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North Koreans selling “wolf tickets”

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Regarding this weekends joint US/South Korean wargames.

North Korea has promised a "physical response" to joint US-South Korean military exercises this weekend.

He said the exercises went beyond defensive training and would involve "sophisticated weapon equipment".

"It is a threat to the Korean peninsula and the region of Asia as a whole. And the DPRK's position is clear: there will be a physical response to the threat imposed by the United States militarily."

The military drills are to run Sunday through Wednesday with about 8,000 U.S. and South Korean troops, about 20 ships and submarines and 200 aircraft, including the USS George Washington aircraft carrier and the U.S. Air Force's F-22 stealth fighter.
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Yeah...I, perhaps even more so than most, would prefer that our brave warriors stay out of harms way whenever possible, and most certainly would not wish to see anyone, especially civilians on either side of the DMZ, suffer because of the Nork's usual and customary dime-store braggadocio.  But my instinctive response to this threat would be come on and bring it !  I believe that the Washington, the task force surrounding her, and the other associated assets could open up a can of whup-ass on the North Koreans that they don't even want to contemplate.

They're selling wolf tickets; and their battleship mouths could easily get them into a situation their rowboat asses couldnt handle.

Let's hope and pray that cooler heads prevail.

Rocketman