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    North Korea 'ratifies' nuclear strike against US
    Published time: April 03, 2013 18:43
    Edited time: April 04, 2013 02:34


    Shortly after the US said it was preparing to deploy an advanced missile-defense system to Guam, Pyongyang announced it had approved nuclear attack on the US. Meanwhile there are reports that North Korea is moving a mid-range missile to its east coast.

    The reports by South Korea’s Yonhap news agency did not indicate whether the missile was mounted with a warhead. It’s not yet clear whether Pyongyang was planning to fire the weapon, or was just displaying it as a show of force.

    "South Korean and US intelligence authorities have obtained indications the North has moved an object that appears to be a mid-range missile to the east coast," the agency said citing a South Korean government source. The missile is believed to be a mid-range Musudan missile, with a reach of some 3,000 km or more.

    This comes as the North Korean army says it has final approval for nuclear attack on the US. "Merciless operation of its revolutionary armed forces in this regard has been finally examined and ratified," said a spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People's Army, according to the statement released by the state KCNA news agency.

    "We formally inform the White House and Pentagon that the ever-escalating US hostile policy toward the DPRK and its reckless nuclear threat will be smashed by the strong will of all the united service personnel and people."

    The White House has responded by urging Pyongyang to stop making threats, describing the statement as “provocative.”


    "We've seen today's statement by North Korea, again making unhelpful and unconstructive threats," said National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden. “It is yet another offering in a long line of provocative statements that only serve to further isolate North Korea from the rest of the international community and undermine its goal of economic development."


    Earlier on Wednesday Pentagon said the US military prepares to deploy an advanced missile-defense system to Guam to defend American military bases in the Pacific as a "precaution " following North Korea threats.

    The DoD has announced that top defense officials approved the deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System, or THAAD, which includes a truck-mounted launcher, interceptor missiles, a AN/TPY-2 tracking radar and an integrated fire control system, Reuters reports.


    "The United States remains vigilant in the face of North Korean provocations and stands ready to defend US territory, our allies, and our national interests," a Pentagon spokeswoman said.


    It has been stressed that the future deployment of the system is for protecting American interests in the region and will not reach South Korea’s territory.



    The Pentagon said the batteries, which according to advocates will cost up to $800 million per battery, will be deployed in the coming weeks; however, no exact date was given, the Wall Street Journal reports.


    The Pentagon initially considered the deployment of the first of the batteries in 2015, however, recently escalated tensions and threats from North Korea have influenced the plans, forcing the Defense Department to rethink its intentions.

    The United States sees a "real and clear" danger from North Korea, given its nuclear and missile capabilities and bellicose rhetoric, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said earlier Wednesday, shortly before the Pentagon's statement.

    North Korea has recently threatened to target US and South Korea following new UN sanctions and joint military drills by the two allies.


    Guam has become the most important US military base in Asia, housing its major airfield and an incoming contingent of US Marines.

    Seoul-based correspondent Joseph Kim says the US pursues its own interests when getting more involved in the conflict. It “continuously monitor[s] and gain[s] more influence in the region.”

    “They are technically trying to get back to East Asia to be able to counter China and its growing power in terms of the economy. And why not use North Korea?” Kim told RT.

    Gregory Elich, a member of think tank for the advisory board at the Korea Policy Institute, told RT the United States is interested in the collapse of the North, as the US “can establish their military bases right on the border with China, meaning an encirclement of that nation.” He also added that America never “never tolerated a country that won’t put its economy at the service of foreign corporations.”

    As for the means the US chooses to achieve its ends, there are questions remaining as to the efficacy. Investigative journalist Tim Shorrock believes that North Korea’s actions are being misconstrued and that the American response to them is unbalanced and achieves the opposite result: “North Korea does not want to commit suicide. I believe [it] is doing all this so it can get to a point where it can negotiate some kind of peace agreement with the United States”, he said.


    “They look up and they see these B-2 bombers and that’s an absolute reminder of danger of war with the United States, but it also gives the monolithic authoritarian state the [opportunity] to show to the North Korean people that indeed there is a threat. So, by escalating it to this point, the United States is playing right into Kim Jong-un’s hands.”

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    North Korea's missile launchers on the move, indicating possible new provocation
    Published April 04, 2013 ~ FoxNews.com

    North Korea has begun moving its mid-range missile launchers, possibly indicating a looming test as tensions are already boiling on the peninsula, U.S. officials told Fox News.

