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2010-05-19 China-Japan-Koreas

Serial Number of Torpedo Traced to N. Korea

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Posted by Steve White 2010-05-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Congratulations guys, you finally figured it out. The North Koreans! Whoda thunk it, eh?

Posted by gromky 2010-05-19 02:42|| 2010-05-19 02:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Whew, I'm glad I didn't listen to the Janet Nincompalitano who said it was either lightening or if a man-made disaster, then the rouge Amish Naval.

Posted by HammerHead 2010-05-19 07:55|| 2010-05-19 07:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Typo above-Amish Navy

Posted by HammerHead 2010-05-19 07:56|| 2010-05-19 07:56|| Front Page Top

#4 It came at us like a chinese torpedo ..

Sorry couldnt help it .

Posted by Oscar 2010-05-19 09:10|| 2010-05-19 09:10|| Front Page Top

#5 RIP to the brave navy souls who perished. A warship crew is like a family. I can only imagine the grief of the survivors and the families. RIP.

Posted by anon1 2010-05-19 09:22|| 2010-05-19 09:22|| Front Page Top

#6 "Revenge is best served cold"

I can only HOPE that is what is going on. However, the realist in me thinks SK will do nothing and just try to forget about this...I mean, we wouldn't want to start a war or anything.

Posted by Grunt_0369 2010-05-19 11:16|| 2010-05-19 11:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Why start a war? Just foment trouble and the place will collapse. Withhold fertilizer, cement or food.

Posted by gorb 2010-05-19 17:10|| 2010-05-19 17:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Pragmatically, wid RADICAL ISLAM expanding + escalating their JIHAD, INSURGENCIES EVERYWHERE, INCLUD THREATS OF TERRSTRIKES AGZ BOTH CHINA + CONUS, ETC. 2010-2012 is likely an opportune time for Kimmie + DPRK NORCOMS/KORCOMS to instigate a "GREAT POWER" MIL CONFRONTATION BETWEEN US + CHINA on the Korean Peninsula.

Again, NOKORS > facing the LT prospect of MORE CHIN ENTRENCHMENT = CONTROL OF NORTH KOREA, + ORDINARY NORTH KOREANS INEVITABLY BECOM AN IMPOTENT STILL-STARVING MINORITY IN THEIR OWN LAND VEE HAN CHINESE + OTHER MIGRANT GROUPS.

2010-2012 BEIJING > ISLAMIST-LED MILITANT TRUUUBLES + JAPAN, CENTRAL ASIAN FORMER SSRS quietly moving towards dev or acquiring NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

OOOPSIES, my bad, I meant NUKULAAR ENERGY [sarc].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-19 19:16|| 2010-05-19 19:16|| Front Page Top

#9 ION CORYEA WMF > NUCLEAR FUSION FOLLY: NORTH KOREA HAS NO SUITABLE GROUND/LAND AREA, PROPER EQUIPMENT, OR REINFORCED SPECIAL FACILITIES, ETC. TO SAFELY TEST ANY KIND OF HYDROGEN OR THERMONUCLEAR ADVANCED BOMB. NORTH KOREAN-MADE SUPER "CHERNOBYL" [radioactive clouds, lands] IN NORTHEAST ASIA.

and

* SAME > PERSEPECTIVE: FULL-SCALE OR LIMITED, THE SMALL SIZE OF A NORTH KOREAN NATIONAL HYDROGEN OR THERMONUCLEAR BOMB TEST IS INHERENTLY DANGEROUS TO BOTH NORTH KOREA AND CHINA. MILITARY AND GEOPOL IMPLICATIONS. THREAT OF PYONGYANG-APPROVED BLACK MARKET PROLIFERATION TO MILITANT GROUPS AND CRIME SYNDICATES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-19 22:28|| 2010-05-19 22:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Also from WMF > PLA/CHIN TO BUILD A 1500-KM MILITARY RAILROAD FOR THE EFFECTIVE RAPID DEPLOYMENT OF GROUND TROOPS, SOVIET-STYLE STRATEGIC MISSLE TRAINS [Rail-mobile ICBMS] AGZ THE US, INDIA, AND JAPAN. SUPPORT FOR CHINA'S SOUTH ASIAN GEO-STRATEGIC POLICIES.

* SAME > JAPANESE INTENTIONS TO SEIZE AND DEV DAOYUS [Senkaku Islands], OKONOTORISHIMA AS PART OF ITS EXTENSION OF "CONTINENTAL SHELF" SOVEREIGNTY AND MIL BLOCKADE AGZ CHINA IN THE EAST CHINA SEAS. EXPANSION OF YONAGUNI GARRISON, SELECTION OF OKONOTORISHIMA DUE TO PROXIMITY TO US BASE ON GUAM. EXPANSION/DOUBLING OF JAPAN'S SOVEREIGN JURISDICTION IN SEA AREAS TO OVER 420,000-SQUARE KMS.

* SAME > NEW PHILIPPINES PRESIDENT-ELECT AQUINO HOPES TO EXPAND BILATERAL SINO-PHILIPPINES TRADE AND COOPERATION, RESOLVE SOVEREIGNTY DISPUTE OER THE NANSHAS AND PARACEL ISLANDS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-19 22:50|| 2010-05-19 22:50|| Front Page Top

#11 FREEREPUBLIC > CSBA AIR-SEA BATTLE CONCEPT: MORE STEALTH, LONG-RANGE STRIKES TO COUNTER CHINEE BATTLE NETWORKS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-19 22:52|| 2010-05-19 22:52|| Front Page Top

#12 OOOPSIES, forgot NEWS KERALA >[paraph] CHINA STOPPED EIGHT TERROR THREATS/ATTACKS PRIOR TO OLYMPIC GAMES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-19 23:01|| 2010-05-19 23:01|| Front Page Top

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