Theatre Intel Thread: - Korea

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To: General Adams, USPACOM Operational HQ Camp LaGuardia, Seoul, South korea

From: Master sergeant Bud Jackson

General Adams Delta one four can confirm discovery of the weapons caches at assigned location we encountered a small defending force inside the bunker but the area is now secure.

teams five and six should be on their targets within the hour but i feel they will find the same as we did which is as yet no chemical weapons.

Ill keep you informed of any further developments Sir.
Jackson out.

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To: General Adams, USPACOM Operational HQ Camp LaGuardia, Seoul, South korea

From: Master sergeant Bud Jackson

Sorry for the delay General. Delta one five and one six encountered heavy resistance at their target. But all hostiles are now neutralized and we have the area secure. I am personally on the ground here Sir and i've got to say this is a big one.
The cache itself is three stories deep with a large surface compound on ground level. We found what could be escape tunnels on the two lower levels and i have teams working to clear those at present. As for weaponry found were conducting a full inventory at the moment but ball park figure is your looking at around one thousand assault rifles, several hundred RPGs and other assorted launchers, grenades, mines, and components for making IEDs.
This just seems to back up the theory Sir that these cahces are part of a contingency plan for a guerilla campaign by the North and judging from the size of this place and its food stores i would say that it was to be used as a staging area.

We have the area secure at present but we will need a decision from your end ASAP on how best to leave these caches. I recommend disabling the firearms and using some of the captured munitions to boobytrap the facility and in the event of the suspected guerilla campaign we can inflict casualties on the enemy as they try to use the caches.


Ill keep you informed of any further developments Sir.
Jackson out.

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To: All Ground And Unit Commanders Korean Theatre Battle Groups

From: General Adams, USPACOM Operational HQ Camp LaGuardia, Seoul, South korea

Just to say People that the weather is closing in we are days away from the monsoon season it may have actually already began in some locations. Get any supply drops in quick because if this season is as bad as last year there will be no birds flying for a while.

We have them on the back foot here and we need to use this time to consolidate our possistions on the ground. I will expect full sit reps from each and every one of you within the next 24 Hours.

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To: Director Reynolds, CIA, Langley, USA

From: Terry Callahan, MI6, London, UK

One of our agents in China has reported in with some possible intel concerning some kind of large scale Military activity in North Korea. Now as we both Know Coalition Forces have no Main Force troops above P'yongyang. But if im not mistaken Director, you have SF teams operating under your direct control only a hundred kilometres away from the area where my agent has pinpointed the activity. I realise this is not the correct procedure for requesting your assistance. But you do have the power to make things happen quietly and i do not want to risk compromising my agents cover by having hundreds of troops flying up there in helicopters and making a pigs ear out of the operation as they normally do to which im sure you will agree.

Callhan

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To: Terry Callahan, MI6, London, UK

From: Director Reynolds, CIA, Langley, USA


I have seconded to you a Detachment of your own SAS from B Squadron Mobility Troop. They will be in the target area within the next 72 Hours and will then be reporting directly to you for the duration of the mission. I have kept knowledge of this mission to a minimum at my end and i recomend you do the same at yours if you want to avoid the Military muscling in before your ready.

On a slightly different matter i would like to know what it is exactly that your agent in China is working on that led him to come across the Munitions Intel, We have some strong concerns about Chinese actions over the past year and we have several agents working there at present. My superiors feel it may be time we pooled our Intel and see what weve all got.

Im sure this wont be a problem for you Agent Callahan considering the numerous strings i've just pulled to get the SF team seconded to you for this mission.

Reynolds

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To: Director Reynolds, CIA, Langley, USA

From: Terry Callahan, MI6, London, UK


Thankyou Director

I land in Washington Friday for the Inter Agency Conference next week. Perhaps we could schedule a meeting before the conference starts. We have some fairly sensitive information to pass on from our man in China so the sooner the better if you know what i mean old chap!.

