For close to sixty years, we've been plotting and planning and training and scheming to conquer that Pearl of Northeast Asia, North Korea.
Unfortunately for us, like everything else they do, the North Koreans excel at ferreting out our plots:
In a lengthy statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, a spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said the announcement of the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises has "created such a deplorable situation in which huge aggression troops of the U.S. are deployed in areas close to the Military Demarcation Line." ...
The belligerent nuclear-armed Communist country, led by its unpredictable leader Kim Jong Un, said: "The United States and puppet warmongers are claiming that the purpose of the drill is to take control of nuclear facilities in the north and occupy Pyongyang in case of 'emergency in the North.'"
Back to the drawing board. One day we'll succeed in achieving the element of surprise in our preparations.
Next year in Pyongyang, eh?
Actually, practicing to operate north of the DMZ is wise whether we have to race the Chinese for control of vital terrain and nuclear facilities (and I'd prefer an agreement before on where we all stop) or whether we have to protect Seoul from conventional bombardment.
But this aspect is a relatively new requirement after decades of hoping we could just hold Seoul in the face of a large-scale mechanized offensive.
