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| Topic Started: Jul 9 2010, 01:36 PM (275 Views) | |
| Earendel | Jul 9 2010, 01:36 PM Post #1 |
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China exploiting Cheonan In a rare move earlier this week, China invited the media to carry footage of its warships shooting missiles in a naval exercise. The navy of the People’s Liberation Army had carried out a six-day maritime and air ammunition drill in the East Sea starting last Wednesday... ...Gen. Ma Xiaotian, deputy chairman of People’s Liberation Army, said in an interview with Hong Kong TV that China strongly opposes the South Korea-U.S. anti-submarine drill in the sea near its coast. Gen. Liu Yuan, political commissar of the People’s Liberation Army’s Academy of Military Sciences, warned that if the U.S. aircraft carrier goes forward with the training exercise, it could become the target of a Chinese artillery drill. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2922924 Responding to Cheonan warship sinking, US and South Korea confirm war games To show North Korea their strength after it sank the Cheonan warship, the US and South Korea today announced a joint antisubmarine drill. China has objected, citing security concerns.  Lee Jae-Won/File/Reuters South Korea Navy soldiers stand guard near the wreckage of the naval vessel Cheonan, which was sunk on March 26 near the maritime border with North Korea South Korea and the United States will ignore a strong warning from China and go ahead with a joint antisubmarine drill in the Yellow Sea, South Korea's Defense Ministry said Friday. The exercise is aimed at showing muscle to North Korea after it allegedly torpedoed a South Korean warship on March 26. China does not acknowledge the North’s responsibility in the attack on the Cheonan, which killed 46 sailors. Read more U.S. Missiles Deployed Near China Send a Message  The U.S.S. Ohio, a guided-missile submarine, moors at a harbor in Pusan, South Korea, on Feb. 21, 2008 Choi Jae-Ho / AFP / Getty Images If China's satellites and spies were working properly, there would have been a flood of unsettling intelligence flowing into the Beijing headquarters of the Chinese navy last week. A new class of U.S. superweapon had suddenly surfaced nearby. It was an Ohio-class submarine, which for decades carried only nuclear missiles targeted against the Soviet Union, and then Russia. But this one was different: for nearly three years, the U.S. Navy has been dispatching modified "boomers" to who knows where (they do travel underwater, after all). Four of the 18 ballistic-missile subs no longer carry nuclear-tipped Trident missiles. Instead, they hold up to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles each, capable of hitting anything within 1,000 miles with non-nuclear warheads. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2002378,00.html?xid=rss-topstories#ixzz0tDQja9yB |
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| Earendel | Jul 19 2010, 05:29 PM Post #2 |
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U.S. sends carrier to South Korea The aircraft carrier USS George Washington The United States is sending the aircraft carrier USS George Washington to South Korea this week in a display of "the strength of our alliance and our constant readiness to defend the Republic of Korea," the ship's commander said Monday. The visit comes after months of heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula after the sinking of a South Korean warship in a torpedo attack in March. A multinational inquiry found North Korea responsible for the attack on the corvette Cheonan, in which 46 South Korean sailors were killed. North Korea has denied any connection with the attack and said it is the victim of an international conspiracy. read more: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/19/u-s-sends-carrier-to-south-korea/ |
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| LoisFaith2000 | Jul 20 2010, 04:49 PM Post #3 |
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. Korea-U.S. agree on series of drills to deliver 'clear message' to N. Korea http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2010/07/20/87/0301000000AEN20100720009900315F.HTML SEOUL, July 20 (Yonhap) -- Defense chiefs of South Korea and the United States approved a series of joint military exercises Tuesday, aiming to send a "clear message" to North Korea against any future provocations following the sinking of a warship blamed on the communist regime. The first of the joint naval and air exercises dubbed "Invincible Spirit" will start Sunday in the East Sea. The four-day drill will involve the 97,000-ton U.S. aircraft carrier USS George Washington, some 20 ships and more than 200 aircraft, including four F-22 Raptors that will fly on training missions in and around Korea for the first time. About 8,000 military personnel from the two nations' army, air force, navy and marines have been called to the maneuver. "These defensive, combined exercises are