South Korea defense chief threatens strikes on 'heart and head' of North Korea if provoked Story by HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press • 8 December 2023
In this photo provided by South Korea Presidential Office, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan, left, poses for a photo with his South Korean counterpart Cho Tae-yong during their meeting at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. (South Korea Presidential Office via AP)
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s defense minister on Friday threatened massive retaliatory missile strikes on “the heart and head” of North Korea in the event of provocation, as the rivals escalate their rhetoric over their respective spy satellite launches in recent days.
The unusually fiery South Korean warning came as the top security advisers from South Korea, the U.S. and Japan gathered in Seoul for talks on North Korea's evolving nuclear threat and other issues.
During a visit to the army’s missile strategic command, South Korean Defense Minister Shin Wonsik ordered command officers to maintain a readiness to fire precision-guided and powerful missiles at any time, according to his ministry.
Shin said the main role of the command is “lethally striking the heart and head of the enemy, though the types of its provocations can vary,” a ministry statement said.
Animosities between the two Koreas deepened after North Korea launched its first military reconnaissance satellite into space on Nov. 21 in violation of U.N. bans. South Korea, the U.S. and Japan strongly condemned the launch, viewing it as an attempt by the North to improve its missile technology as well as establish a space-based surveillance system.
In this photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, South Korean Defense Minister Shin Wonsik, right, is briefed on missile operations equipment at the Army Missile Strategic Command in Wonju, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. (South Korea Defense Ministry via AP)
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South Korea announced plans to resume front-line aerial surveillance in response. North Korea quickly retaliated by restoring border guard posts, according to Seoul officials. Both steps would breach a 2018 inter-Korean deal on easing front-line military tensions.
Last week, when South Korea also launched its first military spy satellite from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base, North Korea slammed the U.S. for alleged double standards and warned of a possible grave danger to global peace.
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Poster Comment:
When an invasion of Japan did not go off because we nuked them, all the guns in storage on Iwo Jima, four and five pallets high, were put on two ships. One went to Pyongyang and the other to Hanoi. We were sending them the guns to start the next two wars.
For more info look up Col. L Fletcher Prouty. He was an intelligence agent in the South Pacific at the end of the war. He also flew Chiang Kai-shek to Tehran in 1943 for the meeting of the Big Four.