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China-Japan-Koreas
North Korea warns US over planned military drill
2010-02-26
North Korea's military has strongly condemned the upcoming joint US-South Korean war games in the tense peninsula.

On Thursday, an army spokesman said in Pyongyang that the drill is a rehearsal for the invasion of the North.

It cautioned that it will respond to any aggression with nuclear weapons, if necessary.

The United States is expected to send 18,000 troops to South Korea for the maneuver, which is scheduled for 8 March 2010.

Seoul and Pyongyang remain technically at war. The Korean War between 1950 and 1953 ended with a truce but not a peace treaty.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Never say never.

Always keep in mind that, prior to WW2, many rational Americans held the attitude and belief that iff Nazi Germany + Japan made war agz the US, they would surely lose, ERGO THEY WOULDN'T WAGE WAR = WEREN'T STUPID ENUFF TO WILFULLY START A WAR AGZ THE US THAT THEY WOULD LOSE, THAT THEY MUST KNOW OR REALIZE THEY WOULD LOSE.

History records that JAPAN attacked Pearl Harbor on 12/7/1941, after which Nazi Germany declared war on the US a few days later.

* KOREAN WAR > the US believed the CHINESE weren't supposed to be technologically or economically able to militarily intervene in Korea so soon after the end of the 1949 Chin Civil War [MAO-VS-CHIANG], BUT THEY DID AND FORCED MACARTHUR'S BOYZ TO RETREAT FROM THE YALU [ e.g. CHOSIN Reservoir].

* 1968 TET?

* 1973 YOM KIPPUR WAR?

* FULDA GAP > "CONTROLLED ESCALATION" = US-NATO believed that the USSR would never use MASSIVE/OVERWHELMING NUMBERS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS in ANY OPENING CONVENTIONAL FIRST-STRIKE AGZ NATO FORCES IN WESTERN EUROPE.

US-NATO were wrong.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-02-26 20:36  

#2  We train, they complain. Happens every year. *yawn*
Posted by: Spot   2010-02-26 13:25  

#1  Dear North Korea:

Ah, shaddap.

Love,
America


Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2010-02-26 05:06  

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