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2013-03-29 China-Japan-Koreas

US flies stealth bombers over South Korea

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Posted by Fred 2013-03-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
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#1 See also TOPIX > HAGEL: B-2'S NOT INTENDED TO PROVOKE NORTH KOREA.

OTOH China .....???

VERSUS

* PACIFIC NEWS CENTER > KCNA:"WE WILL
REMOVE [Guam's] ANDERSEN AFB FROM EARTH".

Kim Jong-Un + DPRK = China violate tasty "Kimchee Diplomacy" by threatening to nuke Guam's coconuts.

Hawaiians repor feel safe, + not worried [but they should be].

* SAME > SIX B-B52'S + 200 AIRMEN FROM MINOT AFB DEPLOYING TO GUAM TODAY.

VERSUS

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [BBC News] PUTIN ORDERS SURPRISE MILITARY EXERCISES IN BLACK SEA.

Already posted earlier on the 'Burg.

* SAME > [People's Daily Online] RUSSIAN SHIPS CONDUCT FIRING PRACTICE IN SOUTH CHINA SEA [Vietnam = "East Sea"].

VERSUS

* WAFF >[SCMP] PLA AMPHIBIOUS TASK FORCE REACHES MALAYSIA [James Shoal]"TO DEFEND THE SOUTH CHINA SEA".

Russia + RussNav send 7, China + PLAN send 4.

IIRC reminds me of a naval battle over control of the Samoas which could've taken place between various major international powers in the very early part of the 20th? Century - while everybody's fleet was getting ready for combat, TYPHOON COMES ALONG SUDDENLY + SINKS EVERY SHIP EXCEPT FOR A BRITISH CRUISER.

To paraph a Foreign Diplomat character from "55 DAYS IN PEKING" > ... And thus, little Virgina, we learn why "God must be an Englishman"???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-03-29 00:43|| 2013-03-29 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 If one were feeling a bit scampish, a B-2 would be cruising thru downtown Pyongyang every night dropping cluster munitions filled with snack-sized bags of Fritos and Little Debbie cakes.

Posted by SteveS 2013-03-29 02:41|| 2013-03-29 02:41|| Front Page Top

#3 BIG NEWS NETWORK > [KCNA = BNN(IANS)] NORTH KOREA RATIFIES [LR = Strategic] ROCKET STRIKE.

RELATED SAME > [VOA = Kim Jong-Un] NORTH KOREA: "TIME HAS COME TO SETTLE ACCOUNTS WID [imperialist]US".

* SAME > JONG-UN: US DEPLOYMENT OF B-2'S AN "ULTIMATUM", to the DPRK.

versus

* SAME > RISING CHINA DISREGARDING NEIGHORS: JAPAN STUDY.

* RELATED KYODO NEWS > CHINA FEARLESS IN CAUSING FRICTION AMONG NEIGHBORS: STUDY.

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > INSIDER - US FRUSTRATED AS CHINA CONTINUES TO IMPORT THOUSANDS OF HIGHLY-TRAINED MILITARY + TECHNOLOGICAL SOVIET/RUSSIAN EXPERTS.

* SAME > NORTH KOREA CLAIMS CHINA CONDUCTED SUCCESSFUL SIMULATED INTERCEPTION + SHOOTDOWN OF US B-2 STEALTH BOMBER FLYING OVER SOUTH KOREA. CHINESE ASSETS UNDETECTED BY US OR SOUTH KOREA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-03-29 02:58|| 2013-03-29 02:58|| Front Page Top

#4 I hope all these extra planes and troops deploying to Guam don't make it tip over

Posted by Frank G 2013-03-29 09:58|| 2013-03-29 09:58|| Front Page Top

#5 B-2'S NOT INTENDED TO PROVOKE NORTH KOREA.

Bullshit, we don't give a damn about North Korea, they've long passed annoying, and are now in , Give a shit, mode.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-03-29 11:23|| 2013-03-29 11:23|| Front Page Top

#6 I think even the NORKs know that a B-2 was meant for more than flying over Arrowhead Stadium on gameday Chuck.

And what was that twit picture of the B-52 the other day supposed to be then?

Look, I know the A-team is on the propaganda mission for the Obama girls' vac-cays, but whoever is in charge of this postering campaign is not just bad, it is dangerous; I hope the peter principles are doing better behind the doors.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-03-29 13:11|| 2013-03-29 13:11|| Front Page Top

#7 It's not even the 'B' team, Kansas.

Posted by Pappy 2013-03-29 20:34|| 2013-03-29 20:34|| Front Page Top

#8 The B-2 is a stealth bomber, how did the NORKS know it was there?

