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| US to keep artillery brigade along Korean buffer zone |
| 2014-09-20 |
| [Iran Press TV] The United States is planning to keep an artillery brigade stationed near the buffer zone that separates North and South Korea. South Korea asked the US to keep the 2nd Infantry Division's 210th Fires Brigade at Camp Casey in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) earlier this week during military consultations in Seoul, South Korea's Yonhap News reported. American officials in the meetings "repeatedly and strongly" pushed to keep the unit in Dongducheon in order to maintain combat readiness, as the rest of American forces are set to relocate to the southern half of South Korea, the report said. A spokeswoman for US Forces Korea said Friday that "any decision to temporarily leave US forces north of the Han (River) will be based on operational necessity. The goal of all (South Korean) and US alliance initiatives is to build adaptive capabilities to deter and defeat future provocations and fight and win should deterrence fail." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Anecdotal but on topic: My dentist is a South Korean and even while living the life here in the USA is fearful that Seoul is within artillery range of the commie North. And its true - Seoul could be put to the sword at a moments notice. Sure there would be retaliation, nevertheless Seoul would look like '45 Manila... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2014-09-20 19:00 |
| #5 I think we maintain our armed forces in SK due to mental & spiritual inertia. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-09-20 13:24 |
| #4 It seems to me, and perhaps I'm misreading the situation, that we keep units over there in order to be able to stop the South Koreans from losing their collective temper over Northern aggression and roaring over the border in a conquering frenzy. Because then China might get mad or something. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-09-20 13:03 |
| #3 Oh, great, to be the lucky Pierre unit. Hostages who are usually expendable in the State Department's usual bungling. See - Benghazi. Dongducheon - I understand the Thunder Runs have been outlawed. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-09-20 08:08 |
| #2 Hyundai just bid $10 billion for 19.6 acres of choice Gang Nam land in S. Korea. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-09-20 07:08 |
| #1 After more than a half century, why can't the SKors field their own artillery brigades? |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-09-20 04:59 |