South Korea May Execute Dokdo Defense Exercise Against Japanese Invasion that Will Never Happen
|As every Korean politician knows, you can’t exploit anti-Japanese sentiment without sensationalizing the Dokdo issue. Some needs to tell the Blue House this is 2019 and not 1941:
In a move to protest Japan’s decision to remove it from a list of trusted trading partners, South Korea plans to hold a joint military exercise on a cluster of islets that sits in the sea between the neighboring countries, a government source said Sunday.
“The Ministry of Defense is considering conducting a joint defense drill on Dokdo this month,” the source said, Sunday. However, he was reluctant to provide specifics as the ministry has not confirmed the details of its plan.
Military exercises were first conducted near the tiny land mass in 1986 and they were made a biannual practice since 2003 with naval ships, marines, military aircraft, maritime patrol boats and relevant combat personnel participating. A 3,200-ton of naval destroyer, maritime patrol vessels, P-3C anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft and F-15K fighters are typically mobilized during the drill, according to the ministry.
Korea Times
You can read more at the link, but you have China also 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.
The worse the Japanese have done with Dokdo is threaten to have a research vessel of scientists enter into Dokdo’s exclusive economic zone. This of course set off a full scale crisis in South Korea and threats of war and even talks of assistance from North Korea. Japan never did send the research vessel, but Russian and Chinese warplanes are flying over Dokdo and Ieodo with no military drill in response.
The hypocrisy of the Korean left comes into full display every time they are in power when it comes to their anti-Japan agenda.
We shoud let them do this. And all the rest. Move all of USFK to Okinawa or Guam. But, unlike the B-52 “Dash 1” technical manual, we’re going to “delay ejection below 2,000 feet in vain attempts to restart engines.”
I am very sad to watch a beautiful country be first paralyzed and then consumned by the snakes that want to destroy it.
I don’t give a damn about Japan; but much of my wife’s family is still in South Korea. And it can be a magical place. But “the Petulant Children of the Moon(tm) driving toward a cliff” thing isn’t cute or funny anymore…
Commie moon dreams of making this a combined exercise with nKorea….