designed to send a clear message to North Korea that its aggressive behavior must stop, and that we are committed to together enhancing our combined defense capabilities," South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-young and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in a joint statement after their talks in Seoul. The defense chiefs affirmed that there will be more drills in the coming days. "This is the first in a series of ROK (South Korea)-U.S. combined naval exercises that will occur in both the East Sea and the Yellow Sea," the statement said, without specifying dates or other details. The American-led U.N. Command in South Korea notified North Korea of the drill earlier Tuesday, officials at the South Korean defense ministry said. Kim and Gates met as tensions were running high after the March 26 sinking of a South Korean warship. A South Korean-led multinational investigation concluded that a North Korean submarine attacked the ship with a torpedo near the Korean maritime border in the Yellow Sea, but North Korea denies all responsibility. Forty-six South Korean sailors died in the sinking. The U.S. maintains 28,500 troops in South Korea as a deterrent against North Korea after the 1950-53 Korean War. The two Koreas are still technically at war, as the conflict ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty. At their talks, Kim and Gates reaffirmed the "commitment to maintain an enduring U.S. military presence and the current U.S. troop level" in South Korea, the statement said. China, which has yet to blame the North for the ship sinking, has publicly expressed its anxiety over any South Korean-U.S. naval drills in the Yellow Sea that might run close to its territory, claiming it will pose a threat to its security. In an apparent concession to China's objections, South Korean officials said the location for the first joint drill with the U.S. was changed to the East Sea from the Yellow Sea. North Korea on Tuesday denounced the exercises as "very dangerous saber-rattling" that could start a war. The drills are "aimed at further straining the already deadlocked inter-Korean relations and igniting a nuclear war against the DPRK (North Korea)," the Minju Joson newspaper said in a commentary carried by the North's Korean Central News Agency. It included a reminder that the Yellow Sea is the site of past clashes between the South and North Korean navies, adding, "This foretells the exercises may trigger off an all-out war." While meeting some U.S. troops earlier Tuesday at Camp Casey, north of Seoul, Gates said the upcoming joint drill with South Korea will deliver a "strong signal" to the North. The drills were "designed to enhance our interoperability and readiness, but are also a strong signal of deterrence to the North," Gates said. Pyongyang continues to pose challenges with its missile and nuclear proliferation, he said, "and we intend to take them seriously." He again dismissed Beijing's concerns, saying, "These exercises are off the coast of Korea, not off the coast of China. These are exercises like we have conducted for decades in the past." "We have conducted them both in the west and east seas. So, there's nothing provocative about them at all," he said. Gates and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are scheduled to visit the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas on Wednesday. Clinton is due in Seoul early Wednesday and will attend the "two-plus-two" talks with Gates and their South Korean counterparts. It will be the first time for the U.S. administration's foreign and defense chiefs to visit the DMZ together. The DMZ visit is to "highlight how important operations there are to secure the peninsula, as well as the region, and demonstrate our steadfast commitment to" South Korea, Gates said.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/korea.html?nav=el Edited by LoisFaith2000, Jul 21 2010, 02:56 AM.
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| LoisFaith2000 | Jul 21 2010, 11:35 AM Post #4 |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10710296 21 July 2010 US announces new sanctions against North Korea Analysis Continue reading the main story John Sudworth BBC News, Seoul -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- North Korea is already one of the most sanctioned countries on the planet, but it appears the US is determined to squeeze it further. In a large part this visit has all been about symbolism - in particular the trip to the heavily fortified border, where Mrs Clinton was able to get her own close-up glimpse of the old adversary, and now these large scale military exercises, all quite clearly designed to send a message of deterrence to North Korea. But it is the sanctions that will cause the most upset. North Korea had said right from the start that it would see any new sanctions as an act of war, so I think we can safely expect a pretty strong reaction from Pyongyang over the next few days. Edited by LoisFaith2000, Jul 24 2010, 12:08 PM.
