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2010-05-26 China-Japan-Koreas

Nork Forces 'Told to Get Ready for Combat'

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Posted by Steve White 2010-05-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Kim ordered the entire military, the Ministry of Public Security, the State Security Department, the Worker-Peasant Red Guard, and the Red Youth Guard to be ready for combat

Man your barbeque stations! Bring out the lighter fluid and the coals! Set up the banquet tables! Plug in the fans! Slaughter the cattle! Get the condiments ready!

Posted by gorb 2010-05-26 01:00|| 2010-05-26 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Cattle? They've got cattle?

At any rate, they are counting on the SORKs to be afraid of casualties.

They may be right.

Posted by lotp 2010-05-26 08:21|| 2010-05-26 08:21|| Front Page Top

#3 The PRC will probably let this go on a week or two then decide it is hurting their exports and tell dear leader to cool it.

Posted by lord garth 2010-05-26 08:25|| 2010-05-26 08:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Kim's order was relayed via wire broadcasting to a speaker installed in each home.

Somebody's been reading their Orwell.

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-05-26 09:12|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-05-26 09:12|| Front Page Top

#5 The Norks have over 10,000 artillery tubes of different calibers pointed at Seoul. Most are well hidden and protected inside mountains and such. If the weak, starving Nork troops manning those tubes only fire two rounds a minute from each, Seoul will be devastated before the SKors and US can do much about it.

That's the casualty fear that lotp was referring to, and it's a sobering fear.

Posted by Steve White 2010-05-26 09:15|| 2010-05-26 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 SKOR can't afford for Seoul to be attacked (in a serious manner) because they would have to fight back, and they would win, and then they would have to provide for the loser in a civilized manner. Kimmie may have been reading 'The Mouse That Roared.'

Posted by Glenmore 2010-05-26 09:19|| 2010-05-26 09:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Kim's order was relayed via wire broadcasting to a speaker installed in each home.

Somebody's been reading their Orwell.

Now, now, Mitch. Orwell was a chronicler, not an inventor. Wire broadcasting was introduced in Sov. U. in 1930es and lasted until the collapse.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-05-26 09:30|| 2010-05-26 09:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Cattle? They've got cattle?

Well, two cows are technically cattle. They were Kimmie's private reserve.

Ever watched the scene where the dodo birds were preparing for war in Ice Age?

On a far more serious note, I was thinking of the easiest way for the SKors to completely derail an invading Nork army - hold a barbeque along the DMZ. One whiff and any tank will come to a complete stop and the crew will jump out because I doubt Kimmie invested in NBC gear.

Posted by gorb 2010-05-26 11:25|| 2010-05-26 11:25|| Front Page Top

#9 A couple of points:
April 6, 2010: The One announces a new policy that the United States is forswearing first use of nuclear weapons. The US will not retaliate to a chemical attack with nukes.
April 25, 2010 North Korea torpedoes a South Korean corvette.

Anybody see a connection?

Posted by Squinty Angains7723 2010-05-26 19:18|| 2010-05-26 19:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Hint:
The Nork's have chemical weapons.
We don't,

Posted by Squinty Angains7723 2010-05-26 19:24|| 2010-05-26 19:24|| Front Page Top

#11 I wonder about those 10,000 artillery tubes pointed at Seoul. To start with, they and their ammo have been sitting there, probably with minimal maintenance, for decades. Their crews probably have minimal training as well, just "load round in gun and fire."

The Skor, on the other hand, know the location of those tubes, have trained and practiced crews, advanced computer fire control, both 155mm (1,040 M109A2/A3) (4 rounds a minute max fires) and 8" (? M115 on the DMZ, ? M110 SP guns) howitzers, as well as MLRS suppressing fires.

The Target Reference Points are likely prioritized, and every Skor gun crew knows exactly how many and which enemy guns to take out. The only big question is how long it will take the Skor to get its guns on line and firing.

And I wonder if the Skor have any strategically placed C-RAM (Phalanx) batteries pre-positioned to protect Seoul?

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-05-26 20:09|| 2010-05-26 20:09|| Front Page Top

#12 Just a few thoughts.

We have tons of CW that hasn't been de-militarized yet; although, delivering it would be difficult because of the lack of training for it. And those vaunted hardened artillery positions would be great targets for the stuff.

South Korea should begin a general mobilization and a set of "civil defense" evacuation exercises up near the DMZ to get the civilans out of harms way -- just in case.

Finally, all the submarines that the Norks put out to sea a few days back should mysteriously disappear.

Posted by rammer 2010-05-26 20:11|| 2010-05-26 20:11|| Front Page Top

#13 Squinty are did forget to read the whole of the policy? The policy was for WMD and countries in compliance with treaties. North Korea was specifically mentioned as being non compliant.

Posted by No I am the other Beldar 2010-05-26 20:14|| 2010-05-26 20:14|| Front Page Top

#14 So are the Taliban and Al-Q - they are for the most part illegal combatants. Yet we treat them as honored enemies - we even put our own men on trail for 'mistreating' them.

Posted by Uleagum Gonque8434 2010-05-26 21:50|| 2010-05-26 21:50|| Front Page Top

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