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The situation is still developing. Hopefully, someone will still be here to read this tomorrow. Still at WATCHCON 2. Top aides to the leaders of North and South Korea will meet at the Panmunjom truce village straddling their military border at 0900 GMT (5.00 a.m. EDT) on Saturday to discuss the situation on the Korean peninsula,Continue reading “Korean Officials Buy Half an Hour | Reuters”

Damn, yo. Shit’s for real. This is how war works in 2015. The North Korean Internet has gone completely down twice in the past 12 hours as Kim Jong-un threatens to attack South Korea. via As North Korea and South Korea prepare for war, Internet outages abound.

That give us about one more hour. Well, there goes the neighborhood. The world is waiting for the next move of crazed dictator Kim Jong-un, after he warned that North Korea’s military would attack the South at 8.30am on Saturday. He told his troops last night to be ‘fully ready for war’ following an exchangeContinue reading “North Korea warns it ‘will attack South at 8.30am Saturday’ as Kim Jong-un declares state of war – Mirror Online”

So, according to GlobalSecurity.org, the US and South Korea haven’t gone to WATCHCON2 since June of 1999. The WATCHCON, or Watch Condition to measure reconnaissance posture against the DPRK, was upgraded Friday after the exchange of fires between the two Koreas. According to the article, there are four “Watch Conditions”: WATCHCON 4 is in effect during normalContinue reading “US, ROK Go To WATCHCON2”

Well, then. According to the FMSO, the Kremlin is looking to place short-to-medium range antiaircraft SA-22 Pantsir-S1 battalions at Murmansk by the Norwegian border and at unspecified locations in the east of Russia facing both the US and Japan. via Russian Arctic air defense systems – Business Insider.