South Korea's Epic Fail

What does failure look like? Here are two examples:

Satellite images show S.Korean shelling ineffective - SpaceWar

Claims by Seoul's military that its counter-fire hit North Korea hard after the North shelled a South Korean border island were called into question by satellite images published Thursday.
Military officials, trying to deflect charges they responded feebly to the deadly November 23 attack on Yeonpyeong island, have said their return fire was believed to have caused considerable damage.

But senior ruling party legislator Kim Moo-Sung said Thursday that the North's artillery positions apparently escaped unscathed.

Comment: The South Korean response was nothing more than 14 shells in rice paddies.

The Korean Confrontation - KGS Nightwatch 10/2/2024

South Korean media have spotlighted a significant failure by South Korean intelligence agencies. The state intelligence agency and the military came under fire Thursday after it became known that they did not take appropriate precautionary measures In August after they detected signs of a possible North Korean attack on the five offshore islands in the Yellow Sea.

National Intelligence Service director Won Sei-hoon told a parliamentary intelligence committee Wednesday that the agency confirmed the possibility of a North Korean attack on the islands through wiretapping, according to lawmakers who attended the closed-door session. Won, however, was quoted by the lawmakers as saying, "(The agency) did not expect the North to launch an attack on civilians as it has routinely shown menacing words and behaviors. The military authorities judged that the North could mount an attack just south of the maritime border."

Comment: See this report for further reading.

The links are worth reading in full. Also noteworthy is the research regarding the Taliban at the bottom of the Nightwatch report.