    Earlier Thursday, South Korea said North Korea moved a missile with "considerable range" to its east coast after an unnamed spokesman for the North Korean army warned the U.S. Wednesday that its military has been cleared to wage an attack using "smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear" weapons.

    South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin dismissed reports in the Japanese and South Korean media that the missile could be a KN-08, which is believed to be a long-range missile that if operable could hit the United States.

    Kim told lawmakers at a hearing that the missile's range is considerable but not far enough to hit the U.S. mainland. He said he did not know the reasons behind the missile movement, saying it "could be for testing or drills."

    The range he described could refer to a mobile North Korean missile known as the Musudan, which has a range of 1,800 miles. That would make Japan and South Korea potential targets, but little is known about the missile's accuracy.

    North Korea has railed for weeks against joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises taking place in South Korea and has expressed anger over tightened sanctions for a February nuclear test.

    U.S. National Security Council spokesperson Caitlin Hayden has called North Korea's threats "unhelpful and unconstructive."

    "It is yet another offering in a long line of provocative statements that only serve to further isolate North Korea from the rest of the international community and undermine its goal of economic development," she said. "North Korea should stop its provocative threats and instead concentrate on abiding by its international obligations."

    Russia said Thursday that North Korea's disregard for the U.N. sanctions is hurting the chances of resuming stalled six-party nuclear talks, Reuters reports.

    "Attempts by Pyongyang to violate ... decisions of the U.N. Security Council are categorically unacceptable," Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said during a briefing.

    Despite North Korea's rhetoric, analysts say they do not expect a nuclear attack, which knows the move could trigger a destructive, suicidal war that no one in the region wants.

    But following through on one threat Wednesday, North Korean border authorities refused to allow entry to South Koreans who manage jointly run factories in the North Korean city of Kaesong.

    Washington calls the military drills, which this time have incorporated fighter jets and nuclear-capable stealth bombers, routine annual exercises between the allies. Pyongyang calls them rehearsals for a northward invasion.

    The foes fought on opposite sides of the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953. The divided Korean Peninsula remains in a technical state of war six decades later, and Washington keeps 28,500 troops in South Korea to protect its ally.

    U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Washington was doing all it can to defuse the situation, echoing comments a day earlier by Secretary of State John Kerry.

    "Some of the actions they've taken over the last few weeks present a real and clear danger and threat to the interests, certainly of our allies, starting with South Korea and Japan and also the threats that the North Koreans have leveled directly at the United States regarding our base in Guam, threatened Hawaii, threatened the West Coast of the United States," Hagel said Wednesday.

    The Pentagon said in Washington that it will deploy a missile defense system to the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam to strengthen regional protection against a possible attack.

    In Pyongyang, the military statement said North Korean troops had been authorized to counter U.S. "aggression" with "powerful practical military counteractions," including nuclear weapons.

    "We formally inform the White House and Pentagon that the ever-escalating U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK and its reckless nuclear threat will be smashed by the strong will of all the united service personnel and people and cutting-edge smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear strike means," an unnamed spokesman from the General Bureau of the Korean People's Army said in a statement carried by state media, referring to North Korea by its formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. "The U.S. had better ponder over the prevailing grave situation."

    However, North Korea's nuclear strike capabilities remain unclear.

    Pyongyang is believed to be working toward building an atomic bomb small enough to mount on a long-range missile. Long-range rocket launches designed to send satellites into space in 2009 and 2012 were widely considered covert tests of missile technology, and North Korea has conducted three underground nuclear tests, most recently in February.

    "I don't believe North Korea has to capacity to attack the United States with nuclear weapons mounted on missiles, and won't for many years. Its ability to target and strike South Korea is also very limited," nuclear scientist Siegfried Hecker, a senior fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, said this week.

    "And even if Pyongyang had the technical means, why would the regime want to launch a nuclear attack when it fully knows that any use of nuclear weapons would result in a devastating military response and would spell the end of the regime? " he said in answers posted to CISAC's website.

    In Seoul, a senior government official said Tuesday that it wasn't clear how advanced North Korea's nuclear weapons capabilities are. But he also noted fallout from any nuclear strike on Seoul or beyond would threaten Pyongyang as well, making a strike unlikely. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly to the media.

