South Korean and US forces stage drills for reaction to possible 'Hamas-style' attack by North Korea

https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-us-firing-drills-north-hamas-27f523eb38d5f07659db71bd9b41d8a2

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 (3 replies)

US staging military drills = good

China staging military drills = bad

PvtGetSum@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Aggressive territorial expansionism = bad

Defense against aggressive action = good

hark@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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 (2 replies)

"Hamas style attacks".. from North Korea? This sounds so stupid.

stevehobbes@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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 (8 replies)

South Korea has 69h work weeks but North Korea bad 😞

JJROKCZ@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 2y (7 replies)

Work-life balance is certainly abysmal but SK doesn’t have prison labor camps or a starving populace

5BC2E7@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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 (4 replies)

Isn't 69h per week a Gulag? Lol

JJROKCZ@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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 (1 reply)

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.