North and South Korea exchange artillery fire

Originally posted by CanadianDream420

Originally posted by john124

I agree it appears to be more dangerous this time

oh come on John... they fired shots into the air.
2 months ago SOUTH KOREA killed TWO North Koreas and totally DESTROYED a NK war ship...

hardly "more dangerous this time".

From last December.

N.Korea military on guard against unrest: reports

North Korea's military was on guard as public anger grew over the communist country's shock currency revaluation, reports said Thursday.

The revaluation implemented Monday has sparked fury and frustration as some citizens saw much of their savings wiped out, according to reports and observers.

They said the North had tightened security against possible agitation, with a curfew reportedly imposed in a border region and shops closed across the country during the changeover period to a new currency, which ends Sunday.

Military authorities have strengthened vigilance and are monitoring people's movements to forestall unrest, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said, citing North Korean merchants in China.

This is more than a few gunshots, and skirmishes are becoming more frequent. These types of dictators always blame the west whenever their people desire become restless and want more freedoms, and when they have nukes anything is possible. Hopefully it will be a peaceful transition if the people of N.Korea desire freedom enough for it to happen.

And there's this from last week.

S.Korea think-tank: N.Korea's Kim close to death

North Korea's ailing leader Kim Jong-Il may die in two or three years and this could spark upheavals such as a coup, mass unrest or massacres in the communist nation, a South Korean state think-tank says.

In a rare report forecasting possible regime collapse in the North, the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) also warned that such internal unrest could prompt the North to start a limited war on the Korean peninsula.

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More news.

Here

S. Korea slams N. Korea over provocations in no-sail zones

SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea on Wednesday expressed its regret to North Korea through a military hotline over the latter's firing of artillery shells near the inter-Korean sea border, and demanded that the North immediately cancel its so-called "no-sail" zone.

The South Korean defense ministry faxed a message to North Korea via the western-side line, calling Pyongyang's recent actions a "grave provocation" that undermines the truce between the two divided countries and urging the communist country to immediately halt threatening actions.

Seriously if this turns into total war, I'm going to the grocery store and going right after to my bunker.

KIMYONG WANTS A CHAT AND HE WANTS ONE NOW!!
before he feels ignored!

This could be nothing and right now seems pretty tame. But even though SK would destroy NK in an all out war this could get ugly and NK could cause some serious loss of life before they are taken out. SK would never fire nuclear weapons wantonly without suffering major casualties first.

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At least you have a bunker, I have a rented town house, a 1 year old baby and no pot to .... in.

I'm not in panic mode until there is a serious act of war here. Watching that little fire Kim started and he may be death bed suicidal right now. Why not take out Seoul when the Doc says you only have X amount of time left Kimmy ol' boy.

He's a nut job, fanatic and believes he's god... Jamestown anyone?

The bottomline is it's time to send a very stern message to the North Koreans. I'm not sure exactly what it should be but this behavior is getting ridiculous. My question is why hasn't the western world and SK sent a clear message? I think deep down NK has an ace up their sleeve or at least knows they could seriously hurt SK if this escalages. The NK and Kim nutjob are crazy but that doesn't mean they are stupid. Hitler was crazy, Saddam was crazy.....neither were stupid.

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I don't have a bunker... it was a joke.

Yeah he's totally a nutjob... Maybe he feels his regime is almost over since people were pissed off because he devalued their currency by 99% in one day...

Or he's about to die...

Anyway, he's got big bunkers for himself and his generals in the mountains bordering China...

What I hope is that if North Korea seems to go nuts, China will invade them and end their BS. It's the only way to change North Korea without millions of dead SKs. China invading where NK have no security.

A new article :

Here

N. Korea demonstrates its guns can threaten S. Korean bases

By Sam Kim

SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Yonhap) -- The artillery guns North Korea fired Wednesday near the inter-Korean western sea border are believed to be capable of reaching South Korean islands that are home to frontline naval and marine bases, defense officials said.

North Korea has deployed a string of guns along its coast on the Yellow Sea, bringing them out them from underground bunkers when it feels compelled to raise tension near the border where the navies of the divided states have clashed three times in the last 11 years.

South Korean defense officials believe the guns the communist neighbor used to fire 30 shells into its waters Wednesday are estimated to have ranges of between 12 to 27 kilometers.

reply to post by Vitchilo


Maybe your bunker is an old potato sack, I mean... what do I know

My wife is going to kick me off the computer to go to bed, so maybe if hell breaks loose I'll hide in her bunker.

The only current solution that I, a mere insignificant nobody, can think of is to:-

1. STOP all food and military aid to N. Korea IMMEDIATELY. The masses don't get any anyway, only the military. When the military hungers, they will know which side their bread are buttered, and it aint from the short ass.

2. Evacaute all civilians from artillery range. Any civilian or soldier killed by N. Koreans shells will be treated as murder with the short ass hauled to a S.Korean court for justice, when extradiation is possible.

3. N.Korean secret agents in S.Koreans must be weeded out as soon as possible, and these sleeper cells must not be supported, with televised media to make the public aware, and biz concerns be aware of chemical purchases. The health and safety authorities put on a higher state of preparedness.

There is a price for peace, or S.Korea will be no better than the short ass if millions of innocent slaves whom are of the same ethnic group dies in the conflict when bullets from S. Korea starts to fly, and will be difficult to stop.

