Tuesday, May 29, 2012

US Troops in North Korea?

Apparently the US has been conducting military operations in Nth Korea for some time according to the brigadier general being quoted. Two points to be made. Why is this information being released and by a relatively low level general rank officer. Secondly, I would imagine that they will be waiting on us the next time we decide to send special operations troops into the north.'

 Soldiers from the US Marine Corps take part in a US-South Korea joint landing operation drill along the shore in Pohang, about 370 km (230 miles) southeast of Seoul, March 29, 2012. North Korea remains technically at war with South Korea since the end of the Korean War in 1953. In a sign North Korea is moving forward with its announced plan to launch a rocket in mid-April, a U.S. official confirmed the United States had detected activity that looked like launch preparations at a facility near the country's northwestern border with China

US special forces 'parachuted into North Korea'

Army Brigadier General Neil Tolley, commander of US special forces in South Korea, told a conference held in Florida last week that Pyongyang had built thousands of tunnels since the Korean war, The Diplomat reported.
"The entire tunnel infrastructure is hidden from our satellites," Gen Tolley said. "So we send (South Korean) soldiers and US soldiers to the North to do special reconnaissance."
"After 50 years, we still don't know much about the capability and full extent" of the underground facilities," he said, in comments reported by the National Defense Industrial Association's magazine on its website.