The US and South Korea on Thursday held massive live-fire drills near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) border in the latest provocation toward Pyongyang that will likely provoke North Korean missile tests.
According to the South Korean news agency Yonhap, the exercises are the US and South Korea’s largest-ever combined live-fire joint drills, and they were held just 25 kilometers south of the DMZ.
The exercises, dubbed the “Combined annihilation firepower drills,” are the first of five rounds of live-fire drills that will be held through mid-June and commemorate the 70th anniversary of the US-South Korean alliance.
Similar exercises have been held 11 times since 1977. According to AP, This year’s iteration involves 2,500 troops from both nations and 610 weapons systems, including fighter jets, attack helicopters, drones, tanks, and artillery.
South Korea’s Defense Ministry said the drills simulated artillery attacks on North Korean military facilities, and troops practiced precision-guided strikes to “completely annihilate” North Korean military threats.
The US and South Korea have resumed massive war games after a years-long pause that was achieved due to the Trump administration’s attempts at diplomacy with Pyongyang. But tensions are now soaring on the peninsula, and the North has fired over 100 missiles since 2022.
In a move that will raise tensions even more, President Biden recently announced a nuclear-armed submarine will be docking in South Korea soon, marking the first deployment of US nuclear weapons to the peninsula in decades.
Oh no! NoKo will shoot off some of their 1960’s tech and try to hit a ocean to show us how upset they are over the US and SoKo playing pretend with missles and ships.
Yeah, the Free Korea is spending much on defense from US-occupied Korea. I think they are doing pretty good on their own without USSR and PRC. Of course the cowardly Pentagon rats will run at the first sign of trouble. The goal is to just start a war, not fight it.
If NoKo invades those starving troops won’t get past the fast food shops and the pretty SoKo girls dressed up like the girls they dream about.
They have no intention of invading. That’s why they’ve developed nukes. There is no need to start a war when you can simply destroy the source of the conflict. The Anglo-American empire in this case.
NoKo is going to destroy us?
Do you anymore of that weed you are smoking?
Damn you are high……
They can make a significant dent. They have ICBMs that can reach LA. Wouldn’t be a big loss for most Americans though… The thing is when they launch, Pentagon cowards are likely to launch in response. After that Russians and Chinese will step in and there will be a new Atlantic-Pacific canal where USA used to be. It will be great for global economy.
Sure they do.
And Rocket man is going to shoot them off .
NoKo is not going to start a war no more than the South is.
Once Biden is out of office we will be talking to NoKo again and the thaw will continue.
How exactly do you envision that? After 4 years of destroying imperial propaganda machine with ‘Russian collusion’ narrative in an attempt to destroy Trump, they will gracefully admit defeat and allow Trump back in as emperor? Not going to happen! The imperial menace need to destabilize Asia. They need a war to contain China. Any war. Peace in Asia means economic growth and prosperity. Peace in Asia is bad for the empire. It’s not that hard to understand.
You believe everything your government tells you…..lol.
Or is there Russia talk radio with your version of Alex Jones?
No one, North nor South is going to start a war.
But they sure have you convinced, someone will, so you won’t complain about the money bring wasted on arms and the need to keep the military happy with a fake purpose in life.
DPRK certainty wont but you can say that about occupied Korea. It is infested with Pentagon maggots who do want to start a war.
Neither side will attack the other but if you want to believe the propoganda you have been fed by the liars in your media and government then do so.
I don’t pay much attention to talking heads in the media. It is all just propaganda and these rats with find some way to blame DPRK. Unless of course you consider antiwar as propaganda, fact stands that imperial-occupied Korea is saber rattling toward DPRK
Antiwar’s writers have their own biases that come out in their writing.
There’s been admonishments throughout history about idolotry and too many practice that with their “leaders”.
They never can do wrong and boy when they do and fall in people’s eyes because the people decided they are not perfect like the idol they thought they were, people get so upset.
Putin, Biden and the media that idolizes them lie all the time.
We can say that about historians too. They tell you the stories so you will look at it a certain way while others tell it so you will look at the same story another way.
We are not as bad as they tell you nor are you as bad as they tell us.
“We are not as bad as they tell you nor are you as bad as they tell us.”
Where did you get the idea that this is about ‘you, me ,us or them’? Don’t conflate the people with the state. It is two completely different entities. This confusion comes from a delusion that the state is represented/controlled by the people. It’s a false belief, a lie designed to manufacture compliance. These rats will do anything to maintain that control.
You assume what I was referring to.
Are you just argumentative and I’m your latest foil?
Well, what/who were you referring to?
Ha! Yeah, I suppose it can be perceived that way. I enjoy a good argument as long as my partners see themselves willing participants, not as victims.
That’s what I thought.
You want a foil to West bash.
I too can return the same about you commies but that is boring posturing without a resolution at the end.
Rather it’s just someone who gets too bored to continue that ends it.
I’m sure you can find a fun person to do that with but that’s not me.
Wrong assumption and, naturally, wrong conclusion but that is your choice.
So once again I’m wrong and you are correct.
Yet you believe I should bother to continue arguing with you.
If you don’t wish to talk to me, don’t. But you are wrong. You continue to make wrong assumptions about me and derive wrong conclusions. Do you want me to move to Russia and change my name to Boris in order to appease your ego?
So where you from Boris?
Please don’t tell me you are just some kid from the West dressing up your posts with all this imperialism colonialism nonsense while playing pretend.
Karen, I’m not going to tell you anything until you learn to admit and correct your mistakes.
You live in the burbs in some Midwestern town don’t you?
You’ve already shared you don’t live in Russia so where is your dorm room kid?
What community college are you flunking out of?
man it is obvious to me that when ZaSu said “We are not as bad as they tell you nor are you as bad as they tell us”, she was referring to people in general and nobody specific. and i refer to her as “she” only because her avatar is that of a woman. for all i know she could be Hulk freakin Hogan hiding behind that photo.
Has the US forgotten the word DIPLOMACY?… Detente?…We need some sort of armistice agreement, don’t we?… If we go looking for problems, we will find them and I am not in the mood for WWIII…
When you mention US and diplomacy in the same sentence it reminds me of the robot from the TV series Lost in Space saying “It does not compute.”
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Yeah, like anyone with common sense takes ‘exercises’ seriously any longer.
Just a pissing contest.
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