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China-Japan-Koreas
America and South Korea flex their military muscles with tanks, warships and aircraft as they hold their biggest combined military training for years in huge show of power after North Korea ramped up weapons testing
2022-08-23
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Nations will hold exercises from today until September 1 in major war games

  • The exercises will involve aircraft, warships, tanks and thousands of troops

  • Joint war games are known as 'Ulchi Freedom Shield' which take place annually

  • But intensity of exercises has ramped up this year following Covid-19 pandemic

  • Comes amid period of increased frequency in missile testing from North Korea
Posted by:Skidmark

#5  ...by the late 80s, it was one big megalopolis from half way to the border to Seoul. Probably much more dense today. They be stopped just looting food and stuff within an hour.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-08-23 17:03  

#4  /\...Of course I wonder if the NKOR troops will stop in the first convenience stores and supermarkets to gorge on plentiful South Korean junk food causing any advance to come to a screeching halt.
Posted by: magpie   2022-08-23 15:01  

#3  Downtown Seoul is well within artillery and rocket range of the DMZ. Even if the NKOR attack fizzles out the initial barrage is projected to be devastating.
Posted by: magpie   2022-08-23 13:16  

#2  You think Pudgy has gotten any hint of what cross the border would be like from Putie's experience? If he's expecting a half a million Chinese volunteers to back him up, then he and sis are unlikely to be running the place immediately afterward.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-08-23 07:17  

#1  Wargaming a North Korean attack
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-08-22 10:10  

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