N. Korea threatens to attack US, S. Korea warships.

[Dantheman62]

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea threatened military action Wednesday against U.S. and South Korean warships plying the waters near the Koreas' disputed maritime border, raising the specter of a naval clash just days after the regime's underground nuclear test.

Pyongyang, reacting angrily to Seoul's decision to join an international program to intercept ships suspected of aiding nuclear proliferation, called the move tantamount to a declaration of war.

"Now that the South Korean puppets were so ridiculous as to join in the said racket and dare declare a war against compatriots," North Korea is "compelled to take a decisive measure," the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in a statement carried by state media.

Seoul's decision comes at a time when "the state of military confrontation is growing acute and there is constant danger of military conflict," the statement warned.

South Korea's military said Wednesday it was prepared to "respond sternly" to any North Korean provocation.

North Korea's latest belligerence comes as the U.N. Security Council debates how to punish the regime for testing a nuclear bomb Monday in what President Barack Obama called a "blatant violation" of international law.

Ambassadors from the five permanent veto-wielding council members — the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France — as well as Japan and South Korea were working out the details of a new resolution.

The success of any new sanctions would depend on how aggressively China, one of North Korea's only allies, implements them.

"It's not going too far to say that China holds the keys on sanctions," said Kim Sung-han, an international relations professor at Seoul's Korea University.

South Korea, divided from the North by a heavily fortified border, had responded to the nuclear test by joining the Proliferation Security Initiative, a U.S.-led network of nations seeking to stop ships from transporting the materials used in nuclear bombs.

Seoul previously resisted joining the PSI in favor of seeking reconciliation with Pyongyang, but pushed those efforts aside Monday after the nuclear test in the northeast.

North Korea warned Wednesday that any attempt to stop, board or inspect its ships would constitute a "grave violation."

The regime also said it could no longer promise the safety of U.S. and South Korean warships and civilian vessels in the waters near the Korea's western maritime border.

"They should bear in mind that the (North) has tremendous military muscle and its own method of strike able to conquer any targets in its vicinity at one stroke or hit the U.S. on the raw, if necessary," it said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090527/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_nuclear

[Dantheman62]

HaHa, they attack the US and the last word out of their mouth will be oops! LOL!

[Alterego]

HaHa, they attack the US and the last word out of their mouth will be oops! LOL!

That i wouldn't be so sure of... currently there are 2 million troops facing off across the border...

[Carol]

Hawaii is the closest US state to them. hmmm...

The issue here is who is backing N. Korea? If China supports this then sooner or later the US is toast. One needs to keep in mind that the word out from some of the deeper sources in the military is that the US will be attacked by a nuke likely after July 1st.

This could be leading up to something like the event mentioned. And if Russia and China hook up with N. Korea against the US then the US is definitely brunt toast.

[Dantheman62]

That i wouldn't be so sure of... currently there are 2 million troops facing off across the border...
LOL, please, our technology is so far advanced, it would be a like night and day against them. They can barely launch a missile, LOL
Unless like Carol says, other countries get involved then that might be a different story.

[Seashore]

Stewart Swerdlow has a comment (http://expansions.com/News.cfm) about this today:

"May 27, 2009
Provocation!

Once again, North Korea has sent missiles shooting out from its coastline as a warning to US and its allies not to detain or inspect North Korean ships. It is symbolic, phallicly, to giving the world "the finger".

In addition, North Korea said it will no longer abide by the 1953 truce agreement, so in effect, allowing itself to wage war at any time.

All of this, will ultimately lead to either an attack on North Korea to remove its nuclear facilities, and/ or, some political move within the country to eliminate its fearless leader.

No matter, all is a diversion from what is going on in the Middle East and in space."

[burgundia]

To me it all looks planned...

[Swanny]

I agree N. Korea would not be easy to beat if even possible, they have been gearing up for war with the us for years now. They wont leave N. Korea to attack but have amazing defenses against pretty much anything the us can send their way.
All important bases are under granite and all communications are fibre optic.
Have a read of this http://www.rense.com/general37/nkorr.htm
Written a few years ago so things will have changed both ways

[Dantheman62]

Geez, thanks for the confidence guys, LOL
What is the size of North Korea? about the size of the state of Ohio? LOL
I would think a couple of well placed aircraft carriers, maybe a submarine or two, and a few warships would be good enough to bomb them back to the stone age.
Remember the US wouldn't be alone on this, and we're already established in S. Korea, and have the S. Koreans set up as well.
I'm not saying it's going to be a walk in the park, but if we can't take care of a little country like that then we need to rethink our military. LOL

[Soulmate7]

To me it all looks planned...

