South Korea Conducts Bombing Drill in Response to North Korea’s Longest Ever Missile Test
Tensions are once again heating up on the Korean peninsula after North Korea’s latest missile test:
North Korea fired a missile that flew farther than any before — 4,600 kilometers (2,850 miles) — and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol warned of a “resolute” response.
Joong Ang Ilbo
The intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) travelled over Japan before landing in the Pacific Ocean, reaching an apex of 1,000 kilometers and a terminal speed of Mach 17 in its final re-entry phase, according to South Korean military authorities.
The test triggered a nationwide emergency alert in Japan — known as a J-Alert — for the first time in five years.
Here is what the US & ROK did in response which I don’t think the Kim regime is going to be too impressed by:
In response to the test, a South Korean F-15K fighter fired two Joint Direct Attack Munition (Jadam) guided bombs at a firing range on the unhabited island of Jikdo in the Yellow Sea on Tuesday, the South Korean military said.
The JCS said that the F-15K dropped the Jadam bombs on Jikdo following air drills with U.S. warplanes in a joint strike group consisting of four South Korean F-15Ks and four U.S. F-16 fighters.
I guess we will see in the coming days if the US, ROK, and Japan respond even more strongly in other ways. If so this will continue to increase tensions which is probably what the Kim regime wants to justify their long anticipated nuclear test.
JDAM, not jadam. Friggin’ fear pr0n media can’t even Google.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Direct_Attack_Munition
I hope a North Korean missile flies right in and sticks it right into Yoon’s forehead. That would be funny.
Big explosion at South Korean Air Base: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9sOVipVez8 I suspect the typical disregard of any safety observation in this country.
More coming out, apparently SK missile malfunction. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/skorea-says-missile-malfunctioned-and-fell-during-drill/2022/10/04/223bbc60-4439-11ed-be17-89cbe6b8c0a5_story.html
GI, while commies annoy me, murder fantasies are probably out of bounds…
If Korea doesn’t want to be the global supplier of electric cars that have no power grid (or plan to make one), cellphones and flat-screens to an increasingly poor population, and discount microchips, they are going to have to do something for the new global economy.
AI is a good start… but Koreans write possibly the worst software on this planet. Fortunately, it is not poot technical ability but poor thinking and absolutely no empathy for the user (same with many appliances). So it might be fixable if they wanted to.
That leaves weapons and rockets.
This was not a good look for either.
“GI, while commies annoy me, murder fantasies are probably out of bounds…”
Thou shall not kill only applies to humans.
I have no problems with communists. They can go be communists over there all they want.
But they aren’t like that, are they. Eventually, they come to you. And they don’t want to take no for an answer… so… helicopters.
The missile flew wildly and landed beside the airport, causing a large explosion in the field, which caused the right-wing American grade-school dropout Trumpeans living in their gun stores to fart aloud, scaring all the neighbors.
Yes, not a good look at American F35s that can’t fly and that can’t do basic missions.
https://eurasiantimes.com/f-35s-struggle-to-fly-frustrated-south-korea-says-its-us/