North Korea to stage further military response after US-South Korea drills?

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North Korea to stage further military response after US-South Korea drills?


Soldiers are pictured on the aircraft carrier USS George Washington during a joint military exercise conducted by South Korea and the United States in tense waters west of the divided Korean Peninsula on Nov. 30, 2010.



South Korea and the United States wrapped up four days of high-profile naval maneuvers in the Yellow Sea on Wednesday and were planning more exercises to stop North Korea from further provocations, military officials here said.


This week's drills, extensive in scale with a nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier, 7,300 personnel and 10 ships from the allies, started just days after the North stunned the world and sparked outrage in South Korea by bombarding an inhabited southern island, killing two civilians and two marines.



A military vehicle is being unloaded at a port on Yeonpyeong Island on Dec. 1.


"We have been in consultations with the U.S. to carry out several rounds of joint military drills to deal with limited provocations by the enemy," said Col. Kim Young-cheol, a senior official in charge of maritime warfare operations for the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).


"The timing and participating military assets have not been decided yet," Kim said, adding the first of the drills under consultation could be held as early as this month.


During a press briefing, Kim said this week's show of military strength succeeded in sending a pointed warning to North Korea.


"These exercises are meaningful as they demonstrate a firm commitment of South Korea-U.S. alliance that the allies will sternly respond to any North Korean provocation," Kim said.


The drills ended at around 2 p.m. without any incident, JCS officials said. The USS George Washington and other U.S. warships were heading for their base in Japan, according to the officials.

JCS officials said they are closely monitoring the North's military movements amid concerns of further military provocations by North Korea, which has warned of an "all-out war" against the drills.


Defense Minister Kim Tae-young told lawmakers on Tuesday that there is an "ample possibility" that the North may stage another provocation after the drills end. (From Yonhap)





Cheonma surface-to-air missiles are being deployed on Yeonpyeong Island.


South Korea's military has deployed surface-to-air missiles on a border island attacked by North Korea in a fatal bombardment last week, as part of efforts to beef up defense readiness on the Yellow Sea island, a military source said Wednesday.


North Korea fired a barrage of about 170 artillery shells onto Yeonpyeong Island on Nov. 23, killing two civilians and two marines, but South Korean marines stationed on the tiny island managed to fire just 80 rounds in return.


"The Cheonma missiles are being installed at a military unit on Yeonpyeong Island," the source said on condition of anonymity.


The first surface-to-air missile developed by South Korea, the Cheonma (Pegasus) has an effective shooting range of 10 kilometers, according to military officials.


South Korea has doubled the number of its K-9 self-propelled howitzers and deployed 130-millimeter multiple launch rocket systems on the island.


Earlier in the day, Gen. Han Min-koo, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited the headquarters of the Marine Corps to check its combat readiness.


"Our military should maintain a ready-to-fire defense posture to deter North Korean provocations," Han said in a statement, strongly condemning the North's artillery strike on Yeonpyeong as an "inhumane atrocity."


"If (North Korea) provokes again, the military should strongly retaliate until the enemy's threat is eliminated," Han said. (From Yonhap)



Is it possible that North Korea will stage further military response after US-South Korea drills?

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