Tuesday, May 29, 2012

US SPECIAL FORCES 'parachuted into North Korea'

US and South Korean special forces have been parachuting into North Korea to gather intelligence about underground military installations, according to a senior US officer.
British soldiers from the 3rd Parachute Brigade jump from a C130 Hercules plane during the 16 Air Assault Brigade Exercise Joint Warrior at West Freugh Airfield, Stranraer, Scotland on April 16, 2012
The United States military has denied reports attributed to the head of its special forces in South Korea that his men have been parachuted into North Korea to gather intelligence

Soldiers from the US Marine Corps take part in a US-South Korea joint landing operation drill along the shore in Pohang, about 370 km (230 miles) southeast of Seoul, March 29, 2012. North Korea remains technically at war with South Korea since the end of the Korean War in 1953. In a sign North Korea is moving forward with its announced plan to launch a rocket in mid-April, a U.S. official confirmed the United States had detected activity that looked like launch preparations at a facility near the country's northwestern border with China

Army Brigadier General Neil Tolley, commander of US special forces in South Korea, told a conference held in Florida last week that Pyongyang had built thousands of tunnels since the Korean war, The Diplomat reported.
"The entire tunnel infrastructure is hidden from our satellites," Gen Tolley said. "So we send (South Korean) soldiers and US soldiers to the North to do special reconnaissance."
"After 50 years, we still don't know much about the capability and full extent" of the underground facilities," he said, in comments reported by the National Defense Industrial Association's magazine on its website.
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By Barbara at May 29, 2012