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South Korean Jets Launched To Deter North Korean Attack
According to AP, the Korean mobilization is complete, and now ROK fighter jets have been scrambled to deter North Korean attacks. Shit's getting real.
More if war breaks out.
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More like: Hope Bin Bang'ed
MORE SENSATIONALIST HEADLINES FROM ZEROHEDGE... YES, WAR IMMINENT (OOOPS, I GUESS YOU WERE WRONG)
South Korea: Drills Conclude Without Incident December 20, 2010 0648 GMT South Korea has concluded its hour-long maritime artillery drills on Yeonpyeong Island, Yonhap reported Dec. 20. The South launched fighter jets to deter any response from North Korea, although there were no immediate signs of a retaliation.apparently this is not a joke:
Wang_Shum_Ho_Generator?
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Wang_Shum_Ho_Generator#December_1...
tamboo,
Where does the energy come from? If we are taking it out of the surrondings, how cold do the surrondings get?
Goody. Just in time for Christmas.
S. Korea ends artillery drills from border island
12/20/2010 09:04
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=200188
this should be good for Dow +100 easily, more if the nukes start flying - Brian's got his marching orders
Classic Kabuki theater--why the misdirection?...
Never look at the hand the magician shows you. Look at the other hand....
Yes, I agree, Kabuki theater.
Mainly for the South Korean people. See , the government is protecting us!
Not Kabuki, Talchum or Sandae noli.
.
Please allow me: War bitchez.
More importantly, where's the big US carrier group out there?
Surely close by... As we all know on a good day even our Salvation Army could kick South Korea's ass.
You just Pulled a Palin.
Sounds kinky, yet uninspiring... explain yourself man!
He means it is NORTH Korea whose ass we would be kicking...NORTH.
Eurasia has always been at war with...oh never mind
Um... jokes zooming over the heads of some of my fellow zhers more and more like stealth bombers...
I doubt our Salvation Army (however heavily funded this holiday season) would stand a chance against the North Korean gung hoes... Our carrier group, however, may need to rush to the defense of those South Korean panty hoes. Again, because as we all know, on a good day even the FRENCH could kick SOUTH Kor.... ah fuck it, stick to the funny pages, and I'll work on my delivery by swimming closer to the shallow end of the pool.
Japan. It's the biggest carrier out there.
as the son of a career naval aviator and veteran of ww11, that is a total crack up, i wonder if all those air force brats out there know their daddies were stationed on the worlds largest aircraft carrier...lol
Tyler, I just want to say that be careful when u read three major newspapers (i.e. ChosunIlbo, JungAngIlbo, DongaIlbo) because these are corrupt propaganda institutions, which many Koreans recognize). And they are with the current right wing Lee's administration. I hope some more Koreans killed, so that S Koreans can learn something. Moreover, JungAngIlbo is owned by Samsung family .
"I hope some more Koreans killed"
Why don't you put your real name with this post so that we can quote you?
Fuck samsung. I hate their shit. I call it samscream.
"more Koreans killed"...Yours must be the dumbest comment I've seen posted on this site.
D'oh!
Welcome to Zerogedge....
You'll enjoy it here. The writing is thought provoking, and the comments are amusing.
Welcome to Zerohedge....
Should be Step Right Up!!!! Zerohedge is on the go!!! More ridiculous headlines screaming war, famine, fiat currency collapse and imploding markets!!! Step right up becuase only here is the truth spoken!!!
What a joke this place has become. Take a look at the older posts. Everyday, something is happening, and by God, this will be the straw. Yet everyday, nothing ever comes of the crisis de jour. I don't believe there is a more inaccurate and unreliable site on the web today.
How long before readers come to understand that this place is a very poor source of information? How many times will people read that Europe is going to erupt in flames, hyperinflation is going to destroy America next week, Irish banks are going to run into failure or some other disaster is about to befall us and then doesn't, before they find a more reputable source of information?
I mean really? Is Tyler going to allow this site to become completely irrelevant based on the ever more sensationalistic headlines that propose events which never transpire? Do you seek to become the Business Insider of the tin foil hat crowd?
I will repeat for the ZH sheeple here a couple of salient facts. The market will not fall until the Fed says it can fall. Bankers are going to continue to make record amounts of income and no one, except for some low level flunkies will face any punishment over any of the mortgage issues.
