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| ROK to Beef Up Missile-Detection Hardware |
| 2011-03-03 |
| With North Korea getting closer to perfecting its ballistic rocket technology and hundreds of missiles aimed squarely at the South, defense officials in Seoul are stressing the need for advanced reconnaissance. The launch of a rocket by North Korea on Sunday was a learning experience for South Korea, which depends largely on the United States and its high-tech hardware to detect suspicious military activity in the North. In the weeks leading up to the launch, defense experts in Seoul made varied assessments, both positive and critical, on how South Korea's early warning system for identifying airborne missiles would fare. Although Seoul's Defense Ministry remains tight-lipped, sources close to officials there say the Navy's Aegis-class destroyer that was dispatched to the East Sea to monitor North Korea's rocket launch was dead-on. The ship King Sejong the Great is equipped with a powerful radar that can pick up any flying object manned or unmanned within a 1 km range. Word has it the South Korean destroyer caught the rocket launch faster than the American and Japanese Aegis ships that were in the East Sea on Sunday. But South Korea had to rely on the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado for tracking the projectile's flight path that reached beyond 1,000 km. South Korea is expected to put three new Aegis destroyers into service by 2012, one currently being prepped and tested for deployment. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 ION NOT-KING-SEJONG, WALL STREET JOURNAL > RUSSIA FEARS CHINA, NOT JAPAN, as per South Kuriles dispute. MOSCOW REFUSES TO BE SEEN OR TREATED AS A REGIONAL "NO.2" OR "ALSO-RAN" RELATIVE TO RISING CHINA OR ANY OTHER REGIONAL POWER, STATE. There are also 7.0MILYUHN NOT-THE-PRUSSIANS-OR-WEHRMACHT RUSSIANS living in the RUSSIAN FAR EAST FEDERAL DISTRICT TO COUNTER 100.0MILYUHN CHINESE JUST ACROSS THE BORDERS, + 50,000 LEGAL CHINESE ["officially" = wink-wink] in the RFE whom control or dominate most of the regional commerce vee Local Russ. * WMF > RUSSIAN EXPERTS: RUSSIA'S KURILES GARRISON "AS IS" CAN LIKELY SURVIVE FOR ONLY FOUR DAYS AGZ A DEDICATED/MAJOR JAPANESE CONVENTIONAL ATTACK OER THE DISPUTED SOUTH KURILES. * SAME > RUSSIA MAY CHOOSE TO USE NEUTRON, EMP BOMBS AGZ HOKKAIDO, TOKYO IN A LIMITED WAR AGZ US ALLY JAPAN OER THE SOUTH KURILES. * SAME > FEAR OF RUSSIAN-CONTROLLED LOST ISLANDS WILL INSPIRE JAPAN TO QUICKLY DEV INDIGENOUS NUCLEAR WEAPONS. * SAME > CHINA DESIRES TOTAL RUSSIAN CONTROL IN "THE FOUR ISLANDS" KURILES DISPUTE BETWEEN RUSSIA + JAPAN: ALTHOUGH CHINA WOULD PREFER NONE OR MINIMAL RUSSIAN GARRISON IN THE SOUTH KURILES, IT ALSO DOES NOT WISH TO SEE JAPANESE SOVEREIGNTY RETURN TO ANY OR PART OF ITS FORMER "NORTHERN TERRRITORIES". * SAME > KOREAN NET USERS CALL FOR CHINESE TO CLAIM RESIDENCY, MOVE TO DAOYUS [Japan = Senkakus], OKINAWA, + OTHER KEY EAST CHINA SEA ISLANDS. Rising China wants dem dar overseas Ports. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-03-03 02:25 |