Korean Warship Pak Jiao & SANK!

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South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan, left, and Chinese nuclear envoy Wu Dawei give way each others before their meeting at Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 25, 2010. South Korea has won U.S. support for slashing trade to North Korea and vowed to haul its communist neighbor before the U.N. Security Council for a torpedo attack that sank a South Korean warship and killed 46 sailors.​

 

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Chinese nuclear envoy Wu Dawei exits after meeting with South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 25, 2010. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged China on Monday to work with the United States to coordinate a response to the sinking of the warship.​

 

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South Korean soldiers check speakers, which were used to broadcast propaganda toward North Korea, during a photo opportunity at a guard post near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating South Korea from the North in Yanggu, northeast of Seoul May 24, 2010. South Korea said on Monday it will resume psychological warfare along the DMZ.​

North Korea on Monday insisted the South must admit a team of inspectors to verify the findings of an international probe into the sinking of the Navy corvette Cheonan. The National Defense Commission, the North's top policy-making body, warned the South will be held accountable for "fabricating accusations" that the North sank the ship on March 26. The official KCNA news agency quoted a spokesman for the National Defense Commission as saying, "If South Korea has nothing to hide, then it should allow our inspectors to enter."

The statement came in response to President Lee Myung-bak's announcement that Seoul will halt all trade with the North.

A North Korean military commander on Monday responded to Seoul's announcement that it is resuming so-called psychological warfare -- broadcasting propaganda across the demilitarized zone -- by warning the North will fire at South Korean loudspeakers. "If South Korea installs new speakers for psychological warfare, we will directly aim at them and open fire to destroy them," he said. "If the South Korean traitors challenge our rightful response, we will counter with mightier physical strikes to eliminate the root cause of their provocation," KCNA quoted him as saying.

Defense Minister Kim Tae-young told lawmakers on Monday, "If the North disrupts our psychological warfare by opening fire at loudspeakers, we will counterattack immediately." A Defense Ministry official said psychological operations broadcasts via FM radio frequencies began Monday, while broadcasts using loudspeakers will start in two weeks and electronic display boards will be set up in about four months.

 

[Ramseth]

A North Korean military commander on Monday responded to Seoul's announcement that it is resuming so-called psychological warfare -- broadcasting propaganda across the demilitarized zone -- by warning the North will fire at South Korean loudspeakers. "If South Korea installs new speakers for psychological warfare, we will directly aim at them and open fire to destroy them," he said. "If the South Korean traitors challenge our rightful response, we will counter with mightier physical strikes to eliminate the root cause of their provocation," KCNA quoted him as saying.

North Korea probably won't fire before the World Cup. Otherwise, they'd get banned. After the World Cup, I wouldn't discount a sudden attack.

 

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South Korean artillery soldiers take position during an exercise against possible North Korean attacks, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, near the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, Tuesday, May 25, 2010. South Korea resumed propaganda broadcasts into North Korea in response to a deadly torpedo attack that sank a South Korean warship, officials said Tuesday, amid a report that North Korea's leader ordered troops to be ready for combat.​

 

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A North Korean soldier gestures while guarding the banks of the Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju May 25, 2010. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has told his military it may have to go to war but only if the South attacks first, according to the South Korea-based news agency Yonhap that monitors the hermit state.​

 

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Anti-war activists shout slogans during a rally demanding another government investigation into the South Korean sunken naval vessel Cheonan in front of the Defence Ministry in Seoul May 25, 2010. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has reportedly ordered his military to be on combat alert as tensions rise sharply on the peninsula after the South accused its neighbour of sinking a warship. The sign on top right reads: "The United States, open all the details of the case of South Korea's sunken naval ship Cheonan!".​

 

[Goh Meng Seng]

If South Korea is going to fight with such standards for their artillery unit, they are going to lose big liao.

One simple picture tell the whole story. Where are the commo net for the artillery? They are exposing themselves and before even they could fire any rounds, they will be wiped out by enemy fire already.

Goh Meng Seng

South Korean artillery soldiers take position during an exercise against possible North Korean attacks, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, near the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, Tuesday, May 25, 2010. South Korea resumed propaganda broadcasts into North Korea in response to a deadly torpedo attack that sank a South Korean warship, officials said Tuesday, amid a report that North Korea's leader ordered troops to be ready for combat.​

 

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Officers from the United Nations Command inspect a broken section of what Seoul claims to be a North Korean torpedo, which was salvaged near the disputed sea border and displayed at South Korea's defence ministry building on May 25, 2010.​

 

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A South Korea protester stomps on a defaced portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during a rally against North Korea in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 25, 2010.​

 

[Ramseth]

If South Korea is going to fight with such standards for their artillery unit, they are going to lose big liao.

