South Korean and U.S. troops have been conducting live-fire exercises this week to hone their ability to respond to potential “Hamas-style surprise artillery attacks” by North Korea, South Korea’s military said Friday.

The two forces regularly conduct live-fire and other training, but this week’s drills come after Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault on Israel raised security jitters in South Korea, which shares the world’s most heavily fortified border with rival North Korea.

Experts say the North’s forward-deployed long-range artillery guns can fire about 16,000 rounds per hour in the event of a conflict, posing a serious threat to Seoul, which is about 40-50 kilometers (25-30 miles) from the border.

  • rafa
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    -428 months ago

    South Korea has 69h work weeks but North Korea bad 😞

    • JJROKCZ
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      268 months ago

      Work-life balance is certainly abysmal but SK doesn’t have prison labor camps or a starving populace

      • @5BC2E7@lemmy.world
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        48 months ago

        I just block the tankies when they’re this obvious. There is no need to try to reason with them.

        • JJROKCZ
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          48 months ago

          They need to get banned when they try to leave lemmygrad or wherever they gather now

      • rafa
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        -238 months ago

        Isn’t 69h per week a Gulag? Lol

        • JJROKCZ
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          No? My wife and I both work around that in America in our respective careers of IT and public accounting. 70 hr weeks aren’t fun but if you balance it across 7 days it’s just 10 of your 16 waking hours, if you work remotely like my wife then you don’t even need to add the two hours commuting a day to it

          Edit: is the /s really necessary guys? I just called it abysmal one comment up. I hate our workload, but I still wouldn’t call it gulag or comparable to the conditions of North Koreans

          • rafa
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            -68 months ago

            I work 35h weekly, it’s not legal to work more in my country.

            Enjoy your freedom and democracy bro