SEAL Team 6 practices for dealing with Norks

Business Insider:

The annual Foal Eagle military drills between the US and South Korea will include some heavy hitters this year — the Navy SEAL team that took out Osama bin Laden, Army Special Forces, and F-35s — South Korea's Joon Gang Daily reports.

South Korean news outlets report that the SEALs, who will join the exercise for the first time, will simulate a "decapitation attack," or a strike to remove North Korea's leadership.

Pentagon spokesman Cmdr. Gary Ross later told Business Insider that the US military "does not train for decapitation missions" of any kind.

Yet a decapitation force would fit with a March 1 Wall Street Journal report that the White House is considering military action against the Kim regime.

The SEALs boarded the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier and should arrive in South Korea on Wednesday, Joon Gang Daily reports.

South Korea has also made efforts toward a decapitation force, and international calls for action have increased in intensity after North Korea's latest missile test, which simulated a saturation attack to defeat US and allied missile defenses.
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Whether they are planning such an attack or not, the possibility of it will probably cause the Nork leadership to react, which could provide valuable intelligence.  I think any special operations raid into North Korea would face difficult challenges.  What is needed is not only the THAAD missile defense system, but also a launch phase missile defense system that would get the missiles when they are most vulnerable and before they can deploy decoys.