[kingu]

Read the story, went...whaaa??? First checked to make sure it was a real general, then went to see if it's even possible Axe was in the same place, then tripped across that other report. The original piece smells to high heavens that it was made up. And of course, AFP picked it up and ran with it.

Right now it's a blogger story claiming to quote a general picked up by AFP. It's memorial day, so it's quite possible this story dies today. If it carries over tomorrow, however, it'll be interesting to see how the administration mishandles it, while the Pentagon snorts and stoutly denies the quotes in this context.

Hopefully no one gets stupid and says ‘Oh, this never ever happened.’ Oh, right, the White House is always stuck on stupid, which means they'll be the ones saying it tomorrow morning.

[EBH]

UPDATE

US military denies parachuting into N.Korea
http://news.yahoo.com/us-commandos-parachuted-n-korea-report-212356834.html

The US military Tuesday vehemently denied a media report that special forces had been parachuted into North Korea on intelligence-gathering missions, saying a source had been misquoted.

Current affairs magazine The Diplomat quoted Brigadier General Neil Tolley, commander of special forces in South Korea, as saying soldiers from the US and South Korea had been dropped across the border for “special reconnaissance” missions.

But Colonel Jonathan Withington, public affairs officer for US Forces Korea, said some reporting of the conference had taken Tolley “completely out of context”.

“Quotes have been made up and attributed to him,” he said, denying that any US or South Korean forces had parachuted into the North.

[Criminal Number 18F]

The General (BG Neil Tolley) has said that he was speaking hypothetically, but in the indicative, so (to my amazement) Axe actually quoted him accurately. But NO SF went into Nork.

I’ll be posting this same thing to the others that replied to my posts. Still too busy to hang out here much, alas.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F