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| Southeast Asia |
| South Korean warships to protect strategic waterways in Southeast Asia |
| 2004-10-28 |
| From Geostrategy-Direct, subscription req'd. Seoul is planning to dispatch warships to escort South Korean ships near the piracy-plagued waters near the Philippines and Malaysia, according to U.S. officials. The South Koreans are studying a plan to send two destroyers, a support ship and a Lynx helicopter to the region. These would guide South Korean ships passing through the strategic waterways. The region is a major sea lane that has been rife with piracy. Chinese officials have said they to are looking at security for Chinese shipping through the region. The U.S. Pacific Command has sought to engage the key nations of the area, Malaysia and Indonesia, in talks on joint patrols. Both those nations have rejected having U.S. warships in the region and, instead, launched an effort at joint maritime patrols. |
| Posted by:Alaska Paul |
| #7 i believe the biggest pirate of all is the USA. Check them out sucking oil. |
| Posted by: Grumpy Uncle Sam 2004-10-29 3:41:01 AM |
| #6 Hi Mikey! How's North Carolina this time of year? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-10-29 6:55:06 AM |
| #5 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted] |
| Posted by: Grumpy Uncle Sam TROLL 2004-10-29 3:41:01 AM |
| #4 damn Richard, couldn't you have posted as Jack Aubrey? ;-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-28 7:05:30 PM |
| #3 Pirates have also threatened folks on land, too. Ben Franklin, in one of his first civic activities, helped organize, fund, and arm an artillery company to defend Philadelphia (before the War for Independence) from potential pirates. That he got cooperation means other people saw the need, too. Now, with fast ships, pirates can get in and out pretty fast. In the eighteenth century, most fleets attacking fortified positions won, because they could put together enough firepower to do the job--or if not, stay away--while the forts were limited to what they'd been given by a stingy government which had lots of places to worry about. What would, for example, New Zealand do about a raid on a seacoast town? Besides call for Aussie or US help, I mean? |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2004-10-28 6:59:57 PM |
| #2 Good deal. And yeah... time to build a non-sensitive yardarm An oak temp maybe.... |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-10-28 5:16:12 PM |
| #1 If they catch 'em it would be best they had a yardarm to hang the bastards from. And I wonder just what percentage of these pirates feel the need to face west 5 times a day |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2004-10-28 4:33:52 PM |