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Sat, March 25, 2023 | 07:47
Tensions grow as joint drills begin
한미, 역대 최대규모 연합훈련 돌입…한반도 긴장 고조
Posted : 2016-03-07 17:27
Updated : 2016-03-13 11:44
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A U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jet about to land at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, after finishing an exercise Monday. / Yonhap
A U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jet about to land at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, after finishing an exercise Monday. / Yonhap

By Jun Ji-hye


Tension is escalating after North Korea threatened to launch an all-out offensive in response to the largest-ever joint exercises by South Korea and the U.S., which started Monday.

The largely computer-simulated Key Resolve drill will run until March 18, and the Foal Eagle combined field training exercise will take place until April 30.

The National Intelligence Service said North Korea has attempted to hack into the smartphones of key South Korean officials and launched cyber attacks against a rail operator, without elaborating.

The agency plans to hold an emergency meeting on cyber security today to discuss how to deal with the increasing threats of the North's hacking attacks.

Pyongyang vowed an all-out offensive Monday, further heightening tension on the peninsula, where a new form of Cold War is looming after the North's fourth nuclear test on Jan. 6 and the launch of a long-range rocket on Feb. 7.

Seoul's Ministry of National Defense hit back later in the day, saying that the South will respond resolutely and mercilessly to any provocations from the North.

President Park Geun-hye called on leaders of the military, during a meeting with her senior secretaries at Cheong Wa Dae, to show that the armed forces are capable of making the North pay the price for any additional provocations.

Approximately 17,000 U.S. forces are participating with over 300,000 South Korean troops in the two exercises, which are being conducted on an unprecedented scale with American B-2 stealth bombers, a nuclear submarine and the nuclear-powered John C. Stennis aircraft carrier.

The United Nations Command informed North Korea of the dates and the nature of the drills at 9:34 a.m. through its Panmunjom mission, the ROK-U.S. Combined Forces Command (CFC) said.

"Key Resolve highlights the longstanding and enduring partnership and friendship between the two nations and their combined commitment to Foal Eagle," the CFC said in a release. "The Foal Eagle exercise implements a series of joint and combined field training operations conducted by the CFC and U.S. Forces Korea component commands (ground, air, naval, and special operations)."

The allies have included preparations for a contingency for preemptive strikes against the North's key facilities in their war games this year as part of a the new joint wartime operational plan, dubbed OPLAN 5015.

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They will also implement a joint deterrence strategy — coined the 4D strategy — "to detect, defend, disrupt and destroy" the North's missile threats, containing nuclear, chemical and biological warheads. The 4D Operational Concept was approved during the allies' annual Security Consultative Meeting held in Seoul during November last year.

Along with the two drills, marines and navy personnel of the two nations also began the biennial, combined amphibious exercise Ssang Yong 16, Monday, the CFC said in a separate release.

Some 12,200 U.S. Marines and sailors of the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Expeditionary Strike Group 7 and Task Force 76 are participating in the exercise with some 5,000 ROK Marines and Navy personnel, as well as personnel from the Australian Army and New Zealand Defense Force, according to the CFC.

On Saturday, they will conduct a simulated amphibious assault along beaches in the vicinity of Pohang, during which they will penetrate notional enemy beach defenses, establish a beachhead, and deploy rapid transition forces and support on shore.

"This will be a simulated, full-spectrum, combined arms forcible entry operation," the CFC said.

North Korea responded sensitively to the allies' large-scale drills, apparently because of the fact that the exercises envision targeting key facilities and the leadership of the Kim Jong-un regime.

"The army and people of the (North) will take military counteraction for a preemptive attack so that they may deal merciless deadly blows at the enemies," the North's National Defense Commission said in a statement carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency.

The commission also warned that major South Korean targets are within the North's firing range, and its nuclear strike capability can reach U.S. military bases within the Asia-Pacific region, as well as on the U.S. mainland.

In response, the Ministry of national Defense urged the North to "stop behaving imprudently, which will drive itself toward destruction."

"If they launch provocations, we will respond resolutely and mercilessly," said spokesman Moon Sang-gyun.

As part of the government's efforts to punish the North for its continuous provocative actions, in addition to the newly adopted U.N. resolution sanctions, the government is planning to announce its own sanctions at 3 p.m. today..

The measures are likely to include a ban on vessels entering ports in South Korea from third-party countries that have travelled through the North, and sanctions on more institutions and personnel related to the North's development of weapons of mass destruction in addition to those blacklisted by the U.N.

During the meeting, President Park Geun-hye called on her aides to take steps to ensure that U.N. member states can thoroughly implement the new sanctions as well as to impose additional sanctions on the North to rein in its nuclear and missile programs, referring to the U.N. Security Council's unanimous adoption of a new resolution last week that contains sanctions meant to cut off the North's access to hard currency.

"Now, what matters is to thoroughly implement the U.N. sanctions to make North Korea abandon its nuclear program and move toward change," Park said Monday at the regular meeting with her senior secretaries.




한미, 역대 최대규모 연합훈련 돌입…한반도 긴장 고조

키리졸브·독수리 연습에 미군 1만7천여명 참가…핵항모 투입
한미 해병대 쌍용훈련도 최대 규모 실시…北 내륙 침투 연습
北 '총공세 진입할 것' 위협…국방부 '경거망동하면 파멸' 경고

한국과 미국 양국 군이 7일 역대 최대 규모의 키리졸브(KR)와 독수리(FE) 연합훈련을 시작했다.

