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| US Attack on NK Needs Consensus From South Korea |
| 2005-05-02 |
| Any military action against North Korea will be conducted based on a consensus between South Korea and the United States, Gen Leon J. LaPorte, commander of the United States Forces Korea (USFK), said Monday. Attending the inauguration ceremony of a lawmakers' forum on security issues at the National Assembly in Seoul, the USFK chief said the U.S. administration will inform the South Korean government of any possible plan on military actions against the North before implementing it, according to Rep. Song Young-sun of the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP). Song also quoted LaPorte as saying that the U.S. has no "intention" to conduct a preemptive strike on Pyongyang, stressing the Bush administration's position that the standoff over North Korea's nuclear weapons programs should be resolved through dialogue. Song, a member of the Assembly's National Defense Committee, leads the National Assembly Security Forum. The group has 13 members including Reps. Park Jin of the GNP and Yoo Jay-kun of the ruling Uri Party. LaPorte's remarks came amid controversy over a military contingency plan, which has been pursued by the South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command (CFC) since last year. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #9 The SoKors prefer to be left alone iff they had anything to say - glitch is, neither many of SK's politicians nor the officer and senior NCO classes of their armed forces trust the Norkies even the two Koreas did reunify. The US will not have a problem getting Seoul's permission to attack the North - US policy is an escalatory, retaliatory one, not a pre-emptive or first-strike one; and second, many of the generals, colonels, and senior NCO's are veterans of the Cold War. The USDOD is perfectly content to let the Norkies starve and implode themselves - nothing will happen unless a severe ''event'' takes place, e.g. a new 9-11 and or a WMD ''decapitation'' strike aimed at Dubya and the bulk of the US GOP-Right national leadership! Kerry, Gore and Dean are there to PC fail and destabilize America, not to succeed. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2005-05-02 23:50 |
| #8 ''Okay, I think the entire Nork Political and Military Leadership is vaporized.'' ''I agree. It was total.'' ''Yep, looks that way from here, too.'' ---- Now that's a consensus. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-05-02 19:29 |
| #7 May be that consenus is ''required'' at issue is whether the consensus is before or after the NK bombing. I prefer after. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-05-02 19:21 |
| #6 I emagine that request from the US leadership to the S. Korean leadership in a time sensative moment sounds like the one we will give Canada on the Ballistic Missle Shield with incoming. Ya know one of those dear (S. Korea / Canada) we will be hitting targets in about -10 responce ehhh, answer glad you agree now this is phase 2. |
| Posted by: C-Low 2005-05-02 4:25:01 PM |
| #5 "no" |
| Posted by: Steve White 2005-05-02 1:59:14 PM |
| #4 So if we look over and Seoul's glowing under a mushroom cloud, should we consider that a "yes" or a "no"? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-05-02 1:25:18 PM |
| #3 That pretty much screws the element of surprise. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2005-05-02 12:25:00 PM |
| #2 That's why it's time to withdraw our troops if the Japanese agree. That's probably the big problem, the Japanese don't want the Chinese to pick up the pieces of the dagger pointed at Japan. Whatta mess. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-05-02 12:14:21 PM |
| #1 Any military action against North Korea will be conducted based on a consensus between South Korea and the United States, Gen Leon J. LaPorte, commander of the United States Forces Korea (USFK), said Monday. The possibility of the current SK leadership (if it can be called that) actually endorsing such an action is very, very small, practically microscopic. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-05-02 11:53:50 AM |