Monday, September 25, 2017

Remembering The Time When North Korea Tried To Kill The South Korean President

Images from an April 15 military parade in Pyongyang show what appear to be North Korean 'commandos' carrying AK-47 assault rifles with attached grenade-launchers. But they are really 'helical' magazines designed to store bullets in a spiral shape

Sebastien Roblin, Scout Warrior: How North Korean Commandos Tried to Kill South Korean President

Recently the South Korean defense minister caused a stir when he announced the military was forming a “decapitation unit” of airborne special

Recently the South Korean defense minister caused a stir when he announced the military was forming a “decapitation unit” [3] of airborne special operators to target Kim Jong-un in the event of a conflict. While Seoul has long been exploring such a contingency, its prominent public airing is undoubtedly meant as a pressure tactic to cause Kim to reconsider how he might best ensure his own survival.

South Koreans are quite familiar with the stress caused by the threat of “decapitation.” That is because South Korean presidents have been the target of two major assassination attempts orchestrated by Pyongyang, both of which resulted in dozens of deaths.

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WNU Editor: A reminder on the "who and what" North Korea is.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

A reminder on the "who and what" North Korea is.

No, it isn't. If you think that something that happened almost fifty years ago in 1968 still defines North Korea, then according to your logic the "who and what" of the USA is that its government just massacred protestors at Orangeburg, it is busy carpet bombing Laos, Martin Luther King was just assasinated, race riots have broken out in more than 150 US cities, and the country is still embroiled in the Viet Nam war.

At any rate, I find it quite civilised of the North Koreans that they didn't start a destructive war to achieve their aims, as the US did in Viet Nam. Instead they tried to take out just the US puppet dictator of South Korea. That is minimal force. Their commandoes even refused to kill South Koreans who had stumbled upon their encampment, despite that jeopardising their mission. At the end of this mission, very few people lay dead which is not something you can say about the Viet Nam war.

fred said...

Just like the North invading the South in June, 1950, because Russia and China gave them the ok?

Anonymous said...

I feel like the South Koreans didn't want to be invaded and still don't or they qouldnt still be trying to fight but your things cool too

Anonymous said...

I feel like the South Koreans didnt want to be invaded and still don't that it plane and simple

Unknown said...

Anon _____ of 9,

You do not understand the "____ of 9" Star Trek reference, because you are not American or low IQ.

When South Vietnam and the its ally the U.S. fought in southeast Asia, they were fighting the USSR, China, North Vietnam and the North Vietnamese proxy, the Viet Cong.

I wish you experience your own Kampuchea.

Unknown said...

and still don't that it plane and simple

and still don't that it plain and simple