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2012-03-29 China-Japan-Koreas

N. Korea honing capability to attack Seoul: USFK commander

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Posted by Steve White 2012-03-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 "North Korea threatens Seoul with a mix of conventional artillery, multiple rocket launchers, and ballistic missiles, a significant percentage of which are positioned in protected positions dispersed across the western half of the peninsula"
Forget about the ballistic missiles. Any time the Norks wish, they can raze Seoul in a few hours from their protected positions. This vulnerability has existed for decades. Why the SKors have concentrated so much of their population and economy in such a vulnerable position is only to be marveled at.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-03-29 00:06|| 2012-03-29 00:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Any time the Norks wish, they can raze Seoul in a few hours from their protected positions.

Written by someone who has no grasp of what it took to 'raze' European cities in the last great war even with massed firepower.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-03-29 13:37|| 2012-03-29 13:37|| Front Page Top

#3 And their point? Sharing the tree bark wih more hungry Koreans?

Posted by European Conservative 2012-03-29 16:42|| 2012-03-29 16:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah, like the South Koreans can just up and move their capital and largest city.

Posted by gromky 2012-03-29 17:26|| 2012-03-29 17:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah, like the South Koreans can just up and move their capital and largest city.

The West Germans did move their capital to Bonn after the partition. The interesting question is why the South Koreans never did something similar. My guess? Coup insurance. The Chinese always placed their capitals near barbarian frontiers because it made sense for the emperor to have direct control over the battle-tested frontier armies rather some potentially independent-minded generals who could fund themselves by levying taxes on merchants plying the lucrative trade routes between China and neighboring kingdoms.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2012-03-29 19:40|| 2012-03-29 19:40|| Front Page Top

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