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'Combat-Ready' N. Korea Threatens Hawaii, U.S. Mainland
2013-03-27
[An Nahar] North Korea's military put its "strategic" rocket units on a war footing Tuesday, with a fresh threat to strike targets on the U.S. mainland, Hawaii and Guam, as well as South Korea.

The move came as South Korea marked the third anniversary of the sinking of its naval vessel "Cheonan" by what Seoul insists was a North Korean submarine.

"All artillery troops including strategic rocket units and long-range artillery units are to be placed under class-A combat readiness," the Korean People's Army (KPA) supreme command said in a statement.

The units should be prepared to attack "all U.S. military bases in the Asia-Pacific region, including the U.S. mainland, Hawaii and Guam" and South Korea, said the statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency.

Despite a successful long-range rocket launch in December, most experts believe North Korea is years from developing a genuine inter-continental ballistic missile that could strike the mainland United States.

Hawaii and Guam would also be outside the range of its medium-range missiles, which would be capable, however, of striking U.S. bases in South Korea and Japan.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has spent the past few weeks touring frontline military units, monitoring live fire artillery drills and making inflammatory speeches about wiping out the enemy.
Posted by:Fred

#10  Rising China wants Taiwan, Japan under its umbrella, neutral Russia, + Guam, + US State of Hawaii iff it can get it.

WHAT CHINA DOES NOT WANT IS A "COLD WAR", NOR A REPEAT OF THE STALEMATE OF THE FIRST KOREAN WAR 1050-1953.

E.G. DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > ONE THING CHINA + USSR DON'T HAVE IN COMMON. Soviet-style massive military overspending such that it detrimentally affected the the then-USSR's economy.

POSTER = denoted that China's present economy is already 6-8X the peak of the Cold War Soviet/USSR's economy???

FULL-SCALE US-CHINA NUCWAR = STRATEGIC NUCLEAR WAR DOTH NOT GOOD OWG "GLOBALISM", + GLOBAL = "SPACE/STAR" ECONOMY MAKETH.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-03-27 23:26  

#9  Rising China wants Taiwan, Japan under its umbrella, neutral Russia, + Guam, + US State of Hawaii iff it can get it.

WHAT CHINA DOES NOT WANT IS A "COLD WAR", NOR A REPEAT OF THE STALEMATE OF THE FIRST KOREAN WAR 1050-1953.

E.G. DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > ONE THING CHINA + USSR DON'T HAVE IN COMMON. Soviet-style massive military overspending such that it detrimentally affected the the then-USSR's economy.

POSTER = denoted that China's present economy is already 6-8X the peak of the Cold War Soviet/USSR's economy???

FULL-SCALE US-CHINA NUCWAR = STRATEGIC NUCLEAR WAR DOTH NOT GOOD OWG "GLOBALISM", + GLOBAL = "SPACE/STAR" ECONOMY MAKETH.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-03-27 23:25  

#8  More ...

* TOPIX > [Stars-N-Stripes] CHINA AGENCIES PRESS TERRITORIAL CLAIMS IN ASIAN WATERS.

China's very latest PLAN-led "gunboat diplomacy" is conducting an amphibious exercise in waters that are repor also claimed by MALAYSIA.

* Also from TOPIX > NORTH KOREA WARNS UN OF IMMIMENT NUCLEAR WAR DUE TO FOREIGN PROVOCATIONS.

"Simmering" NucWar.

* RELATED SAME > NORTH KOREA CUTS LAST MILITARY HOTLINE TO SOUTH, WARNING OF "IMMINENT NUCLEAR WAR" AS REASON.

* RELATED SAME > [CBS News] VIDEO: NORTH KOREA: WAR COULD START "AT ANY MOMENT".

* RELATED SAME > NORTH KOREA: CONDITIONS FOR NUCLEAR WAR EXIST.

* YONHAP NEWS > NORTH KOREA WARNS PREEMPTIVE NUCLEAR ATTACK PART OF ITS OPTIONS.

By most accounts, MSM-NET > North Korea has the missle + air capability to strike the ROK + Japan, but NOT Guam + Hawaii - ONLY CHINA CAN DO SO.

The key for China + PLA 2nd Arty is where the sequestration-hid USDOD has parked the bulk of its CVNS, FBM Subs, + USAF strategic bombers. IFF CHINA FEARS THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANY LIMITED OR FULL-SCALE NUCWAR AGZ THE US, ETAL. ON ITS ECONOMY, THEN IT MAY CHOOSE TO USE ITS NUCWEAPONS IN LOW-INTENSITY, SELECTIVE NUCSTRIKES AGZ ONLY THE MOST IMPORTANT MIL TARGETS???

