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2010-02-05 China-Japan-Koreas

Seoul Denies Plan to Join U.S. Missile Defense Scheme

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Posted by Steve White 2010-02-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 If SKOR is NOT interested in a missile defense scheme, then we need to pull all our people out, because it is dead certain the Norks ARE interested in a missile offense scheme.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-02-05 00:26|| 2010-02-05 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Given the stick we just put into the Poles over missile defense, Seoul would be smart to pursue its own program in its own self interest and not wait till the 11th hours for another American administration to pull the rung from underneath it as a 'bargaining' in another useless round of talks with the Nkors.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-02-05 08:48|| 2010-02-05 08:48|| Front Page Top

#3 SK already operates the Patriot. Even if they don't already own the PAC-3, the PAC-2s have some anti-missile capability good for the kind of short range missiles the Norks would launch against them. And I'm sure US Forces are well protected w/ PAC-3s. The SKs also have Aegis ships and are building more. The country is only about 150 miles wide and 100 miles at the DMZ.

Posted by ed 2010-02-05 10:17|| 2010-02-05 10:17|| Front Page Top

#4 ION WMF > "TOKYO SHIMBUN" JAPANESE MEDIA: BRITISH IISS THINK-TANK REPORT SAYS RISING CHINA'S STRATEGY HAS CHANGED FROM "NATIONAL DEFENSE" ONLY TO "GLOBAL/WORLD ATTACK".

* SAME > IN 2015 CHINA WILL HAVE THE BALLISTIC MISSLE CAPABILITY TO ACCURATELY DESTROY US AIRCRAFT CARRIERS FROM ITS MAINLAND, AND HENCE BE ABLE TO EFFECTIVELY/DE FACTO CHALLENGE US HEGEMONY IN ASIA-PACIFIC.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-02-05 21:48|| 2010-02-05 21:48|| Front Page Top

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