{"id":3094,"date":"2018-02-22T22:16:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T22:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2018-02-22T22:16:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T22:16:02","slug":"new-north-korea-threat-hovercraft-and-navy-sniper-brigades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/22\/new-north-korea-threat-hovercraft-and-navy-sniper-brigades\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW NORTH KOREA THREAT: HOVERCRAFT AND NAVY SNIPER BRIGADES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/NORTH-KOREA-HOVERCRAFTS.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3095\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/NORTH-KOREA-HOVERCRAFTS-1024x661.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/NORTH-KOREA-HOVERCRAFTS-1024x661.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/NORTH-KOREA-HOVERCRAFTS-300x194.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/NORTH-KOREA-HOVERCRAFTS-768x496.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/NORTH-KOREA-HOVERCRAFTS-560x362.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/NORTH-KOREA-HOVERCRAFTS-260x168.jpeg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/NORTH-KOREA-HOVERCRAFTS-160x103.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/NORTH-KOREA-HOVERCRAFTS.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Asia Times<\/p>\n<p>Nuke missiles aren\u2019t the only lethal military capability being developed by North Korea. Analyst Joseph S. Bermudez says Pyongyang may be expanding its hovercraft and navy sniper brigade forces in an asymmetric military threat to South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Bermudez noted earlier this month in an article for Beyond Parallel, a website dedicated to Korean unification issues, that hovercraft and related special ops units such as naval snipers make up a large chunk of the Korean People\u2019s Army. Pyongyang is also said to be taking pains to modernize and restructure such forces which could be used to assault South Korean beachheads.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/article\/new-n-korea-threat-hovercraft-navy-sniper-brigades\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Asia Times Nuke missiles aren\u2019t the only lethal military capability being developed by North Korea. Analyst Joseph S. Bermudez says Pyongyang may be expanding its hovercraft and navy sniper brigade forces in an asymmetric military threat to South Korea. Bermudez noted earlier this month in an article for Beyond Parallel, a website dedicated to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/22\/new-north-korea-threat-hovercraft-and-navy-sniper-brigades\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NEW NORTH KOREA THREAT: HOVERCRAFT AND NAVY SNIPER BRIGADES<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1808,636],"class_list":["post-3094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-hovercraft","tag-north-korea","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3096,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions\/3096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}