Callahan

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To: Terry Callahan, MI6, London, UK

From: Director Reynolds, CIA, Langley, USA

It would appear the situation along the Chinese North Korean Border is worse than we thought. At least we know where we stand with China now i suppose. Not that that is really a comforting thought in light of the weekends activity.

I know it wasn't in the official de-brief but im sorry to hear about your Agent damn shame when you lose good men. Sounds like he was given a real going over before they killed him. At some point we will need to look at intel he may have handed over because weve got to minimise operational Damage here Terry especially in light of the activity he was involved in before he was snatched.

There's an issue with your men left behind after Karpathios my superiors are sayng leave them because as yet the Chinese have made no mention of the situation and for the time being Washington would like to keep it that way they intend to use back channels to try and negotiate their release but that could and knowing the Chinese probably will take forever.

I have a small force going back in shortly on a seperate operation and they have been privately briefed by myself to try and locate the area your British guys are being held. Sould they locate them then there is a chance we can send in men to get them out. Ill keep you informed

Director Reynolds

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Transmitting: 02:48 30/10/07
Zero Alpha one -one this is echo six - two reporting Our posistion is under heavy attack REPEAT heavy attack. Four men dead six wounded.
We are unable to maintain secure posistion at present grid reference 234/389 Request heavy artillery on this location ASAP
Friendly Forces en-route to ERV at GF 289/375 Need medivac and troop extraction Immediatley

Echo six - two out..........

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Echo six - two This is Zero Alpha - one Artillery is in inbound on your last location ETA 1 minute.

Negative on ERV at GF 289/375 Sattelite footage shows heavy North Korean Forces between you and ERV propose new ERV at GF 302/293

Zero Alpha - one Out

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To: All Ground unit commanders

From: General Adams, USPACOM Operational HQ Camp LaGuardia, Seoul, South korea


After the attack last week on troops in Chang Fo Mountain Region alert status has been increased.

This may be the start of the long mooted Guerilla campaign it may not but lets not let our guard down here people

General Adams

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Extract from "A Modern View On North Korea"
by Nicholas Batchelor, Professor of War Studies, Cambridge University, UK
Cambridge University Press, 2002

Incursion tunnels

Starting on November 15, 1974, the South discovered four tunnels leading under the DMZ, by use of water-filled pipes dug vertically into the ground near areas of suspected tunneling activity. The first of the tunnels is believed to be about 45 meters below surface, with a total length of about 3.5 kilometers, penetrating over 1,000 meters into the DMZ. When the first tunnel was discovered, it featured electric lines and lamps, and railways and paths for vehicles. The second was discovered on March 19, 1975, and is of similar length and between 50 and 160 meters below ground. The third tunnel was discovered on October 17, 1978. Like the previous two, the third tunnel was discovered following a tip off from a North Korean defector. This tunnel is about 1,600 meters long and about 150 meters below ground. A fourth tunnel was discovered on March 3, 1990. It is almost identical in structure to the second and the third tunnel.

The tunnels were dug by North Korea and are likely for use by the military as an invasion route. The tunnels are each large enough to permit the passage of an entire division in one hour. All the tunnels run in a north-south direction and do not branch off. The planning for the tunnels got progressively more advanced (for example, the third tunnel slopes upward slightly as it progresses southward, so that water does not stagnate). The orientation of the blasting lines within each one indicate that North Korea dug the tunnels. Upon their discovery, the North claimed that they were for coal mining; however, no coal can be found in the tunnels, which are dug through granite, but some of the tunnel walls were at some point painted black to give the appearance of coal.

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To:  General Adams - USPACOM Operational HQ, Camp LaGuardia, Seoul

From:  Director Reynolds - CIA, Langley, Virginia, USA

General, first may I express my most sincere congratulations on your command of joint forces in stabilising the situation along the DMZ.  I am aware there are still many pop-up attacks occuring daily on a small scale, but thanks to your efforts, casualties have been minimised and we've held back what can only be seen as an attempt at a full scale invasion of South Korea.  I'm sure you will be well decorated for your pivotal role in this campaign.

