South Korean and U.S. troops have been conducting live-fire exercises this week to hone their ability to respond to potential “Hamas-style surprise artillery attacks” by North Korea, South Korea’s military said Friday.
The two forces regularly conduct live-fire and other training, but this week’s drills come after Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault on Israel raised security jitters in South Korea, which shares the world’s most heavily fortified border with rival North Korea.
Experts say the North’s forward-deployed long-range artillery guns can fire about 16,000 rounds per hour in the event of a conflict, posing a serious threat to Seoul, which is about 40-50 kilometers (25-30 miles) from the border.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean and U.S. troops have been conducting live-fire exercises this week to hone their ability to respond to potential “Hamas-style surprise artillery attacks” by North Korea, South Korea’s military said Friday.
The two forces regularly conduct live-fire and other training, but this week’s drills come after Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault on Israel raised security jitters in South Korea, which shares the world’s most heavily fortified border with rival North Korea.
Experts say the North’s forward-deployed long-range artillery guns can fire about 16,000 rounds per hour in the event of a conflict, posing a serious threat to Seoul, which is about 40-50 kilometers (25-30 miles) from the border.
The three-day firing exercises, which began Wednesday, involved 5,400 South Korean and U.S. soldiers, 300 artillery systems, 1,000 vehicles and air force assets, according to South Korea’s military.
In a simulated response to “the enemy’s (possible) Hamas-style surprise artillery attacks,” the exercises practiced strikes designed to “remove the origins of the enemy’s long-range artillery provocations at an early date,” South Korea’s Ground Operations Command said in a statement.
It typically views major U.S.-South Korean military training as invasion rehearsals and responds with missile tests.
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US staging military drills = good
China staging military drills = bad
Aggressive territorial expansionism = bad
Defense against aggressive action = good
Let’s tally up the countries that China has invaded vs the countries that the US has invaded.
Ever? In that case I think you’re gonna be in for a treat lmfao
I hope you both are getting equity in exchange for burning yourselves out and having to change careers in a decade.
“Hamas style attacks”… from North Korea? This sounds so stupid.
Why?
Because first and foremost North Korea has an army and secondly I highly suspect they would go shoot up some random village. An army usually has more interesting military objectives.
South Korea has 69h work weeks but North Korea bad 😞
Work-life balance is certainly abysmal but SK doesn’t have prison labor camps or a starving populace
I just block the tankies when they’re this obvious. There is no need to try to reason with them.
They need to get banned when they try to leave lemmygrad or wherever they gather now
Isn’t 69h per week a Gulag? Lol
No? My wife and I both work around that in America in our respective careers of IT and public accounting. 70 hr weeks aren’t fun but if you balance it across 7 days it’s just 10 of your 16 waking hours, if you work remotely like my wife then you don’t even need to add the two hours commuting a day to it
Edit: is the /s really necessary guys? I just called it abysmal one comment up. I hate our workload, but I still wouldn’t call it gulag or comparable to the conditions of North Koreans
That sounds pretty awful.
I work 35h weekly, it’s not legal to work more in my country.
Enjoy your freedom and democracy bro
For real, “its just 10 of your 16 waking hours”, fuck off with normalizing that shit.
