OPLAN: 5029 Raises It's Head Again
One Free Korea has a great analysis of this Chosun article that discusses OPLAN: 5029 which as far as the ROK government is concerned is treated as if it is a dirty word:
The South Korean and U.S. defense chiefs in October gave the green light to strategic guidelines known as Concept of Operations Plan 5029, which include outlines for a joint response to sudden changes in North Korea. This will allow the two armies to cooperate in giving concrete shape to the plan, devised during the Kim Dae-jung administration in 1999, and ensure they are ready to deal with North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction.
A government source on Thursday said then-defense minister Yoon Kwang-ung and U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld signed off on the strategic guidelines in October. “Under the strategy, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command will complete CONPLAN 5029 by the end of next year,†the source added. The plan has been controversial between the two nations. North Korea, Seoul fears, will be particularly sensitive about the plan, which prepares for contingencies such as a sudden crisis in North Korea as the Stalinist country suffers tighter international sanctions over its nuclear test. Details of the guidelines have not been released, but they reportedly include ways of handling a seizure of North Korean WMD by hypothetical rebel insurgents and their attempt to take them out of the country, and a mass exodus of North Korean refugees.
The South Korean reluctance to plan for the internal collapse of North Korea, something that is just as likely to happen as second Korean War, should be looked at as ideology compromising the national security of the nation. A collapse of North Korea with no contingency plan between South Korea and the US would make the incompentent occupation planning before the Second Gulf War look like the second coming of the Marshall Plan.
The Roh administration’s incompentence to plan is clearly evident now that North Korea misbehaved any way by testing their ballistic missiles in July and their recent nuclear test.
Read OFK for a whole lot more analysis on OPLAN: 5029 controversy.
[…] What concerns me most is these backwards views are slowly but surely making it possible for history to repeat itself. Korean politicians today are becoming more and more like the Yangban of the Josen dynasty of the late 19th century. They are more interested in keeping the status quo and cementing their own power than ensuring the national security of the country. The current leftist government much like the Yangban are highly suspicious of the military and have thus sought to limit the power of the ROK military as much as possible. Thus you see massive cut backs in soldiers, a lack of national military strategy, along with deliberately causing a complacency within the ranks towards the nation’s main enemy North Korea. Now combine this with the simultaneous steady degrading of the US-ROK alliance which may ultimately end up with the exit of US forces from Korea and you have a country that has exposed itself to an external military attack, much like in the late 19th century. There is one main reason why for over 50 years that northeast Asia has been so peaceful, the US military presence. Another eerie similarity is the fact that Japanese agents had infiltrated and manipulated the Korean government long before the actual Japanese occupation in order to set conditions for the eventual take over of Korea by Japan to happen. The same thing is happening today as North Korean agents have infiltrated not only the government, but South Korean society as a whole in order to set conditions for a future North Korean take over of the country. The Japanese were infiltrating Korean society 20 years before the take over of Korea, imagine where South Korea will be in 20 years if North Korea is allowed to continue to manipulate the direction of the country. […]
[…] 5029 last came up back in 2006 and the then South Korean Roh Moo-hyun government did not want to do any real planning for fear of […]
[…] 5029 last came up back in 2006 and the then South Korean Roh Moo-hyun government did not want to do any real planning for fear of […]
[…] 5029 last came up back in 2006 and the then South Korean Roh Moo-hyun government did not want to do any real planning for fear of […]
[…] 5029 last came up back in 2006 and the then South Korean Roh Moo-hyun government did not want to do any real planning for fear of […]