Oh, and there will be wars and rumors of wars, but that doesn't really require any headlines now does it?
PLease ZH sheeple; learn to think. Take a look at the futures children. Looks like the Koreean situation has everyone all shook up now doesn't it?
I've said it before and will say it again:
This seems to me like a controlled opposition site. They do get the 'smart' people to spill their minds, don't they?
But, what do I know?
we're watching you
Oh look Ben came out of the helicopter
How is she going Big Deuche?
Is it true you aren't printing money.................??
Oh I'm sorry I thought you actually knew WTF you were doing - sorry.
Now get back on that heli big boy, there's a fireplace looking for fuel
Welcome to Zerohedge....
Should be Step Right Up!!!! Zerohedge is on the go!!! More ridiculous headlines screaming war, famine, fiat currency collapse and imploding markets!!! Step right up becuase only here is the truth spoken!!!
What a joke this place has become. Take a look at the older posts. Everyday, something is happening, and by God, this will be the straw. Yet everyday, nothing ever comes of the crisis de jour. I don't believe there is a more inaccurate and unreliable site on the web today.
How long before readers come to understand that this place is a very poor source of information? How many times will people read that Europe is going to erupt in flames, hyperinflation is going to destroy America next week, Irish banks are going to run into failure or some other disaster is about to befall us and then doesn't, before they find a more reputable source of information?
I mean really? Is Tyler going to allow this site to become completely irrelevant based on the ever more sensationalistic headlines that propose events which never transpire? Do you seek to become the Business Insider of the tin foil hat crowd?
I will repeat for the ZH sheeple here a couple of salient facts. The market will not fall until the Fed says it can fall. Bankers are going to continue to make record amounts of income and no one, except for some low level flunkies will face any punishment over any of the mortgage issues.
Oh, and there will be wars and rumors of wars, but that doesn't really require any headlines now does it?
PLease ZH sheeple; learn to think. Take a look at the futures children. Looks like the Koreean situation has everyone all shook up now doesn't it?
Isn't today a POMO day?
Sheeple look over there, not right here...
+1000
Testing...
They are dying for N Korea to strike back. They are doing everything to antagonize them so the US can finally step in and beat down those commie bastards. Buy gold and silver. Its going to the mooooooooon.
Another do-over?
From Wiki...
"The Korean War (1950–armistice, 1953)[28] was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which was supported by People's Republic of China (PRC), with military material aid from the Soviet Union. The war began on 25 June 1950 and an armistice was signed on 27 July 1953. The war was a result of the physical division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War. The Korean peninsula had been ruled by Japan from 1910 until the end of World War II. In 1945, following the surrender of Japan, American administrators divided the peninsula along the 38th Parallel, with United States troops occupying the southern part and Soviet troops occupying the northern part."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
So, the mobilizations are already done and the scrambled jets are just off to Bang Dae-Ho?
Which would be Obama's first response?
A. Where are the carriers?
B. Call Tim to find hom much money we should spend on this?
C. Who won the Eagles game?
D. Ask Bill Clinton what to do.
E. Ask if there's a sequel to My Pet Goat.
F. It's the last administration's fault and Dick Cheney's idea.
G. Bow to Little Kim
H. Does this mean i cant go golfing toomorow?
I. Continue to read whatever scrolls across the teleprompter.
J. Potus and I to arrange a State Visit/Parade in Seoul.
Is an Open Landau available?
K. "No, Mr Potus, the Korea's are not Muslim states."
K. Fax a copy of his Nobel Peace Prize certificate to Kim
L. It's 3 a.m., send in Hillary!
Alternately, Jimmy Carter with nuke power upgrade plans...worked out swell in the 90's ;-)
M. How can I blame this on the previous administration?
N. Call Clinton for advice on campaign contributions angle; shake down who in SK?
O. my†
P see if Alan Grayson has the time to tear another asshole in lil kim
Q. uit while you're ahead.
It's so real that CNN just interrupteda phone call from Bill Richardson to run United Healthcare and Clapper commercials. Now it's the Uv-Glove, protects you from nuke radiation.
