S. Korea vs N. Korea [Cold war goes Hot]

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The South is really pushing things. They're ready to lay the smack down if the North does anything else and it appears that the North is backing down.

And it sounds like both Russia and China are fed up with the North so they probably feel like they're on thier own now.

[SB Shock]

The South is really pushing things. They're ready to lay the smack down if the North does anything else and it appears that the North is backing down.

And it sounds like both Russia and China are fed up with the North so they probably feel like they're on thier own now.

I doubt N. Korea is backing down - not in their nature. They may wait a period of time, but there will be a response, but it might be asymmetrical response.

BTW, N. Korea has threatened to destroy the Christmas tree. SK Marines are now guarding the tree.

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NKorea threatens 'sacred' nuclear war if attacked

North and South Korea beat the drums of war Thursday, with each threatening the other with immediate retaliation if attacked.

Seoul has staged days of military drills in a show of force meant to deter North Korea, including live-fire exercises earlier this week on a front-line island shelled by the North last month. Angered by the exercises, North Korea threatened Thursday it would launch a "sacred" nuclear war if Seoul hit it and warned that even the smallest intrusion on its territory would bring a devastating response.

The two sides are still technically at war because their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce not a peace treaty, and a U.S. governor who recently made an unofficial diplomatic mission to the North has said the situation on the peninsula is a "tinderbox" and the worst he had ever seen it.

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N.K. soldiers near the DMZ were spotted in S.K. style uniforms.

Analysts in Seoul said the uniforms suggested that North Korea is practicing infiltration techniques that might be used in commando raids against the South--or in a full-scale invasion.

NK is now in the winter training cycle (and thus moving to higher readiness). WTC ends in March.

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Gates: North Korea will pose direct threat to US

North Korea's development of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles poses a direct threat to the United States, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday, a blunt assessment of the risk posed by an erratic dictatorship that considers the U.S. its foremost enemy.

North Korea will have a limited ability to deliver a weapon to U.S. shores within five years using intercontinental ballistic missiles, Gates predicted. North Korea has threatened to test such missiles, and has already conducted underground nuclear tests that prove it has manufactured at least rudimentary nuclear weapons.

"With the North Koreans' continuing development of nuclear weapons and their development of intercontinental ballistic missiles, North Korea is becoming a direct threat to the United States, and we have to take that into account," Gates said.

The risk of war on the Korean Peninsula is also rising because South Koreans are fed up with provocation and harassment from the North, Gates said.

"We consider this a situation of real concern and we think there is some urgency to proceeding down the track of negotiations and engagement," he said.

[SB Shock]

NK walked out of the first official negotiations since the artillery attack. SK refused to budge on their demands that NK take responsibility for their actions.

NK also requested US to resume food aid under international monitors. US told NK they had no plans to resume aid until they fullfilled their terms of the bargain.

Expect some kind of NK provocation in the near future.

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M.A.D.

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North Koreas threatened to destroy SK border towns if the SK governement continued to let activist launch propoganda via ballon into NK.

NK last year made a similiar threat before attacking Yeonpyeong Island. NK is looking to draw back attention to them that the Egypt and now Libyan protests is taking away.

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taken from NightWatch

On 30 June, two days day after a government statement called on South Korea to apologize for insulting the North, a spokesman for the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army escalated the rhetoric and promised there will be violent retaliation.

"The Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army, reflecting the soaring outrage and retaliatory spirit of the millions of soldiers and people, will from this moment on consider the indiscriminate behavior of the gang of traitors which is accumulating only gross crimes before the nation to be a new declaration of war against us and will take appropriate military retaliation measures….

. "The matchless confrontation maniacs have dared to make extreme provocations to us that even risk war, only a physical settlement of fire being exchanged to and fro, remains between North and South."


Comment: The military statement so soon after a government statement suggests the military considered the first statement to be too weak; that South Korea increased the number of defamatory displays in reaction to it; or that there is a lack of coordination among policy makers and the correct message has now been sent. Whatever the reason for the escalation, the wording as translated is an unconditional statement of intent. Expect a firing incident. This is a warning.

This is all because SK soldiers were using the Dear Leader photo for target practice supposedly.

You would think the NK would at least hire a public relations firm that spoke English to clean up and handle their press released.

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North Korea Demands Peace Treaty With U.S.

After months of tension heightened by the North's deadly shelling of a South Korean island last November, the nuclear envoys of the two countries met in a regional security forum in Indonesia last week and agreed to push for the resumption of nuclear disarmament talks.

"The (Korean) peninsula stands at the crossroads of detente and a vicious cycle of escalation tension," North Korean media said Wednesday, likening the current cease-fire among the countries who fought in the Korean War to "a time bomb."

Blasting the United States for its involvement in the war, North Korea's central television ran footage of veterans describing their fight against enemy forces as the official media marked what it called a victory anniversary. Reports also touted the wartime activities of the country's revered founder Kim Il Sung, whose son Kim Jong Il is now ruling the country and trying to hand over power to his own son.

About 28,500 U.S. troops are stationed in South Korea as a legacy of the Korean War, in which North Korea and China fought against U.S., South Korean and U.N. forces. The North says it needs nuclear weapons because of the U.S. military presence there.

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According to South Korean intel reporting, North Korea has assembled a "significant" number of troops and MiG-21 fighters at two bases along the Yellow Sea coast, along with more than 20 naval vessels.

[SB Shock]

After the NORKS IED or landmine attack a couple weeks ago on SK troops - we now have this:

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It is reported the NORKs have sortied 70% of their submarine fleet (or hidden them). NORKs have also moved artillery to the DMZ, with even some reports inside the DMZ.

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2015/08/485_185362.html

There was a huge explosion at U.S. Military weapons depot in Japan. The Japanese terrorism experts are saying it is plausible this was an deliberate attack (NK or left wing Japanese? --- In April left wing Japanese terrorist exploded 3 bombs near this facility).

North Korea news is reporting S.Korean solders are running away from their bases and the people are panic buying (propaganda).

S. Korean news is reporting the emergency talks have discussed two issues (if only our congress would start small things).

a. family reunions
b. Kumgang tourism

North refuses to apologize for the land mine/ied attack on DMZ - feeling on the SK side is without the apology no progress can be made.

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SK YTN is reporting (and showing) China moving soldier and tanks to the NK border.

[SB Shock]

2nd round of talks continue - 15 hours +

NORK soften their rhetoric - only will burn half of seoul (actually NK is now saying they don't know what going on - they didn't do anything).