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NKorea threatens US as world anticipates missile - Yahoo! News

By HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press Writer – 10 mins ago
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea accused Washington of seeking to "provoke a second Korean War" as the regime prepared to hold maritime military exercises off the eastern coast. U.S. and regional authorities were watching closely for signs that North Korea might fire short- or mid-range missiles during the June 25 to July 10 timeframe cited in a no-sail ban for military drills sent to Japan's Coast Guard.

North Korea had warned previously it would fire a long-range missile as a response to U.N. Security Council condemnation of an April rocket launch seen as a cover for its ballistic missile technology.

An underground nuclear test last month drew more Security Council action: a resolution seeking to clamp down on North Korea's trading of banned arms and weapons-related material by requiring U.N. member states to request inspections of ships carrying suspected cargo.

In a first test of the new resolution, a North Korean ship suspected of transporting illicit weapons was sailing off China's coast with a U.S. destroyer close behind.

The Kang Nam, which left the North Korean port of Nampo a week ago, is believed bound for Myanmar, South Korean and U.S. officials said.
Myanmar state television downplayed the reports of a possible weapons shipment Wednesday evening, saying another North Korean vessel was expected to pick up a load of rice but that the government had no information about the Kang Nam.

A senior U.S. defense official said Wednesday that the ship had already cleared the Taiwan Strait.

He said he didn't know how much range the Kang Nam has — that is, whether or when it may need to stop in some port to refuel — but that the Kang Nam has in the past stopped in Hong Kong's port.

Another U.S. defense official said he tended to doubt reports that the Kang Nam was carrying nuclear-related equipment, saying the information officials have received seems to indicate the cargo is conventional munitions.
The U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were discussing intelligence.

Officials said last week that they believed the ship was carrying smaller arms, though they didn't elaborate.
The U.S. and its allies have not decided whether to contact and request inspection of the ship, Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said Wednesday.

"That's a decision that will have to be made at some point, and not necessarily just by us or this government," he said at a news conference. "I think we will likely take (the decision) collectively with our allies and partners."
He said he didn't believe a decision would come soon.
North Korea has said it would consider interception of its ships a declaration of war, and on Wednesday accused the U.S. of seeking to start another Korean War.

"If the U.S. imperialists start another war, the army and people of Korea will ... wipe out the aggressors on the globe once and for all," a dispatch from the official Korean Central News Agency said.
The warning came on the eve of the 59th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. The brutal fighting ended after three years in a truce in 1953, not a peace treaty, leaving the peninsula divided and in a state of war. The U.S. has 28,500 troops in South Korea to protect against an outbreak of hostilities.

On Wednesday, the top U.S. commander in South Korea, Gen. Walter Sharp, praised soldiers from U.S.-led U.N. forces who died fighting the "tyranny" of communist North Korea decades ago.
"A North Korean victory in the Korean War would have brought the nightmare of tyranny to this great land, thrusting the citizens of the Republic of Korea into a darkness that their northern counterparts have yet to emerge from," he said a commemoration ceremony Wednesday, referring to South Korea by its official name, the Republic of Korea.

Reports about possible missile launches from the North highlighted the state of tension on the Korean peninsula.
A senior South Korean government official said the no-sail ban is believed connected to North Korean plans to fire short- or mid-range missiles. He spoke on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.

Yonhap reported that the North may fire a Scud missile with a range of up to 310 miles (500 kilometers) or a short-range ground-to-ship missile with a range of 100 miles (160 kilometers) during the no-sail period.
U.S. defense and counterproliferation officials in Washington said they also expected the North to launch short- to medium-range missiles. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.

South Korea will expedite the introduction of high-tech unmanned aerial surveillance systems and "bunker-buster" bombs in response to North Korea's provocations, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper said, citing lawmakers.
Meanwhile, a flurry of diplomatic efforts were under way to try getting North Korea to return to disarmament talks.

Russia's top nuclear envoy, Alexei Borodavkin, said after meeting with his South Korean counterpart that Moscow is open to other formats for discussion since Pyongyang has pulled out of formal six-nation negotiations.
In Beijing, top U.S. and Chinese defense officials also discussed North Korea. U.S. Defense Undersecretary Michele Flournoy was heading next to Tokyo and Seoul for talks.

South Korea has proposed high-level "consultations" to discuss North Korea with the U.S., Russia, China and Japan.
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busyLivin

I hope Obama orders to board that ship & stops rolling over to this prick. Put this midget fuck in his place.

I won't hold my breath.

min0 lee

It makes me wonder how North Korea is this way, I imagine South Korea is a better place to live in and you also have the Koreans who live here.
Don't they communicate with each other and let them know how much N. Korea sucks balls.

maniclion

It's what happens when guys like BusyLiving and Clemson believe that Rights should be revocable at the Gov'ts whim......it's when they think we, after years of never bending on the policy of torture even in Wars where we lost hundreds of thousands and had the most advanced militaries Japan/Germany both at our throats should just go ahead and throw that all away because a handful of Desert Dwellers caught us with our pants around our ankles.......then a negro makes it in the White House and that just chaps their hides, now they start planning revolts and coups to put the master race back in charge even though they will all claim color has nothing to do with it.......

