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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Mon May 6, 2013, 08:10 PM May 2013

US, S.Korea Launch Naval Drills in Yellow Sea

SEOUL, May 6 (RIA Novosti) – South Korea and the United States began an antisubmarine exercise in the Yellow Sea on Monday, the Yonhap news agency reported.

The drill, which will continue until Friday, involves a nuclear-powered Los Angeles-class submarine, Aegis destroyers and P-3C maritime surveillance aircraft deployed from US bases, as well as South Korean destroyers, submarines and maritime aircraft, military officials said.
"It is part of an annual routine drill held to prepare against an adversary's submarine infiltration," Yonhap quoted a military official as saying.

The antisubmarine drill comes after the US and South Korea completed their two-month-long Foal Eagle joint exercises last week, amid high inter-Korean tensions.

North Korea reacted angrily to the latest drills on Sunday, with a spokesman for the Policy Department of the National Defense Commission calling on Seoul to stop "hostile acts and military provocations."

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http://en.rian.ru/world/20130506/180993194/US-SKorea-Launch-Naval-Drills-in-Yellow-Sea.html

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US, S.Korea Launch Naval Drills in Yellow Sea (Original Post) Purveyor May 2013 OP
And the provocation continues Hugabear May 2013 #1
To be fair, not much doesn't piss them off Marrah_G May 2013 #3
I don't think I can ever remember it being this tense... SidDithers May 2013 #2
Which war? NK or Syria or Iran? Fucking insane out there, indeed! eom Purveyor May 2013 #4

Hugabear

(10,340 posts)
1. And the provocation continues
Mon May 6, 2013, 08:47 PM
May 2013

The only thing these drills seem to accomplish is to piss off North Korea

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)
2. I don't think I can ever remember it being this tense...
Mon May 6, 2013, 08:51 PM
May 2013

war is pretty much imminent. A sneeze could set the whole thing off.

Sid

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