Wire Coming Down on East Coast Beach Areas
The ROK military officials are announcing that the military will begin removing barbed wire along popular South Korean beaches located on the East Sea.
South Korea wants to make its beaches more user friendly and thinks a good place to start would be by removing enormous stretches of barbed wire from its shores.
The Maritime Ministry said on Tuesday it will start removing barbed wire, used to slow down a possible North Korean landing, from some of its eastern coastal areas next year in order to make the sandy shores more inviting to South Korean tourists.
Any foreign traveler to the beach areas on the East Coast will instantly recognize how bizarre barbed wire, bunkers, machine gun emplacements, and watch towers are at popular beach resorts. However, the threat from North Korean commandos is very real on the East Coast with multiple infiltration attempts within the last 10 years that has ultimately killed many South Korean soldiers and civilians.
According to the ROK military the removal of the barbed wire will not compromise security:
“The job of guarding the coast can be done by closed circuit TV,” a ministry official said by telephone.
That closed caption TV they use on the US-Mexico border really works well too.
Kudos to anyone who can identify the popular South Korean beach pictured above.
I guess they decided that concertina wire wouldn't be too conducive to the plans for nude beaches.
Now can they move the bouy line out far enough that we can actually swim at the beaches?
Jeongdongjin, I'm guessing as the beach. It's a little south of my focus.
I imagine that there are many in the ROK who would like to replace all their personnel on all frontline posts with CCTV and perahps a few robot guns that can be reprogrammed to shoot off welcome streamers when the NORK spec ops troops come across
You guessed it. This is a picture of Jeongdongjin Beach just south of Gangnung at sunrise which the beach is very famous for. The boat in the background is a huge expensive restaurant that charges 10,000 won just to enter the restaurant.