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Originally Posted by 35NCO
It may surprise you to know that they have been taking pot shots a crossed the DMZ a few times recently.
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No it doesn't. Potshots, fire fights, border incursions and attacks have been going on at that DMZ and South since the armistice. Tunnels, the NKPA Olympic swim teams and the intelligence war in S. Korea isn't unknown either.
The 1950s hijack of a South Korean airliner to the murders at the JSA bridge in 1976 till now the list of even just publicly released incidents isn't all that short.
The cold and snow isn't a reprieve from the possibility of attack. I believe they proved that once. The North lives in the worst of the cold and snow and the hard ground just provides better surfaces for heavy vehicles. Much better than soft spring and summer rice paddies or slugging through the rains.
The questions in an attack isn't how long they can endure, it's how fast can they advance still maintaining their supply lines and how far they reach before their attack stalls. It's also how much preparation they've accomplished in the South.
The North is always testing, the NKPA like being a pain in the ass and they're good at it, however clownish it may seem at times they do it for a reason.
This incident leads me to wonder what may be going on elsewhere, seems like a big show and, right now at least, not much effort or expense on their side.
A quick google shows plenty of incident info,
just paste the links in the web address window.
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/crs/rl30004.pdf
guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/nov/23/north-korea-yeonpyeong-island-incidents-map
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_border_incidents_involving_North_Korea
globalsecurity.org/military/ops/dmz-list.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe_murder_incident
country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-9643.html
Take care.