Although I am aware of your armoured units covering the entrances to the fourteen known invasion tunnels, I must request that you double efforts to find more weapons caches and tunnels along the DMZ - we must be certain that this method of incursion is simply not an option for the North.  As I understand you have currently found two more caches since the first was discovered on April 27th this year - please ensure that if any more are uncovered, you let me know in the first instance.

As you are aware, Flt. Lt. Wilson of VFA-27 (CVW-5) recently returned to the United States for an evalution of his performance during Operation Karpathios.  The outcome doesn't look good for him, although it gives us some pointers in regards to air defence locations.  Everything points to Flt. Lt. Wilson suffering from the adverse effects of extreme G-forces as he tried to avoid SAMs and also as he ejected.  His after action report states that he was near Shenyang, but it turns out he was more likely to have been over Dandong - much further to the South West, which is in line with where our boys picked him up.  The river he mentioned where the F-18 came down would have been the Yalu.  I think it's possible that the North Korean munitions factory he spotted may have been in Sinuiju, just south of the China-Korea border.  I'll keep you informed of updates as they happen.  In the mean time, it looks as if Flt. Lt. Wilson will be restored to flight status after some R&R with his family, but Karpathios will remain marked on his record as a major error in judgement.  We're lucky the Chinese haven't got more involved than they did.

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To:  Director Reynolds - CIA, Langley, Virginia, USA

From: General Adams - USPACOM Operational HQ, Camp LaGuardia, Seoul


I'm grateful for the strings you've pulled in getting more help to this theatre.  Coalition forces along the DMZ are battle-weary and most need a proper break from the fighting.  As I write this, UN soldiers with draughted equipment from Japan, Singapore, and a small contingent from Belgium are deploying in the South to take the pressure off us and the British.  I'll be sending about fifteen per cent of coalition troops home for a few weeks R&R before they return to Korea, probably early next year.  The remainder - those who've not been here as long - will remain in theatre to bolster South Korea's defences along the DMZ.  The Japanese will remain in the South - I can't risk them getting involved in the fighting - there are already too many potential castastrophies waiting to happen if the DPRK and Japan start getting at each others throats.  The Belgians will be supplying additional ground forces, under command of Adjutant Chef Klaartje De Decker.  Singapore will be providing additional aircraft for CAP and Reconnaissance missions - American pilots are overstretched, presently flying up to eight CAP missions a day.

I've deployed extra patrols as you asked to seek out more weapon caches and tunnels south of the DMZ - we're pretty sure the DMZ itself has no new tunnels as photoreconnaissance aircraft would have picked that up, so I've got them scouting a few klicks further to the South.   We've been getting some radar spikes from around Kaesong too - that'll need some investigation because it could mean a surge in North Korean airpower, at least, compared to the ruins we left their airforce in this time last year.  I'll keep you in the loop.

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From: Director Reynolds - CIA, Langley, Virginia, USA

To: Air Cheif Marshall Sir Geoff Sutton, Royal Air Force


Geoff, as you know we've now got a chance to rest a few of our troops until the new year thanks to some input from the UN.  The current coalition force in theatre is comprised of approximately 50% US forces, 20% UK forces and the remainder is the UN contingent.  Singapore will be providing additional aircraft to keep up our CAP and recon duties.  We have reason to believe that the North may have more aircraft stationed at Kaesong and we wont be letting them cross the border.  I've spoken to Mr. Callahan; you have authorisation to engage any confirmed hostile aircraft flying into the DMZ; that goes for all coalition aircraft operating in that area.  Please ensure your pilots get as much detail as possible on any targets before engaging so we can find out what they're up to.  I look forward to reading your forthcoming operational reports.

