Related: Keeping the Koreas Apart
"North Korea.... special operations forces, schooled.... in the use of Iraqi-style roadside bombs.... capable of.... attacks against civilian infrastructure and military targets across Northeast Asia"
Piling it on a little thick, don't you think?
See: Occupation Iraq: British Bombers
Occupation Iraq: America's Roadside Bombs
Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group
Prop 201 tutorial
FRU
Whatjasay, MSM?
"North Korea special forces called credible threat; Troops could inflict a large casualty count" by Blaine Harden, Washington Post | October 18, 2009
Ah, yes, the Washington Post, the CIA 's newspaper, so you are getting this straight from the agenda-pushing horse's mouth (located in the back, WaPo?)!
SEOUL - North Korea has massively increased its special operations forces, schooled them in the use of Iraqi-style roadside bombs, and equipped them to sneak past the heavily fortified border that divides the two Koreas.
By expanding what was already the world’s largest such force, the North appears to be adding teeth to what is, in essence, a defensive military strategy. The cash-strapped government of Kim Jong Il, which struggles to maintain and buy fuel for its aging armored forces, has concluded it cannot win a conventional war, according to US and South Korean military officials.
Keep those ideas IN MIND, please!
But by combining huge numbers of special forces with artillery that can devastate Seoul and missiles that can pound all of South Korea, North Korea has found an affordable way to remain terrifying, ensure regime survival, and deter a preemptive strike on the nuclear bombs that make it a player on the world stage, say US and South Korean military analysts.
So basically this article -- like SO MANY in the AmeriKan newspapers is a GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA SHEET!
“The North Koreans have done what they had to do to make sure their military is still a credible threat,’’ said Bruce Bechtol, a North Korean specialist who is a professor at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College in Quantico, Va. “They can still inflict tens of thousands of civilian casualties in Seoul on the first day of combat.’’
The havoc-raising potential of North Korea’s special forces has grown as their numbers have increased and their training has shifted to terrorist tactics developed by insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to General Walter Sharp, commander of US forces in Korea.
Yeah, and WE KNOW WHO is BEHIND THEM, don't we?
In a conflict, tens of thousands of special forces troops would try to infiltrate South Korea: by air in radar-evading biplanes, by ground using secret tunnels beneath the Demilitarized Zone, and by sea aboard midget submarines and hovercraft, according to South Korean and US military analysts. Disguised in the uniforms of South Korean police and military personnel, special forces are also expected to try to walk into Seoul. Dressed as civilians, they may also arrive aboard passenger flights from Beijing and other foreign capitals.
Or blow up the planes like "terrorists," right, you lying sacks of s***?
Related: Team America World Police
Yeah, YOU GUYS have been watching WAY TOO MUCH TV, MSM!!!!
Their primary mission, in the event of war, is to leapfrog the DMZ and create chaos among the 20.5 million residents of Greater Seoul, while harassing South Korean and US forces in rear areas, military and intelligence specialists said.
The South Korean Army is trying to improve the mobility of its trench-bound frontline infantry and has canceled plans to reduce some reserve units. It has reversed the long-planned removal of a special warfare command from southern Seoul and is preparing to buy advanced transport planes to deliver its own special forces inside North Korea.
But NO REASON the NORTH SHOULD TAKE THAT as a THREAT, right?
The South Korean Navy has been ordered to change its focus from patrolling the sea to defending the shoreline from commando attacks, according to Kim Jong-dae, who edits a military magazine in Seoul and who until 2007 was a policy adviser to the minister of defense. The South Korean government declined to comment on the navy’s orders.
Oh, so on this one thing, no comment.
South Korea and the United States agree that the size of North Korean special forces is rising, but they disagree on how much. The number of such troops is now 180,000, according to the South Korean Defense Ministry. That is a 50 percent increase since the South’s last official count three years ago. Sharp, puts the number at 80,000. That dwarfs the special forces of any country, including the United States, which has about 51,000.
They just expect us to BUY this BULLSHIT, huh?
Whatever the number,
Yeah, WHATEVER, we got PROPAGANDA to PUSH!!!!
there is widespread agreement that the North’s special forces are increasingly formidable. Sharp describes them as “tough, well-trained, and profoundly loyal,’’ while being capable of illicit activities, strategic reconnaissance, and attacks against civilian infrastructure and military targets across Northeast Asia.
Yeah, so you will KNOW WHO TO BLAME when the CAR BOMBS start POPPING OFF in Asia!
Of course, the article couldn't have been more timely, cui bono?
"N. Korea still a threat to stability, US asserts" by Associated Press | October 23, 2009
SEOUL - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said yesterday that North Korea continues to pose a grave threat to international peace, and he pledged to protect South Korea with Washington’s full military might, including its nuclear weapons.
Grave threat, huh? WHERE (Iraq) have we heard THAT BEFORE, huh, world?!!!
And it is OKAY if WE THREATEN PEOPLE with NUCLEAR WEAPONS, hunh?
Gates and his South Korean counterpart, Kim Tae-young, said their two nations will never accept North Korea as a nuclear weapons state. They accused the regime of undermining global security with its nuclear defiance.
GO TELL IT to ISRAEL, assholes!!!!!!!!!!!!
1. Last Spring, Rose Gottemoeller, an assistant secretary of state and Washington's chief nuclear arms negotiator, asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel refused.
2. The United Nations passed a resolution calling on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.
3. The IAEA asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.
4. In 1986, Mordachai Vanunu blew the whistle and provided photographs showing Israel's clandestine nuclear weapons factory underneath the reactor at Dimona.
THANK YOU!
“The United States will continue to provide extended deterrence, using the full range of military capabilities, including the nuclear umbrella, to ensure’’ South Korea’s security, Gates told Kim ahead of their formal talks.
Gee, and BOTH KOREAS were GETTING ALONG SO WELL before BOB GOT THERE! Did the same thing in Japan.
North Korea has long demanded that the United States withdraw its “nuclear umbrella’’ from South Korea, calling it an attempt to invade with atomic bombs. The communist regime has argued that it needs atomic weapons to cope with “US nuclear threats.’’
You know, after the INVASIONS of IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN, who can blame the North Koreans?! The only reason they HAVE NOT BEEN INVADED is because THEY HAVE A BOMB!!!
Washington and Seoul have repeatedly denied having any intention to attack the North.
Do YOU BELIEVE in LIARS, reader? Then WHY SHOULD THEY?
“In addition to the traditional military threat, North Korea’s ballistic missiles and emerging nuclear weapons programs have a destabilizing effect both regionally and internationally,’’ Gates said at a joint news conference. “We will stand together.’’
Take that talk to Iz-ray-HELL, 'kay?
After defying calls for restraint and carrying out nuclear and missile tests earlier this year, North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Il, said recently that his country could rejoin international disarmament talks.
But WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR any PEACE TALK, thus we get WaPo propaganda and Gates rattling the nuclear quiver at a poor, destitute country.
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Yeah, F*** the WAR-CRIMINAL U.S. EMPIRE and its MEDIA WHORES!!!!!!!!!!!!
