For the first time, Special Forces units of the U.S. military will participate in ongoing and annual joint drills with South Korea, Asian media reported Monday. And the stated objective of their training is to prepare to take out North Korean leaders in a potential regime change scenario.
From South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency:
U.S. special operations forces, including the unit that killed Osama Bin Laden, will take part in joint military drills with South Korea to practice incapacitating North Korean leadership in case of conflict.
The U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six will join the annual Foal Eagle and Key Resolve exercises between the two allies for the first time, along with the Army’s Rangers, Delta Force and Green Berets.
Naming North Korea’s ruler directly and citing an unnamed official from South Korea’s Ministry of Defense, the Joon Gang Daily said Monday that the elite units are there to “take part in an exercise simulating the removal of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.”
The paper, discussing the team that took out Bin Laden, went on to note that Japanese media reported on the Special Forces units’ arrival:
The Japan Times reported that the American unit boarded the USS Carl Vinson, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier last Friday, and are currently training in South Korean waters. The carrier will arrive in Busan Port Wednesday, according to the Japanese newspaper.
Another unnamed military official, according to Yonhap, said the drills will also target the North Korean war machine.
“A bigger number of and more diverse U.S. special operations forces will take part in this year’s Foal Eagle and Key Resolve exercises to practice missions to infiltrate into the North, remove the North’s war command and demolition of its key military facilities,” the official said.
Joon Gang Daily quoted an official from the Ministry of National Defense who claims the move is in response to North Korea’s nasty habit of saber-rattling.
“It will send a very strong message to North Korea, which is constantly carrying out military provocations,” the official said.
As Anti-Media reported last week, tensions are high in the region now. North Korea, which feels threatened by the military cooperation between the South and its ally the United States, fired off rockets that landed just off the coast of Japan, another U.S. ally. North Korean state media later confirmed it was in direct response to the drills.
Is N. Korea really that unreasonable in developing nukes? I can see how it feels threatened by S. Korea, Japan, and especially the US, in light of the US’ regime changes it has pursued the last 50 years.
North Korea are the bad guys. How dare they put their country so close to US military bases, troop concentrations and US allys?
Korea should have been reunited years ago only the US keeps up the rhetoric of creating and keeping the enemy because of their hate of communism. And yet China is communist and and is now second economy next to the US and I don’t see the Chinese complaining about the perils of communism.
tell me about it. N. Korea is just reckless with their country placement!!
Given US worldwide aggression and US wargames yearly on the NK border, I’m shocked that NK has not (yet) popped the cork. It’s obvious TPTB running the US is spoiling for a fight (it’s not Trump).
It’s only a matter of time until the NWO nutters manage to stir up yet another war. If I was NK, I’d be doing everything possible to build nuclear stocks and delivery systems. Deterrence will not stop a rabid animal like the US, but it would virtually ensure mutually-ensured-destruction (MAD).
US warlust has to be stopped if the world is going to have peace …. regardless of the cost.
Exactly. North Korea has not attacked anyone. They are testing missiles – something that the US and its many allies regularly do. While I oppose all of these systems I do believe it is total hypocrisy for the US to decide which countries may test missiles and which may not. Does another nation have the right to say that a preemptive first strike attack on the US is appropriate because this country actually does go around the world constantly creating wars and chaos?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-considers-first-strike-attack-against-north-korea/5578978
*Between 1898 and 1934 the Marines invaded: Cuba 4 times; Nicaragua 5 times; Honduras 7 times; the Dominican Republic 4 times; Haiti twice; Guatemala once; Panama twice; Mexico 3 times; and Colombia 4 times. All done for the corporations to get natural resorces and farm land for them.
*Eisenhower murdered over one million innocent Germans in open field prison camps, AFTER the war’s end.
*President Truman dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki murdering over 100,000 innocent people inspite of Japan’s desire to surrender.
*Johnson, Nixon, and J. Edgar Hoover were at Clint Murcheson’s ranch finalizing JFK’s murder the night before.
*George Bush allowed 9/11 to occur then murdered a million Iraqi innocents.
*Obama dropped over 26 thousand bombs in 2016 on innocents plus allowed the drone murder of wedding parties.
Usually we just fight Israel’s enemires.
More kabuki theater to distract the weak minded. Government reality shows.
“And the audience gasped at such display and said to one another, THIS STUFF IS REAL.”
Two months from now you will have completely forgotten it and be looking for the next act.
Mark my words. They have your number and you buy in every time.
Maybe yes, maybe no. U.S. crimes around the world are certainly well documented. Do you think telegraphing their intentions is beyond them? Do you remember the runup to the first Gulf War?
I wonder what the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria would say?
What does your logic and reason tell you about all the previous saber rattling?
Agreed on the US incremental imperialistic takeovers, but do you think we will poke China with a regime change in NK?
Besides, this is not a military or government statement. It’s some guy looking to sell a story.
Spin and sensationalizing is not limited to MSM.
If I die, go kill the Serbians…
The Jade Helm dance, the take down of the Sears Tower, FEMA camps, guillotine railroad cars, Chinese troops in Mexico, and on an on. So correct Common.
Speaking Truth to Power = moderation? No issue of unacceptable language, citing historical information on Korea by a trusted source, James Perloff.
3rd attempt.. The Korean UN Police Action “War” was an entirely top to bottom global elite powers-that-shouldn’t-be operation in collaboration with the Soviets – – – irrefutable evidence provided by James Perloff who wrote the seminal book on the Council on Foreign Relations, Shadows of Power. Roosevelt gave the Soviets enormous shiploads of weapons to join the fight against the Japanese when the Japanese were very close to surrender. The Soviets declared war on Japan AFTER the first atomic bomb had been dropped, clearly they didn’t need those weapons as they gave them to North Korea. Truman went further in setting the stage for a UN demonstration war… War is engineered by the bankers & war is a racket.
Absofuknlootely!
Guess they re evaluated…
General Wesley Clark was told after 911 by a high ranking general in the Pentagon, “We’re going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.”
Lebanon? But why?
Why is this being advertised to the world? Maybe with the hope that the bad guys, the creeps, a chance to go into hiding, before they are caught?
Are these guys serious? North Korea will respond and Trump will declare there planes or whatever were attacked and then we have a full on US invasion and the start of WW3. I had better batten down the hatches and say goodbye America your time has come and the rest of us of course. Who are these madmen?
Zionists, Jesuits, Aliens, who knows anymore??
Psychopath pedophile murderers.
He will not be toppled. The NWO needs this North Korean dirtbag in place to project baloney threats. This helps to justify bloated military budgets and states of emergency.