Posted on 09/11/2016 9:49:28 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has already developed a plan to annihilate the North Korean capital of Pyongyang through intensive bombing in case the North shows any signs of a nuclear attack, a military source in Seoul said Sunday.
"Every Pyongyang district, particularly where the North Korean leadership is possibly hidden, will be completely destroyed by ballistic missiles and high-explosive shells as soon as the North shows any signs of using a nuclear weapon. In other words, the North's capital city will be reduced to ashes and removed from the map," the source said.
South Korea's Hyunmoo II ballistic missile (Yonhap file photo provided by the Ministry of National Defense) South Korea's Hyunmoo II ballistic missile (Yonhap file photo provided by the Ministry of National Defense)
The disclosure of the detailed bombing operation came after the Defense Ministry reported the "Korea Massive Punishment & Retaliation" (KMPR) to the National Assembly last week in response to the North's fifth nuclear weapon test.
"The defense ministry's operational concept 'Korea Massive Punishment & Retaliation' is aimed at wiping a certain section of Pyongyang completely off the map," the source noted.
The operational concept is intended to launch pre-emptive bombing attacks on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and the country's military leadership if signs of their impending use of nuclear weapons are detected or in the event of a war, the source added.
South Korea plans to mobilize its locally developed surface-to-surface ballistic missile arsenal for the operational concept, including Hyunmoo 2As, 2Bs and Hyunmoo 3s, according to the source.
The ballistic missiles have ranges of 300, 500 and 1,000 kilometers, respectively.
By next year, the military plans to finish launch tests of the missiles and sharply expand the Hyunmoo missile arsenal, the source said.
"The KMPR is the utmost operation concept the military can have in the absence of its own nuclear weapons," he also noted.
Another source indicated the military has recently launched a special operational unit in charge of destroying the North Korean military leadership.
"This military unit is dedicated to targeting the North Korean leadership and launching retaliatory attacks on them," the source noted.
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Thanks Bill...another Clinton legacy.
Hopefully, all they have left are legacies.
PyongYang for Seoul.
Not a very good trade I suspect.
Why don’t we just give the South Koreans nuclear weapon tech? Or why don’t they just build their own?
President Trump would never announce he would or would not do.
This announcement by S. Korea will cause the N. Korea leaders to move away from Pyongyang before getting ready to nuke S. Korea.
N. Korea is developing nukes, and is behaving aggressively.
S. Korea has already had them for awhile but doesn’t want to use them. Will launch preemptively if N.K. makes it necessary.
The article says that the KMPR (or whatever) is the best option they have because they don’t have nuclear capabilities.....or am I reading that wrong?
Re: SK nukes - We may have some translation errors.
A non technical observation and question
Nuclear weapons are a 70+ year old technology. Imagine saying to a nation - Don’t build a 1944 Chevrolet or the equivalent of a Sherman tank. If you trust you physics would you need to test a device to know it would work?
A uranium bomb is actually rather easy to make provided you have enough enriched uranium.
Question #1:
Could S. Korea have purchased enough uranium or even plutonium to build a bomb on the sly?
If they did they might not have to test their bomb if they trust their physics
Question #2:
Would the Israeli’s sell them a bomb or two on the sly as payback for North Korea giving the technology to Syria?
The article is confusing. I thought the SK “ballistic missiles” were armed with nukes. Ok, on second reading, looks like you are correct.
I gotta quit speed reading. :-)
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