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From: General Adams – USPACOM Operational HQ, Camp LaGuardia, Seoul

To: Director Reynolds, CIA, Langley, Virginia, USA

I thought given the importance of this event, I was best to use a secure channel.  As per our telephone call, here is the transcript of the action that took place today -  excuse the brevity code; it’s how the fly boys talk to each other.  It’s our first aerial contact over the DMZ for nearly a year, but the fact that we have now actually shot down an aircraft in the area means that North Korean airpower must be on the up again.  The pilot, one Lt. Jake “Wheels” Wheeler, of 36th Fighter Squadron, 51st Fighter Wing, was flying out of Osan Air Force base, and was on the final leg of his CAP, when at 1210hrs he got a radar blip from what he later described as a military cargo aircraft.  The bogey was confirmed as hostile by Tactical Air Control, callsign Cola Six, and the lieutenant fired an AIM-120C AMRAAM which destroyed the target aircraft.  Lieutenant Wheeler’s aircraft was an F-16CD Block 40, designation Oscar Sierra Zero Four Three, with callsign Pegasus Four Three in the following transcript.  I’ll keep you informed of any new intel as soon as I get it.

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(1156) CONTROL: Pegasus Four Three, Cola Six.  Sitrep.  Over.
(1156) OS-043:  Cola Six, Pegasus Four Three.  Angels Ten, 57 miles East of Bullseye.  Sector clear.  Continue.  Out.
(1210) OS-043:  Cola Six, Pegasus Four Three.  Radar contact.  Bogey bearing zero-seven-five, heading zero-eight-seven.  Skunk.  Bogey dope.  Over.
(1210) CONTROL: Pegasus Four Three, Cola Six.  Bandit.  Angels Nine, bearing zero-seven-six.  Bump up.  Weapons tight.  Over.
(1211) OS-043:  Cola Six, Four Three.  Roger.  Stand by.
(1212) OS-043:   Cola Six, Pegasus Four Three.  Bandit in view, range six miles.  I am in hot and covering.  Request clearance to engage.  Over.
(1213) CONTROL:   Four Three, Cola Six.  Status.  Over.
(1213) OS-043:  Cola Six, Four Three.  Engaged.  Playtime three minutes to Joker.  Over.
(1213) CONTROL:  Four Three, Cola Six.  You are cleared to engage.  Weapons free.  Over.
(1214) OS-043:  Cola Six, Four Three.  Committed.  Over.
(1214) CONTROL:   Four Three, Cola Six.  Hostile heading zero-eight-nine.  Over.
(1215) OS-043:   FOX THREE!
(1216) OS-043:  Splash.  Target hit.
(1216) CONTROL:  Four Three, Cola Six.  Status.  Over.
(1216) OS-043:   Cola Six, Pegasus Four Three.  One bandit destroyed.  Sector clear.  Joker.  Over.
(1217) CONTROL:   Four Three, Cola Six.  Knock it off.  Bingo.  Mission accomplished.  Well done.  Over.
(1217) OS-043: Cola Six, Pegasus Four Three.  Vector home base.  Over.
(1217) CONTROL:   Pegasus Four Three, Cola Six.  Bearing two-zero-four degrees.  Out.

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From:  General Maeng - Staff Officer to North Korean Command, Pyongyang

To:  General Tong - Commander of North Korean Assault Forces

Subject:  One of our Colts is missing


General, I'm sure I don't need to inform you of how severe this situation is.  Regardless of what type of aircraft was shot down, it was undeniably flying over the DMZ and now the Coalition have seen this as an offensive act.  It is important that you do what you can to try and reduce the impact this will have on our objectives.  Our factory in Kujang must not be compromised - we cannot survive a direct air strike now without our SAM systems.  In order not to draw attention to the area itself on Coalition satellite images, I will be increasing the strength of our artillery emplacements further to the South past Pyongyang, in Sariwon, Olchon and Koksan.

DON'T let this become another embarassment for us, General Tong.  I'm sure you wont let me down.