One simple picture tell the whole story. Where are the commo net for the artillery? They are exposing themselves and before even they could fire any rounds, they will be wiped out by enemy fire already.

Goh Meng Seng

Captain Goh speaking military wisdom. In 1990 Desert Storm, Iraqi with 1m army horded out all their heavy artillery without proper desert commo net. All got wiped out by a few hundred US and UK low flying bombers that could spot them visually. Whatever "elite" Iraqi National Guards left, were without artillery cover and had to surrender to a few thousand US and British troops under total air cover and superiority. 1m army lost on homeground to about 100,000 US and British troops.

 

[Received_by_Kings]

See that's the value of hardline conscription.

 

[senatorabudelai]

The S Koreans are more advanced than the North by a million times. The north has 1.7k Airplanes? For real? LOL. How many of those can actually fly? That is more than Russia and China's airforce.

I personally think the South, together with the Americans and their allies should just launch a massive pre-emptive strike on the North, and end this once and for all. The North Koreans are literally starving to death by the millions. With a united South and North korea, Taiwan can be allied with them. The region will be much more stable.

 

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Anti-North Korea activists burn a North Korean flag and a picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il during a rally near the National Assembly in Seoul May 25, 2010.

A police officer uses a fire extinguisher as anti-North Korea activists burn a North Korean flag and a picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il during a rally near the National Assembly in Seoul May 25, 2010.​

 

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Korean War veterans Richard Halferty (2nd R, first row) from Houston, Texas, U.S. , and Andre Pointet (3rd R, first row) from France lead their colleague veterans from the two countries as they march to pay their respects at the National Cemetery in Seoul May 25, 2010. About 200 Korean War veterans from U.S. and France arrived in Seoul on Monday for a week's visit. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. South Korea accused nuclear-armed North Korea on Thursday of torpedoing one of its warships and said it will be pressing the international community to take action, probably more sanctions, against the North.​

 

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A foreign currency dealer walks past a screen showing South Korea's benchmark stock index at the Korean Exchange Bank in Seoul on May 25, 2010. South Korea's currency and stock markets fell sharply amid escalating tensions over the deadly sinking of a warship and Europe's debt crisis.​

 

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People collect 1,000 Korean won ($0.79) banknotes in a proposal to re-build Cheonan warship that was sunken in March, during an anti-North Korea rally in Seoul May 25, 2010.​

 

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South Korean Army's K-1 tanks fire during a live fire drill at a firing range near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Yeoncheon, north of Seoul, May 25, 2010.​

By HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press Writer Hyung-jin Kim

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea declared Tuesday that it would sever all communication and relations with Seoul as punishment for blaming it for the sinking of a South Korean warship.

The North also announced it would expel all South Koreans working at a joint factory park in the northern border town of Kaesong, the official Korean Central News Agency said in a dispatch monitored in Seoul late Tuesday.

Tensions were rising on the divided Korean peninsula in the wake of an investigation report blaming North Korea for a torpedo attack that sank the Cheonan warship on March 26, killing 46 South Korean sailors.

South Korea's military restarted psychological warfare operations — including blaring radio broadcasts into the North and placing loudspeakers at the border to blast out propaganda — to punish the North for the provocation. The South is also slashing trade and denying permission to North Korean cargo ships to pass through South Korean waters.

North Korea struck back by declaring it would cut all ties with the South until President Lee Myung-bak leaves office. South Korean ships and airliners will be banned from passing through its territory and the North will resume its own psychological warfare, KCNA said.

Earlier, one Seoul-based monitoring agency reported that North Korea's leader ordered its 1.2 million-member military to get ready for combat. South Korean officials could not immediately confirm the report.

The North flatly denies involvement in the sinking of the Cheonan, one of the South's worst military disasters since the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, and has warned that retaliation would mean war. It has threatened to destroy any propaganda facilities installed at the heavily militarized border.

A team of international investigators, however, concluded last week that a torpedo from a North Korean submarine tore apart the Cheonan.

 

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(L-R) U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, China's Vice Premier Wang Qishan and China's State Councilor Dai Binguo attend a press conference during the China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) at the Great Hall of People on May 25, 2010 in Beijing, China. Hillary Clinton called upon Beijing to back international pressure against North Korea following the sinking of a South Korean warship, and to seek greater stability in the region.

: China's Vice Premier Wang Qishan (R) and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2nd L) shake hands with bilateral delegates as U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (L) stands by during a signing ceremony for the China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) at the Great Hall of People on May 25, 2010 in Beijing, China.​

 

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South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak hugs United Arab Emirates' Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan (L) during their meeting at the presidential house in Seoul May 25, 2010.

South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak speaks with United Arab Emirates' Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan (L) during their meeting at the presidential house in Seoul May 25, 2010.​