The exercises, which will start Monday and end Friday, will take place off coasts on all sides of the country, the South Korean agency reported. None are scheduled near the Yellow Sea islands south of the maritime border with North Korea, defense officials said, but more locations could be added to the list.
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- South Korea will soon carry out a live fire artillery drill on the island shelled last month by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) announced Thursday.
The planned drill will be conducted in waters south-west of Yeonpyeong island near the disputed western maritime border between the two Koreas on a selected day from Dec. 18-21 depending on weather conditions, JCS said in a statement.
The routine exercise is a legitimate one that abides by the armistice agreement signed at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, and will be made public, JCS said.
The firing exercise was canceled after the DPRK bombarded Yeonpyeong on Nov. 23 in what Seoul said was an unprovoked attack, killing two marines and two civilians.
The DPRK claimed the attack was for self-defense and provoked by South Korean shelling near the disputed sea border it never acknowledged.
China would not defend NK as it would not be in their best financial interests to do so. This has already been pretty much proven by reports of China distancing themselves from NK. WW3 will not happen from this. NK is completely isolated.
China just wants our women.
Specifically Zooey Deschanel. (http://www.celebrity-pictures.ca/Celebrities/Zooey-Deschanel/Zooey-Deschanel-1155439.jpg)
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Pixelated representation of the deaths in Iraq, recorded in the US Army SigActs, for a period going from 01/01/2004 to 12/31/2009.
Blue = *Friendly*, Green = *Host* Nation, Orange = Civilians, Grey = Enemies.
First one is function of sum, second one is function of time, or how you can dilute the media impact of a massacre by killing a few people each day for 6 years. Just remember that host nation + civilian + enemies = mostly Iraqis.
Used the cleaned dump from The Guardian.
-http://melka.one.free.fr/portfolio/
Let's look at it this way. The U.S. had the Korean war won, and the entirety of the Korean peninsula was going to fall when China and Russia stepped in and saved the North.
No, the Allies won the Korean war; to say otherwise is an insult to the combatants and casualties from all the other countries.It certainly is true that South Korea, the United States, Canada, Australia, Turkey, Belgium, Colombia, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Phillipines, South Africa, and Thailand together won the Korean War.
History:
On June 25, 1950, the North Korean offensive started from four locations across the 38th parallel into South Korea. In 41 days the South Korean and American forces would be driven back into the Pusan perimeter, just a few miles from the southern shore of the tip of South Korea. In August reinforcements from the Eighth Army and Marine Corps would arrive.
By the end of September the Eighth Army would break out of the Pusan perimeter while Infantry and Marine Corps landed at Inchon and liberated Seoul, the capital of South Korea. Three months later Marines, forward details from the Army and other British, French, Turkish, South Korean and other United Nations forces would stand at the Yalu River, the border between Korea and China, thinking the war was nearly over. Soon after reaching the border, a force of 300,000 Chinese troops who had moved into North Korea during the UN advance and concealed themselves in the mountainous terrain, attacked the UN forces from the rear. The UN forces would soon be fighting their way back to the coast to be taken off by the Navy or to secure positions in the south. The next 2½ years of the conflict would become trench warfare or battles for hilltops fought back and forth across the 38th parallel. During the war several decisions were made that would set the course of World history. Prior to the conflict America was disarming from World War II, ignoring the communist threat. After the North Korean invasion, President Truman set the doctrine that no country would fall to communism. It marked the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union and established our industrial base for the next 50 years.
It was the new defense minister that stated that the South would retaliate with airstrikes if there was any further aggression from the North.
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The war began on 25 June 1950 and an armistice was signed on 27 July 1953. The war was a result of the physical division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War.
The Korean peninsula had been ruled by Japan from 1910 until the end of World War II.
In 1945, following the surrender of Japan, American administrators divided the peninsula along the 38th Parallel, with United States troops occupying the southern part and Soviet troops occupying the northern part.[29]
With both North and South Korea sponsored by external powers, the Korean War was a proxy war. From a military science perspective, it combined strategies and tactics of World War I and World War II: it began with a mobile campaign of swift infantry attacks followed by air bombing raids, but became a static trench war by July 1951.
I am pretty sure the Chinese sent troops to assist North Korea.They certainly did. I just said that Taiwan didn't send any troops to assist South Korea.
Maybe Taiwan had too much at stack to be involved. Just my guess :/
According to a book I'm currently reading, Chiang-Kai-Shek offered to send troops to assist the UN/South Korea, but the Truman administration declined because his intentions were obviously to provoke Communist China into joining the war, have them enter the war, and then force the US to join him and invade and retakeover China, or something like that. Truman wanted none of that.Which is quite understandable at the time - and, of course, as was also exemplified by MacArthur's fate. After the downfall of the Soviet Union, and before China acquired a second-strike capability, perhaps the Clinton Administration should have reconsidered.
It certainly is true that South Korea, the United States, Canada, Australia, Turkey, Belgium, Colombia, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Phillipines, South Africa, and Thailand together won the Korean War.
(In English, at least, the phrase "the Allies" normally means the Allied combatants in World War II, and not any other conflict.)
Wow. A Semicolon.
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You don't see that around Geekhack much these days. In fact this key is going the way of the ScrollLock key.
Love me some semicolons; guess I'm one of the few.
Er ... you've missed out the second biggest contributor!My apologies to the United Kingdom. I thought it was in the list, but I was not watchful enough.
director of Oldboy
I'm really into South Korean cinema right now.
you never have to say Skorea cinema or skorean anything really, nkorea doesn't export anything except a load of batsh&& craziness. So anything coming out of korea, or any film/tv show, any korean you have ever met is going to be defaulted to skorean really.
Btw North Korea also exports a lot of arms.Yes, to the wrong people who shouldn't have them.
Oh yeah? How about this:Our glorious country probably made similar films about the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway, but they do not appear to be available on the Internet.
What's that round white thing called again?A soccer ball.
Howza about a chinese fire drill where the north comes down to the south and lives while the south goes up north and brings it out of the 1930s? it would be a win/win.For everybody except Kim Jong-Il and his henchmen... which is why it doesn't happen, because they're the ones in control.
A soccer ball.
Or were you asking... the shape projected on the surface of the sphere to make the design of a soccer ball is a truncated icosahedron.
As opposed to the small rhombicosidodecahedron, which is my avatar.