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North Korea fires missiles after US, South Korea military drills
By Kim Tong-Hyung and Hyung-Jin Kim, The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired several ballistic missiles into the sea Monday, South Korea’s military said, hours after South Korean and U.S. troops kicked off their large annual combined drills, which the North views as an invasion rehearsal.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile firings, North Korea’s fifth missile launch event this year, were detected from the North’s southwestern Hwanghae province. It called the weapons close-range but didn’t say how far they flew. The military said South Korea bolstered its surveillance posture and is closely coordinating with the United States.
Earlier Monday, the South Korean and U.S. militaries began their annual Freedom Shield command post exercise, their first major combined training of President Donald Trump’s second term. The allies have already been engaging in diverse field training exercises in connection with the Freedom Shield training.
North Korea’s Foreign Ministry warned Monday that the latest training risks triggering “physical conflict” on the Korean Peninsula. It called the drills an “aggressive and confrontational war rehearsal” and reiterated leader Kim Jong Un’s stated goals for a “radical growth” of his nuclear force to counter what he claims as growing threats posed by the U.S. and its Asian allies.
Someone feeling a bit left out of current events and needing some attention? I think Lil’ Kim wants another visit from Trump and is growing impatient.
Psssst. We (S Korea & US) don’t have to attack. Just stop all sea lane shipping to NDtBF N Korea, let them die a slow death by starvation. They’re more than halfway there already.
Ah, but the missles serve the added benefit of whale meat.
I’ve got a whale of a tale to tell you lads, a whale of a tale that’s true. Sing it Ned Land.
I’ll bet it’s a bunch of blubber….
The North Koreans are already starving. But They will never run out of “dogs”, I mean “food” to eat!
Do I read that correctly? Something called FREEDOM SHIELD has replaced ULCHI FOCUS LENS?
We had Team Spirit back in the day.
I recall Ulchi Focus Lens, Focus Clear, Team Spirit, later on we had RSO&I, probably more I forgot.
” Team Stoopid….”
“Smells Like Team Spirit”
Yes. Sadly we pried off the UFL label for the very lame moniker it now carries.
Well, it looks like it was a successful test launch. They did, in fact, manage to hit the ocean.
If the ROKs today are anything like the ROKs I met way back yonder, they are probably thinking…”I wish a mother f*cker would!”
Lil’ Kim…keep FA and you’re going to FO.
I remember seeing the members of both sides when touring Panmunjom, the ROKs were fit and trim while the Nork Troops looked like broomsticks in uniforms!
Did team spirit outside of Pohang several times
I set up a satellite rig on Pohang pier in ‘89. “Valiant Blitz” I think. Ran cable into the USS Blue Ridge.
But I thought the DPRKers were our new friends? And yes, it is pronounced DPrick.
It’ll be alright. Sean Penn or Dennis Rodman will fix it