North and South Korea are at it again

[Molon Labe]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

What? The only criticism I have of the South right now is they didn't drop some GBUs on the Nork arty bunkers.

I doubt you will find many Americans who support dropping FAEs on civvies.

Their ROE was to respond in the same manner as the nature of the attack. So, artillery was met with artillery.

Seems stupid, but it makes sense when you consider that the policy is about preventing escalation rather than deterring/forcibly stopping attacks. And those ROE look like they're done for now.


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http://english.chosun.com/site/data/...112600290.html

A military source on Thursday said analysis of about 20 unexploded shells collected from the island showed that many of them are not ordinary 76.2-mm coastal artillery shells but 122-mm MLRS shells.
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Analysis of reconnaissance aircraft photographs revealed that the North deployed a 122-mm MLRS battalion of its Fourth Army Corps at Kaemori, South Hwanghae Province on the day of the attack. One battalion has 18 MLRS vehicles.

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by Molon Labe

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/...112600290.html

Yeah, this certainly matches with the picture TLAM posted earlier. This is certainly interesting - just goes to show that this was indeed premediated. Although given how the whole thing happened, I never did believe that it was merely a reaction to something happening in the South's exercise in nearby waters - nope, they knew they wanted to make a show, probably as soon as they learned that an exercise would be happening at all...

[ReFaN]

i got a small tingling feeling, all **** is going to break loose soon, and it wont be pretty.

[Freiwillige]

Really I'm not really a Palin supporter but if the best thing you have against her is confusing north and south (In word only) as she has clearly stated before that north Korea is the enemy so she grasps that concept just fine. Then you have not much. In fact many presidents have slipped up in a press conferance or a speech.

It was a freudian slip.

As for the Korean issue I read that the real reason the South doesn't want to push the north is fear of the unstable regime collapsing and China walking in again and taking over. North Korea fails to exist and South Korea becomes China's neighbor. Is this a realistic view?

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Freiwillige

Really I'm not really a Palin supporter but if the best thing you have against her is confusing north and south (In word only) as she has clearly stated before that north Korea is the enemy so she grasps that concept just fine. Then you have not much. In fact many presidents have slipped up in a press conferance or a speech.

I agree. Bush's "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." springs to mind.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Dowly

I agree. Bush's "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." springs to mind.

I actually liked the guy and always knew he meant well despite some classic speech gaffs

A few more:

They misunderestimated me.
- US President George W. Bush (November 6, 2000 in Bentonville, Arkansas)
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
- US President George W. Bush (2000?)
Reading is the basics for all learning.
- US President George W. Bush (Discussing his “Reading First” plan in Reston, Virginia, March 28, 2000)
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
- US President George W. Bush (January 11, 2000)
My views are one that speaks to freedom.
- US President George W. Bush (in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 29, 2004)
And it’s a struggle between good and it’s a struggle between evil.
- US President George W. Bush in a speech (on terrorism) to the Cattle Industry Annual Convention and Trade Show at the Denver Convention Center (February 8, 2002)
We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
- US President George W. Bush (2000 in Des Moines, Iowa)
Our nation must come together to unite.
- US President George W. Bush (June 4, 2001)
Bush stumbling during his debate with Al Gore when he looked dead pan at the camera and said with complete sincerity that the US could not elect a man who sends “mexed missages’.”
If you choose to do so, when Iraq is liberated, you will be treated, tried and persecuted as a war criminal.
- US President George W. Bush (In St. Louis on January 22, 2003, he likely meant ‘prosecuted.’ Just for the record Bill O’reilly made the same mistake on his TV show The O’reilly Factor in August 2004)
Will the highways on the Internet become more few?
- US President George W. Bush (Concord, New Hampshire, January 29, 2000)
If you don’t stand for anything, you don’t stand for anything!
- US President George W. Bush (November 2, 2000 at Bellevue Community College)
I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.
- US President George W. Bush (September 29, 2000 in Saginaw, Michigan)
I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family
- US President George W. Bush (January 27, 2000 in New Hampshire)
This very week in 1989, there were protests in East Berlin and in Leipzig. By the end of that year, every communist dictatorship in Central America had collapsed.
- US President George W. Bush (November 6, 2003 in Washington, D.C.)
Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
- US President George W. Bush (October 2000)
I think we agree, the past is over.
- US President George W. Bush (May 10, 2000)

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

I actually liked the guy...

Easy to say when he wasn't El Presidente del Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte.

Next you'll be saying Bliar didn't lie!

[TLAM Strike]

ROKMC Commander vows revenge:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101127/...s_korea_north1

Protests in Seoul:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapc...ss_igoogle_cnn

[Reece]

Originally Posted by ReFaN

i got a small tingling feeling, all **** is going to break loose soon, and it wont be pretty.

Yes! when the war games start that could open the proverbial "can of worms"!

I'm coming to get you!!

[CCIP]

I like how North Korea still has the nerve to send indignant warnings about exercises, while it's being widely reported that they themselves are possibly conducting exercises near the same area where the incident took place.

[Castout]

Originally Posted by CCIP

I like how North Korea still has the nerve to send indignant warnings about exercises, while it's being widely reported that they themselves are possibly conducting exercises near the same area where the incident took place.

You don't know how low some Asian leaders could go

Trust me I know. The excuses, the lies, the selfishness, and the EGO and the PRIDE and the cruelty and the cheating and the ARROGANCE. Meh I'd call some of them kids.

[Platapus]

And people wonder why politicians use teleprompters.

That's because every single word they say is being recorded and any slipup no matter how slight is immediately broadcast round the world on the Internets Tubes.

These types of slipups are funny and good for a laugh. The problem is when some people take these slips and extrapolate that it somehow means the person is ignorant.

It is a slip up. Every politician, and for that matter anyone who does public speaking makes these.

It is funny and we should laugh at it. But it is just a slip up.