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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autotldr@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 2y
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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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ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y
I hope you both are getting equity in exchange for burning yourselves out and having to change careers in a decade.
hark@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y
US staging military drills = good
China staging military drills = bad
PvtGetSum@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Aggressive territorial expansionism = bad
Defense against aggressive action = good
hark@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
Let's tally up the countries that China has invaded vs the countries that the US has invaded.
PvtGetSum@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 2y
Ever? In that case I think you're gonna be in for a treat lmfao
febra@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 2y
"Hamas style attacks".. from North Korea? This sounds so stupid.
stevehobbes@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
Why?
febra@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 2y
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.
rafa@lemmy.world · -42 pts · 2y
South Korea has 69h work weeks but North Korea bad 😞
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 2y
Work-life balance is certainly abysmal but SK doesn’t have prison labor camps or a starving populace
5BC2E7@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
I just block the tankies when they’re this obvious. There is no need to try to reason with them.
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
They need to get banned when they try to leave lemmygrad or wherever they gather now
rafa@lemmy.world · -23 pts · 2y
Isn't 69h per week a Gulag? Lol
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y
That sounds pretty awful.
rafa@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 2y
I work 35h weekly, it's not legal to work more in my country.
Enjoy your freedom and democracy bro
Sanctus@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
For real, "its just 10 of your 16 waking hours", fuck off with normalizing that shit.