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| U.S. warns Norks not to raise tensions with missile tests | |
| 2010-06-26 | |
| WASHINGTON, June 25 (Yonhap) -- The United States Friday warned North Korea not to escalate tensions on the Korean Peninsula with another round of missile tests. "North Korea should refrain from actions that aggravate tensions," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said in response to North Korea having set no-sail zones in waters near the disputed sea border with South Korea in the Yellow Sea. "In the past, it has sometimes been followed by missile launches," Crowley said. "We would hate to see North Korea go through with another round of missile launches. Now is the time to take steps to improve relations with its neighbors and cease any provocative behavior." North Korea has designated no-sail zones in the Yellow Sea in past years before it fired missiles or artillery shells. The fresh nine-day no-sail zones effective until Sunday come amid escalating tensions after North Korea's torpedoeing of a South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors in March. "This is certainly not the kind of step that we want to see North Korea take," Crowley said. "We'd rather see them take concrete steps -- irreversible steps -- towards fulfillment of the 2005 Joint Statement; comply with international law, including U.N. Security Council Resolutions 1718 and 1874; cease provocative behaviors; and take steps to improve relations with its neighbors. I suspect that further missile launches is not a step in that direction." Resolutions 1718 and 1874 call for implementation of an overall arms embargo and economic sanctions on North Korea for missile and nuclear tests early last year. Crowley also reaffirmed the strong U.S. alliance with South Korea on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the start of the 1950-53 Korean War. Crowley lauded South Korea for "a significant achievement in terms of the economic development over these previous decades -- once a recipient of international assistance and now a leading member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and donor in its own right." "In the 1970s, the GDP of South Korea and North Korea were roughly the same; now there are two compelling stories for dramatically different reasons," he said. "South Korea today is the sixth-largest trading nation in the world. It has the second and third-largest producers of cell phones, for example; the first and second-largest manufacturers of televisions." Crowley urged North Korea to "look at the exemplary example of development and democracy in South Korea and choose a different course than the one it is currently on." "There's no difference between the people and the capabilities of the people on both sides of the 30th parallel," he said. "There is a dramatic difference in the responsibility and capability of the respective governments."
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #11 We could show them . . . . |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-06-26 23:15 |
| #10 I suspect the JDF is perfectly aware of how to use carriers. Yes, but do they know how to do ARCLIGHTs? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-06-26 17:00 |
| #9 That's the Yamato's job |
| Posted by: ed 2010-06-26 16:30 |
| #8 but can it fly? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-06-26 16:27 |
| #7 22DDH rather a full-fledged helicopter carrier than a helicopter destroyer Rumors that the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s third “aircraft carrying destroyer” would mark a major improvement in size and capability over the Hyuga class ships now entering service have been confirmed. The new 22DDH will be 248 meters long and 39 meters in beam, and displace more than 24,000 tons. That's "Japanese tons". See Yamato and Musashi. Japanese accounts suggest that one of the reasons for the drastic increase in size of the 22DDH design is a planned shift to the V-22 Osprey as the primary air group element for these ships. It is not clear whether these would be replacements for or supplemental to the SH-60Ks that equip the Hyuga class. These accounts also make it clear that the F-35B short takeoff and vertical landing variant of the Joint Strike Fighter is seen as a key system for these ships. Apparently, provision for the operation of UAVs is being included within the design. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-06-26 16:26 |
| #6 I suspect the JDF is perfectly aware of how to use carriers. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2010-06-26 15:30 |
| #5 I still say we need to sell the old Kitty Hawk to Japan. They'll take it completely apart, install a nuclear reactor, rebuild it and a dozen like it in five years. Not only that, they'll learn to use those carriers effectively against Korea and China, if the need ever comes. If Japan decides it needs nuclear weapons, I'm sure they'll have them within weeks of that decision. They have the knowledge, materials, and the technology - all that's missing is the will. If China provokes them to building nukes, it's China's loss. Thank you, "President" Obumble, for another nice foreign policy mess. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2010-06-26 14:19 |
| #4 ION INTERFAX > US DIPLOMAT SUGGESTS TRYING TO RE-START/RENEW THE [defunct] CONVENTIONAL ARMS PACT, between the US + Russia. and * WAFF > "PUERTO RICO" IN THE BALKANS: USAF IN BULGARIA. POTUS Bammer = USA trying to make Bulgaria into a "51st US State" = PORTO/PUERTO RICO vee escalating mil presence + bilateral cooperation??? * WMF > JAPAN OFFICIALS: SIZE OF CHINA'S NAVY EXCEEDS JAPAN'S SEA POWER. IOW, JAPAN desires to UP-SIZE + MODERNIZE ITS NAVY, OTHER CONVENTIONAL FORCES, besides desiring it own INDIGENOUS NUCWEAPONS. "FUTENMA" BASES ISSUE > NOT ONLY OKINAWA-SPECIFIC INDIGENOUS RIGHTS, but also SSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, D *** NG IT, JAPAN'S POST-US RIGHTS TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS, NEW REGIONAL + GLOBAL MIL POWER + INFLUENCE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-06-26 01:43 |
| #3 ION WMF > US IN FEARFUL/NERVOUS SWEAT AS CHINESE PRESIDENT HU JINTAO PROCLAIMS CHINA IS NOW A "GLOBAL MARITIME POWER", INTENT ON DEFENDING ITS INTERESTS + PROJECTING ITS MIL POWER ANYWHERE AROUND THE WORLD, + NO LONGER ONLY A REGIONAL OR LIMITED LAND, NUCLEAR POWER. * SAME > CHINA INFORMED THE US THAT TWO PLAN STRIKE SUBMARINES [minima]WILL BE KEPT ON PERMANENT ROTATING PATROL IN EASTPAC OFF THE US WEST COAST. * "ASAHI SHIMBUN" JAPAN MEDIA: CHINA IS BUILDING UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR MISSLE, STORAGE BASES IN MOUNTANIOUS SHANXI + HENAN PROVINCES FOR PREEMPTIVE, OTHER NUCLEAR COUNTER-STRIKE AGZ CHINA'S ENEMIES. CHINA'S RAPID MIL BUILDUP, PLA MODERNIZATION + DESIRE TO ENTER WESTPAC OCEAN AREAS IS CHANGING THE BALANCE OF POWER IN ASIA-PACIFIC AGZ THE US. * SAME > US-JAPAN "FUTENMA CRISIS" MAY INDUCE THE US TO ONCE AGAIN REALIGN ITS MILITARY FORCES IN EAST ASIA + PACIFIC. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-06-26 01:32 |
| #2 Because if they do raise tensions, we are going to...? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2010-06-26 00:51 |
| #1 They shoot a missile, we shoot a missile. They stop, we stop. Seems fair. All the Norks could manage after that would be easily recognizable as empty bluster. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-06-26 00:23 |