North Korea

[syd syside]

I don't think they can launch all 10,000 at once though? It'd take days for them to carry out all that ammo... maybe I really don't know actually. Which is why I was interested in any sources on expected range of damage they could inflict.

 

 

South Korea 'deploys warships to track North missiles'

 

South Korea has deployed two warships with missile-defence systems, reports say, a day after the North apparently moved a missile to its east coast.

Military officials told South Korean media the two warships would be deployed on the east and west coasts.

Seoul has played down the North's missile move, saying it may be for a test rather than a hostile act.

 

Yonhap says North Korea has moved 2 missiles on mobile launchers into an underground facility. These are missiles with a 3,000-4,000km range that have been deployed since 2010 but never test fired. Hiding them underground means they can fuel and prepare them in secret and then roll them out for launch with no real warning.

 

CNN: Russia considering evacuating embassy in South Korea (after request made by North Korea)

 

12.25 We've just been told that the British embassy has, like their Russian counterparts, been advised to leave Pyongyang. Britain is reportedly considering the advice.

 

expecting this:

 

“North Korea will launch an attack,” predicts Sue Mi Terry, a Columbia University professor who served as a senior analyst on North Korea at the CIA from 2001 to 2008. The attack won’t be nuclear, she thinks, nor will it be a barrage from the massive amounts of artillery Pyongyang has aimed south.

Instead, Terry believes, “it will be something sneaky and creative and hard to definitively trace back to North Korea to avoid international condemnation and immediate retaliation from Washington or Seoul.” This, she thinks, is what counts as de-escalation in 2013 from the new regime in Pyongyang: a relatively small attack that won’t leave many people dead.

 

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/north-korea-climbdown/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co

Edited April 5, 2013 by compson

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Report: #NorthKorea loads 2 missiles onto launchers http://t.co/kIEXp6wEGb

 

The Polish embassy in South Korea has also been asked to leave by the DPRK.

 

From his station in Amarillo, Texas, author, investigative journalist, technologies expert Steve Douglass heard something interesting. In a message he sent us on Facebook he said:

“Late last night I monitored “DARK” flight of seven on PRIME (311.000 MHZ STRATCOM PRIMARY) asking for current weather for UAM [airport code for Guam - Andersen Air Force Base]. On the frequency of 251.100 Mhz,DARK flight also was calling for “GASSR 11 and GASSR 12″ (KC-135s) for “Tanker drag to BAB [beale AFB, California]“.

“Dark” is the standard radio callsign for the 7th Bomb Wing’s B-1s based at Dyess AFB, near Abilene, Texas.

Even if U.S. bombers routinely deploy to Guam (where at least two B-2s are reportedly already based), the fact that seven “Bones” were apparently moving together is something a bit unusual, even if they were not going to Andersen AFB (they might need the weather report for UAM because it was an alternate airfield or simply a stopover on their way to somewhere else).

Actually, it’s also weird that some many big bombers were flying together (as the “flight of seven” heard by Douglass seems to suggest) since a standard ferry flight of multiple planes would normally see the aircraft move individually. And, another strange thing is that the pilot talked about their destination in the clear: if they wanted it to be secret, they would speak on secure radios.

Nevertheless, this might have been a non-standard deployment; a move ordered hours after U.S. satellites and spyplanes from South Korea and Japan had spotted North Korean missiles being readied for launch.

 

http://theaviationist.com/

 

 

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12.02 The Guardian tells us that we should be worried about April 5 - and the number 9.

 

Jang Jin-sung, editor-in-chief of New Focus international, claims that the number is leading Kim Jong-un's actions. It can be seen in the founding date of DPRK (September 9 - or 9/9), while Kim Il-sung's personal bodyguard corps was named 963.

 

Quote The country's first nuclear test took place on 9 October 2006. The second long-range rocket launch was on 5 April 2009 (5+4=9 and nine of 2009, double nine). The next one was successfully launched on 12 December 2012 (1+2+1+2+1+2=9). There was a nuclear test on 12 February (20)13 (1+2+2+1+2=9). A recent North Korean propaganda video released on YouTube, in which the east coast of the US is consumed in a "sea of fire", features a rocket labelled No 9.

 

So, it all adds up. Three generations of the Kim family seem to have been fixated on nines. In the current climate this suggests that we should all be on our guard today, Friday 5 April (5+4=9). If we make it safely to Saturday, the world is probably safe from a nuclear attack until the 14th or, perhaps, the 23rd.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9973577/North-Korea-missile-threat-latest-live.html

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVf5Cr4M-F8

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Oh stop it..

