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Posted on 06/20/2024 5:09:41 AM PDT by McGruff
Major weapons exporter South Korea will "reconsider" a longstanding policy that bars it from supplying arms directly to Ukraine, a presidential official said Thursday, after North Korea and Russia signed a defense deal. Russia's President Vladimir Putin was in Pyongyang Wednesday for a high-profile state visit that underscored his growing ties with leader Kim Jong Un, as the two signed a "breakthrough" agreement that included a pledge to come to each other's aid if attacked.
Hours later, Seoul said it was "planning to reconsider the issue of providing weapons support to Ukraine," a presidential official told reporters.
Seoul has a longstanding policy that bars it from selling weapons into active conflict zones, which it has stuck to despite calls from Washington and Kyiv to reconsider.
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World is so much more peaceful now thay the adults are back in charge.
These old war buddy nations have been working on this for a long time, since early in the invasion.
Putin vows to expand partnership with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Jeong-Ho Lee August 15, 2022
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/300663083/putin-vows-to-expand-partnership-with-north-koreas-kim-jong-un
South Korea should think of expanding its army and navy. America will not be able to defend them if a general war hits. Japan may not want to risk nukes if there is a world war. She may stay neutral. Time to pick a side: The West, The Axis or stand down.
Nothing says “ We’re boosting our national security” more than becoming an active adversary of Russia. Ask Finland.
Now our MIC has an excuse to pour more weapons into the ROK, which will trigger the Norks, and…hello escalation.
Today Putin is in Vietnam for similar alliance building in SoPac.
The ROK might want to consider sending some of its army planners to Ukraine, to experience an intense drone and artillery war upclose, and the true performance of western AD vs hypersonics
I don’t think Ukraine needs more weapons as much as it needs boots on the ground.
I’m sure the South Koreans will be more than ready to give up their Patriots and other air defense assets to the Ukes. That’s about the only thing, other than troops, that could possibly help to stem the Russians.
According to Russian sources Putin and the North Korean dictator strengthened their military ties with a formal mutual defense pact, which, should the North launch an attack on South Korea, whould bring Russia formally to the defense of North Korea when the South responded to the north’s attack.
The Russians and the NORKs just agreed to use any means available to each other’s mutual defense. That means nukes and Russia is the world leader in tactical nukes they never got rid of them like the USA did. They have slews of battlefield munitions from 10kt artillery shells to hypersonic zircons with 100+kt boosted. It’s always been Soviet and Russian policy to use tactical nukes if they are losing ground. They don’t use strategic level PAL links their individual battlefield commanders have special weapons release codes and the keys to use them. This was first learned in the Cuban crisis and remains the same today.
“The Russians and the NORKs just agreed to use any means available to each other’s mutual defense. That means nukes”
It means “nukes” if Russia and the NORKs feel “nukes” are needed.
However, they both know the U.S, would respond massively “in kind” should Russia or the NORKs do that.
By the way, we have battle field “nukes” to be deployed in the defense of S.K. if the occasion demanded it. They have been moved to safety in Okinawa (they used to be only about 20 miles south of Seoul) so their stores are not a target in S.K. Their storage and well-trained operations (what their unit trains for) would move them to S.K. soil on request where ground operations would be ready to move them where needed.
More proof that you can’t fix stupid.
I know about jet delivered tactical nuke bombs available but what battlefield nukes do we still stock?
“I know about jet delivered tactical nuke bombs available but what battlefield nukes do we still stock?”
That is what I was talking about. We have “battlefield” “nukes” for possible use in defending Korea. They use to be stored in Korea but now the unit responsible for them, and for getting them to the “Korean theater” is in Okinawa.
Occasionally I try to look up what we have in tactical nukes and it isn’t very clear, without the Russian masses that we used to face we don’t really need the old stuff we used to have, like the 155 nuke shells and the 8 inchers.
“without the Russian masses”
It’s not really about the “Russian masses” but it can be about Russian military tactics. Yes, “drone swarms” and “drone warfar” have changed the battlefield. But when desparate dictators are trying to preserve the pretense they are the “defenders” through what they think might be some sort of “victory”, you never know for sure what they’d try in desparation. I have to belive their generals will prevent the dictators from committing their societies to suicide.
I like having tactical nukes and the modern weapons that duplicate much of the purpose without actually being nuclear, but I can accept less need for some the old versions we used to have, although in North Korea’s terrain some nuke artillery could be useful.
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