South Korea - More Action Less Talks

After North Korea targeted Japanese air space with a ballistic missile last night, Japan and South Korea now tend to revise their strategy in the conflict.

Seoul’s presidential spokesman Park Su-hyun said four F-15 fighters dropped eight MK-84 bombs - each with the explosive yield of a ton - that accurately hit targets at a military field in Taebaek, near the border to North Korea on the eastern coast of the peninsula.

The South Korean defence ministry is reportedly drafting a new plan to thwart a full-fledged North Korean military offensive and occupy Pyongyang within weeks without waiting for US troop reinforcements. The gist of the plan is “the mobilisation of airborne troops and Marines to infiltrate Pyongyang to quickly bring down the North Korean regime.”

Vice Defense Minister Suh Choo-suk said: “In the event of an invasion from the North, we will engage in an aggressive, deep-offensive operation” inside North Korea.

It also includes pre-emptive strikes against North Korean nuclear weapons and missile bases as well as operations to assassinate high-ranking North Korean officials.

[Source: The Australian on August 29, 2017, at 15:43 local time]


North Korea neighbours DROP BOMBS near border as nations 'ready for war'.

[Source: Daily Star, UK, on August 29, 2017]




朝鲜再射导弹　半岛对峙加剧

With North Korea launching further missiles,
confrontation on the peninsula will increase.

分析人士认为，朝鲜短时间内密集试射导弹，朝鲜半岛局势再次陷入轮番升级的恶性循环。

Analysts consider: With North Korea massing its missile launches within a short period of time, the situation on the Korean peninsula will be further driving into a circulus vitiosus of increased escalation.

[Source: XinHua - New China 新华社, China's news agency, on August 29 at 21:38 Beijing time]




Midnight news on August 29, 2017.




朝鲜将进行更多向太平洋试射导弹训练

North Korea will carry out more launching drills
of guided missiles targeting the Pacific Ocean.

The article is referring to information launched by North Korea's "Korean Central News Agency 朝鮮中央通讯社. The North Korean report confirms the preferential use of Hwasong-12 intermediate range ballistic missiles on special order by leader Kim Jong-un.

[Source: Singapore Morning News 新加坡的联合早报 on August 31, 2017]

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