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2013-11-07 China-Japan-Koreas

Report: N.Korea's ICBM Prototypes Getting 'Scary Good'

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Posted by Steve White 2013-11-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 ION Regional News ...

* WORLD NEWS > [Japan News] US ADMIRAL [PACOM Cdr Locklear] PREPARING FOR NORTH KOREA ICBM.

* SAME > [SCMP] CHINA DEMANDS "ACCURATE" NUCLEAR ACCOUNTING FROM JAPAN ON FUKUSHIMA.

I'm personally interpreting this as China covertly desiring to know Japan's curren spent fuel stockpile that be converted to NucBomb/Warhead production, as Japan suppos shutdown most or all of its NucEnergy facilities in the wake of Fukushima = 3-11.

* KYODO NEWS > [11/04/2013] TWO NORTH KOREA WARSHIPS SUNK, SCORES OF SAILORS REPORTEDLY KILLED.

RELATED BIG NEWS NETWORK > [International Herald Tribune] NORTH KOREAN SAILORS REPORTEDLY KILLED DURING OCTOBER SINKING, SOUTH KOREA SAYS THERE WAS NO [Naval or Military] CLASH.

The DPRK ship was suppos a SUB-CHASER.

USN CVN USS GEORGE WASHINGTON I'M STILL A'LOOKIN AT YOU.

* STARS-N-STRIPES > PHILIPPINES-US TALKS ON TROOP DEPLOYMENTS STALLS ON BASE CONTROL.

USA = D *** NG IT, PEOPLE WILL THINK ITS THE PHILIPPINES' BASES, NOT OURS!

And the fact that the US closed down Clark + Subic + turned over same to Manila has absolutely positively categorically undeniably nothing to do wid anything.

VERSUS

* RUSSIA TODAY > OP-ED: JAPAN TARGETS CHINA AS ISLANDS DISPUTE THREATENS TO BOIL OVER [unto Sino-Nippon mil conflict = War].

ARTIC = CHINESE SOA TOP OFFICIAL = JAPAN'S CONTROL OR DOMINATION OF THE WATERS AROUND THE DUSPUTED ISLANDS [Senkakus/Diaoyus], BE IT SOVEREIGN OR VIA 200-MILE JAPAN-CLAIMED EEZ, CLUTCHES AT THE THROAT OF CHINA AS PER ITS ABILITY TO ENTER [+ Exit] INTO [+ From] THE OPEN WATERS OF THE PACIFIC.

The Hell you say.

[MACAULAY CAULKIN "AAARRRRRGGHH" SLAPPY FACE here].

RELATED CHINA DAILY FORUM ...

> JAPAN-CHINA PUSH-N-SHOVE REACHING BEYOND BOILING POINT.
> POSTER THREAD: CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS NOT ENOUGH:
JAPAN MILITARY ACTIVELY PROVOKING PLA.

* TOPIX > [ABS-CBN News] "CHINA SHOULD [forcibly = unilaterally] TAKE MORE [disputed] PHILIPPINE TERRITORY", as per its "Cabbage Strategy" of defensive "layered sovereignty" around disputed islands.

PLA MGEN. ZHANG ZHAOZHONG.

* GLOBAL TIMES > JAPAN [temporarily = MilEx?]DEPLOYS SURFACE-TO-SHIP MISSLES IN OKINAWA [Miyako Island] | JAPAN DEPLOYS MISSLES IN STRATEGIC STRAIT.

Tokyo says was due to pre-scheduled MilEx, CHINA HOWEVER THINKS = FEARS THE MISSLES MAY BECOME PERMAMANENT, HENCE POSING A DIRECT THREAT TO CHINESE PLAN + COMMERCIAL SHIP MOVEMENTS [trade] THAT MUST PASS NEAR OKINAWA/MIYAKO.

* SAME > OPINION: [China's]"PEACEFUL RISE" WILL [ultimately or eventually come up against] MEET US CONTAINMENT.

* PEOPLE'S DAILY ONLINE > INTERNAL DIVISIONS AND
[Inter-Nation] WARINESS MEANS "ASIAN NATO" NOT ON CARDS.

And my favorite news today ...

* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > WOULD US LEASE TO INDIA ITS NAVAL BASE ON GUAM?

Ditto POOR ECON, SEQUESTER, SHUTDOWN, + POST-SHUTDOWN affected USA to lease Guam to CHINA + PLA, in order to prevent an East Asian or NE Asian mil conflict, let alone NUCLEAR WAR, LIMITED NUCLEAR WAR OR LIMITED TACTICAL NUCLEAR WAR???

VERSUS

* BIG NEWS NETWORK > [Prison Planet] TOP SCIENTIST [David Suzuki] WARNS ANOTHER FUKUSHIMA QUAKE [major natural disaster] WOULD MEAN US [West Coast = NORAM Continental?] EVACUATION,
"BYE BYE JAPAN".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-11-07 02:29|| 2013-11-07 02:29|| Front Page Top

#2 ...and may even be sophisticated enough to threaten the U.S. west coast

So, why the concern?

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-11-07 08:04|| 2013-11-07 08:04|| Front Page Top

#3 TWO NORTH KOREA WARSHIPS SUNK, SCORES OF SAILORS REPORTEDLY KILLED

Wonder if it was an IFF/twitchy-finger problem?

Posted by Pappy 2013-11-07 10:22|| 2013-11-07 10:22|| Front Page Top

#4 "...the missiles, even if fakes, appear to be getting more advanced..."

...huh..?

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-11-07 12:32|| 2013-11-07 12:32|| Front Page Top

#5 You heard the case where, during WWII the Germans build this big fake airstrip out of wood. Complete with wooden tanks, wooden trucks and jeeps and even wooden people...

...until the allies air force came along and dropped a wooden bomb on it.

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-11-07 12:38|| 2013-11-07 12:38|| Front Page Top

#6 ...huh..?

Based on the dubious logic that the NorKs are basing the fakes on prototype designs, the latter which, if they exist, appear to be viable-to-very-effective designs.

Posted by Pappy 2013-11-07 13:02|| 2013-11-07 13:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Ahhhhhhh, not to worry - the Iranians are going to get here first!

Posted by Bobby 2013-11-07 13:10|| 2013-11-07 13:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Wait til the Iranians give the Norks that hacked Photoshop source code!

Posted by Frank G 2013-11-07 14:40|| 2013-11-07 14:40|| Front Page Top

#9 A mock-up of an SS-18 shouldn't be all that difficult, if you want the real scary.

Posted by Shipman 2013-11-07 18:02|| 2013-11-07 18:02|| Front Page Top

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