South Korea: New Rules of Engagement Allow Much Stronger Retaliation Against North Korea
November 25th, 2010Via: BBC:
The government also said it was changing its rules of engagement to allow it to respond more forcefully to similar incidents. The old rules have been criticised as too passive.
The BBC’s Chris Hogg in Seoul says the cabinet had decided that under the old rules of engagement there was too much emphasis on preventing a military incident escalating into something worse.
In future, the South would implement different levels of response, depending on whether the North attacked military or civilian targets, a presidential spokesman said.
A senior government official told the BBC that Seoul wanted to be more flexible in order to keep the North Koreans guessing as to their response.
The South Korean broadcaster, KBS, said the new rules called for the South to fire back “with shots two to three times more powerful than the enemy artillery”.
This can only be bad news. I guess this just paves the way for a big kick-off very soon.
Anyone remember Ed Dames on Coast2CoastAM a few years back, talking up the ‘nuclear landmine’ scenario on the Lorean peninsula? For some reason I started thinking about that today.
Obviously I meant the Korean peninsula. Sarah Palin must have been doing my typing…