Defense Ministry Says They Did Not Know About the Shooting in Real Time
This is something I had been wondering about because if the fishery official was floating in the water for six hours before being shot by the North Koreans, why didn’t anyone try to rescue him?:
South Korea’s defense ministry said Wednesday there were no such words as “shoot to kill or fire” in the military’s initial intelligence on North Korea’s killing of a South Korean fisheries official in the West Sea.
The ministry also expressed regret over some reports that said the South’s military took no action despite hearing the North’s order to kill the official.
“What happened during the incident in which (the North) shot (the South Korean fisheries official) and burned (his body) was determined after a considerable lapse of time by analyzing pieces of intelligence,” the ministry said.
It also said the military did not know all of the facts of the incident in real time.
In line with the ministry’s remarks, the South Korean presidential office Cheong Wa Dae denied the reports that the government had full awareness of the situation but did not suitably respond to it.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but this leads me to believe that the ROK military must have cameras and listening devices placed in certain areas or unmanned aerial reconnaissance that they can download as needed to view imagery from in that area.
They didn’t want to rescue him. That’s why no attempt was made. Left him like a lamb to slaughter.
The explanation given in this article is 100% believable. Having worked closely with the ROK intelligence agency (now known as the NIS, then known as DSA) the only clue that the ROK military would have had about the incident would have come from signals intelligence, which probably took a lot of analysts a couple of days to piece together and figure out. These pieces of intelligence would have been no more than breadcrumbs in the big scheme of things and would have only been figured out after everything had been collected and processed.
ROK military doesn’t know about anything in real time, nKoreans stroll across the DMZ and the ROK military doesn’t know it, South Koreans hip hop north across the DMZ and the ROK military doesn’t know it, and this group wants to be in charge?!?!? Please.
tctim Below is an excellent read on ROK intelligence pathologies.
https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/182589/259-risks-of-intelligence-pathologies-in-south-korea.pdf
Fatty could takeover Seoul and they wouldn’t know it.
Mcgeehee – Thanks for the info. I’ll take a good look at it.