North Korea warned of an “all-out military strike” to destroy South Korean loudspeakers and other propaganda tools along their fortified border, according to the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency.
South Korea’s preparation for psychological warfare, is a “direct declaration of a war” against the North, the general staff of the communist state’s military said today in a statement on KCNA. The North’s military retaliation may turn Seoul into “a sea of flame,” the statement said.
The South has already installed loudspeakers in 11 places along the border and is attempting to set up electronic displays, according to the statement.
The North knows they face instant retaliation if they’re foolish enough to carry out any such threat. They may get within a few miles of Seoul, but once US and South Korean airpower assets start hitting them with tactical strikes, they may find they’ve bitten off far more than they bargained for, and the allies’ considerably advanced airpower assets would make things very hot for them, as well. Carrier battle groups stationed off both coasts would make it very uncomfortable for them in very short order. Personally, I think the Chinese would exert their not-inconsiderable influence to put a stop to any such idiocy on the part of the North. This talk from the North is just that: Talk. Sabre-rattling bluster.
Seoul is in what is affectionately known as the “kill box”. If North Korea wants to attack Seoul, the first shells will be hitting before any American/ROK retaliation can come.
It is largely sabre rattling though. They were going to make Seoul a “sea of fire” 7 years ago.
I spent some time in North Korea last fall. The daily diet of the folks I met there consisted of a single bowl of cornmeal and water (what some older Americans might remember as ‘mush’). Even members of the ever-present military, I was told confidentially, are so malnourished that they regularly steal and eat the food donated by foreign relief agencies. A serious military threat to anyone? Not from what I saw.
Why are the loud speakers such a threat to the North Korean communists?
Is it because they broadcast the truth? Is it because the offer another point of view/factual information/another point of view regarding the facts?