Oct 19, 2024
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North Korea has said it had found the remnants of a South Korean military drone and that any further “violation” of its territory would result in a “declaration of war.”
Tensions between the two sides of the peninsula have escalated since May when the North began flying balloons carrying garbage across the border to the South, prompting Seoul to respond by restarting loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts.
This week, North Korea accused South Korea of flying drones over Pyongyang on three occasions this month and threatened to respond with force if it happened again.
North Korean State news agency KCNA said on Saturday that a crashed South Korean military drone had landed in North Korean territory, Reuters reported.
South Korean lawmaker Yu Yong-weon told Reuters the drones in Pyongyang’s photos looked like surveillance drones made by Sungwoo Engineering and supplied to the South Korean military in 2023.
KCNA said that if any “violation of the DPRK’s (North Korean) territorial ground, air and waters by ROK’s (South Korean) military means is discovered and confirmed again, it will be regarded as a grave military provocation against the sovereignty of the DPRK.”
This meant that “a declaration of war and an immediate retaliatory attack will be launched,” KCNA said.
However, South Korea’s Defense Ministry, which Newsweek has contacted for comment, said that Pyongyang’s “one-sided claims are not worth verifying, nor do they merit a response,” according to Reuters.
The news agency reported that Seoul had not said if either its military or any civilians were responsible for the purported drones. Seoul said that any comment to Pyongyang’s claim would be to get involved in a ploy, the agency added.
Earlier this month, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un again warned he could use nuclear weapons in potential conflicts with South Korea and the U.S as he accused the countries of beefing up their military alliance.
This includes the South Korea-U.S. deterrence guideline signed in July to integrate South Korean conventional capabilities with U.S. nuclear weapons to deal with Pyongyang’s repeated nuclear threats.
The U.S. has around 28,500 soldiers stationed in South Korea. A report by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs shared with Newsweek this week found that over half of Americans (51 percent) back using American forces troops to defend South Korea if North Korea invaded.
It also found that 43 percent of Americans backed accepting North Korea as a nuclear state and entering arms control discussions with Pyongyang’s leadership.
https://www.newsweek.com/north-korea-south-korea-war-drills-1971637
I’ve said it around two years ago already. The more the West dithers in the war in Ukraine, the longer it shows nothing but weakness and cowardice, the greater the chances that this war will expand and catch other areas of this planet on fire.
We do not have the right kind of leaders in the countries of the collective West. Everyone was afraid to do certain things because of purported escalation. Well, mafia land and its collection of evildoers have been doing just that.
I would love to see the Norks attack South Korea. Firstly they would be destroyed very quickly, and secondly, the orcs would be in no position to help their newly formed alliance.
Porky will do like his short, skinny buddy from muscovy; rattle all sorts of swords, but will refrain from actually doing anything. South Korea has double the population and a huge, advanced economy.
I think a lot of this saber rattling is because Trump signaled that the South Koreans are going to have to start paying up for the 24,000 US troops defending a border that has been frozen shut for 70 years.
This is just Putin trying to forement more distraction to draw the US away from supporting Ukraine.
Porky of the Norks is not going to attack the South and if he did her would get nowhere very fast.
The terrain in the DMZ VERY rough and the boarder heavily fortified.
The ROK army is very well equipped with some of th emost advanced system in the world and are even developing their own stealth fighter.
If the Norks do try to head south they will cause a lot of havok in the capital Soul with well dug in artillery. However precision artillery and stand off Air to Ground glide bombs will negate this quickly.
They will be conducting meat wave attacks within weeks.
The US and S Korea will be blowing their nuclear and missile program as well as their oil receiving terminal to hell in a matter of hours.
Even in the worst case this will not be much of a distraction.
I think porky is aware of the difficulty in attacking S. Korea. That’s why the hot gasses coming from his substantial mouth. He thinks he can make Soul cringe like the dwarf makes Washington cringe.