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It takes a reason to start a war, and the United States is no exception. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Five days after the search and rescue efforts began, the U.S. Federal Political Axe released information recorded in the plane's black box, and then announced a full investigation.

The first findings came not from the U.S. intelligence and security agencies, but from South Korea's National Intelligence Service.

According to information provided by the South Korean authorities, the two reporters of the South Korean News Agency who were invited to go to the "Air Force One" for an exclusive interview with the US president both went to the DPRK last year to participate in people-to-people exchanges between the two Koreas, and stayed in the DPRK for five days, two days longer than the scheduled time for the interview.

Although South Korea's National Intelligence Service did not provide further information, the C.I.A. later announced that the two journalists were likely to be plotted against North Korea and become spies for North Korean intelligence agencies.

After the news stirred up, the US federal political axe admitted that two South Korean journalists were interviewing President Scott at the time of the incident.

Now, the eyes of the whole world fell on North Korea.

Is the crash of Air Force One really related to North Korean spies?

Within a few days, the F.B.I. came up with a very weighty piece of evidence: Air Force One was blown up, and the explosion point was inside Scott's room.

Regardless of whether this evidence is conclusive or not, at least more people believe that it was indeed the two North Korean spies who did the good deeds.

By this time, everyone knew that the United States would definitely strike at North Korea, and it would not be a simple retaliatory action, and war would soon break out.

Because Scott's body has been found, there is no longer an obstacle for Stokes to move into the White House.

While the investigation was ongoing, Stokes was sworn in just outside the Capitol as the second-luckiest vice president in U.S. history.

After Stokes was sworn in, the first presidential order he signed was to put the U.S. forces in South Korea into combat readiness.

Because of the US-ROK linkage mechanism, the ROK military also entered a state of combat readiness at the same time.

Subsequently, the 1st Cavalry Division and the 3rd Infantry Division stationed in the continental United States left for South Korea and deployed south of the 38th parallel with the 2nd Infantry Division, while the 7th Infantry Division, which had only one brigade in Korea, served as a reserve force, and prepared to go to Pusan after the first reinforcements arrived.

In addition to ground forces, the U.S. Air Force and Navy have also deployed accordingly.

According to information released by the Pentagon, in the next two weeks, the air force deployed in the western Pacific region, that is, South Korea, Yoben, and Guam, will be doubled, with a total of 88 F-22Js in four squadrons, eight B-2s in one air expeditionary force, 160 F-16s and 40 F-15Es, and 24 tankers and eight AWACS aircraft in support aircraft.

It is not the Air Force that moves the most quickly, but the Navy.

After Stokes issued the presidential order, the USS Washington aircraft carrier battle group of the Seventh Fleet returned to the East China Sea through the Osumi Strait. Subsequently, two aircraft carrier battle groups of the Fifth Fleet deployed in Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States went to the western Pacific at the same time, and even some warships deployed in Australia immediately headed north. According to the US Navy's deployment, at least four aircraft carrier battle groups and four amphibious fleets will be deployed in the waters near the Korean Peninsula in the next half month, totaling more than 100 large warships. After that, two aircraft carrier battle groups and two amphibious flotillas will be deployed, increasing the total force input to 160 ships.

It can be said that the US Navy has almost made a full mobilization and sent all the fleets that can be mobilized.

Including the First Marine Division deployed on Guam and the Second Marine Division, which can be mobilized at any time, the US military can devote up to six divisions to South Korea, with more than 150,000 ground combat troops and more than 300,000 naval and air joint support forces, for a total of nearly 500,000 troops.

Such a huge investment of troops means that what is about to break out is by no means a local conflict.

Of course, you have to count the Korean [***] team.

It is conservatively estimated that in the early stage of the war, the ROK military will be able to deploy 600,000 combat troops, including 400,000 ground troops, more than 800 combat planes of the air force, and more than 30 large warships in the navy.

While the US-ROK coalition forces were actively deployed, the North Korean side was not idle.

Less than four hours after Stokes' presidential order, North Korea's supreme leader delivered a national address calling on all military and civilian forces to fight against the invasion. Subsequently, the million-strong Korean army deployed near the 38th parallel was put into combat readiness, and the Korean rear also carried out a primary war mobilization.

Although in terms of military strength, the DPRK does not suffer a loss, and the size of its regular army is more than 1.2 million, of which the ground force is as high as 1 million; if we count the DPRK's war mobilization capability, that is, hundreds of thousands of reservists and millions of militiamen, the numerical superiority is very obvious, but everyone knows that with the strength of the DPRK alone, it cannot deal with the US-ROK coalition forces at all, and even the ROK army cannot defeat them.

For decades, North Korea's security was not maintained by the North Korean military, but by a bilateral agreement akin to an alliance treaty.

At a time when the two sides were tense, the DPRK foreign minister urgently went to the mainland.

The purpose of the trip was only one: for the mainland to provide security guarantees for the DPRK, that is, to provide protection to the DPRK when its security was threatened, in accordance with the commitments made in the Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance.

