Tensions rise after North Korea fires across maritime border with South Korea

The artillery positions are not that big a deal, the 170mm Koksan there best weapon has the range to hit Seoul but with limited accuracy and a reputation for firing dud rounds.

Despite it’s well concealed positions once they start firing them they light them up & they would be quickly removed by air strikes one bye one.

The Seoul firestorm is more propaganda than reality

Oh i agree Wayne I’d not worry about their nukes unless they drive them to the south in trucks.

Of course its all bluster from the north. Hit a fuel deport and its game over. The only problem is the army would then turn on its own people and slaughter them rather then lose

Or detonate one on the DMZ but again testing a nuclear weapon in an controlled environment and trying to set one off in a war zone when the technology is new to you are two very different things!

IF any conflict was initiated the big issue would be the indoctrinated nature of the North Korean army & the general population. It would be easy enough to ground their airforce, break up the command and control functions and sink their navy. But one individual with access to a weapon of any calibre and a brainwashed mentality can do a lot of damage

yes mad brainwashing goes on there. Of course if your a general you obviously toe the line but you are not stupid and know whats going on. yes even in a truck get one brainwashed nut with finger on button and its bad really really bad. Only hope if conflict broke out if to dominate immediately from the air destroy everything close to dmz and do not let anything with wheels or tracks get within 40 miles .

Easier said then done :) but i’m sure they know exactly where the boys store them and watch them

Nicole will be along shortly to agree with that Rob!

The US/UK has blood on it’s hands for their doings in Iraq,Libya,Syria and Ukraine.Your attempt to muddy the waters is not going to disabuse people of that view whatever the actions of a crazed dictator in NK.
Nice joke that got a few ‘thumbs up’ that I’m sure your proud off.

There is no maniacal regime ‘Al Shamen’ won’t defend.

Pathetic.

I find it pathetic a grown man is incapable of reading comprehension.What ‘maniacal regime’ have I ‘defended’?Go on highlight some examples.But you can’t because your a bull-sh*tter.

al/ b Lowe give it a rest for gods sake will you. God your desperate.

How a guy like you can’t get a girl friend I’ll never know

Lol.Ask your mother,she’ll tell you how.

@Jeremy Usborne

“Nicole will be along shortly to agree with that Rob!”

Maybe Rob was being sarcastic.

Yes of course the Zionist Jews are the ones giving the orders. They want Global Rothschild banking, and in order to achieve this they have their sidekick western puppet allies starting wars and overthrowing legitimate governments.

How dare south Korea border the great nation that is north Korea. They’re clearly asking for it.

North Korea does the same thing at around the same time every year, every Spring they push the buttons of everyone in the region. I don’t know for certain but I’ve been told that the reason they do this is because they have run out of food after the Winter months, many areas of North Korea face famine every year.
After a few weeks of this everyone will sit around a table for “talks”, a prerequisite of which will be tonnes of food aid sent to North Korea. Eventually the North will create some excuse to break off these “talks” and skulk back thinking ” ha, ha, we did it again.” The South Koreans are content to play along with this ruse year after year, and would happily send any amount of food aid North, if allowed, because they believe it’s the only way they can help their families trapped in that regime.

L.O.L.

That’s why they have redcoats !!

Padraic. Remind us who invaded South Korea in 1950 starting the war!!
And if I remember correctly it was a UN force of 27 countries that drove the North Korean Army back.
And as for the splitting of Korea didn’t the Soviets have a hand in it?

@ Mick: If you read the link above “Like most Koreans, the farmers and fishing families protested the senseless division of their nation between north and south in 1945 – a line drawn along the 38th Parallel by an American official, Dean Rusk, who had “consulted a map around midnight on the day after we obliterated Nagasaki with an atomic bomb,” wrote Cumings. The myth of a “good” Korea (the south) and a “bad” Korea (the north) was invented.” Here I am not for a minute defending the way North Korea treats its people, but trying to explain how this terrible situation came about.

Great book.

