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| US Marines come ashore during a training exercise (File Photo) |
By Ankit Panda
According to Yonhap News, the South Korean military launched a major military drill on Wednesday morning incorporating “more than 1,900 marines, 10 ships and craft of the Navy, Army, and Air Force." The objective of the drill was practice readiness and enhance capabilities for beach landings and assaults. South Korea regularly conducts such exercises to deter North Korean threats and provocations.
North Korea carries out similar amphibious landing exercises – a tactic it is expected to employ in any future conflict with South Korea. North Korea supposedly possesses a sizable hovercraft fleet that it is expected to use in such an operation (even though it was caught doctoring images earlier this year to make its fleet appear larger). Kim Jong-Un has personally taken great interest in amphibious landings, highlighting their potential for use against the United States in Guam or Hawaii, according to North Korean media
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