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China-Japan-Koreas

Norks warn of attack ahead of S. Korea-U.S. naval drill

2010-06-29

SEOUL, June 29 (Yonhap) -- North Korea warned Tuesday it would attack "the stronghold of invaders" if the United States provoked a war in the process of a joint naval drill with South Korea, as tension persists on the Korean Peninsula over the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship.

South Korea and the United States are planning joint naval exercises following Seoul's ongoing efforts to punish North Korea for the sinking through the U.N. Security Council.

The Minju Chosun, the North's Cabinet newspaper, said in an editorial released through the official Korean Central News Agency that a joint South Korean-U.S. drill runs the risk of war.

"It is a clear fact that even a small accidental event during the joint drill can lead to an armed conflict and a full-scale war," the paper said. "We will bring about a complete victory by uprooting the stronghold of invaders as well as dealing with them with merciless penalties" if the U.S. provokes another war on the peninsula, it said.

It did not say what the "stronghold" referred to, but the North has threatened to turn Seoul into a "sea of fire" in the past.

Past massive South Korean-U.S. drills have almost always prompted the North's 1.2 million troops to be on alert and are believed to heavily drain the impoverished communist country of its resources.

We should hold drills every month then ...

Last week, China's foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Beijing was "very concerned" about the planned drills.

Even better, a two-fer ...

Posted by:Steve White

#7 DAILY TIMES.PK > NORTH KOREA WARNS ACCIDENT [mil clash] DURING EXERCISE [US-ROK] COULD START WAR.

versus

* WMF > DIRECTOR OF JAPAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE: USDOD PLANS TO CUT US$1.0TRILYUHN IN SPENDING BY 2015, LEAVING THE US WITH LITTLE TO NO CAPACITY TO RELIABLY ASSIST OR DEFEND ITS ALLIES AGZ ENEMIES. JAPAN + US ALLIES MUST RELY ON THEMSELVES FOR THEIR OWN NATIONAL, GEOPOL SECURITY.

* SAME > CHINA'S "HOMELAND DEFENSE" MIL STRATEGY IS WORLD'S NO. ONE OR BEST "DEFENSIVE" STRATEGY WHILE THE US IS THE WORLD'S BEST AT "OFFENSIVE" STRATEGY.

Thus once again I say - All together Boyz, wid feeling, SINK THE TIRPITZ, SINK THE TIRPITZ ["Bismarck" Theme = X-CRAFT].... + THE GORGE-BUSTERS!

NO? "333 SUBMARINE SPECIAL SQUADRON", brought to youse in Year 2010 = 1960's-70's GUAM TAOTAMONAS + SecDef Gates, the USDOD, + the USN's ALL-FEMALE SUB FLEET-COMMAND???

D *** NG IT, NOT starring SHARON STONE [heresy, heresy I say].

* SAME > "CENTRAL SUNDAY" SOUTH KOREAN MAGAZINE: US MILBASE ON GUAM ISLAND CAN DETECT THE LR UNDERWATER NOISE OF CHIN "TYPE 094" [JIN-class FBM] + OTHER PLAN SUBMARINE CLASSES OPERATING OFF CHINA'S COASTLINESS + LITTORAL/ADJACENT WATERS.

* SAME > CHINA'S RATES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH/ MODERNIZATIONS INDICATES IT CAN EASILY PRODUCE THREE OR MORE "VARYAG"-STYLE OR SLIGHTLY LARGER AIRCRAFT CARRIERS BY 2020.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-06-29 23:13

#6 Now that's an interesting thought, NORK's only chance to keep doing what its doing on its own is to start conflict between China/et al.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-06-29 17:41

#5 I'll leave it to Harry.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-06-29 12:48

#4 From Joe's long comment with my own additions:

The rise of the US vs. USSR cold war caused the US to be a less than present & reliable security partner in the eyes of south Asian countries. Now China is on the rise and, although it cannot yet project the full reach of power it desires via naval capability, China is increasingly a threat to those countries. (Consider its missile capabilities, for instance, and its habit of nuclear proliferation.)

North Korea's in an untenable position and knows it but is playing for as much time/space as it can get.

Posted by: lotp 2010-06-29 12:15

#3 Sometimes I wish you would just spit it out like a normal person.

Posted by: Spinemp the Ruthless1385 2010-06-29 10:40

#2 ION WMF > WHOMEVER SANK THE "CHEONAN" OR MADE FIRST VIOLATIONS IS NOT IMPORTANT TO CHINA VERSUS A LT US-NATO MILITARY PRESENCE IN NORTH KOREA IFF THE LATTER LOSES IN WAR. A US-WESTERN DOMINATED INTEGRATED OR UNIFIED KOREA IS ALSO A THREAT TO CHINA.

ME > IOW, the NOKOR's realistic "manifest destiny" as agz China is to be SLAVE-OR-DIE, i.e. iff THE US-ALLIED DOESN'T DESTROY NORTH KOREA IN WAR, CHINA PER SE WILL DESTROY NORTH KOREA FOR CHINA.

Both Kimmie + SEOUL are walking an UNENVIABLE, GEOPOL-DANGEROUS IDEO, NATIONAL, REGIONAL + GLOBAL, TIGHTROPE.

* SAME > "MY NEWS" INDIAN MEDIA: INDIA EXPERTS BELIEVE CHINA'S CHANGE IN ITS STRATEGIC DOCTRINE FROM "COASTAL/OFFSHORE DEFENSE" TO "FAR SEAS" OCEANS-GOING DEFENSE + FORCE PROJECTION WILL STILL NOT TRANSFORM CHINA INTO A TRUE GLOBAL MARITIME OR NAVAL MILITARY POWER.

* SAME > BOOK BY WORLD-RENOWNED JOURNALIST WILFRED FLEISHER CLAIMS THAT POTUS FDR AT THE "CAIRO CONFERENCE" OFFERED TO GIVE CHINA THE OKINAWA/RYUKYU ISLANDS, TAIWAN [Formosa], MANCHUKO + PESCADORES AFTER JAPAN + AXIS SURRENDER. PHILIPPINES + THAILAND TO BECOME INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES. REJECTION OF OFFER [twice] + RETURN OF HONG KONG BY THE "GREAT TRAITOR" CHIANG KAI-SHEK.

* SAME > Chiang Kai-shek also repor turned down the unilater US turnover of OKINAWA = RYUKYUS to China in favor of an INITIAL SINO-US JOINT MIL OCCUPATION OF JAPAN, later to be SAME but now under SINO-US LED INTERNATIONAL UMBRELLA ORG [read, UNO].

Pragmatically, IMO Kai-shek may have had no other choice as WW2 + JAPAN'S WAR ON CHINA all but destroyed his pre-War successful campaign agz MAO ZEDONG. The POST-WAR SOVIET THREAT AGZ EUROPE = RISE OF THE US-SOVIET COLD WAR caused the "Bring-the-Boyz-Home", demobilization-happy US Govt-DOD to prioritize the LT anti-Soviet security of war-damaged Europe at the expence of KMT China. IMO KAI-SHEK THOUGHT OR PLANNED FOR THE DISTANT FUTURE, FOR THE ASIA, WORLD AFTER THE SOVIET THREAT + COLD WAR HAD SUBSIDED.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-06-29 02:12

#1 North Korea warned Tuesday it would attack "the stronghold of invaders"

Hmmm you mean the USA?

Go ahead and commit suicide, attacking the USA IS suicide, no looking the other way if one of OUR ships gets torpedod, YOU DIE, to the last soul.

Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-06-29 02:06

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