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A war with North Korea would be terrible, but this plan would try to limit the damage. Key point: A war with Pyongyang would likely involve nukes and millions dead. Nevertheless, America hopes to use special forces and precision weaponry to reduce the number of dead. North Korea’s unpredictable leader Kim Jong-un has many ways of making war upon his neighbors. He can unleash commandos, or cyberweapons, or threaten to utilize weapons of mass destruction unless the world complies with his wishes. This first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest. Whether Kim Jong-u...

Would Kim survive? Would America? Here's What You Need to Remember:  Although the new plan reportedly focused not on a full-blown war but on limited warfare, a preemptive strike can escalate from a small skirmish into a large-scale war. It is hard to understand how the Korean troops would play a leading role while should a war start, Korea would not have military operational control. North Korea’s unpredictable leader Kim Jong-un has many ways of making war upon his neighbors. He can unleash commandos, or cyberweapons, or threaten to utilize weapons of mass destruction unless the world com...

Proffering Mass Murder as Attention Getting by Kim Petersen / May 28th, 2010 What journalism is really about – it’s to monitor power and the centers of power. — Amira Hass, journalist Marginalization of news discrepant from the ruling class’s ideology, propaganda, and disinformation are corporate media staples. Consequently, many critically thinking news consumers have drop-kicked the corporate media for proliferating independent news sources. The internet is rife with such independent media. Lacking, however, had been independent video and/or television news. Into this void came the ...

Posted : 2021-02-14 10:52 Updated : 2021-02-14 14:01 South Korean marines participate in the Amphibious Operations during the annual South Korea-U.S. combined Foal Eagle exercise against a possible attack from North Korea in Pohang in April 2017. EPA-Yonhap South Korea and the United States are preparing to hold their annual springtime combined military exercise next month, sources said Sunday. The planned exercise has drawn keen attention amid concern that North Korea could use the exercise as a pretext for provocations in the early months of the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden....

Robert Abrams Most of the major combined South Korea-U.S. exercises have turned into computer-simulation training in the last three years. All three key joint drills -- Key Resolve, Foal Eagle and Ulchi-Freedom Guardian exercises -- were abolished in 2019 after U.S. President Donald Trump offered North Korean leader Kim Jong-un an unexpected gift at their first summit in Singapore. As a result the two countries have staged no large-scale field training since 2018. Last year, joint drills were canceled or downscaled due to the coronavirus epidemic. But even the simulations are too much for Ki...