See, Michael Jackson had it right all along. It's all about the glove.
classic
the Uv-Glove
Nomex-Kevlar can be quite handy. I give it a thumbs up.
for the TSA finger
Gold and silver don't seem to care.
What North Korean attacks are these?
Spies have infiltrated the 4077th, stolen medical supplies and taken Major Burns prisoner.
What about Major Houlihan?
I bet Kim Il Jung, or what ever the fuck his name is, wouldn't mind a slice of her pie!
Her captors wouldn't survive the attempt. That broad could bust some balls.
Anybody seen Colonel Flagg lately?
According to some sources... Kim is big on Johnny Walker.
Soros Gold Bubble at $1,384 as Miners Push Buttons
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-20/soros-gold-bubble-at-1-375-has-miners-push-every-button-in-tale-of-tears.html
Wow. Never seen so much anti-gold propaganda on Bloomberg until now.
"Siegel, the Wharton finance professor, says he’s skeptical about the metal over the long term, especially for retail investors. He believes they will have a harder time judging when to buy and sell.
His research shows gold has underperformed stocks, bonds, bills and even real estate over the long run. It has total real returns of just 0.6 percent per year since 1802, compared with 6.6 percent for stocks, 3.6 percent for bonds and 2.8 percent for bills."
How can someone be so clueless? I've laughed and vomitted at the same time.
Seriously. Does this man know the real use of gold, and does he know that given that gold was money, talking about gold gains before the XXth century is incredibly stupid? How can you express in gold the gains of gold?
It has total real returns of just 0.6 percent per year since 1802, compared with 6.6 percent for stocks, 3.6 percent for bonds and 2.8 percent for bills."
Buying the wrong stocks or bonds would yield one zero returns since 1802 (or any other date one wishes to cherry pick). There is no "wrong" gold.
He's a professor... Those that can't do, teach.
Seems to me they're going to have to do more than jawbone to get gold down now. I expect some serious shenanigans soon.
Won't work in the long run tho...
The whole article is on the same level. Everything is done to make people think gold is an investment, like bonds or stocks, while it is not and will never be an "investment".
I'll pass on the ridiculous and pitiful assertion that the price of gold drives Africans to injuries in gold mines, and that of course, holders of gold make people suffer.
Bloomberg is reaching the same levels of nonsense and propaganda than CNBC.
Boomberg = infomercial garbage.
"Wow. Never seen so much anti-gold propaganda on Bloomberg until now."
First they ignore it...
Now they are scared clueless and are jawboneing it hard.
Bloomblab used to be an interesting site but I stopped watching the talking heads on tv years ago. It's a waste of my time. Disclosure...sometimes I watch the money honeys with sound off. :)
In any case, Bloomberg cannot be pro-gold, as hard currencies are the most lethal enemies of fractional banking and Keynesian fraud. I've thought they'd just ignore it, but they seem determined to attack it frontally. Seems like a capitulation from them, indeed.
These talking dicks are like Howdy Doddy, and his Bro, Double Duty.
WHO, that has a clue believes that shit?.
All you have to do is read the Net articles on the rest of planet earths countries........
They are all over STOCKS.
Ummmmmmmmm,yeah.
If there were ONE dude I would like to bitch slap SOROS would be the one.
Talk about a hypocrite.Golds in a bubble, so thats why he buys shitloads?.
What a Politician/Comedian.
"The key was dividing bars of gold into securities tradable on the New York Stock Exchange."
Fucking LMAO. Is there a goddamn thing the new york stock exchange won't "divide".
This is going to be funny. They won't be able to handle a commodity or a mortgage by the time this thing is over. People will be like cash bitch or get the fuck out.
Ah... guess TPTB may have their war after all.
Hundreds of millions in North Korea and China living in ignorance, illiteracy, poverty, and slavery.
Will we free them?
Will we free ourselves from our own slavery to banks, corrupt politicians, and corporations...or will we buy plastic shit at Wally World made by said Asian slaves and look away?
Excellent question .... sadly it is probably rhetorical.
Freedom is a personal desire and, ultimately, must come domestically. We do not get to free anyone... this is a road they must travel themselves. Maybe we can help along the way. But, have we really freed anything that reverts to its former self upon our exit? As a result, is temporary freedom worth the present cost?
