WW3 Looming -- South Korea Stages a Nationwide Civil Defence Drill

The United States and South Korea began an annual joint military exercise Monday, despite angry threats from North Korea.

As many as 80,000 U.S. and South Korean forces are taking part in the computer-generated Ulchi Freedom exercise, which simulates a response to a military invasion by the North.

The exercise is taking place amid heightened tensions on the peninsula after two South Korean soldiers were maimed when landmines exploded as they were patrolling the demilitarized zone separating the two rivals.

Seoul blamed Pyongyang for planting the mines, and resumed propaganda broadcasts via loudspeakers near the countries' tense border Sunday for the first time in in more than a decade.

North Korean landmines South Korea's broadcasts began after two of its soldiers were maimed when landmines exploded as they were patrolling the demilitarized zone separating the rivals. Seoul has blamed the North for planting the landmines, a charge Pyongyang has strongly rejected.

North Korea has promised to take the "strongest military counteraction" in response to the joint U.S.- South Korea exercises. As many as 80,000 U.S. and South Korean forces are taking part in the exercises.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Monday called for a strong military readiness on the Korean Peninsula.

"However, North Korea distorts and condemns the essence of the Ulchi exercise every year, continuing military threats," said Park.

"As far as the North's hostile attitude and provocative threats continue, we need to be prepared with a strong deterrent to counter the North, and the Ulchi exercise is a great opportunity to check and examine our preparatory position for securing our citizens' safety and the national security," she said.

South Korean broadcasts were aimed at emphasizing that the mine blast was provocation committed by North Korea and relaying messages about the superiority of Seoul-style democracy as well as world news and weather forecasts, the South Korean Defense Ministry official said. North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has ordered its military to be fully ready The official was quoted as saying that joint reconnaissance military assets of South Korea and the United States detected the moves of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK’)s mobile rocket launchers, mounted with Scud and Rodong missiles.

South and North Korea traded artillery fire across their border on Thursday in a rare exchange that sent tensions soaring to dangerous levels. South Korea has raised its military readiness alert to its highest level, Jindogae 1, indicating immediate danger, imminent attack or invasion.








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