Indeed. What interests me is how they planned it and how the elite will drag us into number 3...

[Steve_A]

Hi Dantheman62,

I wouldn't be too sure either, after all we don't need to look very far back in history to see the last few battles the US has been involved in to see where they came in.

Vietnam wasn't exactly one of the proudest moments in US history, nor Iraq, nor Afghanistan the latter two lasting a lot longer than the "Mission Accomplished" speech by Bush.

The fact is, the US is stretched to its' limits in terms of currency and hasn't the money to fund another war on its own, which is why the US wants multi action forces to take part.

Unfortunately the US today, because of the economic situation not only in the US but where the US is standing in the worlds economy, is not as desireable to become close to as it was in the past, like in the 60s when the quality of life was light years ahead of any other country on the globe and this is going to be a problem for the US in the global picture especially since the Iraq invasion which was carried out on a bed of lies to be quite frank.

I said in a different thread that there was only one country in the world that has used a huge weapon of massed destruction. There have been minor ones like the bunker busters and the sulphur bombs which have maimed and killed innocent people.

It's funny also that the attitude in the US has never changed when it comes to other countries. In the news, North Korea is ALWAYS shown with those march pasts through the center of the city with immense trucks carrying missiles and thousands of soldiers goose stepping. What's that all about? Does this happen every day in North Korea or are the news media trying to tell us something.

Although I don't agree with everything that the present US administration is doing, I'm sure they inherited a whole lot of deep damaging problems from the last few administrations, but one thing is for sure, they need to lower their head a little and be more humble and try to find ways of reducing the political pressure in the world and not try to dominate all the time.

Best regards,

Steve


HaHa, they attack the US and the last word out of their mouth will be oops! LOL!

[burgundia]

Hi Dantheman62,

I wouldn't be too sure either, after all we don't need to look very far back in history to see the last few battles the US has been involved in to see where they came in.

Vietnam wasn't exactly one of the proudest moments in US history, nor Iraq, nor Afghanistan the latter two lasting a lot longer than the "Mission Accomplished" speech by Bush.

The fact is, the US is stretched to its' limits in terms of currency and hasn't the money to fund another war on its own, which is why the US wants multi action forces to take part.

Unfortunately the US today, because of the economic situation not only in the US but where the US is standing in the worlds economy, is not as desireable to become close to as it was in the past, like in the 60s when the quality of life was light years ahead of any other country on the globe and this is going to be a problem for the US in the global picture especially since the Iraq invasion which was carried out on a bed of lies to be quite frank.

I said in a different thread that there was only one country in the world that has used a huge weapon of massed destruction. There have been minor ones like the bunker busters and the sulphur bombs which have maimed and killed innocent people.

It's funny also that the attitude in the US has never changed when it comes to other countries. In the news, North Korea is ALWAYS shown with those march pasts through the center of the city with immense trucks carrying missiles and thousands of soldiers goose stepping. What's that all about? Does this happen every day in North Korea or are the news media trying to tell us something.

Although I don't agree with everything that the present US administration is doing, I'm sure they inherited a whole lot of deep damaging problems from the last few administrations, but one thing is for sure, they need to lower their head a little and be more humble and try to find ways of reducing the political pressure in the world and not try to dominate all the time.

Best regards,

Steve

good points here Steve.....

[Soulmate7]

Geez, thanks for the confidence guys, LOL
What is the size of North Korea? about the size of the state of Ohio? LOL


What does the size of a country has to do with its military strength? Israel is small, yet it has the ability to destroy the planet. Now, I wouldn't consider N-Korea equally strong as Israel, but consider this: they have millions of soldiers, ready to die for their country, ready to sacrifice themselves, ready to turn into human torches, if that can kill the enemy. I don't know any other country with such a weapon.

As far as being so sure about the strength of your beloved America, Rome did also fall and since we're past the decadent phase, it may implode from within.

[Swanny]

Have the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan been won yet??

