04-08-2013, 05:28 AM
freeradical wrote:The message was for South Korea and Japan "we still got your back"....
We've recently had F-22's participate in exercises in South Korea. This was clearly meant as a message to North Korea.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013...outh-korea
We've also had B-2 bombers run missions in South Korea. Was this meant as a message to North Korea or China? I think it's entirely plausible that this was meant for China. The B-2 bomber is of course a strategic weapon that would never be used in a conventional war in Korea. I understand that one of ours and South Koreas's concerns, is that China might try to annex North Korea, and we might simply be saying "Don't do it"...