For John, BLUF: Really, a small incident. Nothing to see here; just move along.
Reporter Spencer Ackerman, of Wired magazine (Danger Room) writes about how North Korea ends this current bout of tensions, "Ex-CIA Analyst Expects North Korea to Attack South Korea Before Tensions End".
“North Korea will launch an attack,” predicts Sue Mi Terry, a Columbia University professor who served as a senior analyst on North Korea at the CIA from 2001 to 2008. The attack won’t be nuclear, she thinks, nor will it be a barrage from the massive amounts of artillery Pyongyang has aimed south.Or maybe this is the new normal.Instead, Terry believes, “it will be something sneaky and creative and hard to definitively trace back to North Korea to avoid international condemnation and immediate retaliation from Washington or Seoul.” This, she thinks, is what counts as de-escalation in 2013 from the new regime in Pyongyang: a relatively small attack that won’t leave many people dead.
Regards — Cliff
Reminiscent of the endless battle between Taiwan and the PRC in which swimmers from both sides engaged each other in clandestine, nighttime confrontations in the Yellow Sea.....the now defunct air base America maintained in Taiwan, CCK, was more or less a front for our support to Taiwan in rebuffing the more or less constant pressure exerted on Taiwan by the PRC. Unbeknown to many, we actually trained Taiwanese pilots to fly the venerable U-2. One assumes that those pilots then operated U-2's out of CCK. Who knows??? Maybe they still do.
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