Posted by Vespasian Ebbereling1907 2013-03-29 21:29|| 2013-03-29 21:29|| Front Page Top

#9 De latest ....

* YONHAP NEWS > NORTH KOREA SAYS IT HAS ENTERED A "STATE OF WAR" AGZ SOUTH KOREA.

KJU orders DPRK + Military to be a near-combat = short-of-actual-war/combat national condition.

* TELEGRPAH.UK > NORTH KOREA: "OUTBREAK OF WAR" [may be]ONLY HOURS AWAY AS KIM JONG-UN PLANS US STRIKE?, according to a Brit ex-pat entrepeneur working in the DPRK???

* Also from TELEGRAPH.UK > NORTH KOREA PLAN TO ATTACK US MAINLAND [ + Hawaii] REVEALED IN PHOTOGRAPHS?

HHHMMMMM, HHHMMMM, LA or San Diego but N-O-T San Francisco???

For some reason I'm now humming the 1980's song + MTV Video "Photograph" in my head.

* RELATED SAME > NORTH KOREA: KIM JONG-UN TARGETS "GEORGE W. BUSH'S HOME STATE OF TEXAS".

I hope "Lil Kim" recognizes that Texas is very V-E-R-I-L-Y heavily armed wid or widout Fort Hood.

* CHINA DAILY > CHINESE FLEET HEADED FOR TRAINING IN WESTERN PACIFIC.

PLAN already has a force off Malaysia [disputed James/Meiji Shoal], wid USN in PHIL, + Russian naval force off Vietnam + Putin's suddenly ordered MILEX in the Caspian.

All thats missing is INDIA ...

Oh, wait ...

FYI BHARAT RAKSHAK > VIDEO: INDIA WARNS CHINA: "WE WILL USE FORCE TO PROTECT OUR OIL-GAS INTERESTS", e.g. in the South China Sea | CHINA + INDIA IN OIL-GAS TENSIONS AS SHADOW PLAYERS READY FOR ENTRY.

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Heritage.org] CHINA STRIVING TO DOMINATE NEARBY SEAS.

VERSUS

* YONHAP > NORTH KOREA CAUTIOUS IN CHOOSING TIMING FOR ANY ATTACK: US EXPERTS.

* PRAVDA.RU > NORTH KOREA INCREASES MISSLE POTENTIAL, as per NucWarheads + LRBM delivery Systems.

Personally I'm more worried about a PLA 2nd Arty - you know, SSSSHHHHH "North Korea/DPRK" - LRBM strike agz CONUS bases where the bulk of USN nuclear aircraft carriers + USAF strategic bombers are parked due to the Sequester + related US Debt woes.

AT PRESENT, BY THE ARTICS ABOVE IT WOULD APPEAR THAT KIM JONG-UN [China] IS INTERESTED IN A SELECTIVE OR "LIMITED NUCLEAR/MISSLE STRIKE(S)" AGZ HAWAII + CONUS, N-O-T SEEMINGLY ANY FULL-SCALE STRIKE.

IMO thats somewhat or partially positive/good news for Guam + US-Allies, as the DPRK = China? may be only interested at this time in destroying the principal "offensive" instruments of US strategic military power, i.e. CVNS + FBM Subs + heavy Bombers, but NOT destroy the US andor US regional allies in full-scale, "Mutually Destructive NucWar [MAD]"???

It may also indic that the DPRK = China ideally favors a SHORT WAR = CONVENTIONAL-LIMITED NUKE BLITZ, NOT A LONG OR PROTRACTIVE
WAR LET ALONE MAD???

IOW, WHILE SOME MAJOR OR STRATEGIC US MILBASES ARE WHOLLY DESTROYED, OTHERS ARE HIT ONLY WID CONVENTIONAL FIREPOWER OR AT WORST "LIGHT" NUCWEAPONS = TACNUKES THAT DAMAGES BUT DOES NOT DESTROY A GEOGRAPHIC AREA???

The key will be iff the above DPRK = Chinese strategy succeeds in achieving for China its desired unchallenged or unonstructed "strategic access" thru the "First Island Chain" into WESTPAC + SOPAC.

* IIRC BHARAT RAKSHAK [paraph] > INDIA-CHINA: THE REALITY OF THEIR GEOPOLITICAL EQUATION.

IIRC ARTIC = China may see itself as far ahead of India as a LAND POWER, BUT IT CURRENTLY LACKS THE AIR + NAVAL POWER, ETC. TO UNILATERALLY OR ROUTINELY IMPOSE ITS WILL ON INDIA + OTHER LESSOR BUT AGGRESSIVE ASIAN NATIONS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-03-29 22:01|| 2013-03-29 22:01|| Front Page Top

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