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| Tanks Ready for Use Against Uprising in Pyongyang |
| 2011-03-02 |
| The North Korean Army's Guard Command, a military unit tasked with protecting leader Kim Jong-il, is hiding scores of tanks in Pyongyang to quell any popular uprising, Radio Free Asia claimed Tuesday. The U.S.-funded radio station quoted a defector from Pyongyang as saying, "There is a battalion of about 50 tanks from the Guard Command in the Taedong River area in eastern Pyongyang. They stage a field exercise about once a year." He said the tanks used to move only at the night to escape public notice. "All are hidden underground. I heard from families of officers of the tank battalion that there are also tanks in an underground near Moranbong," a hill in downtown Pyongyang. Kim Kwang-jin, another defector who works for the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, said there used to be a battalion of tanks in an underground area beneath the Kumsusan Assembly Hall while Kim Il-sung was alive, but he was unsure whether it is still there. The tanks are ready to move in response to riots or demonstrations, the radio station speculated. Jong Su-chol (45), a former North Korean Army officer, said, "Major weapons and elite troops of the Guard Command are deployed in Pyongyang. The command is also armed with missiles." The guard is reportedly so well equipped and trained that it could immediately put down a military coup. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 Quite a lot there Joe, but why wouldn't the US take the Chinese deal, namely unified Korea in the ROK and no US forces on the peninsula? Among others, who opposes this - isolationist/budget minded GOP, Japan, ROK itself, Russia? What is the US security interest in a united and free Korea which requires troops on it's soil? |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2011-03-02 16:34 |
| #3 Done, gromky. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-03-02 10:32 |
| #2 please delete above, missend |
| Posted by: gromky 2011-03-02 02:56 |
| #1 See also FREEREPUBLIC > KIM JONG-IL ORDERS DOZENS [scores] OFTANKS TO BE DEPLOYED AROUND HIS RESIDENCE IN YOUNGSUNG, PYONGYANG, in response to Mubarak resignation. * SAME > RUSSIA TO DEPLOY [anti-Naval]CRUISE MISSLES ON KURIL ISLANDS: INTERFAX. YAKHONTS, + TOR-M2's ADMS. FREEP POSTER - opined that IHO Russia senses coming war [US-China?]on the Korean Peninsula + is prepping accordingly??? * WORLD NEWS > FOOD FOR THOUGHT FOR NORTH KOREA'S SURVIVAL IS FOOD FOR THOUGHT IN SEOUL. Youse name the Question(s), the SOKORS have to think about it + any possible consequences for SOUTH KOREA + KOREAN PEOPLE IN GENERAL. * SAME > [SecDef Gates to West Point MA Army Kay-y-ydets] NEVER FIGHT A LAND WAR IN ASIA. Methinks Radical Islam + Iran + Kimmie, etal. know that, hence thats precisely what they want the econ-troubled US to do??? Lest we fergit, 1990's CLINTONISM + OWG-NWO > AMERICA'S ENEMIES = D *** NG IT, WE DEMAND OUR GOD-GIVEN SECULAR RIGHT TO BE ATTACKED AND SAVED BY THE USA! * SAME > DONALD KIRK: JAPAN TO FORCE THE US FROM OKINAWA? North Korean Mil, Nuclear Threat = "Wild Card" + risk of consequent potens US-vs-China Regional War is causing Japan to rethink its traditional ABSOLUTE NUCLEAR, OTHER MIL, ETC. DEPENDENCE ON THE US FOR ITS NATIONAL, REGIONAL SECURITY. Again, SOUTH KOREA has a vested interest in CHINA NOT TAKING OVER NORTH KOREA FOR ANY REASON. DPRK ECON COLLAPSE = CHINA UNILATER TAKING OVER THE NORTH, TEMPORAILY OR PERMANENTLY, + IS UNLIKELY TO GIVE UP OR SHARE UNLESS THE USDOD MOSTLY OR WHOLLY PULLS OUT ITS MILFORS FROM SOUTH KOREA + NE ASIA. * SAME > [Russ South Kuriles = Japan Northern Territories]ROZOFF: US BACKS JAPAN IN LOOMING CONFRONTATION WID RUSSIA. Russia had summoned the US Envoy to explain the "why" of the US position on the Russo-Nippon Kuriles sovereignty dispute. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-03-02 02:05 |