[Dantheman62]

OK,OK, LOL, you guys might be right, and I'm not a war monger by any means,but, If it was up to me, well never mind, HaHa

[pineal-pilot-in merkabah]

the usa is being set up to fall and to be taken over is it not. its spread so thin and its so bankrupt (nwo bankers stolen nealy $15 trillion). plus korea has a tough multi million strong army. its no iraq..

didnt george green say they were gonn a try and get it going by 2nd quarter.. i think it will be ground based wars and standard wars. a small nuke may be detonated for effect. they make more money with equipment and ground troops to start with. if it goes nuclear they have their bunkers.:nono::zip:

[Dantheman62]

Gates to press for Far East unity on NKorea threat,

By LARA JAKES, Associated Press Writer Lara Jakes, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 21 mins ago
WASHINGTON – The U.S. on Wednesday accused North Korea of "provocative and belligerent" behavior as Defense Secretary Robert Gates took on the delicate task of reassuring Asian allies of U.S. support without further provoking the communist government.

Gates flew to Singapore for meetings with foreign ministers aimed at a cohesive response to the North Korean atomic test. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued stern statements underscoring the firmness of U.S. treaty commitments to defend South Korea and Japan, U.S. allies in easy range of the North's missiles.

Gates' trip to meet with leaders from South Korea, Japan and other Far East nations had already been planned, but U.S. officials said North Korea's bomb and missile tests and heated rhetoric would dominate the discussions.

Gates is scheduled to visit the Philippine capital in Manila and will possibly discuss U.S. troop levels stationed there. He also planned to stop by two U.S. bases in Alaska on his way back to Washington next week.

Military officials said Wednesday there are signs of activity at North Korea's partially disabled nuclear reactor complex that could indicate work to restart the facility and resume production of nuclear fuel.

One official said steam has been detected at the complex. Like other activity detected at the site, the steam alone is inconclusive, officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the methods of collecting information about North Korean activity are sensitive.

Any move to restart the plant would be a major setback for international efforts to get North Korea to disarm. North Korea has about 8,000 spent fuel rods which, if reprocessed, could allow it to harvest 13 to 18 pounds of plutonium — enough to make at least one nuclear weapon, experts said.

North Korea is believed to have enough plutonium for at least a half-dozen weapons, but experts say it still has not mastered the miniaturization technology required to mount a nuclear warhead on a long-range

The Pentagon was still testing and analyzing particle matter taken from clouds in the region to confirm that the detonation was, indeed, a nuclear explosion. A senior official said U.S. military jets were to take a second sampling later this week.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_us_nkorea

[Dantheman62]

SKorea troops on high alert amid NKorea threats.

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean and U.S. troops facing North Korea boosted their alert level Thursday to the highest category since 2006, after the communist regime threatened military strikes on allied troops in escalating tensions over its nuclear test.

North Korea threatened Wednesday to attack any U.S. and South Korean ships that try to intercept its vessels and renounced a 1953 truce halting the Korean War fighting, raising the prospect of a naval clash off the Korean peninsula's west coast.

The North was responding to Seoul's decision to join a U.S.-led anti-proliferation program aimed at stopping and inspecting ships suspected of transporting banned weapons, including nuclear technology. South Korea announced it was joining after the North's underground test blast of a nuclear bomb.

On Thursday, the South Korea-U.S. combined forces command increased the surveillance to level 2 from the present level 3, Defense Ministry spokesman Won Tae-jae said. He said that was the highest level

since 2006, when the North conducted its first-ever nuclear test.

The U.S. has 28,500 troops in South Korea as a deterrent against North Korea.

Won said the bolstered level means more aviation surveillance assets, intelligence analysts and other intelligence-collecting measures would be deployed to watch North Korea. He refused to disclose further details.

The North has long warned it would consider the South's participation in the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative as a declaration of war against North Korea.

The North would "deal a decisive and merciless retaliatory blow" to anyone trying to inspect its vessels, according to a North Korean military statement, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday.

Key world powers, meanwhile, have proposed a range of expanded U.N. sanctions against North Korea in response to its nuclear as well as measures to give teeth to existing bans and ship searches against the reclusive country, a U.N. diplomat said Wednesday.

The five permanent veto-wielding council members — the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France — and the two countries most closely affected by the nuclear test, Japan and South Korea, discussed possible U.N. sanctions and other measures for a new Security Council resolution on Tuesday.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090528/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_nuclear

[peaceandlove]

Mr. Fulford's take on it.

BEN'S BLOG 5/27/2009

The Bush Clinton crime family puppet state of North Korea ordered to create tension

The desperate cornered rats of the Bush/Clinton crime family have ordered their North Korean puppet state to create tension in North Asia. Unconfirmed reports say the current North Korean psy-ops started after dictator Kim Jong Il was neutralized with a stroke inducing poison by a Western prostitute sent to service him. Since then North Korea has been firing missiles and announcing nuclear tests and doing whatever it can to create tension.

