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| U.S. Navy chief vows to counter N. Korea provocations |
| 2014-12-10 |
| SEOUL -- The United States will continue to beef up its naval capabilities in the Pacific region in order to deter North Korea's provocations including its ballistic missile threats, the U.S. Navy chief said Tuesday. The pledge by U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus comes amid growing concerns over the North's evolving missile threats. In late October, Pyongyang reportedly conducted a test of an ejection launcher that helps fire missiles from submarines in an indication that it is making headway in its efforts to develop a submarine-based ballistic missile. "The concerns are that the North will take some provocative actions that will allow the situation to get out of control," Mabus told reporters in Seoul. Stressing that "any sort of ballistic missile threat or capability of North Korea is potentially very dangerous," the secretary said the very threats led the U.S. to have been pushing for a rebalance toward the Pacific region. Noting that some 60 percent of the 70 ships ordered by the U.S. Navy over the past five years will be sent to the Pacific, including "the most modern platforms" such as ballistic missile defense destroyers, littoral combat ships and an amphibious ready group, he said the U.S. will be a fleet of more than 300 ships by the end of this decade. "There will be more ships to be in this region to do exercise to hopefully deter any sort of actions and to make sure that we are ready for working with the Republic of Korea." As ways to counter ballistic missile threats from Pyongyang, he said the U.S. maintains interoperability with the South Korean military in terms of detecting and tracking the missile launches by adopting the same Aegis combat systems and carries out "the very intensive regiment of exercises." While refusing to confirm media reports on North Korea's recent launch of a new submarine capable of firing ballistic missiles, Mabus stressed a growing importance of the maritime domain and called for "the ability to meet whatever threats, whatever occasions comes over the horizon." He also stressed the trilateral cooperation among South Korea, the U.S. and Japan despite some diplomatic tensions between Seoul and Tokyo over historical rows. "The common threat to the ROK, Japan and the U.S. is so serious and so close, that danger and response to it would be the thing that would override everything else," Mabus said. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 Joe - been reading your - idunno - strom des bewustseins - posts ans seriously most of it is beyond me - but man, you nailed THEN and NOW with this nugget WW2-SYLE "MAXIMUM EFFORT" FOR MISSION SUCCESS + FINAL VICTORY = POST-9-11'S "MINIMUM/MINIMAL EFFORT" FOR OWG "PEACE"??? |
| Posted by: Bov Flimbers 2014-12-10 23:16 |
| #4 * FYI TOPIX > [IBT.com] CHINESE MILITARY AIRCRAFT FLY MENACINGLY NEAR JAPAN ISLANDS [off Okinawa + Miyako], ANALYSTS SAY GUAM BASE CAN BE UNDER THREAT. Again, China wants the US to unilaterally give up = pullbacvk from 1/2 of the Pacific,, i.e. CHINA = GUAM-WESTPAC, US = HAWAII-EASTPAC by 2020 or ASAP AMAP after. Voluntarily, or Forcibly??? OWG Globalist Obama doesn't have to militarily intervene where US Milfors wage de facto combat agz Chinese PLA - as in the ME + Ukraine + Iraq, THE US JUST HAS TO DO NOTHING OR IN ALTERN GIVE ONLY A "MINIMUM" EFFORT. WW2-SYLE "MAXIMUM EFFORT" FOR MISSION SUCCESS + FINAL VICTORY = POST-9-11'S "MINIMUM/MINIMAL EFFORT" FOR OWG "PEACE"??? As again illustrated by ... * GLOBALNATION.PH > EDCA SHOWS [negotiated = diplomatic] SUBSERVIENCE TO US, [PHIL] SENATE TOLD. And still wid no guarantee that the US will de facto come to PHIL's aid in case of any PHIL armed conflict wid CHINA in SCS. versus * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Press TV] US SEEKING TO DISMEMBER CHINA: ANALYST. * TOPIX > US SECRETARY OF DEFENCE HAGEL REPLACEMENT MUST BE READY TO FACE PECULIAR TIMES. Unique + most definitely "strange", iff not "perplexing". * SAME > [Daily Caller] THE GATHERING DANGER OF OBAMA'S LAME DUCK FOREIGN POLICY. It can still get worse, Amerika. The Bammer repor said that his successor as POTUS come Jan 2017 won't overturn hia Amnesty via Executive Action-Privelege, a statement which I interprete to mean the Bammer is trying hard NOT to say or infer his POTUS successor will be another ANTI-US US OWG GLOBALIST. [POTUS BILL CLINTON SELF-ADMITTING THAT POTUS SEAT WAS STOLEN FROM BUSH 41 + BOB DOLE - YOU KNOW, SEX/CHEATING ON FLOTUS HILLARY WID MONICA LEWISKY, ETAL. here]. * GROONG > PUTIN: US MISSLE DEFENSE SHIELD DEPLOYMENT THREATENS US ITSELF. Besides also SSSSHHHHH .... PCCCCCCCC the Asia-Pacific Region + entire World - NO BIG??? W-O-L-V-E-R-I-N-E-S! = "HELLO KITTY"??? "HELLO KITTY" > RETREAT, MEN, FTLG FALL BACK! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-12-10 22:09 |
| #3 Sounds just like the earlier Iranian bluster. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-12-10 09:19 |
| #2 When I read the headline, it conjured up images of a 25 year Navy Command Master Chief whoopin' butt. Dang. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-12-10 07:36 |
| #1 This would be realistic, were it backed up by a supportive CinC... |
| Posted by: Raj 2014-12-10 00:35 |