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China-Japan-Koreas
S Korea threatens North with retaliation
2011-06-06
[Iran Press TV] South Korea's Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin has warned that any future attacks by the North Korean military will be met with a very strong response.

Kim made the remarks at a regional security conference in Singapore on Saturday. He noted that Pyongyang was becoming increasingly bold in its provocations.

"Proactive deterrence means that if there is a provocation, we will respond very strongly,'' Kim said. "I don't think we can be reserved because they are being bolder and bolder.''

The remarks came a day after the North Korean military vowed on Friday to launch "retaliatory military actions'' against South Korea.

"The North will launch practical and overall retaliatory military actions to wipe out the group of traitors at a stroke,'' the North's Korean People's Army said in a statement.

The threats come days after Seoul admitted that its reserve force units had used photos of Pyongyang's ruling family as targets during firing drills.
Posted by:Fred

#1  India has already warned PAK that it will respond militarily to any new 26/22 = Mumbai-style Terrstrikes ordered or supported by PAK + PAK ISI.

ION DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > NORTH KOREA VOWS "RETALIATORY MILITARY ACTIONS" AGZ SOUTH KOREA.

* SAME > CHINA'S [rapid] EXPANSION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS MAY PUSH OTHERS [NE Asia = Taiwan, ROK, Japan] TO GO NUCLEAR.

* SAME > TAIWAN TO BOOST FORCES [ + "defensive" mil training] IN DISPUTED SPRATLY ISLANDS.

* CHINESE MIL FORUM > CHINA'S NEW DEEP-SEA DRILLING RIG AN "OIL DRILL[Rig] WEAPON".

IIUC, IOW a "dual-use" Oil-Gas Rig + WEAPS-CAPABLE, DEFENSIVE "SEA FORT", e.g. WW2 British Channel "forts" agz German invasion, or Cold War US Missle-Warning platforms off the Texas shores.

* SAME > FOREIGN SHIPS HARASSED NORWEGIAN SHIP NEAR VIETNAM OIL FIELD.


Meanwhile ....

Not to be outdone, TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > {Iran] LARIJANI: IRAN WILL RESPOND AGZ [US-Israeli]ATTACK WID ITS MISSLES | IRAN WILL COUNTERATTACK WID MISSLES.

* SAME > {NewsVine] HOW SOON WILL NORTH KOREAN MISSLES REACH THE US? | TIME TO KNUCKLE DOWN ON NORTH KOREA.

* NEWSMAX > [Columnist Ken Timmerman] IRAN TESTS NUCLEAR MISSLE WARHEAD DESIGN.

ARTIC = ...
> Gary Milholin, CEO-Prez of Wisonsin Project = Iran desires + is working to become a "VIRTUAL" NUCLEAR WEAPONS STATE. Near-Nuke widout actually being one to avoid US, UNO wrath.
> Ex-IRGC Officer Reza Kahlili = IRGC has take delivery of two [dual/multi-use = Nuke-capable] REENTRY VEHICLES = WARHEAD DESIGNS, DESIRES TO PROCURE EIGHT MORE WIDIN 10 MONTHS [circa 06/2012], + MARRY AT LEAST TWO DE FACTO NUKE WARHEADS TO REENTRY VEHICLES, LR MISSLES BY MARCH 2012.

Again, "JASMINE" PEOPLE POWER UPRISINGS IN ME, NORTH AFRICA = IN TIME, IRAN + PAK WON'T BE THE ONLY ISLAMIST NUCLEAR-ARMED STATES, NOR NUKE-WMD SOURCE(S) FOR ISLAMIST MILTERR'ISM THE US WILL HAVE TO CONTEND WITH.

Sovereign Nuke-Armed Radical = "Rogue" Govts-States, + Nuke-armed aligned andor non-aligned Militant-Terror Groups, + don't think that the Mexican Cartels, etc. won't want the same asymmetric Nuke-WMD capabils either.

NUCLEAR MILTERRS - "COMING TO AMERICA" [Amerika] NEAR YOU!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-06-06 01:13  

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