In a related development former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun was killed by pro-Japanese politicians, according to North Korean sources. The death was revenge for Roh’s investigation and exposure of many prominent South Koreans who cooperated with the Japanese and then US occupation governments. This faction of traitors, now back in power, got their revenge. They have also provoked North Korea by cutting off financial aid as they play their part in the big fake campaign to manufacture an artificial crisis in the Korean peninsula.

Meanwhile, the North Korean network of religious cults in Japan is stepping up their campaign of gang stalking of Japanese dissidents. So far, we have been hoping the North Korean religious cults operating in Japan will stop working for the Bush Clinton crime family but, if they do not reform their ways THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES.

For now we will say just this: the Sarin gas that was used in the Tokyo subway attacks was manufactured in North Korea, according to a former Aum religious cult member. The Aum factory was merely producing amphetamines that were sold to a prominent gangster closely associated with the head of the North Korean cult in Japan.

Korean tension is not going to affect the results of the up-coming Japanese elections. Yukio Hatoyama, the head of the Democratic Party of Japan and likely winner of the July election made it a point recently to appear at a 911 truth conference. So Mr. cult leader, you know which way the wind is blowing.

Source: http://benjaminfulford.typepad.com/


And do you remember one previously regarding Korean Missiles?

03/23/2009

Ignore any missile fired by the North Korean illuminati puppet state

North Korea is nothing more than an illuminati puppet state, according to both a senior Chinese government source and a veteran Japanese politician who was charged with negotiating with North Korea. The threatened missile launch by North Korea is almost certainly a Papa Bush Nazi scheme. They are merely using North Korea as a tool to manipulate public opinion in Japan and other parts of Asia.

In recent years Japan and North Korea had come to a 99% agreement to normalize relations when strong US pressure instead forced North Korea to act the role of a pariah war-mongering bogeyman.

The drug, arms and slave trading Papa Bush Skull and Bones crime gang sells North Korean amphetamines throughout Asia. They also got North Korea to fire off a missile before so they could force the Japanese to buy a useless, expensive missile defense system. This time the missile launch may be a ruse to get Japanese public opinion to support the bribed politicians associated with the military lobby in the upcoming election.

In the past they used North Korea to help set up the Aum Shinryikyo subway gassing cult as a way to get Japanese cooperation in the upcoming fake “war on terror.”

As illuminati rule of the planet comes to an end, they are using every trick in the book to keep in power. It won’t work though because they have been exposed. Their days of manipulating humanity are coming to an end.

Source: http://benjaminfulford.typepad.com/benjaminfulford/2009/03/index.html

[Dantheman62]

I'm sorry but it's not that I don't believe some of what Ben Fulford says, but on the other hand I think he's bordering on insanity.

[Dantheman62]

SKorea troops on high alert amid NKorea threats.

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean and U.S. troops facing North Korea boosted their alert level Thursday to the highest category since 2006, after the communist regime threatened military strikes on allied troops in escalating tensions over its nuclear test.

North Korea threatened Wednesday to attack any U.S. and South Korean ships that try to intercept its vessels and renounced a 1953 truce halting the Korean War fighting, raising the prospect of a naval clash off the Korean peninsula's west coast.

The North was responding to Seoul's decision to join a U.S.-led anti-proliferation program aimed at stopping and inspecting ships suspected of transporting banned weapons, including nuclear technology. South Korea announced it was joining after the North's underground test blast of a nuclear bomb.

On Thursday, the South Korea-U.S. combined forces command increased the surveillance to level 2 from the present level 3, Defense Ministry spokesman Won Tae-jae said. He said that was the highest level

since 2006, when the North conducted its first-ever nuclear test.

The U.S. has 28,500 troops in South Korea as a deterrent against North Korea.

Won said the bolstered level means more aviation surveillance assets, intelligence analysts and other intelligence-collecting measures would be deployed to watch North Korea. He refused to disclose further details.

The North has long warned it would consider the South's participation in the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative as a declaration of war against North Korea.

The North would "deal a decisive and merciless retaliatory blow" to anyone trying to inspect its vessels, according to a North Korean military statement, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday.

Key world powers, meanwhile, have proposed a range of expanded U.N. sanctions against North Korea in response to its nuclear as well as measures to give teeth to existing bans and ship searches against the reclusive country, a U.N. diplomat said Wednesday.

The five permanent veto-wielding council members — the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France — and the two countries most closely affected by the nuclear test, Japan and South Korea, discussed possible U.N. sanctions and other measures for a new Security Council resolution on Tuesday.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090528/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_nuclear
newshound bump, because it posted the same article.

[BROOK]

hahahah.....dirty little birdie :lmfao:
.when the newsbot first came out...I actually thought it was someone who they hired to just post news:mfr_lol:

[Humble Janitor]

It's all a game. A game I refuse to fall for any longer.

[burgundia]

Mr. Fulford's take on it.

BEN'S BLOG 5/27/2009

The Bush Clinton crime family puppet state of North Korea ordered to create tension

The desperate cornered rats of the Bush/Clinton crime family have ordered their North Korean puppet state to create tension in North Asia. Unconfirmed reports say the current North Korean psy-ops started after dictator Kim Jong Il was neutralized with a stroke inducing poison by a Western prostitute sent to service him. Since then North Korea has been firing missiles and announcing nuclear tests and doing whatever it can to create tension.

In a related development former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun was killed by pro-Japanese politicians, according to North Korean sources. The death was revenge for Roh’s investigation and exposure of many prominent South Koreans who cooperated with the Japanese and then US occupation governments. This faction of traitors, now back in power, got their revenge. They have also provoked North Korea by cutting off financial aid as they play their part in the big fake campaign to manufacture an artificial crisis in the Korean peninsula.

Meanwhile, the North Korean network of religious cults in Japan is stepping up their campaign of gang stalking of Japanese dissidents. So far, we have been hoping the North Korean religious cults operating in Japan will stop working for the Bush Clinton crime family but, if they do not reform their ways THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES.

For now we will say just this: the Sarin gas that was used in the Tokyo subway attacks was manufactured in North Korea, according to a former Aum religious cult member. The Aum factory was merely producing amphetamines that were sold to a prominent gangster closely associated with the head of the North Korean cult in Japan.

Korean tension is not going to affect the results of the up-coming Japanese elections. Yukio Hatoyama, the head of the Democratic Party of Japan and likely winner of the July election made it a point recently to appear at a 911 truth conference. So Mr. cult leader, you know which way the wind is blowing.

Source: http://benjaminfulford.typepad.com/


And do you remember one previously regarding Korean Missiles?

03/23/2009

Ignore any missile fired by the North Korean illuminati puppet state

North Korea is nothing more than an illuminati puppet state, according to both a senior Chinese government source and a veteran Japanese politician who was charged with negotiating with North Korea. The threatened missile launch by North Korea is almost certainly a Papa Bush Nazi scheme. They are merely using North Korea as a tool to manipulate public opinion in Japan and other parts of Asia.

In recent years Japan and North Korea had come to a 99% agreement to normalize relations when strong US pressure instead forced North Korea to act the role of a pariah war-mongering bogeyman.

The drug, arms and slave trading Papa Bush Skull and Bones crime gang sells North Korean amphetamines throughout Asia. They also got North Korea to fire off a missile before so they could force the Japanese to buy a useless, expensive missile defense system. This time the missile launch may be a ruse to get Japanese public opinion to support the bribed politicians associated with the military lobby in the upcoming election.

In the past they used North Korea to help set up the Aum Shinryikyo subway gassing cult as a way to get Japanese cooperation in the upcoming fake “war on terror.”

As illuminati rule of the planet comes to an end, they are using every trick in the book to keep in power. It won’t work though because they have been exposed. Their days of manipulating humanity are coming to an end.

Source: http://benjaminfulford.typepad.com/benjaminfulford/2009/03/index.html

This is exactly what i thought.....

[Jack]

Distractions distractions.


Its time for people to take a step back and take a look at the very thing they are trying to divert our attention from.

[Swanny]

Maybe they will nuke somewhere and blame it on N Korea?

[Seashore]

I'm sorry but it's not that I don't believe some of what Ben Fulford says, but on the other hand I think he's bordering on insanity.