Starve the N.Korean military into submission is the only solution now. Food and water to be placed on the S.Korean side of the DMZ to help facillitate the defections. Without the military, the short ass and his generals alone cannot operate the war machines

1. STOP all food and military aid to N. Korea IMMEDIATELY. The masses don't get any anyway, only the military. When the military hungers, they will know which side their bread are buttered, and it aint from the short ass.

+1

2. Evacaute all civilians from artillery range. Any civilian or soldier killed by N. Koreans shells will be treated as murder with the short ass hauled to a S.Korean court for justice, when extradiation is possible.

You do that and North Korea will launch an attack. Would also destroy the SK economy, but so would a nuclear war.

3. N.Korean secret agents in S.Koreans must be weeded out as soon as possible, and these sleeper cells must not be supported, with televised media to make the public aware, and biz concerns be aware of chemical purchases. The health and safety authorities put on a higher state of preparedness.

Good luck with that. There's probably more than ten thousands of them.

Starve the N.Korean military into submission is the only solution now. Food and water to be placed on the S.Korean side of the DMZ to help facillitate the defections. Without the military, the short ass and his generals alone cannot operate the war machines

I say we bomb the DMZ with food and we nuke Pyongyang.

Update : It was just a drill after all... doom cancelled.

english.yonhapnews.co.kr...

N. Korea vows to continue artillery drills along Yellow Sea border

SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Yonhap) -- North Korea vowed to continue artillery drills along the Yellow Sea border after sharply raising tension by firing dozens of shells there Wednesday, reiterating that the de-facto inter-Korean border should be redrawn.

The General Staff of the Korean People's Army (KPA) confirmed its artillery firing, saying it was part of an "annual" drill, after it was reported by the South Korean military earlier in the day. South Korea had responded by firing warning shots, and no casualties or damage occurred.

Another update:

N. Korea vows to continue artillery drills along Yellow Sea border

North Korea vowed to continue artillery drills along the Yellow Sea border after sharply raising tension by firing dozens of shells there Wednesday, reiterating that the de-facto inter-Korean border should be redrawn.

The General Staff of the Korean People's Army (KPA) confirmed its artillery firing, saying it was part of an "annual" drill, after it was reported by the South Korean military earlier in the day. South Korea had responded by firing warning shots, and no casualties or damage occurred.

"No one can argue about the premeditated exercises staged by KPA units in waters of the north side," the KPA General Staff said in a statement carried by the North's Korean Central News Agency.

"Such firing drill by the units of the KPA will go on in the same waters in the future, too."

The North's military renewed its protests against the current western maritime border, which was unilaterally drawn by the U.S.-led United Nations Command in the wake of the 1950-53 Korean War. North Korea has never acknowledged the U.N.-drawn line and has drawn a new line on its own south of the current border. A total of three skirmishes occurred in the volatile region in 1999, 2002 and last year.

"There is only the extension of the Military Demarcation Line recognized by the DPRK (North Korea) in the waters off the front on the West Coast of Korea," the North's military said.

reply to post by Vitchilo

It was just a drill after all... doom cancelled.

Thank god for that, I though they would actually declare war before breakfast.

I'll have to agree and say it's "posturing"...but could also be a sign that they want to cause issues, and you know the good ole US will step in shortly after in some form!

Drill or premediated attack, the short ass must be stopped. He had shown no responsibility or accountability for his actions to his own people and the world.

STOP ALL AID AND TRADE NOW from everyone, ignore the short ass or forever peaceful S.Koreans and the world will be held hostage to its petulance. Their so called attack, if it ever comes, can be contained. Even China and Russia is sick of their protege's tantrums, and have problems on their own.

Starving them till they beg on their knees is the only answer they will respect, afterall, it was their political and economic mismanagement that lead to starvation. Food, water and opportunities will always be ready for the N.Korean enslaved masses, which will be provided by the world and us, but only on our terms of freedom and NOT on terms by their terrorism.

But till a semblence of responsiblity and accountability is restored, the N.Korean society is responsible for their own choice, and other nations, more so the greedy Corporations ever in need of slave labour, be held back.

Failure to do this will mean millions and generations die and embroil in a never ending conflict, such as the afghan, iraq, nam and cambodian wars had shown.



[edit on 27-1-2010 by SeekerofTruth101]

it's out of our control unfortunately...if we could have, we would have. i think the general public knows this and other things are so wrong...but we can't do much...we are willful inmates to the US/WORLD-corporatocracy

(URGENT) N. Korea fires another artillery near sea border

According to this more shots fired.

Nothing else on this page yet besides the title Maybe they got nuked whilst updating the site.

(URGENT) N. Korea confirms artillery shooting in Yellow Sea, says firing will continue

[edit on 27-1-2010 by john124]

Let's see some destruction, then we can make a judgement call on where it's going to lead to..

S. Korea calls on North to stop raising tension

SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's unification minister called on North Korea Wednesday to stop raising tension, expressing "dissatisfaction" over artillery firing by the communist country near the Yellow Sea border earlier in the day.

The firing, which prompted the South to fire cannons in response, "reflects a very disappointing attitude on the part of North Korea," Hyun In-taek said at a forum in Seoul.