South Korea Begins Dokdo Defense Exercise Against Imaginary Invasion

I would love just once to have someone in the media ask who the foreign infiltrators are that are threatening to invade Dokdo:

Cheong Wa Dae spokesperson Ko Min-jung speaks at a press briefing in this undated file photo. (Yonhap)

The South Korean armed forces launched a two-day military exercise to defend the easternmost islets of Dokdo on Sunday amid growing tensions over trade and their shared history, in a show of its staunch defense stance against Japan’s repeated claims to sovereignty over the cluster of rocks in the East Sea.

The Navy announced that the drill involves Navy, Air Force and Army forces, such as naval warships and aircraft, as well as Army and Marine Corp troops.

“Indeed, it’s an exercise to guard our sovereignty and territory,” Cheong Wa Dae spokesperson Ko Min-jung said at a press briefing.

She added that it’s a regular training and asked media not to attach excessive “political” meaning to it.

The drills have been held twice a year, usually in June and December, to better fend off possible foreign infiltrations to the rocky outcroppings and the surrounding waters.

Yonhap

The closest thing to a “foreign infiltration” that has happened on Dokdo was back in 2006 the Japanese said they were going to have a ship full of scientists conduct an underwater survey of the ocean in the vicinity of Dokdo which they never ended up doing.

Meanwhile in recent months you have China claiming Korean territory and flying bombers over it and the Russians have actively violated Korean airspace over Dokdo with their war planes and there was never a rush to conduct a military exercise in response.

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setnaffa
5 years ago

Not fooling anyone.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
5 years ago

much money being spent for no reason.

setnaffa
5 years ago

Flyingsword, there is a reason. It’s sordid, racist, and “Made In China”; but it’s a very good reason, according to Emperor Xi.

J6Junkie
J6Junkie
5 years ago

They’re out there looking for the IJN.

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