They want:
1. To save face for Kim Jong Un, who has escalated himself into a military/diplomatic jam and now needs to claim some type of “amazing military victory”, ergo the Kanagawa attack and these sub shenanigans.
2. Money
3. Food
All this is huge cause for concern (mines, shell exchange) but aside from a possible impending torpedo attack my guess is it’s not part of a general, theater-wide attack from the Tree Bark Soup set.
IMO NK has gotten what it wanted with the cancellation of the US Korea war games and will sit on it’s winnings.
OTOH Dear Leader just had his vice shot for complaining about trees...
North Korea does not have 50 submarines, correct me if am wrong.
Active Duty ping.
First war then peace. Let them nuke it out. Zippy will do nothing.
seriously offer their top leaders immunity, million dollar pensions and all-you-can eat buffet passes to surrender.
Screw them, enough is enough.
Let them eat plutonium.
Let’s end this, once and for all.
Looks like the commies are finally out of food for the army and have to go “foraging”.
I believe the big worry should be the massive stockpile of chemical weapons the North has that can be deployed using their artillery.
You can’t negotiate with an egomaniac like Fat Kim.
Chances are the North Koreans will sink a couple South Korean ships and artillery barrage several South Korean towns.
The South will respond by firing back but missing most of what they shoot at, then pay Kim Jr. a big bribe and all will be forgotten until next time.
Interesting matchup. A 1950’s army, huge and poorly supplied up against a substantially smaller but better trained and technology far superior adversary. Human wave attacks anyone?