April 1, 2013 – This is no April fools joke. N Korea is trying to bring the United States to the brink of war and we are responding with destroyers and F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets. Although the F-22 Raptor fighters are a part of a training mission in S Korea, they still present a strong message to Kim Jung Un of what we are capable of on sudden notice.
U.S. defense officials report that the U.S. Navy re-directed the USS McCain, a guided-missile destroyer, in the Pacific to the waters off the Korean peninsula. The destroyer is capable of intercepting and destroying any missile that North Korea fires.
The USS Fitzgerald, another guided missile destroyer, may also be re-directed to the area.
On Monday, South Korean President Park Geun-hye seemed to have given her military permission to strike back in the event of an attack from North Korea without further word from Seoul. South Korean news agency Yonhap reported that the President was taking the threats “very seriously.”
“As commander-in-chief of the armed forces, I will trust the military’s judgment on abrupt and surprise provocations by North Korea,” she said, according to Yonhap.
While posing next to battle plan charts, Kim Jung Un threatened to “settle accounts” with the United States. The charts detailed targets for the bombing American cities.
The North had announced earlier this month that it was tearing up the armistice and other bilateral peace pacts signed with the South in protest against South Korea-US joint military exercises.
North Korea now has a young war monger leading its military which makes for a very unstable and unpredictable situation for not only South Korea and the U.S., but for the world as a whole.
To make matters even more complicated, China has begun moving troops to the border of North Korea. China has a long standing treaty with North Korea to protect them in the event they are attacked.
This is definitely going to be the story to watch carefully in the next few months. Lets see if Barack Obama has the guts and wear with-all to deal with this extremely dangerous situation. This isn’t a middle east type scenario, this is an in your face real war possibility we’re facing. We already have U.S. ground troops stationed in South Korea which means they will be the first to receive any aggression that crosses the border. The 2005-2012 edition of the Defense department’s annual “Base Structure Report,” which was published on Mar. 21, showed a total of 37,554 US troops stationed in South Korea as of Sept. 30, 2011.
If you’re the praying type, now would be a good time to get your two cents in for our military forces in ground zero. -JRoycroft
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