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lol

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14.41 Powerful 6.2 earthquake reported in Russia near North Korea border

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9973577/North-Korea-missile-threat-latest-live.html

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15.12 North Korea is being "left with no choice but to confront" the US, an Iranian commander has said.

 

Agence France-Presse are reporting that Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, the armed forces deputy chief, has blamed tensions in the region on "excessive demands by the United States... and its tightening of the noose on North Korea".

Perhaps unsurprisingly, he backed North Korea, saying: "Independent countries do not submit to American adventurism".

Pyongyang and Tehran have enjoyed good ties since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Both are both under UN Security Council sanctions for their ballistic missile and nuclear programmes.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9973577/North-Korea-missile-threat-latest-live.html

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This is so dramatic.

[Guest Lucy Faringold]

 

12.02 The Guardian tells us that we should be worried about April 5 - and the number 9.

 

Jang Jin-sung, editor-in-chief of New Focus international, claims that the number is leading Kim Jong-un's actions. It can be seen in the founding date of DPRK (September 9 - or 9/9), while Kim Il-sung's personal bodyguard corps was named 963.

 

Quote The country's first nuclear test took place on 9 October 2006. The second long-range rocket launch was on 5 April 2009 (5+4=9 and nine of 2009, double nine). The next one was successfully launched on 12 December 2012 (1+2+1+2+1+2=9). There was a nuclear test on 12 February (20)13 (1+2+2+1+2=9). A recent North Korean propaganda video released on YouTube, in which the east coast of the US is consumed in a "sea of fire", features a rocket labelled No 9.

 

So, it all adds up. Three generations of the Kim family seem to have been fixated on nines. In the current climate this suggests that we should all be on our guard today, Friday 5 April (5+4=9). If we make it safely to Saturday, the world is probably safe from a nuclear attack until the 14th or, perhaps, the 23rd.

 

Didn't know Zupiclone wrote for the Guardian.

[chim]

Here we go guys, WW3.. Grab your popcorn..

[syd syside]

For what it's worth.

This is an article from a South Korean news site posted back on March 15

Quote:

South Korean intelligence authorities believe the latest moves by Kim Jong-un to ratchet up tensions through a series of war threats are linked to the incident last year.

Their analysis is that Kim is siding with military hard-liners to solidify his regime and seek internal unity.

To this end, they say, the North Korean leader has a three-stage scenario to bring about fear of a nuclear war in both the North and South Korea, the source said.

The first stage is issuing war threats against the South and spreading the idea that a war is imminent, the source said.

The second stage is reportedly forcing foreigners in the North to leave the country, warning that their personal safety cannot be guaranteed in time of war. The North would also inform foreign diplomatic missions in Pyongyang to pull out their citizens.

The third step will be a terrorist attack on a public installation in the South such as an airport, or an armed attack like the sinking of the Cheonan, the source said.

“They are afraid that the public will be very agitated by forthcoming food shortages in April,” another official said. “Kim Jong-un doesn’t want to start a war. He just wants to escalate tensions to unite his people and find a way through the tightened sanctions.”

The official also said the North is likely to stage an attack that cannot be conclusively blamed on it.

http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.c...px?aid=2968561

And now today :

Quote:

We can confirm that the British Embassy in Pyongyang received a communication from the North Korean government this morning.

It said that the North Korean government would be unable to guarantee the safety of embassies and international organisations in the country in the event of conflict from April 10.

Edited April 5, 2013 by compson

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This is so dramatic.

 

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15.41 America's top military official has given his assessment of the situation: worrisome, but does not appear to point to war.

Speaking to the Associated Press, General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said the rhetoric so far follows the pattern of provocation followed by non-violence accomodation.

What's different this time, he says - as has been pointed out many times elsewhere - is that Kim is a younger and relatively unknown leader that the US lacks understanding of.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9973577/North-Korea-missile-threat-latest-live.html

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Go back to bed Compson

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Go back to bed Compson

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No more internet or CNN for you today, Compson.

[syd syside]

Too late for bed, just made a cup of coffee.

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Too late for bed, just made a cup of coffee.

 

 

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Not sure if this has been posted:

 

[Guest Gary C]

Pussies. North Korea ain't gonna do shit with those crappy missiles. If they didn't get taken out by battery defences, they'd miss anyway. It might be a hot 5 mins whilst they're in the air, though, and some general would have to make the call as to let a provincial town get exploded and justify a ground invasion or shoot them down and go back to a more forceful negotiation.

 

Anyway, North Korea ain't gonna do shit.

[Guest theSun]

good god compson

[Npoess]

I think these forums might be more up your alley, Compson:

 

http://www.infowars.com/prison-planet-forum/

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/index.php?s=75dc4073001acdfdaf679d9d34576ec9

[chim]

I appreciate these updates.