The treaty, signed more than 60 years ago, clearly stipulates that the mainland has an obligation to protect North Korea.

Because the two belligerents in that war only signed an armistice, not a peace treaty, as soon as the other side crossed the 38th parallel, the mainland had to send troops to the war again.

Affected by this, the leaders of the mainland immediately called the hotline of the newly appointed US president.

It is undeniable that the leaders of the mainland have made a final effort to contain the war.

Also concerned about the situation on the peninsula is Russia, which inherited the mantle of the former Soviet Union, which also made security guarantees to North Korea. In other words, as long as North Korea is invaded, or the ceasefire status quo on the Korean Peninsula is deliberately violated by the other side, even if Russia does not have to send troops to participate in the war, it must support North Korea in terms of materials and spirits, and provide North Korea with support including weapons and equipment.

What the outside world does not know is that at this time, the mainland also carried out military mobilization.

Compared with the mobilization of the US-ROK coalition forces and the DPRK army, the mobilization of the mainland army is more concealed, and the main purpose is to have the three group armies stationed in the northeast region prepare new insignia and flags, and as long as war breaks out and the mainland authorities make a decision to aid the DPRK, these troops will again change into the badge of the "volunteer army" and leave for Korea.

By this time, the war had reached the point where it was on the verge of breaking out.

It's just that both sides have some restraint.

It is not that the United States does not want to fight, but that the US military needs enough time to carry out pre-war deployment and pre-war mobilization before it can have the ability to cross the 38th parallel and capture the whole of Korea in the shortest possible time.

For the United States, this is the only way to win.

According to the combat plan drawn up by the US military, it is not the million-strong army of the DPRK that needs to be worried, but the mainland army. The only way to win is to defeat the DPRK before the mainland intervenes and occupy the entire territory of Korea, that is, to advance the front to the south bank of the Yalu River, block the passage of the mainland army into the DPRK, and force the mainland to accept the fait accompli. If the war drags on, the mainland will have enough time to mobilize its military forces and send troops into Korea, and even if the US-ROK coalition forces have already attacked the vicinity of the Yalu River, it will be difficult to take advantage of this large-scale war.

So, how quickly does the U.S. military need to complete offensive operations?

For this reason, the Pentagon made a comprehensive assessment using the information provided by various intelligence agencies, and concluded that it would take at least one month for the mainland to complete military mobilization, while it would take at least 15 days for the army to enter the DPRK to fight. After deducting the fifteen days of mobilization of the US troops, it was necessary to reach the Yalu River within a month of the start of the war.

Obviously, the combat difficulty is not small.

You know, more than sixty years ago, with all the advantages, the joint [***] did not advance so fast.

It can be seen from this that the pre-war preparation of the US military is of paramount importance.

More importantly, it is necessary to make the adversary relax its vigilance and make the adversary think that the United States is only scaring the DPRK and will not really go to war against a country that already has nuclear weapons, let alone risk a war with another major power and change the status quo on the Korean Peninsula with military action.

The problem is that the U.S. military is indeed mobilizing, and the South Korean [***] team is also mobilizing, and the smell of gunpowder on both sides of the 38th parallel has become so strong that a single spark can detonate.

So, what can be done to convince the mainland that the United States will not really start a war?

At this time, Stokes played a little trick, that is, he promised the mainland leaders in the hotline that the military movement of the US military was only to punish the murderers of the "Air Force One" bombing, not to start a large-scale regional war, so even if the US military carried out a military attack on North Korea, the scale and intensity would be very limited.

To put it more thoroughly, the US military intends to use surgical strike methods to take out the North Korean leader.

As for the ground troops sent to South Korea, as well as the Marine Corps that are being assembled, it is only a precautionary measure to prevent North Korean troops from voluntarily crossing the 38th parallel to attack South Korea after the North Korean leader was bombed and killed.

It seems that this makes perfect sense, and it is very much in line with the usual policy of the US authorities.

It's just that Stokes doesn't know whether it plays a role or not.

At this point, the FBI finally released its most important investigative report, the information from the voice recording system on Air Force One.

Obviously, this is a processed report.

What appeared in front of the world was only the part that the US authorities wanted the world to know, that is, two South Korean journalists who had been plotted against by the North Korean intelligence agencies had kidnapped President Scott after boarding Air Force One, demanding that the United States immediately recognize the DPRK, withdraw its troops from the ROK, and abolish the alliance treaty with the ROK. During the conversation, the two reporters also indirectly admitted that the attack on Manhattan was the work of North Korea's intelligence agencies, and that if the American authorities do not cooperate, more major American cities will suffer. Because Scott did not compromise with the enemy and Secret Service agents surrounded the room, two North Korean spies detonated a bomb planted on the plane by a ground crew member serving North Korean intelligence, blowing up Air Force One, killing Scott and more than 100 passengers on board.

This investigative report turned the war into a fact.

(To be continued)