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N. Korea rejects talks with UN Command on artillery attack

2010-11-26

(KUNA) -- North Korea has rejected a proposal by the US-led United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society Command (UNC) to hold general-level military talks on the North's deadly artillery attack on a South Korean island, Yonhap News Agency reported Thursday.

The UNC, which supervises the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953, proposed holding the talks with North Korea on Wednesday, a day after North Korea shelled Yeonpyeong Island, killing two marines and two civilians, the report said.

"North Korea rejected the proposal by the UNC because it appeared to see no practical benefit in the talks," an official at the South's defense ministry was quoted as saying. The UNC said it will investigate the North's artillery attack as part of its responsibility to maintain the truce and will determine any violations.

North Korea fired a barrage of artillery rounds on Yeonpyeong in the mid-afternoon on Tuesday. The attack injured 15 marines and at least three civilians, gutting dozens of houses. The UNC is headed by the top US commander in South Korea, where some 28,500 American troops are stationed to deter North Korean aggression.

Posted by:Fred

#9 Wondering where are all those South Korean students who have been protesting to get the U.S. off the peninsula? Changing their nickers probably. I say get out and take everything of ours that has value with us. Let those nasty f#!&ers slaughter each other. It will eventually be in the Chinese sphere. Why should we let them bleed us until both sides do the inevitable?

Posted by: Sgt. D.T. 2010-11-26 22:21

#8 Sounds like a decent enough plan Rammer, but not near exciting as Raise the Yamato and Prepare the Iowa.

Posted by: Goldies Every Damn Where 2010-11-26 18:18

#7 What to do now:
* Begin the evacuation of Seoul and prepare to attack.
* Immediately respond to and counter any artillery or other attacks on South Korea.
* Issue a short ultimatum demanding the Kim family to be tried for murder in a South Korean court.
* Clearly indicate that soldiers who surrender will be fed and eventually pardoned.
* Establish air dominance over the peninsula.
* Bomb and destroy all Nork military logistics systems.
* Wait as all their soldiers defect across the DMZ for three squares and a warm cot.
* Advance to the extent necessary to maintain contact with the enemy.
* Return civilians to Seoul after the effective border has moved beyond easy artillery and rocket range.

Posted by: rammer 2010-11-26 11:37

#6 16" guns, UAVs; it doesn't matter. The SKORS have checked their balls at the door and along with the testicularly-challenged POTUS, will only continue to bow and grovel before the NORK whack-jobs.

Posted by: USN, Ret. 2010-11-26 10:40

#5 UAV's with Hellfires or SDBs make more sense that=n 16" against reverse slope counterfire.

Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-11-26 08:08

#4 By now I imagine that the Skor gun bunnies have been drilling so hard, humping dummy 155 rounds, that they are using Ben Gay by the 55 gallon drum.

Rather oddly, the Skor don't have many 8 inch guns. In their position, with permanent mountain based Nork arty facing Seoul, I would build some covert 16 inch naval guns inside of buildings.

Each 16 inch round could probably take out four well spaced Nork arty positions no matter how well they were dug in, or at least rattled them so hard it would put them out of operation.

Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-11-26 07:04

#3 Why should the Norks talk to the U.N.? Ban Ka-Moon has already capitulated and promised to give them more of our food.

Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-11-26 01:04

#2 How about a bit of preemptive counter-battery on the arty base's ammo dump?

Posted by: OldSpook 2010-11-26 00:56

#1 Lest we fergit, NORTH KOREA = had already unilaterally abrogated the 1953 ARMISTICE ending the 1950=-53 Korean War.

SCOPE > DPRK didn't do anything wrong in its recent attacks agz South Korea [Island + CHEONAN]because such were NORMAL, INTERNAL KOREAN AFFAIRS/MATTERS = "ROUTINE MIL DRILLS UNDERTAKEN IN SOVEREIGN NATIONAL PROPERTIES + ASSETS, ETC LOCATED IN NORTH KOREA'S SOUTH", as Pyongyang is the duly SOLE + ONLY LEGIT GOVT OF KOREA [Unified Korea].

As per POTUS BAMMER + "WEAK/DECLINING USA" , "GLOBALISM" + OWG-NWO = 20th CENTURY MAJOR POWERS MUST SHARE POWER-N-AUTHORITY WID LESSOR = MSALLER STATES, + NOT DICTATE OR COMMAND SAME.

Correct???

OOOOOOOPPPPPPPSIES......

[CHIEF WIGGUM + LOU here].

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-26 00:18

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