ROK Defense Chief Tells Naval Personnel to “Bury North Korean Sailors at Sea” If They Launch Another Provocation
The 2010 sinking of the Cheonan and other provocations by North Korea in the Yellow Sea have never had a proper response from the ROK. For example after the 2002 West Sea Naval Battle that saw six ROK sailors dead the North Koreans celebrated the aftermath while the ROK did nothing in response. In fact the ROK President did not attend the memorial ceremony and surviving family members were treated poorly in an effort to downplay the provocation. With the new ROK defense chief it looks like any future provocations will have a serious response:
South Korea’s defense chief on Tuesday instructed Navy officials to mercilessly bury North Korean sailors at sea in the event of another North Korean provocation.
Defense Minister Shin Won-sik made the remark as he inspected the new 2,800-ton ROKS Cheonan frigate, which was deployed for operations to the headquarters of the Navy’s Second Fleet in Pyeongtaek, 60 kilometers south of Seoul, on Saturday.
Shin told Navy officials and sailors to “mercilessly bury (the enemy) at sea if the enemy stages yet another provocation” after he paid tribute to 46 fallen sailors at the memorial monument at the headquarters of the Navy’s Second Fleet.
In 2010, North Korea torpedoed the 1,200-ton-class Cheonan corvette near the western Northern Limit Line, the de facto inter-Korean sea border, killing 46 South Korean sailors. A Seoul-led multinational investigation concluded that Pyongyang torpedoed the Cheonan warship, but the North has denied its involvement in the incident.
Yonhap
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And what did then president Lee Myung Bak do when NK sunk the Chonan, and NK attacked/bombarded South Korea’s islands in 2011?
Exactly – nothing. GI Korea has a selective memory syndrome.
While the Defense Chief sounds like he might make mean tweets, he also sounds like he knows the enemy and wants the best for his sailors and his nation.
And what did then president Lee Myung Bak do when NK sunk the Chonan, and NK attacked/bombarded South Korea’s islands in 2011?
Actually, 2MB wanted to launch strikes against NK naval bases after the sinking of the Cheonan.
However, the Americans stopped him from carrying out the attack, because they didn’t want a third Korean War.
Considering that the Americans are going to stop any attempt at retaliation then GI Korea is wasting his time whining about the ROK not doing something that the Americans aren’t going to allow in the first place.
If GI Korea wants Korea to retaliate then he should take the issue up with the American government not whine in his blog.
Of course, retaliating would mean a third Korean War, so unless GI Korea is a warmonger, he should stop calling for actions that might ignite a third Korean War.
While the Defense Chief sounds like he might make mean tweets, he also sounds like he knows the enemy and wants the best for his sailors and his nation.
And we have another warmonger here.
What is it with these American right-wingers?
Do they need a war to release their pent-up energies and frustrations?
“What is it with these American right-wingers?
Do they need a war to release their pent-up energies and frustrations?”
Absolutely!
But after Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., we have learned it shouldn’t be OUR war.
Watching Russians kill Ukranians and Israelis kill Palistinians is really a better type of war, as kit doesn’t matter who wins or loses.
Chinese and Taiwanese, Turks and everyone near them, African-on-African…
…and if you aren’t careful, North Koreans and South Koreans.
New American War isn’t made to be won in a traditional sense. Winning cannot even be defined.
Creating crippling disorder and perpetual hostilities among your enemies is the real win!
Plot Twist: The American government is winning the War on Americans with this tactic.
Double Plot Twist: The American government is owned by pretty much everyone but the American people.
Yes, CH, you’re right. And the owners of our government aren’t sending the best, either. The ‘Drop chinabots could do just as poorly as blinky at spreading whirled peas with a spork.
Setnaffa, don’t be so hard on the eloquently expressed “tofu dreg chinabots”.
Somebody needs to do the backalley séxwork that straight non-addicted Americans just won’t do.
CH, are you saying that they have the right stuff for your Pohang office? Or ???
So many glory holes, so few tofu dregs.