America = Bad
Communist dictatorship that started the war = Good!

Not a view shared by all ..
Paul Hollander has argued that Cumings has a strong pro-North Korea bias. Hollander cites Cumings’ discussion of the North Korean prison system, noting that “in a triumph of selective perception, he manages to interpret the most damning indictment of the North Korean gulag available—The Aquariums of Pyongyang, by Kang Chol-Hwan and Pierre Rigoulot—as providing support for his views of the system. As he sees it, the book is ‘interesting and believable’ because it is not the ‘ghastly tale of totalitarian repression that its original publishers … meant it to be.’ But it is precisely and resoundingly that, as any reader without a soft spot for North Korean tyranny would readily discover. Cumings writes that “conditions were primitive and beatings were frequent [in the camp described in that book] but the inmates also were able to improvise much of their upkeep on their own … small animals could surreptitiously be caught and cooked.” He delicately refrains from mentioning that these small animals were mostly rats, and a regular part of the narrator’s diet. That book makes abundantly clear that hunger and malnutrition were endemic; inmates stealing food or trying to escape were executed. Cumings also fails to mention these public executions the inmates were obliged to attend, stressing instead that families were commendably kept together and that “death from starvation was rare.”

Padraic. During WWII the Western allies and the Soviets agreed to jointly take control of Korea which had for 40+ years had been a Japanese colony. The Soviets arrived in the Peninsula first at the end of the war and halted at the 38th parallel as had been agreed with the US. But when it was time to hold all Korea elections the Soviets refused and set up the Communist state that still exists today. In 1950 after being supplied by the Soviets with weapons for the previous 5 years Kim Ill Sung knowing that the South was much weaker militarily invaded and nearly succeeded in conquering the South. Only for the small pocket of Pusan holding out until reinforcements arrived and the counter attack at Inchon the North would have won. But the landing at Inchon cut the NK supply lines forcing the NK to retreat back across the 38th parallel.

May throw some light on the reason North Korea has become so isolated and are still living in a siege mentality ( Traumatized ) today. Most of this has been ignored by our history books.
“Korea, north and south, has a remarkable people’s history of resistance to feudalism and foreign occupation, notably Japan’s in the 20th century. When the Americans defeated Japan in 1945, they occupied Korea and often branded those who had resisted the Japanese as “commies”. On Jeju island, as many as 60,000 people were massacred by militias supported, directed and, in some cases, commanded by American officers.
This and other unreported atrocities were a “forgotten” prelude to the Korean War (1950-53) in which more people were killed than Japanese died during all of world war two. Cumings’ gives an astonishing tally of the degree of destruction of the cities of the north is astonishing: Pyongyang 75 per cent, Sariwon 95 per cent, Sinanju 100 per cent. Great dams in the north were bombed in order to unleash internal tsunamis. “Anti-personnel” weapons, such as Napalm, were tested on civilians. Cumings’ superb investigation helps us understand why today’s North Korea seems so strange: an anachronism sustained by an enduring mentality of siege.
“The unhindered machinery of incendiary bombing was visited on the North for three years,” he wrote, “yielding a wasteland and a surviving mole people who had learned to love the shelter of caves, mountains, tunnels and redoubts, a subterranean world that became the basis for reconstructing a country and a memento for building a fierce hatred through the ranks of the population. Their truth is not cold, antiquarian, ineffectual knowledge.” Cumings quotes Virginia Wolf on how the trauma of this kind of war “confers memory.”
The guerrilla leader Kim Il Sung had begun fighting the Japanese militarists in 1932. Every characteristic attached to the regime he founded – “communist, rogue state, evil enemy” – derives from a ruthless, brutal, heroic resistance: first to Japan, then the United States, which threatened to nuke the rubble its bombers had left. Cumings exposes as propaganda the notion that Kim Il Sung, leader of the “bad” Korea, was a stooge of Moscow. In contrast, the regime that Washington invented in the south, the “good” Korea, was run largely by those who had collaborated with Japan and America.”