"In Korea it's all study, study, study, learn, learn, learn," said Park Youngmok, Blizzard's Korean communications director.
In May, representatives of five South Korean communications companies plan to visit North Korea to compete for a half-billion-dollar cellphone project.
The North Koreans' communications and supply were not capable of exploiting a breakthrough and of supporting a continuing attack in the face of massive air, armor, and artillery fire that could be concentrated against its troops at critical points.
The investigators have been scrutinizing intercepted North Korean military communications to try to link the attack to a North Korean submarine, officials here said.
In a closed-door briefing to a parliamentary committee, Won Sei-hoon said officers had intercepted North Korean military communications, indicating preparations for an assault on Yeonpyeong and other frontline islands.
"The ambassador does a tremendous amount of Hill outreach himself," said Korean embassy communications directory John Brinkley.
But it has also demanded some $3 billion over three years, as compensation for lost missile sales, and it wants others to pay for the launch of North Korean-built communications and weather satellites.Giving North Korea hard cash, or even talking of "compensation", is out of the question, since the Clinton administration wants to avoid the charge that it is giving in to North Korean blackmail.
(Washington and Seoul said the missile and its payload fell into the sea about 2,000 miles downrange. North Korean media insisted the communications satellite was in full orbit, broadcasting patriotic songs).
On August 25, 9th Infantry commander Colonel John G. Hill outlined projected "Operation Manchu," which was to be a company-sized combat patrol to cross the river, advance to the suspected North Korean command post and communications center, destroy it, capture prisoners, and collect intelligence.
According to press reports here today, a Japanese defense communications unit intercepted Korean language communications on a frequency used by the North Korea government.
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea and South Korea plan to open modernized military telephone lines next week to improve cross-border communications, the South Korean Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