It is patently impossible for freedom to be realized from the backs of others. Yes, you may take advantage of additional freedoms granted to you by those virtuous enough to fight for your benefit, but without realizing the concept of personal sovereignty, you will fall back in line and squander those freedoms, even if still "available" to you.
In short, no we will not free them. Hopefully they free themselves.
[presuming freedom is even a possible human construct as well as that anyone "frees" someone else solely for the sake of "freedom"... getting into the whole altruism is mutually exclusive with the human condition issue...]
tora, tora, tora, bitchezzz!
Not so much.
A flight to dollars that this could engender would likely raise bond prices...probably a good time to get out of bonds...
Isn't China about to crash? Don't they control the North? Isn't this all tied into international currency norms?
So...
1. China has loads of USD to unload, all worth less and less - unload fast.
2. US Bankstas needs to cover bad debts - austerity and price increase without social chaos.
Ergo...
1. Shooting war w/Pearl Harbor outrage.
2. China buys arms from 3rd party, gives USD.
3. 3rd party buys PROPERTY from US, giving dollars.
4. All balances, 'war' footing justifies extra labor w/austerity&property transfer?
This begs the questions:
1. Who is the third party?
2. Am I thinking like an 'one of them' yet?
Anyway, if this 'how to survive a nuke crap' results in an actual terror attack, I'm putting on my tinfoil hat. Welcome to Wonderland!! How was that looking glass?
China has been UNLOADING them for months,buying any asset that has tangible value.
Dumping the UDS, fast n furious.
Buy plastic shit at walley world !
If the war really breaks out, China will dump mass amount of US Treasures into world market and buy up all gold, silver, oil and minerals they can find. US original plan is to prompt US treasures in Asia thru Korean tension but may end up the opposit. Europeans can finally take a break.
This is the best propaganda I have ever read. Hollywood could do no better...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/LL15Dg01.html
Yup.
Kim Myon Jol is getting some good whiskey and T & A from his overlord(s) no doubt.
North Korea attacking with any support from China would mean we nullify any Treasury obligations to China, and have a good excuse to secure Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Now or never; before China makes us the next U.K. without cousins or racial ties.
From the link:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but since when does NK possess THERMO-nuclear weapons? Bwahahahaha!
And since when did North Korea have thousands of enrichment gas centrifuges?
And since when did thermonuclear designs from Los Alamos get in the hands of a Chinese agent?
And since when did North Korea exchange ideas and heavy metal with Iran?
President Bill Jefferson "BJ" Clinton
Loral Space.
http://www.fas.org/news/china/1998/h980618-prc8.htm
There are some stark implications for a new war in Korea. Seoul is within easy range of artillary which has been dug into caves along the DMZ. There are thousands of these guns all zeroed in on Seoul. It would take just a few minutes to put Seoul into caos and ruin (no nukes needed). This is what the little troll has been using to keep the south in line all these years. Only when the south can either sacrifice Seoul or have a valid plan to defend against the artillary will something break out.
Every body has a plan until they get hit
Even if only 1 poofteenth of that article has any "truth" behind it the situation could ugly.
Clearly it would be over quite quickly against such rabble (just like in Vietnam, Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan) but he could still inflict some serious collateral damage on his way out, and he seems intent to do just that from the article.
I want know we (Australia) did to get 2nd place on their enemy territory list.... ahead of the US no less ????
White, Anglo-Saxon/Celtic/Roman descent. Ally of Britian and U.S. along family lines and cultural allegiances; besides language and history.
Aus has been doing sat tracking communications etc forever for the US, and been everywhere with them. Currently prominent agreement with H.Clinton re ships, exercises etc.. as US battleships cruise in Asian waters. Of course we are 2nd. Close and next in line.
Dont know about any cultural allegiances mate. And the english sold the first women on Sydney wharf for rum and then they were onsold, thats the family part. THe history is that Aus was a Guvmnt prison camp.
You'd think they'd clear that with their master, a.k.a your best customer.
From the article:
While I don't generally take the prospect of war or threats lightly, this is almost funny, even as far as propaganda goes. "Shiny and sleek, quick-response global strike force"?