    North Korea maintains that it needs to build nuclear weapons to defend itself against the United States. On Monday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un led a high-level meeting of party officials who declared building the economy and "nuclear armed forces" as the nation's two top priorities.

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    David Cameron: North Korea nuclear strike could hit UK
    Nigel Morris Thursday 04 April 2013

    David Cameron provoked surprise today when he claimed that North Korea now possessed the capability to launch a nuclear strike against Britain.

    The Prime Minister pointed to the escalating threats from the regime in Pyongyang as evidence of the need for the United Kingdom to retain the Trident nuclear deterrent.

    Speaking to defence workers in Scotland, he said he was “very concerned” about North Korea as it had “extremely dangerous technologies in terms of nuclear and its weapons”.

    He said: “North Korea does now have missile technology that is able to reach, as they put it, the whole of the United States and if they are able to reach the whole of the United States they can reach Europe too. They can reach us too, so that is a real concern.”

    His comments significantly toughened his warning, in a newspaper article, that North Korea claimed to have developed a long-range ballistic missile which could reach Britain. He did not assert it as a fact.

    Mark Fitzpatrick, Director of Nuclear Non-Proliferation and disarmament at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, told ITV News that Mr Cameron was correct to warn about the dangers from Pyongyang.

    But he added: “North Korea does not have any missile capabilities that could hit Britain and it is difficult to envision circumstances when North Korea ever would want to attack the UK even if they could.”

    The crossbench peer Lord Ramsbotham, a former army officer, said: “There is no evidence at all to suggest the North Koreans possess a weapon which the Prime Minister suggested could pose a threat to Europe or indeed to us.”

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    Crunch Time - Soapbox 4/15/13

    If you saw a night time satellite shot of the peninsula of Korea the southern half would be lit up like a Christmas tree while the northern half would resemble a black hole in space with sparse a sprinkling of lights mainly around the Pyongyang area.

    There is a simple reason for this condition; it's just that there are no lights to speak of in North Korea because electricity is scarce and hoarded by the government as are most of the necessities of life in this sad land north of the 38th Parallel.

    There are no forests of trees because they have been cut down and used as fuel for cooking and warmth and anything that's even remotely eatable has been picked, dug up or ripped away in an attempt to keep body and soul together by a people who have been left to fend for themselves living on acorns, roots and tree bark and whatever they can coax out of the barren soil.

    There are labor camps in North Korea where the inmates are fed subsistence diets and literally worked to death, where every semblance of human dignity or sense of family is stripped away and the people know nothing but fear and back breaking labor.

    The North Korean leadership lives a life of luxury and indulgence and spends the meager national income on maintaining a massive military and developing weapons of mass destruction to sell to rogue nations and threaten the free world.

    If you look at the situation from the outside it makes no sense at all, an internationally isolated, totally impoverished nation who can't even feed it's people, basically has no industry, whose agriculture is primitive and inadequate, whose population is ruled by fear and intimidation, uninformed and uneducated and yet one word from their pasty faced "dear leader" can send shock waves around the entire planet.

    Admittedly, a third world nation with a nuclear weapon is a frightening thing, especially in the hands of a 27-year-old novice who inherited a dictatorship, is isolated from the international world of diplomacy and wields absolute power over a population that has no vote, no recourse and no control over their lives.

    But as much of a loose canon as this Kim Jong Un is, as unstable and childish, as he seems to be, there is one stark fact that he is well aware of and has to live with.

    He knows that the first time he attempts to fire off a nuclear warhead or seriously mounts an attack on South Korea or any of the other nations in the neighborhood, the combination of the Republic of Korea and the United States military has the means at their disposal to annihilate North Korea in the span of about 20 minutes or so.

    America has strategically placed bases close to the border with North Korea that have nuclear hardened airplane hangers, runways protected by patriot missiles and a force of young men and women trained and ready to make life miserable and short for Kim Jong Un should he be foolish enough to fire the first shot.

    All that to say this:

    Kim Jong Un may be eccentric and dangerous but I don't believe he's ready to die just for the sake of taking one futile shot at the free world, knowing that him and his nation would cease to exist before he ever even knew the results of his folly.

    Of course any response to a North Korean act of war would have to originate from
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and your guess is as good as mine as to how that would go.

    I actually haven't heard the occupant say much on the subject.

    What do you think?

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