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| Seoul, Washington Discuss Limits on S. Korean Missiles | |
| 2011-01-19 | |
| Seoul and Washington have started talks to revise a bilateral accord that limits South Korea's ballistic missile range to 300 km. "The two sides have recently started talks on the revision of the missile accord because there is now some consensus between them," a government source said. "The talks are still in their initial stage, so it remains to be seen how much we can increase the range and payload weight." The accord, signed in 1979, was revised once before in 2001. It limits the range of South Korea's ballistic missiles to 300 km and their payload weight to 500 kg, preventing Seoul from matching the range of missiles to those North Korea has been developing. Seoul proposed the revision talks to Washington after the North tested a long-range ballistic missile in April 2009. But U.S. military leaders including U.S. Forces Korea Commander Gen. Walter Sharp are against a revision. South Korean military and some experts stress the need to increase the range to more than 1,000 km, which would bring all of North Korea within reach from the south coast, and the payload weight to more than 1 ton. The North has deployed ballistic missiles with a maximum range of 3,000 to 4,000 km warfare ready, but South Korean ballistic missiles, such as Hyunmu and ATACMS, have the range of a mere 165 to 300 km.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 And iff NORTH KOREA, CHINA choose to escalate tensions towards 2012, so also may IRAN cum 2012??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-01-19 22:40 |
| #3 Lest we fergit, NET > Various Analysts claim that POTUS Bammer may need up to US$1.0BILYUHN in new Campaign funding, including US Govt "MATCHING FUNDS", to WIN FORMAL RE-ELECTION = SECOND POTUS TERM IN 2012 + SERVE AS SAME THRU 2016. $$$ which CHINA controls a lot of. * ABOVE NET > POTUS OBAMA AS A "ONE-TERM" POTUS ONLY? = IMO only means that BOTH NORTH KOREA + CHINA WILL PREFER TO ESCALATE MILPOL TENSIONS IN NE ASIA AGZ US-ALLIES, TO EXPLOIT A "WEAK" OR "LAME DUCK", "ONE-TERMER" POTUS BAMMER??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-01-19 22:38 |
| #2 Longer range + heavier Payload. ION CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > PLA DIRECTS CHINA'S [controls?]FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONS INSTREAD OF CCP. and * PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > ASEAN: BREAKTHROUGH NEEDED FOR SOUTH CHINA SEA TALKS. Methinks safe to say ditto for ALL CAMPS, ESPEC CHINA, as per NE Asia + East China Sea, not just the SCS. * SAME > SINO-US DEFENSE + OFFENSE STRATEGY IN THE WEST PACIFIC. USAF, USN "Air Sea Battle" Oplan favoring > Regional "Active Defense" to deter andor defend agz Rising China + PLA. > "Hardening" of Theater, Regional EMW, SIGINT, + related SPAWAR, ETC. AGZ LR BM, CM MISSLE STRIKES, focii on BASE BALLISTIC MISSLE DEFENSE. > DEMANDS FOR INCREASED INTEL ON AIRFIELDS. Wehell, does affirm some OLD PERSONAL DREAMS/VISIONS OF MINE + GUAM TAOTAMONAS. NEVER DOUBT THE GHOST! * SAME > SOUTH KOREA WILL ESTABLISH THE MILITARY FORTRESS DEFENSE IN NORTHWEST ISLAND, by 2015 as per five Islands in West Sea. * SAME > US, JAPAN CONDUCT AMPHIBIOUS DRILLS. Nippon + JSDFS in 2010 finally succeed in invading CONUS = San Diego, CA. * TOPIX > JAPAN CALLS FOR NUCLEAR-FREE ZONE. Nice try, but I don't think SSSSSSSSHHHHHH-WE'RE-ANTI-AMERICA-YOU-KNOW-CHINA NORTH KOREA, + espec ANTI-"FIRST ISLAND CHAIN", ANTI-US CHINA + PLA, will go for it. Again, IMO only iff the US GOVT = POTUS BAMMER? agrees to fully withdraw its Milfors from SOUTH KOREA, + mostly or wholly withdraw same from JAPAN, plus other concessions. CHINA IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY TO ACCEPT ANY FORM OF DPRK-ROK REUNIFICATION OTHERWISE, which for North Korea = IT CONTINUES TO STARVE OR CHINA TAKES IT OVER, MILITARILY OR BY NORMAL ECONOMIC FACTORS [Sino-DPRK Free Trade = FTA]. AS PER MSM-NET CRITICISMS AGZ POTUS BAMMER, CHINA > ITS TIME = BEST OPPORTUNITY TO GET THE US OUT OF THE ROK + JAPAN [TAIWAN, etc?] IS NOW, i.e. WHILE AN ALLEGEDLY ANTI-US? POTUS BAMMER IS IN THE WH. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-01-19 22:22 |
| #1 In related news, the NFL has contacted the Green Bay Packers to negotiate rules limiting the lenght of a pass to 20 yards or less with a violation requiring the immediate ejection from the game the player who throws the ball past set limit. In return the NFL has promised to have the correct number of qualified referees on the field and continue to promote the Packers. Chicago, who consider themselves the underdogs in the upcoming matchup, welcome the news as most equal, and promise a statement immediately following the game. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-01-19 12:27 |