Seoul vetoes US military plan

Seoul vetoes US military plan


April 16, 2005

The government in Seoul has vetoed a United States-South Korea combined forces plan that includes armed intervention in North Korea in the event of instability there.

The country's National Security Council (NSC) said it had ordered the classified plan to be scrapped because it could infringe on South Korean sovereignty.

Under a bilateral treaty, the South Korean military comes under American command only in times of war.

Analysts said the US military may have wanted control of South Korean forces to handle massive disruption envisaged by the potential collapse of impoverished North Korea, which has been in a standoff with the outside world for more than two years over its nuclear weapons drive.

The goal of the top secret military operation, codenamed 5029, would be to secure North Korea's nuclear weapons sites and materials.
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http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/World/GD16Wd01.html

The lunatics in the White House are driving away every ally we ever had. Add S. Korea to the list.

Now, how are we supposed to actually do anything in the region if N. Korea does fall apart? Invade S. Korea and fight them too?

This is insanity.

:bounce:

Bush/PNAC of course. South Korea was wise to try to short-circuit this plan, as the N.K. nukes most likely would have fell on them (and the fallout from U.S. counter-strikes).

If the government of Pakistan or NK falls, what happens to the nukes.

Or some shit like that.

Although, in the case of the former Soviet states, the nuclear weapons didn't quite go to the victors: instead, they've gone to impoverished soldiers protecting them but whom the government couldn't actually afford to pay, who then sold the nuclear material to heaven-only-knows-who.