"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
Thomas Edison: In conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone

P-funk

pretty bold comment...to call a man a racist and all.



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maniclion

ah but I said "guys like"....all I am saying is that I know that mindset of the Ultra Conservative, I was surrounded by them in Texas, full of hate and contempt, would rather see a dictator with views closer to theirs than have what they see as an abomination in such a powerful position......I went to school with these mens kids, they would play football with the black kids but no way would they ever be seen hanging out with them. I remember them whispering behind my back at school because I would invite my black friends and my mexican friends to my house to play basketball. That little town in Texas where the white people lived on one side of the bridge that split the town and black folks on the other. When we actually moved into our lakehouse we were the only white family to live in that area, whites only had vacation homes down there.

"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
Thomas Edison: In conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone

busyLivin

Hey, he's threatening to bomb your state buddy, not mine. Whether or not he's capable doesn't matter. Strength always wins, and Obama needs to exert a little. The world thinks he's weak, and so do I.

Mudge

Rush is a weak drug addict. Apparently you still like him.

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busyLivin

You're defending a former drug addict by ripping on another former drug addict.


Pretty sad that people won't forgive Rush for being hooked on pain killers, but forgive Obama instantly for "doing any drugs he could get his hands on".

Mudge

Hard to forgive someone who before, during, and after such problems rips on everyone else but himself. If you can't be humble and admit faults, or forgive others who struggle as you do, then obviously you deserve no forgiveness.

I used to watch Rush a long time ago, now I can finally see he is an elitest who doesn't own a mirror.

P.S. I didn't say anything about Obama in my message.

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ROID

shit , you fewls don't know what it means to be racist.

Being racist means you don't sleep with penny pinching jews

" A cookie without sugar is just a cracker" ~ ancient voodoo proverb

"A man with infinite patience is never left waiting."~ROID's past incarnation

ROID

Wonder how Rush got the hook up on OCs. All my doc gives me are weak as ultram. They're alright if u eat 300mg at a time. It hasn't helped my broken heart much though.

" A cookie without sugar is just a cracker" ~ ancient voodoo proverb

"A man with infinite patience is never left waiting."~ROID's past incarnation

maniclion

Because he is Rush Limbaugh, he takes his doctor out golfing or to the strip club and then hit's him up for a script......or when he was doing massive amounts he would meet shady characters in parking lots and have his house servant or whatever he was go make the exchange of money for pills......

"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
Thomas Edison: In conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone

maniclion

The ship that I served on, USS Lake Erie CG-70 is the Navy's number 1 ship for the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system. The Port Royal is also equipped for it. Not to mention the Missile facilities on the Islands we could throw a few hundred missiles at anything headed our way.........

"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
Thomas Edison: In conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone

bandaidwoman

Obama has the unfortunate luck of inheriting a diplomatic history of defiance by Pyongyang, paralyzing policy infighting by the Bush administration, and ineffectual painful bargaining with a regime branded as the "axis of evil".

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KelJu

May might not be far from the truth, however the actual truth is much worse. Rush is a coward that sends his house keeper out into the streets to do his dirty work.

largepkg

Not that I'm defending Rush, cause I thinks he's a fucking douche but if you were that high profile would you go onto the streets to purchase your own illegal drugs? *Note DMX*

I know I wouldn't. I'd send whatever two bit lackey that was on the payroll. As a recovering addict I unfortunately didn't have that option. I did the dirty work myself.

mcguin

Maybe someone could help, but years back I did a report on Reagans "star wars" initiative which primarily had to do with the strategic defense initiative where he implied that it would be not only a great investment but necessary to build a shield of satelite equipped missile defense systems which would at any point in time intercept incoming missiles from foreign threats. I know that was quite a long time ago, but was never able to dig to deep to get the scoop on whether we moved forward with that project and where it stands today...anyone familiar?

largepkg

Not too sure where we stand with a missile defense system. We have tested ground and sea base systems with some success. Recently we scored a direct hit on an orbiting satelite that was shot from a ship at sea although the US would have us believe that technology has nothing to do with missile defense.

I'm not buying it.

maniclion

The satellite was hit while just making re-entry. That's like hitting a bullet with a BB Gun, that was the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System on the USS Lake Erie....

"Completing a mission in which an interceptor designed for missile defense was used for the first time to attack a satellite, the Lake Erie, an Aegis-class cruiser, fired a single missile just before 10:30 p.m. Eastern time, and the missile hit the satellite as it traveled at more than 17,000 miles per hour, the Pentagon said in its official announcement."


One other thing that made that significant is that they couldn't use the heat-seeking guidance for last minute corrections because the satellite was ice-cold yet they still made a direct hit.

I have full faith CG-70 could hit anything Korea can throw at us, and not just because that was my ship.

Also the USS Shiloh is Equipped with the same thing, they are in Japan....they could be the first to attempt intercept, and then the Lake Erie followed by the Port Royal......

"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
Thomas Edison: In conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone