Posted on 07/18/2010 2:16:41 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
South Korea is planning to hold an anti-submarine exercise next month in the Yellow Sea following a joint naval drill with the United States expected to be staged later this month in the East Sea, a military source said Friday.
The planned exercise is a display of military force intended to deter future provocation by North Korea in the wake of the North's deadly sinking of a South Korean warship in March, the source said.
No date has been fixed for the exercise that will take place in the Yellow Sea, where a North Korean torpedo sank the Cheonan warship, killing 46 sailors, but it will possibly be held sometime around the Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG), the annual war games with the U.S., set for Aug. 16-26, the source said.
"At first, we are reviewing to hold the exercise after the UFG. But, there is a possibility that it could be held before it," the source said on the condition of anonymity.
A fleet of warships, including a 4,500-ton destroyer, a 1,800-ton submarine, F-15 fighter jets and P-3C maritime surveillance aircrafts, will take part in the drill, according to the source.
Aggressors NEVER back down in the face of cowardice.
Aggressors NEVER back down in the face of cowardice.
Once they pulled the tail of a north korean torpedo out of their sunken ship and did nothing it was over. I understand not wanting to restart an all out war, but I can’t think of many things more humiliating than crawling to the U.N. begging for a strongly worded condemnation and being brushed aside.
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