N. Korea threatens unprecedented response to South-US drill

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4. Where is the discussion of President Yoon's

...threats to pre-emptively strike North Korea?

It is South Korea's authoritarian leader Yoon Seok-yeol, who has been threatening to pre-emptively attack North Korea. US military exercises in recent years have been premised on so called de-capitation strikes or other preemptive strikes against North Korea. North Korean ballistic missile testing is directly related to joint US-South Korean military exercises. The North Korean nuclear force is a deterrent to US/South Korean attack. Yoon has been threatening to violate the NPT himself to arm South Korea with nuclear weapons. He does this to gain support for the US to deploy its nuclear arms to South Korea again. The US interim measure is to deploy strategic bombers and aircraft carrier strike groups, so called strategic assets back to South Korea for military exercises.

This is the related news in South Korea not covered at all by western media even though it is a remarkable development- As indictment and an arrest warrant are imminent for the leader of the democratic party in South Korea, virtually the entire body of National Assembly democratic party representatives denouce the Yoon administration as a dictatorship run by Yoon's prosecutors. Former presidential candidate and National Assembly member Lee Jae-myung is just one of many opposition politicians, reporters, labor and civic leaders subjected to arbitrary political persecution by Yoon Seok-yeol's administration in South Korea.



(Source 빨간아재 youtube 2.16) Democratic Party National Assembly members (center) surrounded by local government officials and party members from all over South Korea assembled in front of the National Assembly building in Yoido to condemn the government of Yoon Seok-yeol as a dictatorship run by prosecutors.

Pushing the military confrontation with North Korea, and the South's descent into dictatorship are directly related.