South Korean and U.S. troops have been conducting live-fire exercises this week to hone their ability to respond to potential “Hamas-style surprise artillery attacks” by North Korea, South Korea’s military said Friday.

The two forces regularly conduct live-fire and other training, but this week’s drills come after Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault on Israel raised security jitters in South Korea, which shares the world’s most heavily fortified border with rival North Korea.

Experts say the North’s forward-deployed long-range artillery guns can fire about 16,000 rounds per hour in the event of a conflict, posing a serious threat to Seoul, which is about 40-50 kilometers (25-30 miles) from the border.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean and U.S. troops have been conducting live-fire exercises this week to hone their ability to respond to potential “Hamas-style surprise artillery attacks” by North Korea, South Korea’s military said Friday.

    The two forces regularly conduct live-fire and other training, but this week’s drills come after Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault on Israel raised security jitters in South Korea, which shares the world’s most heavily fortified border with rival North Korea.

    Experts say the North’s forward-deployed long-range artillery guns can fire about 16,000 rounds per hour in the event of a conflict, posing a serious threat to Seoul, which is about 40-50 kilometers (25-30 miles) from the border.

    The three-day firing exercises, which began Wednesday, involved 5,400 South Korean and U.S. soldiers, 300 artillery systems, 1,000 vehicles and air force assets, according to South Korea’s military.

    In a simulated response to “the enemy’s (possible) Hamas-style surprise artillery attacks,” the exercises practiced strikes designed to “remove the origins of the enemy’s long-range artillery provocations at an early date,” South Korea’s Ground Operations Command said in a statement.

    It typically views major U.S.-South Korean military training as invasion rehearsals and responds with missile tests.


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    US staging military drills = good

    China staging military drills = bad

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      Aggressive territorial expansionism = bad

      Defense against aggressive action = good

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        Let’s tally up the countries that China has invaded vs the countries that the US has invaded.

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          Ever? In that case I think you’re gonna be in for a treat lmfao

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    “Hamas style attacks”… from North Korea? This sounds so stupid.

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        Because first and foremost North Korea has an army and secondly I highly suspect they would go shoot up some random village. An army usually has more interesting military objectives.

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      Work-life balance is certainly abysmal but SK doesn’t have prison labor camps or a starving populace

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        I just block the tankies when they’re this obvious. There is no need to try to reason with them.

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          They need to get banned when they try to leave lemmygrad or wherever they gather now

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          No? My wife and I both work around that in America in our respective careers of IT and public accounting. 70 hr weeks aren’t fun but if you balance it across 7 days it’s just 10 of your 16 waking hours, if you work remotely like my wife then you don’t even need to add the two hours commuting a day to it

          Edit: is the /s really necessary guys? I just called it abysmal one comment up. I hate our workload, but I still wouldn’t call it gulag or comparable to the conditions of North Koreans