NK has refused to let the banksters in - that is why they are
a threat. This is provocation - there is no way NK wants a war
of any type, they simply don't want to be ruled by
the banksters.
eply to commentby Amagnonx
on Mon, 12/20/2010 - 01:40
#818190
'NK has refused to let the banksters in - that is why they are
a threat. This is provocation - there is no way NK wants a war
of any type'
REALLY? say more
Hmm, wonder what the actual size of South Korea's treasury portfolio is these days. And this ought to help Brian Sack's book as well.
show's over, nothing to see!
Yup. shit's getting real is getting to be a real shitty show
Ap update. End of drill and no N. Korea retalliation as of yet.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_KOREAS_CLASH?SITE=MAQUI&SECTIO...
as of 2:05 EST:
hey bullwinkle
watch me pull
a pot belly pig
out of my hat ...
Looks over to me:
"HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — South Korean stocks and currency finished way off their steep intraday losses Monday after Pyongyang reportedly agreed to a series of actions, including allowing United Nations’ nuclear inspectors to return to North Korea."
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/korean-stocks-currency-fall-ahead-of-drill-2010-12-19
This seems as good a place as any on ZH to link to Mr Rickards excellent recent talk to the press and military personnel... "Rethinking the Future International Security Environment"
...among other comments...
"gold to $5 -7 K per oz to back the dollar at 40%"
http://outerdnn.outer.jhuapl.edu/rethinking/VideoArchives/MrJamesGRickardsPresentationVideo.aspx
The last time something like this happened, there were over 100 airplanes over and around South Korea. It was a little misunderstanding about a tree in the Joint Security Area. That cost us a couple of dead Americans and several wounded American soldiers and South Korean laborers. I suspect most of you don't remember the "Tree War' in 1976. I do because I was there. Spent the next few weeks on alert, flying MiG CAPs, etc. until we figured that Kim Il Sung was just playing a game. Rather expensive on our part.
This Kim does not appear to be playing a game. His selection of Number Three son to be the next ruler of North Korea is going over like a turd in a punch bowl. His country is starving. He has had his personal accounts seized. He might even be staring at a "Bordeaux low level light" in the wine cellar. Every morning he wakes up he is well aware that he has cheated death again. I suspect that rather than die and not know what happens to the family country, he will choose the Gotterdamnerung ending and take it down in flames. It is a little late for retaliation today. Maybe later.
Just more saber rattling, we want attention, by North Korea.
How come nobody put a bullet in that N Korean prick yet?
a. He's so cuddly nobody would want to hurt him.
b. Deep down he's a wonderful guy and just misunderstood.
c. Because this situation has been engineered?
a) Because no one wants to start a nuclear war
b) Because there is no interesting resources in North Korea.
Bingo!
Bingo!
Some of the WikiLeaked cables showed that China was sick to death of North Korea and wouldn't be against one Korea with South Korea ruling the whole territory.
So the North would be on very thin ground with China if it tried anything silly.
N Korea consulted Russia before escalation - Geopolitical Theater of the Absurd
Don't be naive - that was the chinese laughing at clinton and showing how little respect they had for the usa diplomatic machine.
A total piss take.
Yeah china will give any ground on their border....
Does this mean all those douche bag "analyst" and "wartime correspondents" will be reviewing the same 8 JDAM videos every 15 minutes for the next 6 months? Not again...
Just give Japan a Carrier group of their own, and an armored division and set em loose again. Re-arm the Japanese and the whole problem will take care of itself; quickly.
How real would a protracted battle be between these two countries?- Both are heavily armed and very small. It makes no real difference to anyone whoever wins a battle in any case; the US can't afford to rebuild N.Korea, if S.Korea is taken out then that is an anchor around the neck of all those iphone screens...but what, it would they really kill themselves over the iphone?...this has to be about grain imports, if anything.
Meanwhile, is JPM going down and how exactly would that be a good thing?
sorry no war. exercise cut. time to go home and chow down some kimchi.
No need for worry here. The Bernank will never let a war happen. It's well known that Mr. Kim has the world's finest engraving plates for $100 FRN's. The Bernank needs them and undoubtedly has NK under contract. The Money Printer (spoken in Marc Faber's wonderful accent) needs Kim for the indefinite future. Relax everyone.
Don't worry! It'll all be over by Christmas.
It would be stupid for NK to do anything now. It will be at a time and place of their choosing.
