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| S.Korea to Stage Fresh Firing Drill on Yeonpyeong Island |
| 2010-11-30 |
| [Chosun Ilbo] Yeonpyeong Island amid continued North Korean threats against South Korea since an artillery attack on the island last week. The military is determined to pulverize North Korean artillery positions if they fire shells again. On Monday it deployed six U.S.-made Multiple Launch Rocket Systems for the first time on the island, as well as six more K-9 self-propelled howitzers. Each MLRS shell is capable of destroying an area the size of one to three soccer fields. A government source on Monday said, "There has been strong criticism that we responded too passively to the artillery attack on Yeonpyeong Island, so we decided to stage the same kind of fire drill as the one we carried out on the island on Nov. 23 to display our determination." He added the timing of the drill will not be announced in advance. The military will fire in a southwesterly direction, using K-9 self-propelled howitzers. The Joint Chiefs of Staff considered staging the drill on Tuesday but delayed it at the request of the U.S. military. Early last week, the North shelled the island, claiming that the South had fired shells at its territorial waters, and has since continued to threaten a "physical retaliatory counterattack" if South Korean military exercises continue. Each MLRS carries 12 rocket shells with a diameter of 227 mm. Each shell is filled with about 500 cluster munitions, each of which has the detonating power of a single hand grenade. They are more powerful than the North Korean MLRS. With a range of 32 to 45km, the South's MLRS can hit inland areas in the North as well as MLRS deployed on the western coast. They were first used during the Gulf War in 1991. Military authorities are determined to launch surgical strikes by mobilizing fighter planes depending on the magnitude of future North Korean provocations. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Looks like the US-ROK have formally canceled a planned AMPIBEX for LOCAL "BAD/INCLEMENT WEATHER". WEATHER MAPS = shows BETTER-THAN-THE-1944-NORMANDY-INVASION Clear or mostly clear??? The ROKS are repor considering cancelling this MLRS ARTEX??? ------------- * ION BHARAT RAKSHAK > [DailyMail.UK] COUNTDOWN TO OBLIVION: NORTH KOREAN ARTILLERY STRIKE - THE START OF WORLD'S FIRST NUCLEAR WAR | TOP THRILLER WRITER TOM CAIN IMAGINES WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IFF THE [current = 2010]NORTH + SOUTH KOREAN STANDOFF DENIGRATED INTO THE WORLD'S FIRST NUCLEAR WAR IN THIS FICTIONAL ACCOUNT. ARTIC + DPRK initiates LIMITED Nuclear MilStrikes agz Seoul, then IGNORES POTUS OBAMA"S WARNING OF US MIL RETALIATION. CHINA'S MOBILIZES DUE TO DESIRE TO PREVENT US MIL, NUCSTRIKES AGZ NORTH KOREA IN DEFENSE OF SOUTH KOREA DESPITE NORTH'S UNILATERAL ACTION. US BASES ON GUAM becom de facto targets for LR BMS despite being "out of theater" from the Koreas, as due to Guam being a "READY RESOURCE" = MAJOR LOGISTICS HUB FOR USDOD. * Also from BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Telegraph.UK] CHINA AS THE "NEXT CREEDIT BUBBLE" TO BURST * SAME > CHINA'S STOCK FRAUD TOTALS US$30.0BILYUHN [since 2002]. ------------ * WMF > VIDEO: PROPOSED RUSSIAN MILBASE ON "SINGLE CROWN BAY" MAY BE USED AS SPRINGBOARD BY RUSSIA TO MIL ATTACK JAPAN. Read, JUSTIFYING JAPAN DEV OF NUCWEAPS. * SAME > JAPAN + WEST GERMANY HELD SECRET NEGOTIATIONS IN 1969 TO CONSIDER DEV INDIGENOUS NUCLEAR WEAPONS INDEPENDENT OF US-NATO CONTROL. CONCEPT OF JAPAN, WEST GERMANY AS CLOSE US-NATO STRATEGIC ALLIES + SOVEREIGN MAJOR STATES NOT POSSESSING NUCLEAR WEAPONS SEEN AS "ABNORMAL/ DEFECTIVE" DESPITE ADVENT OF 1971 NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY [NPT] + US-SOVIET DETENTE. * SAME > RUSSIAN EXPERTS: ROK CAPITAL CITY OF SEOUL WILL BE RAZED TO THE GROUND BY DPRK ARTILLERY, MISSLE STRIKES IN FIRST HOURS OF NEW KOREAN WAR. RUSSIAN UNCERTAINTY OVER US-VS-CHINA MIL, NUCLEAR RESPONSES TO EARLY DPRK SUCCESSES. -------------- * BHARAT RAKSHAK > [SRBMS = Short-Range BMS] RUSSIAN MISSLES FUEL US WORRIES | RUSSIAN WARHEAD MOVES/DEPLOYMENTS NEAR NATO COUNTRIES [East Euro, Baltic borders]WORRIES US. TacNukies. * GUAM NEWS WATCH > YOUTUBE: HUFFPO: US FORCES ON GUAM ON "HIGH ALERT" OVER KOREAN CRISIS | US GENERAL SHARP WILL BE LOOKING ... TO BRING IN ADDITIONAL FIGHTER JETS FROM GUAM + JAPAN, + ASK FOR AIRCRAFT CARRIER FROM US SEVENTH FLEET. As for US FORCES, KOREA [USFK]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-30 23:41 |
| #4 Interesting indeed that they are pecking at each other across the water at Yeonpyeong Island instead of across the DMZ. Almost as if they want to show how tough they are but they're not really ready for the big show on land where stakes are higher and the escalation could get out of control very quickly. Just as well, I guess. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-11-30 12:22 |
| #3 Oh yes, Virginia, 'tis more "2012" TO TEST POTUS BAMMER. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-30 01:16 |
| #2 ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > IS NORTH KOREA MOVING ANOTHER "RED LINE"??? Red Line(s) of ALL-BUT-ABSOLUTELY-CERTAIN US-ALLIED MIL COUNTERRESPONSE. IIUC ARTIC > Iff the DPRK believes that it will ultimately be successful in "going Nuclear", it may be induced to shift "Red Lines" from ISOLATED SEA-BASED = OFFSHORE/COASTAL MIL CLASHES TO FREQUENT + ESCALATORY LAND-BASED MIL CLASHES, espec along iNTER-KOREAN DMZ. IOW, STEADILY MORE-N-MORE "MAJOR" MIL INCIDENTS [Land] TANTAMOUNT TO NEAR-WAR OR DE FACTO ALL-OUT WAR, aka COLD WAR US-SOVIET STYLE "CREEPING/MANAGED MIL ESCALATION"??? ["WAR GAMES" Movie + WOPR here]. NO? HARRY POTTER + "WIZARD'S CHESS"??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-30 01:14 |
| #1 Each MLRS shell is capable of destroying an area the size of one to three soccer fields Oh well. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-11-30 00:53 |