Comments on: Seoul planned to raid, bomb Pyongyang in ‘68

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:08:34 +0000

I’ve been trying to get my hands on Silmido, but Netflix won’t say when they’ll get it back (if they ever) and it’s still saved on my list. Anybody know where to find that?

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:39:25 +0000

Hope you’re right about the no nukes–I’m fairly sure that the fake “leftists” will be gone in the next election, although I wouldn’t bet won on it. It just seems like the economy, which Roh and Co. keep mucking up, will be their undoing.

By: baduk

baduk — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:31:26 +0000

Michael,
If the US did not use nukes in VietNam, would she use them in Korea? No way. Next Korean war will be another conventional war, with the USFK doing minimum, if any. Don’t blame them, Korea brought it upon itself.

Korea must realize dire situation it is in. Next election will decide Korea’s fate.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:31:16 +0000

I hope you’re wrong about that scenario, Baduk, because the U.S. might just use the “shortcut” of dumping a bunch of nukes on Pyongyang since its short on personnel over here, which would could have unpleasant side effects. Anyway, the next presidential election in Korea will probably be decided on economic issues because everyone’s sick of the ideologues in office now and want some real leadership to get the economy back on track.

By: baduk

baduk — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 05:59:38 +0000

The reason was that the US cannot fight two wars at the same time. This guarantee of fighting two fronts was and is very important for the survival of Korean Republic.

At the beginning of Iraq campaign, the US (I believe it was Rumsfeld) promised to Korea that it had capability to fight two fronts simultaneously. But, everybody knows that is a fiction. Korea will be abandoned.

NK and China know this fact as well. When the US is busy fighting a war in the middle East(Iran?), NK will attack SK and win. SK soldiers will run away as they had done during Korean War. Some loonies like Jeong Ddong and Kim DaeJoong will think it is an opportunity for two Koreas to unite. They may tell the troops to ceasefire and welcome their breatheren from North. The entire peninsula will belong to KJI or his heir.

Only way to escape this certain destruction is to unite the whole country under strong anti-North and anti-China resolve. But, alas, today’s youths thinks that China is friendly and they can live under the communism practiced by China. What they are going to get is NK’s communism. You can bet on that.

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:25:38 +0000

Indeed, life imitates fiction “madne0″. “The Dirty Dozen” comes to mind. Nowadays if they should try it again, they could send some of the hardened spammers from Korea Telecom but then I don’t think internet viagra would kill anyone.

By: madne0

madne0 — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:34:05 +0000

“Kim advised the formation of a unit composed mostly of hardened criminals, including six or seven condemned men, who would be promised freedom should they return from their mission alive.”

Is it just me, or does this resemble the plot for a really bad action movie with Jean Claude Van Damme?

By: Antti

Antti — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:31:40 +0000

There is a more detailed Korean-language account of the raid and the survival of Kim Sin-jo in a Sindonga article from the late 90s.
In the article Kim wants to point out that he was not “captured” (saengp’o) but that he surrendered (t’uhang). After the attack failed, and the commandos tried to escape and were engaged in firefights, he decided to surrender, and threw away all his weapons and suicide explosives.