With prospects of war in Korea escalating in recent weeks, the Pentagon is scrambling with contingency plans for how to respond to all scenarios there while still engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, analysts said. South Korea’s new defense minister, Kim Kwan-jin, said Friday, “in case of further provocations, we will definitely strike North Korea by air” in a full-scale attack using F-15s and F-16s.
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