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2010-06-26 China-Japan-Koreas

U.S. warns Norks not to raise tensions with missile tests

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Posted by Steve White 2010-06-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 They shoot a missile, we shoot a missile. They stop, we stop.

Seems fair.

All the Norks could manage after that would be easily recognizable as empty bluster.

Posted by gorb 2010-06-26 00:23|| 2010-06-26 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Because if they do raise tensions, we are going to...?

Posted by SteveS 2010-06-26 00:51|| 2010-06-26 00:51|| Front Page Top

#3 ION WMF > US IN FEARFUL/NERVOUS SWEAT AS CHINESE PRESIDENT HU JINTAO PROCLAIMS CHINA IS NOW A "GLOBAL MARITIME POWER", INTENT ON DEFENDING ITS INTERESTS + PROJECTING ITS MIL POWER ANYWHERE AROUND THE WORLD, + NO LONGER ONLY A REGIONAL OR LIMITED LAND, NUCLEAR POWER.

* SAME > CHINA INFORMED THE US THAT TWO PLAN STRIKE SUBMARINES [minima]WILL BE KEPT ON PERMANENT ROTATING PATROL IN EASTPAC OFF THE US WEST COAST.

* "ASAHI SHIMBUN" JAPAN MEDIA: CHINA IS BUILDING UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR MISSLE, STORAGE BASES IN MOUNTANIOUS SHANXI + HENAN PROVINCES FOR PREEMPTIVE, OTHER NUCLEAR COUNTER-STRIKE AGZ CHINA'S ENEMIES. CHINA'S RAPID MIL BUILDUP, PLA MODERNIZATION + DESIRE TO ENTER WESTPAC OCEAN AREAS IS CHANGING THE BALANCE OF POWER IN ASIA-PACIFIC AGZ THE US.

* SAME > US-JAPAN "FUTENMA CRISIS" MAY INDUCE THE US TO ONCE AGAIN REALIGN ITS MILITARY FORCES IN EAST ASIA + PACIFIC.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-06-26 01:32|| 2010-06-26 01:32|| Front Page Top

#4 ION INTERFAX > US DIPLOMAT SUGGESTS TRYING TO RE-START/RENEW THE [defunct] CONVENTIONAL ARMS PACT, between the US + Russia.

and

* WAFF > "PUERTO RICO" IN THE BALKANS: USAF IN BULGARIA. POTUS Bammer = USA trying to make Bulgaria into a "51st US State" = PORTO/PUERTO RICO vee escalating mil presence + bilateral cooperation???

* WMF > JAPAN OFFICIALS: SIZE OF CHINA'S NAVY EXCEEDS JAPAN'S SEA POWER.

IOW, JAPAN desires to UP-SIZE + MODERNIZE ITS NAVY, OTHER CONVENTIONAL FORCES, besides desiring it own INDIGENOUS NUCWEAPONS.

"FUTENMA" BASES ISSUE > NOT ONLY OKINAWA-SPECIFIC INDIGENOUS RIGHTS, but also SSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, D *** NG IT, JAPAN'S POST-US RIGHTS TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS, NEW REGIONAL + GLOBAL MIL POWER + INFLUENCE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-06-26 01:43|| 2010-06-26 01:43|| Front Page Top

#5 I still say we need to sell the old Kitty Hawk to Japan. They'll take it completely apart, install a nuclear reactor, rebuild it and a dozen like it in five years. Not only that, they'll learn to use those carriers effectively against Korea and China, if the need ever comes. If Japan decides it needs nuclear weapons, I'm sure they'll have them within weeks of that decision. They have the knowledge, materials, and the technology - all that's missing is the will. If China provokes them to building nukes, it's China's loss. Thank you, "President" Obumble, for another nice foreign policy mess.

Posted by Old Patriot 2010-06-26 14:19|| 2010-06-26 14:19|| Front Page Top

#6 I suspect the JDF is perfectly aware of how to use carriers.

Posted by Shipman 2010-06-26 15:30|| 2010-06-26 15:30|| Front Page Top

#7 22DDH rather a full-fledged helicopter carrier than a helicopter destroyer
Rumors that the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces third aircraft carrying destroyer would mark a major improvement in size and capability over the Hyuga class ships now entering service have been confirmed. The new 22DDH will be 248 meters long and 39 meters in beam, and displace more than 24,000 tons.

That's "Japanese tons". See Yamato and Musashi.

Japanese accounts suggest that one of the reasons for the drastic increase in size of the 22DDH design is a planned shift to the V-22 Osprey as the primary air group element for these ships. It is not clear whether these would be replacements for or supplemental to the SH-60Ks that equip the Hyuga class. These accounts also make it clear that the F-35B short takeoff and vertical landing variant of the Joint Strike Fighter is seen as a key system for these ships. Apparently, provision for the operation of UAVs is being included within the design.

Posted by ed 2010-06-26 16:26|| 2010-06-26 16:26|| Front Page Top

#8 but can it fly?

Posted by Frank G 2010-06-26 16:27|| 2010-06-26 16:27|| Front Page Top

#9 That's the Yamato's job

Posted by ed 2010-06-26 16:30|| 2010-06-26 16:30|| Front Page Top

#10 I suspect the JDF is perfectly aware of how to use carriers.

Yes, but do they know how to do ARCLIGHTs?

Posted by Pappy 2010-06-26 17:00|| 2010-06-26 17:00|| Front Page Top

#11 We could show them . . . .

Posted by gorb 2010-06-26 23:15|| 2010-06-26 23:15|| Front Page Top

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