But it's just a sideshow in any case.
Boy General in North Korea has new lesson to learn:
Put Up or Shut Up.
What is it gonna be?
Time for some Ron Paul and Metallica...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMUtv1A9IVk
WOW...POWERFULL
I beat the drums of peace yesterday. Didn't look like they helped much eh?
Boom boom.
As someone who has lived with this I fire you Fire crap since birth (Pakistan and India routinely indulge in this madness), I'd say this will flare up when it's meant to. Till then, chump action for the peanut gallery.
Notice all the resignations in SK. More of the same.
What is happening is the mood is getting set.
The flash is always from left field. SURRRRPRRRISSSEEE!
To think this will be it is naive.
But an interesting time if you think about it. NATO is mostly frozen to a standstill. No fly, no drive. Chilled to the bone.
Cui bono? I'd say the axis is all tilted right now.
;-)
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com
LMAO. Here's what's real: the exercises are over. NK will do precisely nothing.
What this means in realpolitik terms is that SK (and its ally, the US) effectively won this round. NK issued explicit threats. Russia and China implicitly backed them. The threats were empty. We called the bluff, and they were holding... nothing.
The only mystery for me is exactly who is responsible for the adult supervision evident in the US response. Obama? Doesn't seem like he has it in him. HRC? Impressive if true.
Exactly...I'm not sure he has ever run the show...so who is? If she is in control, this would not surprise me.
Of course if I was NK, I wouldn't do anything when my enemy was ready. Wait for the stand down, then go all out.
papaswamp, I'm thinking it's HRC and Robert Gates. They seem to have some perspective and sobriety, and knowledge of how this particular game is played. Obama, well, not so much.
The game, of course, isn't over, as you observe.
I refer our dear readership to an off-forgotten line of thinking, and I quote:
I like to take time away from my keyboard to go chill by the river, where I listen to the babbling brook as I reflect the sun's glint off a shiny 1oz coin.
peace, jahbless
Nothing goes with a shiny 1oz coin like a sudsy 40oz beverage.
a 40Oz to Freedom is the only chance I have / to feel good even though I feel bad
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. -Art of War
Slight of hand, at best...
12/20/2010 09:04
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=200188
hearts and minds...
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010wenindia/2010-12/20/content_11724046.htm
http://english.cntv.cn/program/newshour/20101220/106923.shtml
Who gains the most from a Korean conflict?
Let's say that if the North Korean Government has finally gotten a handout in exchange for a few concessions until the next time they need something else then we will keep this cycle going.
No one will gain from a Conflict. If there must be a fight, it must be South Korea and the United States and others who are friends that need to prevail.
Once that happens and the entire NK Government is removed, then all Koreas become Unifed as One Korea as the people want it to be.
That will be very gainful indeed and worth a war that is not yet finished.
However, China is a Nation Power we must deal with carefully to perhaps apply pressure to where it hurts the NK Government without war. China can do this easily.
I am concerned because we used to keep 250,000 Troops on Korea and now only 30K with more Marines and other forces within a few days sea or air delivery if we have time.
Seoul is lost if NK Artillery gets going. Seoul happens to sit in a valley that can funnel NK's Tanks and infantry into the city proper and then infect the rest of the place as happened before. Seoul contains very important industry. Samsung for example. They employ tens of thousands. If Samsung goes, then my samsung appliances at my house will be irreplaceable or not able to be repaired due to lack of parts in a few years when they wear out.
For those of you that scream buy american, I have only bought the correct appliances to do a job with the least amount of power and water use. American Appliances have yet to catch up to where they are as affordable. Sure you can buy good strong American appliances, but your power and water bill goes out the wazoo and it's not worth it.
If there must be war, then the motive to prosecute the war to the fullest MUST be Reunification of Both Koreas and the removal of the NK Government.
But we need China's cooperation. Last time, we had tens of thousands of Chinese to deal with and damn near got run out. But that is a another discussion for another day. However back then China DID give CLEAR warning she will invade if we got a certain distace northward.
What if N. Korea performed an identically huge military 'excercise' with live ammunition on the border of S. Korea?
Wouldn't MSM and the U.S. proclaim that it's a Declaration of War and go ahead with wiping the North off the map?
Sounds like a double standard to me...