Lots in the news this morning about North Korean Army Artillery shelling a South Korean island (believed that military base was the target). This is the second major provocation this year. Some believe that this attack is about the succession of the Dear Leader. Some believe it is a provocation intended to escalate tensions and put more distance between the US and China. Regardless, there are former peaceful voices in South Korea now calling for retaliation. Over at One Free Korea,Joshua Stanton has some thoughts on the latest Korean infraction: ...Since North Korea sank the South Korean warship Cheonan and killed 46 members of her crew, I’ve struggled with the question of restoring the deterrence that clearly hasn’t existed since then (and I wonder how the South’s Fifth Column will try to deny North Korea’s culpability this time, though you can be sure they will try). There has to come a point where a provocation draws a consequence, including a military consequence. By any reasonable standard, we reached that point last March, and we’ve reached it again today... Read the whole post here. If escalation is the goal, an attack on American forces is coming...
Read the complete post at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Blackfive/~3/PL6BasSaDvo/norks-attack-south-korea.html
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Nov 23 2010, 12:40 AM
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