (however bad that still is) to focus on “just across the border”. It’s conceivable that a valiant strike, followed by total NK collapse, would actually prompt unification of Korea - so long as NK doesn’t draw USA & Japan into the conflict directly. There is a _very_ strong unification intention simmering, don’t underestimate it - a la East/West Germany. It would play out akin to a mentally unstable member _finally_ accepting treatment after beating the crap out of a sibling/spouse (so long as neighbors & police weren’t attacked in the process).
Kim Dung is so stupid that he will probably attack China by mistake.
“You don’t tell ME which way to fire giant Boom Boom.
I know my directions. I am the Supreme Child!
I wish you into the cornfield.
Release the human flesh eating dogs!”
My son is also in the US Army in S. Korea. Prayers up for all our brave warriors.
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