US commandos parachuted into N. Korea [View all]

[Lars77]

Source: AFP

US and South Korean special forces have been parachuting into North Korea to gather intelligence about underground military installations, a US officer has said in comments carried in US media.

Army Brigadier General Neil Tolley, commander of US special forces in South Korea, told a conference held in Florida last week that Pyongyang had built thousands of tunnels since the Korean war, The Diplomat reported.

"The entire tunnel infrastructure is hidden from our satellites," Tolley said, according to The Diplomat, a current affairs magazine. "So we send (South Korean) soldiers and US soldiers to the North to do special reconnaissance."

"After 50 years, we still don't know much about the capability and full extent" of the underground facilities," he said, in comments reported by the National Defense Industrial Association's magazine on its website.

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This is weird.

First of all, why come out and say that if it is true?

Second, i suppose you could drop in at night from high altitude.. But how do you extract people from North Korea, the most heavily defended country in the world? They can´t walk across the border, that´s for sure.

This seems very odd to me.