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| Japan to intercept any Nork missile deemed a threat |
| 2014-04-06 |
| TOKYO - Japan will strike any North Korean ballistic missile that threatens to hit Japan in the coming weeks after Pyongyang recently fired medium-range missiles, a government source said on Saturday. Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera issued the order, which took effect on Thursday and runs through April 25, the day that marks the founding of North Korea's army, the source told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Following the order, meant "to prepare for any additional missile launches," a destroyer was dispatched to the Sea of Japan and will fire if North Korea launches a missile that Tokyo deems in danger of striking or falling on Japanese territory, the source said. Tensions have been building between North Korea and its neighbors since Pyongyang - in an apparent show of defiance - fired two Rodong missiles on March 26, just as the leaders of Japan, South Korea and the United States were sitting down to discuss containing the North Korean nuclear threat. The Rodong ballistic missiles fell into the sea after flying 650 km (400 miles), short of a maximum range thought to be some 1,300 km, Japan said. Since then, North Korea has rattled sabres by firing artillery rounds into South Korean waters, prompting the South to fire back; South Korea has test-fired a new ballistic missile with a range of 500 km; and Pyongyang has threatened an unspecified "new form" of nuclear test. At the same time, Japan and North Korea resumed talks - suspended since Pyongyang test-launched a long-range missile more than a year ago - over the North's nuclear and missile programs, as well as the fate of Japanese abducted in the 1970s and 1980s to help train North Korean spies. Onodera has avoided publicly announcing the new missile-intercept order so as not to put a chill on those talks, Japanese media said. He also did not deploy Patriot missile batteries that would be the last line of Defense against incoming warheads, the source told Reuters. Japanese Aegis destroyers in the Sea of Japan are equipped with advanced radar equipment able to track multiple targets and carry missiles designed to take out targets at the edge of space. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 As per the MSM-Net, the USA is repor going to deploy two more ABM/BMD-capable AEGIS Destroyers to Japan by 2017, a move which will raise the number of same in Japan to approxi seven. Pragmatically, IMO in any NE NE Asia = East China Sea war between China + Japan-US this will dedicate China + PLA more to the use of Airborne Forces + SPECOPS to the capture of TAIWAN while using a majority of the PLAAF + Second Arty [Nuclear Missles] to deal wid Japan. Again, once a military conflict begins China + PLA will keep coming back no matter their level of combat andor collateral casualties, nor their level of Miltech backwardness vee the US-Allies. CHINA HAS TIMES SAID THAT THE SUFFERANCE OF MASSIVE OR PROHIBITIVE PLA CASUALTIES IS NOT IMPORTANT OR KEY TO THEM - WHAT MATTERS IS THAT TAIWAN IS TAKEN + CHINA'S WAR AGZ THE US-ALLIES IS WON. China = Soon-to-be Nuclear Islam includ Radical Islam in that respect. * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [AFP] NORTH KOREA LEADER WARNS OF "VERY GRAVE" SITUATION, on the Peninsula. IMO read, NOKOR'S ABILITY TO RESIST PEACEFUL ECON OR MILITARY-LED UNILATERAL STATE TAKEOVER BY CHINA IS STEADILY WEAKENING, WID COLLAPSE EITHER IMMINENT, OR IN THE VERY NEAR TERM??? Unless something changes, the only remnant of the ancient Korean homeland will be SOUTH KOREA proper. The Scenario is real that iff the US-Allies or Soon-to-be-Nuclear Muslim Hard Boyz don't take out China + threat of NOKOR takeover, KJU = "PUDGY" WILL BY INTENTIONALLY STARTING REGIONAL OR MULTI-REGIONAL, MUTUALLY DESTRUCTIVE MAJOR WAR BETWEEN THE US-CHINA OR GREAT POWERS. * BIGNEWSNETWORK > US DEFENSE SECRETARY HAGEL CALLS ON CHINA NOT TO ABUSE ITS GREAT POWER IN TERRITORIAL DISPUTES WID TOKYO [Japan]. * RELATED YAHOO NEWS > US DEFENSE CHIEF [Hagel] WARNS CHINA, DRAWING PARALLEL TO CRIMEA. VERSUS * FREEREPUBLIC > [NYT] US RESPONSE TO CRIMEA WORRIES JAPAN LEADERS. * RELATED TOPIX > [BreitBart] WORLD VIEW: US FAILS [again] TO REAFFIRM MUTUAL DEFENSE TREATY WID JAPAN. Hagel = Obama = Kerry = saying all the PCorrect thingys a Poltician would say while also saying nothing or committing to nothing.IT NOT WHAT HAGEL SAID TO JAPAN, IT WHAT HE DIDN'T SAY!? D *** NG IT, IFF THATS NOT "JOHN WAYNE", ETAL. I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS! * XINHUA > CHINA URGES US TO REFRAIN FROM INTERFERING IN HONG KONG'S AFFAIRS. VPOTUS Biden's visit. * WANT CHINA TIMES > REPORTERS GET "WELCOME TO CHINA" TEXT IN VISIT TO SECOND THOMAS SHOAL ISLAND DISPUTED BY PHILIPPINES. Second Thomas Shoal = PHIL's Ayugin Shoal aka China's Re'nai Reef. GUAM-CNMI + PACIFIC ISLANDS? HAWAII? 1990's 1/2-PLUS OF CONUS-NORAM? [USS OKLAHOMA BB + CELINE DION "TITANIC" THEME = "GUAM WILL CAPSIZE" = HUGO CHAVEZ + BERET + US-LED ISLAND-SINKING "EARTHQUAKE/TECTONIC BOMBS" = "A2/AREA-DENIAL" = US STRATEGIC RETREAT/ PULLOUT ACROSS ASIA-PACIFIC here]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-04-06 23:18 |
| #2 "Japanese Aegis destroyers in the Sea of Japan are equipped with advanced radar equipment able to track multiple targets and carry missiles designed to take out targets at the edge of space." ..I love watching field trials.. |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2014-04-06 22:40 |
| #1 Prepare the Mobile Fleet. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-04-06 13:15 |