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Regarding the two Koreas:<\/p>\n
This 2017 article is a closer look at the defenses of South Korea\u2019s military, following an upgrade to their agreement with the USA. https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/2017\/09\/05\/south-korea-displays-military-strength-amid-north-korean-crisis\/<\/a><\/p>\n This was when Fatty Kim da T\u2019ird was trying to Jones-up his missile program and finally succeeded with the underground test detonation of a 250 kiloton nuke that rang seismometers in the USG\u2019s US network, as an earthquake of 6.3-magnitude not far from North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site.<\/p>\n From the 2017 article<\/u>:\u00a0 SEOUL, South Korea \u2014 With Seoul expecting another North Korean missile test, South Korean warships conducted live-fire exercises at sea on Tuesday in a second straight day of military swagger from a nation still rattled by the North\u2019s biggest-ever nuclear test.<\/p>\n The test on Sunday (in 2017), which North Korea said was a hydrogen bomb, was a huge advance in the North\u2019s push for nuclear-tipped missiles capable of hitting the United States. It has also resulted in South Korea boosting its own military capabilities. Washington and Seoul agreed to lift restrictions on South Korean missiles they\u2019d previously agreed upon, according to the South Korean presidential office, allowing Seoul to improve its pre-emptive strike capabilities against the North.<\/p>\n The Korean Peninsula has been in a technical state of war since the Korean War ended in an armistice in 1953. The near-constant unease has worsened in recent months as North Korea has displayed rapid improvement in its weapons capabilities, testing intercontinental ballistic missiles and a string of other missiles meant to target U.S. forces in Asia and the U.S. mainland. – article<\/p>\n Currently, the North has been less explosive and somewhat more subtle, as with the accusation that the Norks were responsible for the theft of $81 million from the account of the Bank of Bangladesh at the NYC Federal Reserve in 2019.<\/p>\n As it is, South Korea has gone back to its alert status because of this most recent event in which the Norks shot a fish inspector and then incinerated him and his boat. Realizing their mistake, they apologized to the South for the act. There is a rumor that he was trying to defect to the Norks, but no confirmation of it.<\/p>\n And now in 2020: It appears that, despite the drawdown in the Middle East, and the current shutdown of onshore activities, we are straying from our Cold War attitude and becoming slackers.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2020\/09\/24\/americas-top-marine-says-the-us-must-shake-up-its-military-presence-in-the-pacific\/<\/a><\/p>\n Per the article\u00a0 WASHINGTON \u2013 The way the United States military has had\u00a0forces arrayed in the Pacific\u00a0<\/a>for the last 70 years must change to meet a new threat environment, the\u00a0US Marine Corps’ top general<\/a>\u00a0said Wednesday, arguing that the force must be in more places and spread across a wider area.<\/p>\n