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| Earendel | Jul 21 2010, 11:49 PM Post #5 |
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North Korea May Use Direct Attacks The BBC News is reporting that North Korea may resort to more direct attacks to achieve its political aims. So testified James Clapper who has been selected to be the new Director of National Intelligence. "At his confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Mr Clapper chose to highlight the growing concerns within the agencies about North Korea’s recent actions. He said the sinking of the South Korean corvette Cheonan in March, which a South Korean-led inquiry found was the result of a North Korean torpedo attack, and unsuccessful attempts to assassinate a senior North Korean defector reminded him of the bombing of Korean Airlines Flight 858 in 1987. “The most important lesson for all of us in the intelligence community from this year’s provocations by Pyongyang is to realise that we may be entering a dangerous new period when North Korea will once again attempt to advance its internal and external political goals through direct attacks on our allies in the Republic of Korea.” “Coupled with this is a renewed realisation that North Korea’s military forces still pose a threat that cannot be taken lightly,” he added." Analysis.We should also be reminded of 1994 when the last succession occurred. We got very close to nuclear war. We are entering another period of succession where the successor is even less prepared than Kim 2 was when he replaced daddy. And we are starting serious naval exercises in the Sea of Japan shortly. Depending on exactly where those exercises occur will tell us a lot about how hard we are poking Kimchee. If they remain south of the DMZ, they will probably not be considered as threatening as if they are held east of Wonsan. I am also sure that there will be the appropriate number of land based exercises using the ranges near the DMZ. These probably will not have any effect on the North Koreans. Nor will the mobility exercises that practice bringing reinforcements into South Korea. Those are pretty normal things. However, if the normal number is exceeded that may cause an outcry from Kimchee about the US preparing to invade. If the number of Cope Strike exercises went from one every six weeks or so to one every three weeks or so, the North would take serious notice. Then there are the sure to be held in the future exercises in the Yellow Sea. The North will bleat like a stuck pig over these. The People’s Republic of China will probably chime in also depending upon the US vessels involved. A surface action group probably won’t raise a lot of ire. The George Washington will send the PRC into apoplectic fits. We have already seen that. It was fun to watch. But the North is a serious threat. They are a 30 day or so army. They have little logistics capability and few supplies even if they had a logistics system of note. But in those 30 days they can shoot off a lot of artillery shells and rockets and make a bloody awful mess of everything south of the DMZ to the Han River. That is what everybody fears. Still, Kimchee’s health is not good. The government may not have a lot of time to build up Kim 3 to the stature where he might be acceptable to the Party and the Army. That will put additional stress on the government. The price of rice has gone up appreciably according to DailyNK. They opine that this is due to the appreciation of the Yuan versus the Won. That makes food more expensive and that does not make the North Korean people happy after the recent devaluation that really screwed a lot of people who had been participating in the local markets. This is one of those “stay tuned” situations. We have little idea of the thought process that goes on in the DPRK. That makes this situation all the more dangerous. Source: http://www.worldthreats.com/?p=2823 |
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| LoisFaith2000 | Jul 22 2010, 04:20 PM Post #6 |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10722218 North Korea anger at US-South Korea war games The US and South Korea's plans to hold joint military exercises pose a major danger to the region, North Korea says. Some 20 ships and submarines and 100 aircraft are to take part in four days of manoeuvres in the Sea of Japan from Sunday. North Korea has also said new US sanctions against it will violate a UN statement issued after the sinking of a South Korean warship in March. |
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| Earendel | Jul 23 2010, 11:51 PM Post #7 |
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NKorea Vows Nuclear Response to US-SKorea Drills North Korea threatens nuclear retaliation to US-South Korea military exercises By KWANG-TAE KIM Associated Press Writer SEOUL, South Korea July 24, 2010 (AP) North Korea warned Saturday that joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises poised to begin this weekend amount to a military provocation that will draw a "powerful" nuclear response from Pyongyang. North Korea routinely threatens war when South Korea and the U.S. hold joint military drills, which Pyongyang sees as a rehearsal for an attack on the North. The latest threat comes amid increased tensions on the peninsula over the deadly sinking of South Korean warship that Seoul and Washington blame on Pyongyang. Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=11242349 |
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| LoisFaith2000 | Jul 24 2010, 11:14 AM Post #8 |
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Israel warns of N. Korea missile proliferation in Mideast http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3924266,00.html Israel has told the UN Security Council's North Korea sanctions panel that ballistic missile proliferation by Pyongyang is destabilizing the Middle East and urged countries to step up efforts to stop it. "Israel would like to express its ongoing concern regarding the proliferation of ballistic missiles from (North Korea), and to encourage the international community to strengthen its efforts in response to these dangers," Israel's UN mission said in a letter to the North Korea sanctions committee. |
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| LoisFaith2000 | Jul 24 2010, 11:17 AM Post #9 |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10748148 24 July 2010 North Korea warns of nuclear 'sacred war' Thousands of personnel will be taking part in the naval exercises starting on Sunday North Korea says it will use its "nuclear deterrent" in response to joint US-South Korean military exercises this weekend. Pyongyang was ready to launch a "retaliatory sacred war" at any time, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. Edited by LoisFaith2000, Jul 24 2010, 11:19 AM.
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| LoisFaith2000 | Jul 24 2010, 11:30 AM Post #10 |
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100724/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_us_military_drills NKorea vows nuclear response to US-SKorea drills Just how serious should we take this kim dude? 
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