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Things Are Heating Up In Korea

Mike

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I'm wondering why Zer0 doesn't just go over there and bow to the N. Korea leader, tell him how arrogant the U.S. is and solve the delimma there? :lol: :lol:

The top US commander in South Korea said on Wednesday that North Korea has the world's largest artillery force and could rain fire on Seoul should the communist state decide to provoke all-out conflict.
General Walter Sharp's comments came amid rising tensions on the peninsula.

Last Saturday the North's military reminded South Korea that its densely populated capital is "only 50 km away" from the border.


Sharp, commander of some 28,500 US troops in South Korea, said the North has "an old but very large military that is positioned in a very dangerous place, very close" to South Korea.

"They have a very large special operating force. It has the world's largest artillery force that is positioned as far south as possible and that can rain on Seoul today," he told local business leaders.

The North maintains 80,000 special forces and is believed to have some 13,000 artillery pieces deployed along the border, Sharp said.

Cross-border relations are at their worst in a decade after South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak abandoned his predecessors' policy of providing almost unconditional aid to the North.

Pyongyang is also angry at Seoul's announced intention to join a US-led initiative against shipments of weapons of mass destruction.

It says any move by its neighbour to join the Proliferation Security Initiative would be seen as a declaration of war
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Sharp said US and South Korean troops are prepared to "fight and win" at any moment, stressing they "have operational plans prepared in order to be able to meet any contingencies".
 
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