For the record, here is the biography (http://www.benjaminfulford.com/ProfileEnglish.html) that he has on his website:

http://premium.mag2.com/p/cover_img/P0007387c.gif

"Profile Benjamin Fulford


Nationality: Canada

Qualifications: 20-years experience as a professional writer and journalist. Have sold over 500,000 non-fiction books written in Japanese. Have produced a comprehensive catalogue of scoops in field ranging from business to yakuza gangsters to high-finance to government corruption. Now focused on exposing U.S. manipulation of Japanese politics, media and education through a combination of bribes, murder, brainwashing etc. My goal is to counter U.S. propaganda and expose the Japanese people to the truth so that they may free themselves from the colonial yoke and use their $5 trillion in overseas holdings to end world poverty and save the environment.

Native or near native, spoken and written: Japanese, French, Spanish and English. Conversational, reading ability in Mandarin, Portuguese and Italian.

Experience:

2005-present: Have published 15 books written in Japanese with cumulative sales running at over 500,000 copies. Have weekly 2-hour TV show and appear frequently on numerous other nationally broadcast shows. Have regular columns in a variety of best-selling Japanese magazines.

1998-2005: Asia-Pacific Bureau Chief for Forbes Magazine. Quit in profound disgust over extensive corporate censorship and mingling of advertising and editorial at the magazine. If they dispute this, I invite them to sue me, any place, any time.

1997-1998: Tokyo correspondent for the South China Morning Post.

1995-7: Staff writer for the Nikkei Weekly and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun Newspaper.

1993-1995 Took a sabbatical in Canada. Did research on the link between evolutionary forces and modern world society.

1989-1992 Senior Tokyo correspondent for the International Financing Revue. Created and managed Japan Watch, a news and analysis service available on the Reuters and Telerate news-wires. Created Katana, a Japanese language news service available on the Nikkei Quick news-wire. Triggered several Finance Ministry investigations with articles that uncovered financial industry irregularities.

1986-1989 Correspondent for Knight-Ridder Financial News; covered a broad range of market related news. One particularly market moving story was used by Knight-Ridder in an advertising campaign.

1982-1985 Part time jobs during student years included: work as an editor of Hitachi Review, a science and technology magazine; translation in the fields of business and finance and assorted television, radio and movie appearances.

1978-1982: Sowed my wild oats. Spent the time traveling and avoiding civilization. Spent 1-year studying with a witch doctor along the upper reaches of the Uquyali river in the Peruvian Amazon. Lived with former cannibals. Total time spent sleeping outdoors was 1 year. Lived as wild animal in the Canadian wilderness, catching food with my own hands, etc.

Education: Sophia University, Tokyo Japan; the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. BA Asian studies, China area specialty."

[Dantheman62]

North Korea could opt for devastating land assault.


By ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer Robert Burns, Ap National Security Writer – Fri May 29, 4:20 pm ET

WASHINGTON – North Korea's nuclear threats are grabbing the world's attention. But if the North were to strike South Korea today, it would probably first try to savage Seoul with the men and missiles of its huge conventional army.

The attack might well begin with artillery and missiles capable of hitting South Korea's capital with little or no warning. North Korea's vast cadre of commandos could try to infiltrate and cause chaos while the South tried to respond.

The hair-trigger nature of the danger is reflected in the pledge of preparedness that American ground forces stationed just below the North-South divide have lived by for decades: "Fight tonight."

If it came to war, destruction — civilian and military — would be heavy, even if the North held back whatever nuclear weapons it may have. The consensus American view, generally shared by allies, is that the South would prevail but at enormous human cost, including a refugee crisis on the Korean peninsula.

Fears of military conflict have increased this week, particularly regarding disputed waters off the western coast, after North Korea conducted an apparent nuclear test on Monday and then renounced the armistice that has kept relative peace between the Koreas. It has held since the two sides fought to a standstill — with the U.S. and the U.N. backing the South and China and Russia supporting the North — in the 1950-53 Korean War.

The North is threatening to respond in "self defense" if the U.N. Security Council imposes more sanctions as punishment for the nuclear test, which Washington and others say violated previous U.N. resolutions.

At the outset of the Korean War, which began 59 years ago next month, North Korean armor rolled across the border, catching the South by surprise. An emergency U.S. defense effort initially crumbled, and the North's forces almost succeeded in pushing the Americans off the tip of the peninsula.

U.S. and South Korean forces have had nearly six decades to anticipate how a renewed attack might unfold and how they would respond. The expectation is that the North would slip commandos, commonly called special operating forces, across the Demilitarized Zone that divides the North and South or into southern waters aboard small submarines to carry out sabotage and assassination.



