Special to WorldTribune.com As North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un declared on Aug. 21 that Pyongyang was in a “quasi-state of war,” U.S. troops were seen mobilizing at a South Korean border town. “The Korean People’s Army (KPA) front-line large combined units entered into a wartime state all at once, fully armed to launch surprise operations, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korea’s new ruler Kim Jong-Un has invented his own military group dedicated to conducting blitzkrieg-style offensives against South Korea, an approach that is far more assertive than his late father’s military reconnaissance office. The “Special Operation Action Group” has been created under the North’s Korean […]
By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — The timing of the annual descent on South Korea of the United States defense chief was uncanny. Here the people of the South Korean capital had just elected an anti-American, anti-bases, anti-everything protester as their mayor, and here was Leon Panetta, the defense secretary, talking about the North Koreans’ non-stop “threat” […]