Targets + Limited Nucstrikes that will damage, but NOT destroy, the US-Allies.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-03-27 23:15  

#7  JAPAN DAILY PRESS > CHINA CONDUCTS LIVE-FIRE AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT WAR GAMES ON A TARGET WID THE FICTIONAL NAME "D-ISLAND".

* CHINESE DEFENSE > "JANE'S DEFENSE" CLAIMS CHINA'S DF-21A, JL-1A, DF-25 [ + SY-400 SRBMS] HAVE EMP WARHEAD CAPABILITY.

IIUC, IOW "confuse" + slow down a US Navy CV by first knocking out = "frying its internal electronics + communications systems vee local EMP burst(s), then kill it once-n-forevar! wid barrages of DF-21 ASBMS + LR ALCMS, SLCMS, + related TLCMS???

VERSUS

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM . KCNA: NORTH KOREA NO LONGER HAS ANY NEED FOR DIALOGUE WID THE US EXCEPT THROUGH THE "BARREL OF A GUN" [War = military force].

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > TAIWAN SHOULD CONSIDER CHANGE IN STATUS.

Taiwan = new "Switzerland/Belgium", i.e. all-Neutral all the time??? FTZ Area???

OTOH as per the disputed Senkakus/Diaoyus, MAINLAND CHINA = BEIJING DESIRES "SOLE" SOVEREIGN CONTROL OF TAIWAN, NOT "SHARED" CONTROL OR OTHER.

Lastly, methinks Taiwan + US know that Taiwan is indirectly a real/primary target for China + PLA once any Sino-japanese shooting war starts over the disputed Senkakus/Diaoyus.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-03-27 19:51  

#6  Step on these cockroaches already. Damn!
Posted by: Woozle Snase2903   2013-03-27 15:49  

#5  The Norks are just trying to live up to their Hollyweird reputation [see - Red Dawn (2012)]
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-03-27 09:58  

#4  YAHOO NEWS > THE US ARMY IS PLANNING FOR FAILED NUCLEAR STATE IN NORTH KOREA, as due to untimely collapse of Kim jong-un + Regime.

* BHSARAT RAKSHAK > XI-PUTIN SUMMIT, CHINA-RUSSIAN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP, + THE FAILURE OF OBAMA'S "ASIAN PIVOT".

* TOPIX > US + CHINA "PIVOTS" COLLIDE IN PACIFIC.

Perhaps more succintly, they "chase" one another like a Tiger-vs-Eagle about to engage in combat.

* SAME > [Washington Times] PLA NAVY AMPHIBIOUS FORCE REACHES JAMES SHOAL OFF MALAYSIA, i.e. the southernmost part of Chinese or Chinese-claimed territory.

Again, China is firmly entrenching in the SCS because the PHIL + Vietnam, etc ASEAN can not unilaterally or milpol stop it from doing so.

* BIG NEWS NETWORK > [Japan Times] REASONS WHY CHINA WON'T CRUSH PYONGYANG/NORTH KOREA.

VERSUS

* WORLD NEWS > US DEFENSE COMMITMENT TO ASIA REMAINS UNAFFECTED BY SEQUESTRATION.

Hopefully is true, but remains to be seen as per alleged Marxist-Anarchist, Marxist-Globalist, etc. POTUS Bammer Admin + anti-US? OWG, Global Fed Union(s), + "Globalism" starting in 2015 or ASAP afterward.

E.G. GIVEN ...

* WORLD NEWS > FITCH: SEQUESTRATION MAY AFFECT US DEFENSE RATINGS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-03-27 02:39  

#3  Meanwhile circa 600 of Guam's National Guard are on deployment to Afghanistan.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-03-27 00:59  

#2  "Medium-range missles ... striking US Bases in South Korea + Japan" > well technically, thats good for China + PLA since TAIWAN is likely their REAL/PRIMARY OBJECTIVE anyway.

China already has HAINAN + is firmly entrenching in its new "Sansha/Sasha" offshore province fka the SCS - IT IS DOING SO BECAUSE NEITHER THE PHIL + VIETNAM, ETC CLAIMANTS CAN MILPOL EFFEC STOP CHINA FROM DOING SO.

FYI several USN ships includ the Guam-based sub tender USS FRANK CABLE have repor arrived in the PHIL, + will remain for MWR + "routine maintenance". Personally, I interprete this to mean the US Govt-DOD is covertly well-aware of the true nature behind the DPRK's recent threats.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-03-27 00:56  

#1  Beware, yo can Nuke the USA ONCE, and it's the end of your nation, and your life.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2013-03-27 00:09  

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