In congressional testimony in March, the commander of U.S. forces in Korea, Gen. Walter L. Sharp, estimated that the North has more than 80,000 such commandos. He said it is the largest special operating force in the world, with "tough, well-trained and profoundly loyal troops" who are capable of clandestine missions such as sabotaging critical civilian infrastructure as well as attacking military targets.

The South has had glimpses of the commando capabilities. Until recent years the North would routinely infiltrate agents across the DMZ. One of its submarines ran aground in South Korea during a failed spying mission in 1996.

Sharp said North Korea's army is the world's fourth largest with 1.2 million troops on active duty, backed by as many as 7 million reserves, with an estimated 1,700 military aircraft, 800 naval vessels and more than 13,000 artillery pieces. The numbers do not tell the entire story, though. Much of the North's equipment is old and decrepit, and it lacks the high-tech reconnaissance capabilities of the South.

Sharp did not mention chemical weapons, but it is widely believed the North has a chemical capability that it could unleash in the early stages of a land war to demoralize defending forces and deny the use of mobilization centers, storage areas and military bases.

Complicating the defensive calculations of the South and its American allies is the immutable fact that Seoul, with a population of about 10 million, lies about 35 miles south of the DMZ — within easy range of much of the North's artillery.

"It's a very, very direct route. That's always been the problem, right from the early days," said Kerry Brown, an Asia analyst at London's Chatham House think tank. "It's very vulnerable to a sudden, savage all-out military attack."

Robert W. RisCassi, a retired four-star Army general who commanded U.S. forces in Korea from 1990-93, said in a telephone interview Friday that the North's navy is no match for the South's and its air forces are weak and overmatched. Resources, including fuel, are a major limitation for the North.

"They don't fly enough hours to be really proficient," RisCassi said of the North Korean air force.

North Korea can be reached by U.S. Air Force F-16 jets from bases in northern Japan in about 30 minutes, and a squadron of new-generation F-22 fighters should deploy to the southern Japan island of Okinawa on Saturday. North Korea has been shrilly critical of the F-22 deployment, announced well before this week's nuclear test, because the fighters — which are difficult to detect on radar and capable of cruising at supersonic speed — are seen by the North as a threat to its air defenses.

The U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet, based just south of Tokyo, has two destroyers focused on North Korea at all times, meaning they are either in the Sea of Japan or can get there on short notice.


RisCassi said Kim Jong Il, the reclusive leader of North Korea, lost any "bolt-out-of-the-blue" invasion option he may have enjoyed when U.S. and South Korean forces were placed on heightened alert earlier this week.

"Whether he wants to play that card, no one knows, but I think he knows that if he plays it, he's going to lose and he's going to lose North Korea," RisCassi said.

Although the U.S. has a relatively small ground force of about 28,500 troops in South Korea, the key to American support in the event of a sudden invasion would air and naval power. The U.S. has fighters, bombers and an array of other Air Force and Navy warplanes not only stationed in South Korea but also at bases in Japan, Guam and elsewhere in the Pacific.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_us_north_korea_military

[Soulmate7]

If it's only distraction, it is very intense...

[peaceandlove]

I see Viking posted Ben's Blog of 5/29 on the First Strike Nuclear US thread and here is today's blog.

Ben's Blog

05/30/2009

Emergency update: The North Korea provocation is a Rothschild/Bush stunt

Senior sources in the US military command have confirmed that the escalation of tensions in the Korea peninsula have been engineered by the Rothschilds, the Bush/Clinton crime syndicate and Defense Secretary Robert Gates to give President Obama and opportunity to “act presidential” and increase his popularity. When will these fools get it: their stupid games and manipulations are no longer fooling any world government leaders. Fooling the dumbest portion of the brainwashed Europeans is not going to accomplish anything.

Be warned, the people of the planet are getting sick and tired of your criminally insane behavior.


05/29/2009

Is war with Pakistan and North Korea the illuminati solution for the “financial crisis?”

The illuminati crime cartel has revealed their next desperate move to keep in power: two new wars. The plan is to completely devastate North Korea

and split off half of Pakistan in order to create a new pipeline state.

In other words they are threatening mayhem and mass murder if they do not get their gold. It may be time to put a $100 million price tag on each member of the Knights of Malta, the Knights of the Garter, The Knights Templar, the Bilderbergers etc. The lives of a few hundred self-appointed “elite” are not worth as much as the lives of millions of innocent people.

Source: http://benjaminfulford.typepad.com/benjaminfulford/2009/05/index.html