ROK Defense Minister Want Navy to “Sternly” Deal with Low Flying Japanese Aircraft
Silly season between the ROK and Japan continues. I expect the ROK government will continue to push anti-Japanese issues to their domestic audience up to the March 1st Independence Movement Day holiday:
South Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo has instructed the Navy to sternly deal with the repeated low-altitude flybys by Japanese warplanes, describing them as “a serious provocation by an ally,” his ministry said Saturday.
Yonhap
He made the remarks during his unscheduled visit to the Fleet Command in the southern port city of Busan, the ministry said later in a release.
The minister was briefed on the details regarding multiple close-range flights by Japanese maritime patrol planes toward South Korean destroyers in recent weeks.
You can read more at the link, but the most obvious question is what is the ROK Navy going to do, radio sternly worded messages to the aircraft?
what does this silly joker mean? Just doing commie moon’s bidding of trying to find an enemy with japan when your fellow “countrymen” are the ones that really want to kill you. Fools. And I don’t blame the Japanese for keeping a closer eye on the South Korean ships now that it has been proven South Korea is violating sanctions. Maybe some of those ROK navy ships are transferring goods to the nK fishing boats…..
I think we know where this ends up.
I really can’t understand how the ROK keeps electing pro-nork political hacks like Moon. Unless everyone got drunk before voting.
Then again, I don’t really understand why they elected General Park’s daughter, either.
Their circus, their monkeys; but the folks who loved Gangnam Style won’t like Pyongyang Style. Even if they get their worm meds.
Lock your weapons again. That always works to get prying eyes away from your smuggling operations…err humanitarian aid.
“what is the ROK Navy going to do, radio sternly worded messages to the aircraft?”
Japan has done this 4 times since the first radar dispute in December.
The fifth time will be when the Korean navy will really lock onto the plane and warning shots will be fired. That is what they said they will do.
If Japan insists on continuing to test out the Korean navy’s reactions, they will get what they asked for. Fifth time is the charm. Is Japan going to quit or are they going to continue to try to draw South Korea into a conflict with them?
Appeasing, currently a US Navy ship should be shadowing every South Korean vessel leaving port. USFK should probably be implementing the armed body guard policy like in Afghanistan whenever they visit a Korean base. With South Korea willfully colluding with nK to violate sanctions the South Koreans are not to be trusted. I say, keep up the the good work Japan ensuring the sanctions are enforced!
Appeasing thinks radar-guided missiles can fire warning shots. That level of ignorance will end up with dead Koreans. Which is probably what he/she wants.
Setnaffa thinks the only shots available for warning shots to the ROK Navy is the lock and fire missiles. Talking about the level of ignorance, Setnaffa doesn’t even know what the armaments there are for these ships, but he sure likes to act as if he’s the expert.
Appeasing, if you’re lonely, you should buy a dog.
Having spent my first career in the Navy, engaging an aircraft with Fire Control radar IS the modern equivalent of firing a shot across their bow.
During Operation Praying Mantis, I was on board the USS Lynde McCormick. We had 2 Iranian F4s inbound when we locked onto them. They decided getting blown out of the sky before making visual contact wasn’t a real good plan, so they went away.
As a .50 cal gunner, wearing not much more than a Vietnam era flack jacket and a steel pot helmet, I approved of their decision.