South Korea playing into North Korea's game
Lewis DiuguidSouth Korea is doing the wrong thing by showing off its military might.
That is North Korea’s game, and the communist country gets excited when it sees its adversaries doing the same thing. South Korea is having military drills and showing off its new cruise missile, able to hit any target in North Korea.
Wrong thing to do. That will, and already is, being seen as a provocation for more military muscle showing on North Korea’s part. North Korea recently exploded a nuke and sent a rocket into space.
Expect more military exhibitionism from the communist country soon.
Meanwhile, South Korea also is showing off its navy destroyers and submaries to test their combat capabilities. Again, wrong plan.
Matt Henry
3 months, 1 week agoSo….
North Korea has an Army with 10+million fighting soldiers and 25million in the whole military complex. To support this they have malnourished their own citizens for generations to the extent that the late Christopher Hitchens called them as a “Nation of racist dwarves”. They just exploded a nuclear device that has been miniaturized to the point that experts think it may fit on a long-range ballistic missile, which they are also testing with regularity. They sank an ROK navy ship just a couple of years ago, killing 46 seamen. The same year they shelled civilian and military targets south of the 38th parallel with artillery, killing four.
So this is the country, with that kind of history, that you are afraid will react with MORE militancy to a display of military drills from the south? What, they will test another couple of nukes this year? Wait, they’ve already said they are doing that. Test more intercontinental missiles to try to weaken the defense relationship the US has with the ROK? Um, they are doing that too….
To think that a country like that, with rulers like that, who “test” fire missiles over Japan for fun, could be more amped up due to the slightest display of “you know, we can defend ourselves” from the south is…. way too Chuck Hagel-ish for my taste.
This is probably the most ridiculous and real-world naive item I have ever read in this paper, and coming from this crew that is really saying something, but it sure says a lot about the “Progressive” mind.