FOXNews.com - North Korea threatens to blow up SKorean propaganda equipment, turn Seoul into 'sea of flame'

 

FOXNews.com - North Korea threatens to blow up SKorean propaganda equipment, turn Seoul into 'sea of flame'

“SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea vowed Saturday to launch an all-out attack against South Korean loudspeakers and other propaganda facilities along their heavily fortified border, warning it could even turn Seoul into a "sea of flame."

The rival Koreas ended decades of propaganda campaigns in 2004 as their relations warmed. However, South Korea resumed radio broadcasts to North Korea last month and installed a dozen propaganda loudspeakers along the border to punish the North for allegedly sinking a South Korean warship.

South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-young told a parliamentary hearing Friday that loudspeaker broadcasts would begin after the U.N. Security Council decides on any new measures against the North, Yonhap news agency reported.

South Korea has asked the U.N. Security Council to punish the North for what Seoul says was a North Korean torpedo attack on the 1,200-ton Cheonan warship that killed 46 sailors.

 “Korean High School Student wrote in an online forum that if huge pictures of their “Great Leader” were placed IN FRONT of the speakers the NORTH KOREANS would NOT SHOOT!!! Actually he has a great idea!! Quick make copies and set them up BEFORE turning on the Broadcasts.”

A multinational investigation led by South Korea concluded last month that North Korea was responsible. The North has denied responsibility and threatened to respond to South Korean retaliatory measures with war.”

The General Staff of the Korean People's Army said in a statement Saturday that North Korea would launch an "all-out military strike" to blow up any propaganda facilities along the border, and that its retaliation would be "a merciless strike foreseeing even the turn of Seoul ... into a sea of flame."

The statement was carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

Seoul, South Korea's capital of over 10 million people, is just 37 miles (60 kilometers) south of the border, well within North Korean artillery range.

The North's military earlier warned it would fire at any propaganda facilities installed in the Demilitarized Zone that has separated the two Koreas since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, which concluded in a truce, not a peace treaty.

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For Your Information and to “Scare the shit outta you”…

Operational Plan 5027 (Not a secret)

North Korea has about 500 long-range artillery tubes within range of Seoul, double the levels of a the mid-1990s. Seoul is within range of the 170mm Koksan gun and two hundred 240mm multiple-rocket launchers. The proximity of these long-range systems to the Demilitarized Zone threatens all of Seoul with devastating attacks. Most of the rest of North Korea's artillery pieces are old and have limited range. North Korea fields an artillery force of over 12,000 self-propelled and towed weapon systems. Without moving any artillery pieces, the North could sustain up to 500,000 rounds an hour against Combined Forces Command defenses for several hours.

North Korea's short-term blitzkrieg strategy envisions a successful surprise attack in the early phase of the war to occupy some or all of South Korea before the arrival of US reinforcements on the Korean Peninsula. North Korean ground forces, totaling some 1 million soldiers, are composed of some 170 divisions and brigades including infantry, artillery, tank, mechanized and special operation forces. Of the total, about 60 divisions and brigades are deployed south of the Pyongyang-Wonsan line. North Korea has deployed more than half of its key forces in forward bases near the border. Seventy percent of their active force, to include 700,000 troops, 8,000 artillery systems, and 2,000 tanks, is garrisoned within 100 miles of the Demilitarized Zone. Much of this force is protected by underground facilities, including over four thousand underground facilities in the forward area alone. From their current locations these forces can attack with minimal preparations. This means a surprise attack on South Korea is possible at any time without a prior redeployment of its units.

The DPRK offensive against the ROK will consist of three phases. The objective of the first phase will be to breach the defenses along the DMZ and destroy the forward deployed forces. The objective of the second phase will be to isolate Seoul and consolidate gains. The objective of the third phase will be to pursue and destroy remaining forces and occupy the remainder of the peninsula.

Approximately forty percent of the South Korean population resides within 40 miles of Seoul. While the terrain north of Seoul is dominated by rice paddies offering limited off-road mobility, the terrain west of Seoul is a wide coastal plan with the main invasion routes to Seoul.

 

 

North Korean forces attacking Seoul through the Chorwon or Munsan corridors would have to cross the Han or Imjin rivers (while these rivers freeze in the winter, the ice is not strong enough to support heavy armor). The narrow eastern coastal plain is lightly settled and less heavily defended, though mountains make movement of forces from the east coast difficult.

The US plans are based on the belief that the North Koreans would not be successful in consolidating their gains around Seoul and could be pushed back across the DMZ -- though the plans assume the North may break through the DMZ in places. A critical issue is strategic warning of unambiguous signs that North Korea is preparing an attack. The warning time has reportedly been shortened from about ten days to about three days as North Korea has covered its military activities.

 

 

The US-ROK defense plan would be shaped not only by the threat but  also by the mountainous terrain. Korea is commonly regarded as rugged infantry terrain that invites neither mobile ground warfare nor heavy air bombardment, but North Korea has assembled large armored forces that are critical to exploiting breakthroughs, and these forces would pass down narrow corridors that are potential killing zones for U.S. airpower. A new Korean War would bear little resemblance to the conflict of 1950­53.

 

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The Op-Plan 5027 suggests that USA and UN would send hundreds of thousands of troops to Korea. This is NO SECRET, the North knows the plan very well, but it is OBSOLETE.

Don’t count on that…There is ONLY One Brigade instead of 3 Brigades actually in the 2nd Infantry Division IN KOREA. The US Marine 3rd Division is the closest, thus Japan sacrificed it’s struggling Prime Minister to keep U.S. Marines closer to the Zone.

Only Massive Air Power and tactical Nukes would stop the North from reaching Seoul IF THEY Launch a blitz across the border. The North knows that just taking Seoul would be enough, rather than the whole country like they tried in 1950.

Do watch the news- once in awhile. Don’t expect to have time to leave by Incheon Airport. Buses, Trains, highways will be flooded with people trying to escape. Don’t delay if the CRAP hits the fan. THIS MEANS if Long Range Artillery, Rockets, or Missiles start falling along the border DMZ (De-Militarized Zone). Because that might be just hours before it escalates to hitting Seoul around the Yongsan Headquarters.

We are still at level 2 DefCon (only 5 times since signing ceasefire Armistice). Have you noticed police office in certain areas? 

Be afraid…be prepared with a “Grab Bag” with Passports, Identity documents, cash, change of clothes, etc. JUST IN CASE. Register with your Embassy, or your own consulate. Be prepared, not wishing “I had done this or that”.