Preparing for Mass Evacuation from Korea

[nadinbrzezinski]

Preparing for Mass Evacuation from Korea
DEC 20 2010, 11:33 AM ET

As the Korean peninsula enters what U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates calls "a difficult and potentially dangerous time," the long-dormant Korean conflict is rumbling back into the public consciousness. Government officials from the U.S., South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and other states throughout the region are planning for the worst-case scenario: renewed war, perhaps nuclear, and a massive exodus from South Korea. If tensions continue to escalate, hundreds of thousands of foreign civilians living in South Korea will flee, sparking one the biggest mass-evacuations since the British and French pulled 338,000 troops out of Dunkirk in 1940.

Even under the best conditions, a mass evacuation is no easy task. In July 2006, as a battle brewed between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah militants, the U.S. took nearly a month to evacuate 15,000 Americans. According to the Government Accountability Office, "nearly every aspect of State's preparations for evacuation was overwhelmed", by the challenge of running an evacuation under low-threat conditions in a balmy Mediterranean summer.

Evacuating a Korean war-zone would be far harder. And the U.S. would likely have no choice but to ask China for help.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/10/12/preparing-for-mass-evacuation-from-korea/68276/

This would be a side show... but quite the mess. How do you get all those civies out?

Ah all the things that happen during a crisis...

[niceypoo]

1. Ironically the S Korean populace was encouraging its Gvt to retaliate massively

...after the last shelling by the North. Koreans are just sick and tired of this BS and you cannot blame them.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. It will come, sooner or later N. Korea will step really

over the line.