Kim Jong-Un orders frontline N. Korea troops onto war footing

[Adsos Letter]

Source: AFP

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un ordered his frontline troops onto a war-footing from Friday, as military tensions with South Korea soared following a rare exchange of artillery shells across their heavily fortified border.

The North's official KCNA news agency said the move came during an emergency meeting late Thursday of the powerful Central Military Commission of which Kim is the chairman.

During the meeting, Kim ordered frontline, combined units of the Korean People's Army (KPA) to "enter a wartime state" from Friday 5:00pm (0800 GMT).
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The KPA followed up with an ultimatum sent via military hotline that gave the South 48 hours to dismantle loudspeakers blasting propaganda messages across the border or face further military action.



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[christx30]

1. Hopefully, if there is an invasion by North Korea,

the Americans and South Koreans can hold them back for 7 minutes.

[Adsos Letter]

2. I suspect it will play out as usual.

But there is always the possibility that the thing gets further out of hand this time.

I wonder what it will take for the North Korean regime to finally collapse?

[GP6971]

7. You really think that little of the

US and ROK defense forces?

We're you ever stationed in the ROK?

[christx30]

9. No. But I know Intel says

North Korea has 1.3 million soldiers.
And the 7 minutes I was referring to was the time it takes to launch the bombers and wipe out their front line. If they can't, the PRK will flood over the border and be much harder to stop.

[GP6971]

12. And most of the 1.3 mil

Soldiers are involved with farming. They are not well fed and poorly equipped.

Their troops on the DMZ are a slightly different story....better fed, trained and equipped. The ROK troops I've worked with are more than an equal match, especially in a defensive posture, ie., an invasion by the north.

[GGJohn]

11. I was, and I agree that they're quite capable of holding their own against NK troops.

I also observed first hand ROK troops in Vietnam, they're nobody to fuck with, the VC and NVA highly feared them.

[GP6971]

14. So my friend told me

He was at a logistics base where security was provided by a ROK battalion. He said you didn't mess with those guys. I want to say the battalion was out of the Capital or Whitehorse division.

[Botany]

10. R you kidding me?

within seconds of any action by N. Korea they will have zero command and control structure,
no electricity, no phones, any gun that fires at the south will be turned into dust, no N Korean
war planes will be flying or off the ground, all missile sites will be turned into ashes, all naval
ships will be sunk, and tens of thousands of troops will be over the dmz going north

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

21. That would really be a rating boon for Fox News!

[joshcryer]

29. And starving North Koreans would hold up the white flag.

Defections in the tens of thousands.

[gordianot]

3. No one knows what is happening internally.

War is probably a survival strategy for this the last of his line.

[EX500rider]

4. I am guessing just noise from the North..

....if they were going to attack, doing so during the middle of an annual joint US/S Korean military exercise with 30,000 US troops and 50,000 S Korean troops all training to repeal a Northern invasion would be a singularly bad time to try to pull that off.

http://www.voanews.com/content/us-south-korea-launch-annual-military-drill/2920693.html

[Adsos Letter]

6. Good point.

I seriously doubt an invasion. Someone may decide that trying to actually take out those loudspeakers is a good idea, though.

[GP6971]

15. The North's or the South's?

They both broadcast.

[GP6971]

8. It's always is mostly noise

except when they shell ROK islands and sink a ROK Navy ship.

[herding cats]

13. I suspect that's the very reason for the posturing.

I also suspect posturing is exactly what it is, as is usual for NK at times such as this.

[madashelltoo]

5. No one's paying Kim any attention.

ISIS this and ISIS that. Before that it was Assad this and Assad that. Al Qaeda this and Al Qaeda that. No Kim. Nothing. Li'l Kim is mad and he ain't taking no more! He's going to fight . . . Somebody. His Missiles don't go very far, so. . . He's keeping it within walking distance.

[GP6971]

16. So what else is new?

When I was there I told my family to not panic unless they heard the announcement that non-essential personnel and dependents are told to assemble to evacuate.

[allan01]

17. now children, behave .

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defcon warning system status .
http://www.defconwarningsystem.com/

[davidpdx]

18. Not a big deal

I'm 26 km from the DMZ.

[GP6971]

27. Like I told the family when I was there

(Extended TDY) no one should worry until the State Dept. makes the announcement that non-essential personal and dependents to assemble for possible evacuation.

[davidpdx]

28. Yeah, this stuff worried me the first few years and I finally realized it's just a reoccuring

cycle of stupidity on their party.

[LiberalElite]

19. I thought those paranoids were always on war footing nt

[47of74]

20. Very nice Kim Jong-Un

Now put it back in your pants.

[FLPanhandle]

22. Kim Jong-Un has a sweet life in NK. Why would he fuck it up by attacking South Korea?

He is a complete dictator and people treat him like a god.

Actually attacking South Korea would mean the end of North Korea and his life.

Besides, this is, what, the 954th time North Korea has announced they are going to prepare for war?

[davidn3600]

25. Becuase he's a kid in terms of a politics. He's young and foolish.

He's already committing provocation that his father would never do.

We also don't know what is going on in his inner circle. These recent string of extreme executions of his top officials is strange even for a dictatorship. One was recently executed by anti-aircraft gun.

If Kim is losing his grip on power, a desperate act may be to try to start a war to hold on to power.

[Kaleva]

23. The reason for the latest flare up

[Sunlei]

26. shell loud speakers. I think we should drop millions of cell phones onto NK & invite them to RL :P

they'll never go back when they see the TV they're missing

[roamer65]

30. South Korea would walk all over the North.

They have state of the art American and Japanese equipment and a large well trained military. NK would have to rely on China to bail them out yet again, like 1950. But I don't think the Chinese would be quite so willing to do so this time around. It would be likely that China would just establish a buffer zone inside NK to protect its border and then tell Kim to go fuck himself.