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2013-04-06 China-Japan-Koreas

U.S. 'would not be surprised' by N. Korea missile launch

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Posted by Fred 2013-04-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 See also TOPIX > US, SOUTH KOREA TO COUNTERATTACK IFF NORTH STRIKES.

* PACIFICNEWSCNETER > THAAD DEPLOYMENT [to Guam] SEENS AS EVIDENCE THAT US PENTAGON BELIEVES NORTH KOREA THREAT MAY LAST FOR AWHILE.

Yuuuuppp, espec iff China refuses to delay or alter its desire to take over from the "weak/
declining" US as "inevitable" Global #1.

* BIG NEWS NETWORK > GENERAL LEADING GUAM DEPLOYMENT [THAAD] SAYS US COULD TAKE OUT NORTH KOREAN MISSLE "FAIRLY QUICKLY".

MGEN Dana Pittard, US Army.

* SAME > [Wired News] EX-CIA ANALYSTS EXPECTS NORTH KOREA TO ATTACK SOUTH KOREA BEFORE TENSIONS END.

* MARIANAS VARIETY > CNMI MAKES CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR NORTH KOREA THREATS.

Wid what - AFAIK the CNMI has no BMD. As things stand, the best the CNMI can do is Cold war-style "duck-n-cover" or stock up on supermarket goodies like it was Typhoon season???

The US should send BMD assets to the CNMI + Iwo JIma in addition to Guam, as these have large airfields, harbors, + locales that the "DPRK" = SSSSHHHHH China + PLA could use.

Iff China truly fears the USN's NIMITZ-class CVNS, then it should desire to confront same OTH in WESTPAC + CENTPAC AFAP AMAP ALAP, not to wait until US CVBGS, etc. arrive in or near the East China Sea -that means confronting the USN vee the Northern PHIL + Guam-CNMI + peripheral areas.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-04-06 02:09|| 2013-04-06 02:09|| Front Page Top

#2 The suprise would be when it hit a target.

Posted by Skidmark 2013-04-06 04:32|| 2013-04-06 04:32|| Front Page Top

#3 The White House said Friday it "would not be surprised"

Clearly a Public Relations CYA release.

Eliminating "strategic surprise" reduces the Benghazi factor, but it fails to solve the larger problem. Following a failed "surprise" attack will surely come an administration... "measured response".

Posted by Besoeker 2013-04-06 04:43|| 2013-04-06 04:43|| Front Page Top

#4 ...It would be nice if the 'measured response' was the following:

1. Immediately upon launch detection, the BMD-equipped destroyers McCain and Fitzgerald shot the damned things down.

2. The administration releases a statement saying that since the Kim regime has, for the last few weeks, stated that it is at war with the US and its allies and has approved nuclear strikes against them, we had no choice other than to believe them and assume that these missiles were carrying nuclear weapons and act accordingly.

A nice variation on this would be if we had already passed 2) on to the Chinese, but quite honestly I don't think we have the stones to do any of the above anyways. Ronaldus Magnus, where art thou in thy nation's hour of peril?

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2013-04-06 09:24|| 2013-04-06 09:24|| Front Page Top

#5 "measured response"

In the White House approved style book that means - deny, obscure, prevaricate while we find a scapegoat.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-04-06 09:24|| 2013-04-06 09:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Sadly to the Obama Administration 'measured response' seems to include a lot of bowing, scraping, and apologizing for our mere existence.

Oh and lots and lots of foodstuff and money!

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-04-06 09:30|| 2013-04-06 09:30|| Front Page Top

#7 In the White House approved style book that means - deny, obscure, prevaricate while we find a scapegoat. Posted by Procopius2k

The current regime takes prevarication to previously unknown levels.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-04-06 09:38|| 2013-04-06 09:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Real DefCon status of 4?

Posted by Water Modem 2013-04-06 16:14|| 2013-04-06 16:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Nuke their missile site with a low yoeld nuke. Deny, deny, deny. Let the world wonder if it was a north korean nuke gone off by mistake.

Posted by Rjschwarz 2013-04-06 18:31|| 2013-04-06 18:31|| Front Page Top

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