북한이 이에 반발하며 '총공세'에 나설 것이라고 위협하자 우리 군은 즉각 북한에 대해 무모한 도발에 나선다면 '파멸'을 맞게 될 것이라고 경고하는 등 한반도의 긴장이 고조되고 있다.

한미연합사는 보도자료를 통해 '한미연합사령부가 연례적으로 실시하는 키리졸브 및 독수리 연습이 오늘 시작됐다'고 밝혔다.

지휘소 훈련(CPX)인 키리졸브 연습은 오는 18일까지, 실기동 훈련(FTX)인 독수리 연습은 다음 달 30일까지 진행된다.

연합사는 '키리졸브 연습은 한미간 오랫동안 지속해온 굳건한 동맹관계와 우호, 대한민국과 역내 안정을 방어하는 양국의 공약을 보여주는 것'이라고 강조했다.

유엔군사령부는 이날 오전 9시 34분께 판문점에서 확성기로 북측에 이번 훈련 기간과 함께 훈련이 '도발적 성격'의 것이 아님을 통보한 것으로 알려졌다.

이번 키리졸브와 독수리 연습에 참가하는 미군 병력은 각각 7천여명, 1만여명에 달한다. 이 가운데 주한미군 병력은 2천500여명으로, 대부분 키리졸브 연습에 참가한다. 나머지 병력은 미국 본토를 포함한 해외에서 들어오는 증원군이다. 키리졸브와 독수리 연습에 참가하는 한국군 병력은 약 30만여명이다.

한미연합사 관계자는 '이번 훈련에 참가하는 병력과 장비 등 모든 전력을 통틀어 보면 역대 최대 규모의 키리졸브·독수리 연습이라고 할 수 있다'고 설명했다.

이번 훈련 규모가 예년보다 커진 데는 미국의 니미츠급 핵추진 항공모함 존 C. 스테니스호(CVN-74)를 포함한 항모 강습단의 훈련 참가가 영향을 미쳤다. 존 C. 스테니스 항모 강습단의 병력은 7천여명에 달한다.

제9 항공단, 제21 구축함전대, 9천200t급 스톡데일 구축함(DDG-106), 9천200t급 윌리엄 P. 로런스 구축함(DDG-110), 9천800t급 모바일 베이 순양함(CG-53) 등을 포함하는 존 C. 스테니스 항모 강습단은 이번 주말쯤 한국에 도착해 본격적으로 훈련을 시작할 예정이다.

이번 키리졸브·독수리 연습에는 북한 최고 수뇌부와 핵·미사일 시설에 대한 정밀 타격을 주된 내용으로 하는 작전계획 5015가 적용된다. 적의 핵심 시설 파괴 임무를 수행하는 미군 최정예 특수부대도 이번 훈련에 참가할 것으로 알려졌다.

한미 해병대도 이날 정례적인 연합훈련인 쌍용훈련에 돌입했다.

오는 18일까지 진행되는 이번 훈련에는 한국 해군과 해병대, 미군 제3 해병원정여단, 제7 강습상륙전단, 76기동부대 등이 참가한다.

병력으로 보면 미 해병대 9천200여명과 해군 3천여명, 한국 해병대와 해군 5천여명 등 역대 최대 규모다. 호주군 130여명과 뉴질랜드군 60여명도 유엔사령부 파견군 자격으로 훈련에 참가한다.

이번 훈련에 참가하는 미군 제3 해병원정여단과 제7 강습상륙전단은 지난 3일 한국에 도착했다. 제3 해병원정여단의 강습상륙함인 4만1천t급 본험리처드함(LHD-6)과 제7 강습상륙전단의 1만7천t급 애슐랜드함(LSD-48), 1만6천t급 저먼타운함(LSD-42)도 훈련에 투입된다.

제3 해병원정여단과 제7 강습상륙전단, 한국 해병대와 해군은 오는 12일 경북 포항 부근 해변을 따라 모의 상륙강습훈련을 진행할 예정이다.

한미 해병대는 포항 인근 독석리와 화진리, 도구 해안 등 한반도 남동부 해안에서 상륙작전에 이어 내륙으로 강하게 파고드는 훈련을 집중적으로 실시할 계획이다.

군 관계자는 이번 키리졸브·독수리 연습과 쌍용훈련이 '북한의 핵·미사일 도발에 대한 한미동맹의 능력과 의지 보여주는 것'이라며 북한의 4차 핵실험과 장거리 미사일 발사에 대한 대응 차원임을 숨기지 않았다.

앞서 북한의 최고권력기구인 국방위원회는 오전 발표한 성명에서 이번 한미 연합훈련을 '미국과 그 추종세력들의 핵전쟁 도발 광기'로 규정하고 이에 대응해 '총공세'에 진입할 것이라고 위협했다.

이에 대해 문상균 국방부 대변인은 정례브리핑에서 북한 국방위 성명을 '용납할 수 없는 노골적인 위협'이라고 규정하고, '북한은 스스로를 파멸로 몰고가는 경거망동을 즉각 중단해야 할 것'이라고 경고했다. (연합뉴스)
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