South Korea warns of tough military response to the North

South Korea warns of tough military response to the North

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South Korea has warned it would immediately retaliate against the North and has held unscheduled military exercises after series of threats from Pyongyang. A week ago the North threatened to launch rocket attacks on media offices in the South.

­Seoul’s armed forces held the exercise on Monday because of a "series of peculiar activities", a Defense ministry spokesman told AFP.

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It was ordered by the country’s Defense Minister Kim Kwan-Jin so the military could "immediately retaliate against sources of provocations and supporting forces as well as core command forces". The drill involved the ballistic missile command, front-line artillery units and the Air Force, South Korean media has reported. Tension increased between the neighboring states after the North’s threat against South Korean media outlets for what Pyongyang has called critical coverage of its internal policies.

The two countries often exchange threat of military action, but have managed to avoid a full-scale armed conflict. Seoul’s media cyber attacked As the North has accused the South’s media of propaganda, one of the newspapers on the Pyongyang’s “to do” list – JoongAng Ilbo newspaper – survived a severe cyber attack on Saturday.

Its sister paper Korea JoongAng Daily was also a victim of an attack, which temporarily paralyzed database servers and websites. The connection to the site www.joongang.co.kr was cut off.
A photo of a white cat and the statement "Hacked by IsOne" was posted instead. It also said a message suggested that more media sites would be hacked on two days, the 19th and the 29th of June. South Korean police are investigating the North’s possible involvement in the hacking although North Korea only threatened a missile strike, not a cyber attack. "We have never seen a strong attack like this before," the paper quoted Jong Seok-Hwa, chief investigator of the national police force's Cyber Terror Response Center, as saying. Seoul believes Pyongyang has an elite team of hackers and has earlier blamed the North for other attacks of this type including the one against government and financial institutions’ websites in July 2009 and March 2011.

In May the South accused Pyongyang of jamming the GPS systems of hundreds of civilian aircraft and ships in South Korea between April 28 and May 13.
The North has always rejected the South's accusations as "sheer fabrication".

So it seems that South Korea is getting angry at North Korea for all the troubles they have caused them with hacking and so forth. I wonder if it will all kick off between them?

What are your views about this issue?

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reply to post by hellzdoms


Nothing more then Bluff its a kettle pot. Between the north and south. if anything does supposed to happen it would lead us in a world war.

Originally posted by Agent_USA_Supporter
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Nothing more then Bluff its a kettle pot. Between the north and south. if anything does supposed to happen it would lead us in a world war.

edit on 11-6-2012 by Agent_USA_Supporter because: (no reason given)

Hayfields and mccoys.....nothing else.

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This whole mess in Korea goes back to the sheer stupidity of the US allowing the Soviets to split up Vietnam and Korea. Both one country before the Japanese invasions.

It resulted in two wars and the constant threat of a third.

In my opinion, the solution is offer the North a full, "national" election, (both the north and south) to reunify and selected the leader they choose to run it. This short circuits the north's claim that their motivation is reunification and forces the south to change it's policy against reunification.(Guess they feel the financial burden would be too much and still maintain the "good life".

It would be UN monitored and the results binding, in the unlikely event the north accepts it. Even if they don't, it massively undermines their gov'ts crediblity and could lead to some internally sparked change in gov't.

Financial, food and medical assistance could be massively offered to offset the burden to the south.

The crux of the matter is China, would they go along with it??

It may not work, yet the attempt could forestall another war. It's worth a try, In my Opinion.

reply to post by amongus


Hatfields my friend, Hatfields..... This is no different than N. Korea saying they will turn S. Korea into a land of fire...All bluff and no stuff

reply to post by alkesh


North korea would bomb the crap out of them no worries.. Unlike South Korea, The North do not take crap, even if it is a petty land dispute. I will give them that at least.

Originally posted by nwtrucker
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In my opinion, the solution is offer the North a full, "national" election, (both the north and south) to reunify and selected the leader they choose to run it. This short circuits the north's claim that their motivation is reunification and forces the south to change it's policy against reunification.(Guess they feel the financial burden would be too much and still maintain the "good life".

It would be UN monitored and the results binding, in the unlikely event the north accepts it. Even if they don't, it massively undermines their gov'ts crediblity and could lead to some internally sparked change in gov't.

Financial, food and medical assistance could be massively offered to offset the burden to the south.

The crux of the matter is China, would they go along with it??

It may not work, yet the attempt could forestall another war. It's worth a try, In my Opinion.

Well, unfortunetly that will never happen. North Korea will never come to an agreement like that. To them the South are traitors.

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Agreed. They most likely refuse the offer. yet, that very refusal undermines their rhetoric for unification and should alienate some of the northerners, at the least. Again, it wouldn't hurt....