Hamas’ recent surprise attack on Israel took a different form from its existing attack methods, such as using parachutes and disabling the defense network with massive artillery fire.
Our military stated that Hamas’s method of attack was similar to North Korea’s surprise tactic, and that North Korea’s know-how may have been passed on.
Reporter Chan Chan reports.
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This is a special forces training exercise released by North Korea in December 2016.
It is a building modeled after the Blue House, and special forces soldiers infiltrate it using parachutes.
[Chosun Central TV / December 2016: “Infiltrated in the blink of an eye, silently, as if flying with a gliding parachute…”] Hamas
militants parachuted over the barrier at the music festival안전놀이터 held in celebration of the Jewish holiday. Similar.
North Korea has been strengthening such aerial infiltration tactics for about 10 years, raising the possibility that North Korea’s know-how in surprise tactics may have been passed down.
A senior Joint Chiefs of Staff official said, “We believe that Hamas is directly or indirectly linked to North Korea in several areas, including arms trade, tactical doctrine, and training.”
The neutralization of Iron Dome with a large-scale rocket launch and the subsequent surprise infiltration are similar to North Korea’s tactics of attempting a surprise attack using long-range artillery and special operations forces.
In addition, it was assessed that North Korean weapons, including anti-tank weapons, are also flowing into Hamas. In particular , it was confirmed that
the shell discovered at the Israeli border was marked ‘Bang -122’ , which was explained to be the same marking used during the Yeonpyeong Island shelling provocation. [Yang Wook/Research Fellow, Asan Institute for Policy Studies: “The Joint Chiefs of Staff believes that North Korea will also use this Hamas attack as an opportunity to synthesize everything, such as attacks using drones, and use it as a doctrine.”] However, the Joint Chiefs of Staff
believes that North Korea will use it as an opportunity.
He added that he had not confirmed any direct exchanges between and Hamas.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff emphasized that North Korea is likely to use ‘Hamas-style’ surprise attack tactics in attacks against South Korea, and that it will systematically supplement and develop countermeasures.
