According to Channelnewsasia:
Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff office said 56,000 South Korean troops and 10,000 US soldiers were taking part in the five-day Ulchi Freedom Guardian drill which involves large-scale computer-simulated war games.
Some 4,000 government offices and more than 300,000 civil servants nationwide are also involved.
President Lee Myung-Bak presided over a National Security Council meeting and a separate cabinet meet in an underground bunker as part of the exercise, his office said.
“We are conducting the drill the way we should do in case of war,” a senior presidential aide told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The South’s military upgraded its defence readiness condition by one notch to DEFCON II. The cabinet issued a national mobilisation order authorising a limited call-up of reservists and civilian equipment, the aide said.
- This is not going to easy for N.Korea to swallow as S.Korea conducts such a large scale military exercise. It seems that S.Korea felt it’s worth the risk to do it after one S.Korean Tourist was shot at the tourist spot in N.Korea that was opened previously.
What will be the implication of this event? If S.Korea goes to war with the north….Does it mean the end game is approaching? But of course that’s when N.Korea gave up using nuclear as the “instrument of blackmail” for more food & fuel assistance from S.Korea and China…and goes “crazy” and attack the S.Korea.
I do not speculate that they will do such as it will be a risky venture, North Korea don’t have the resource to fight a prolong war in fuel and food.
They might detonate nuclear bombs in high altitude to destroy the electronics in large area in the south….and the radiation will spread everywhere…including back to N.Korea.
I will almost beg all S.Korean to protect your electronics against EMP attack (Electromagnetic Pulse) caused by the nuclear explosion.
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