War games, talk of ‘beheading mission’ fan Koreas tension

War games, talk of ‘beheading mission’ fan Koreas tension

[...] Pyongyang, already feeling the squeeze of new sanctions over its recent nuclear test and rocket launch, is taking a plethora of “beheading mission” reports from the South Korean media very seriously.

With the leader out of the way, the thinking goes, it’s a lot easier to take the rest of the enemy’s forces down — or at least keep them from maintaining a coordinated and sustained offensive.

The U.S. has used such strikes, often employing drones, to take out key figures in terrorist groups.