Posted on 06/26/2009 8:36:07 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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From Japanese national TV just a few hours ago, the NNN network--prime time.
The Japanese news says this is unprecedented.
Getting hot, folks.
S. Korea has quickly revised their defense plan policy to allow for a PRE-EMPTIVE MILITARY STRIKE ON NORTH KOREA in the event it appears Pyongyang is going to go ahead with missile attacks or nuclear launches. The conclusion was that this is going to really rattle the North Korean's cage tomorrow or in the next few days and give them a case of the squirts.
Video about 1 minute long. Will be up on this site for maybe a day or so.
Ping!
Glad somebody has some ballz. The SK president was quick to assess that Obama is a coward and not to be counted on when things go bad.
Good move, but “Ruh-Roh”! Things are getting superheated on the Peninsula...
We need to supply the South with some nukes of their own. You can’t use a stick against a guy with a bazooka.
I was watching that video....where was the missile coming from?
interesting, from Japan
will they do the same?
Oh they will have a lot of bile to spill out tomorrow night on Pyongyang TV and Radio, and KCNA website from North Korea. They want a fight? Looks like they are about to get one. And Japan, I assure you, is FED UP WITH THIS SHIT from North Korea and is doing things behind the scenes, too. Nobody is going to wait for Obama it seems.
Can’t thank you enough for posting these pieces of news as you do. Often, we don’t see them otherwise, because US news isn’t that interested in substantial matters.
Conservative, anti-communist Prime Minister Taro Aso of Japan has also assessed through their intelligence that Obama is both a coward and an incompetent. I have been getting this information recently. On the surface everyone is smiling and shaking hands, but believe me, the confidence factor here in Northeast toward the President is shockingly (maybe not shockingly) very low.
The left thought Dubya would get us into a war, we could not get out of......well the cowardice and out right stupidity of obamas administration will not get us into a war but a World War.
Meanwhile Obama is firing off an apology to Kim Jong Il for not inviting him to the big luau on the WH lawn.
Time for Obama to go on another burger run.
The SK president was quick to assess that Obama is a coward
...seems everyday, more and more of the USA allies are sensing the lack of spine within Barrack Obama...
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2009/06/26/28/0301000000AEN20090626005600315F.HTML
S. Korea to bolster capabilities to head off N.K. nuclear, missile attacks
By Sam Kim
SEOUL, June 26 (Yonhap) — South Korea on Friday unveiled a revision of its long-term national defense reform plan, seeking to reinforce its capabilities to choke off potential nuclear and missile offensives by North Korea.
The revision of the “National Defense Reform 2020,” first introduced in 2005 a year before North Korea conducted its first nuclear explosion and test-fired a ballistic missile, comes as tension is heightening on the Korean Peninsula following the North's second nuclear test last month.
The defense reform plan came under scrutiny early last year, when President Lee Myung-bak took office in Seoul with a pledge to press harder for the nuclear disarmament of North Korea, driving the inter-Korean relations to the lowest ebb since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in a cease-fire, not a peace treaty.
Amid the escalating hostility, North Korea declared the armistice void last month, threatening nuclear retaliation in the event of a war and accusing South Korea and the U.S. of moving to stifle its regime by imposing a blockade.
The new Defense Reform Plan 2020, approved by Lee on Friday, stresses the importance of expanding high-tech military assets capable of monitoring and striking North Korean nuclear and missile bases.
The South Korean military “should reinforce its capacity to perform surveillance and reconnaissance, conduct precision-guided strikes and make interceptions,” according to the reform plan.
The reinforcement is aimed at “stemming and eliminating to a maximum degree” what the Ministry of National Defense described as the North's “asymmetrical threats” — nuclear and missile programs.
“If it becomes clear that North Korea is moving to hit us with nuclear and missile arsenal, we will hit its bases as quickly as possible to prevent launches no matter where they are,” a senior official, who took part in creating the new defense guidelines, said.
South Korea's ability to scrutinize North Korean bases north of Pyongyang remains limited because of its lack of high-tech intelligence equipment, according to South Korean defense sources.
The latest guidelines seek to redress the shortfall by 2020 through the acquisition of drones and satellites, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to disclose his identity to the public.
“But we don't by any means have any intention to consider a preemptive strike on North Korean bases when there is no clear evidence of an imminent attack,” he said.
The revised reform plan, which estimates about 599.3 trillion won (US$466 billion) will be needed to meet the goals, said North Korea's special forces and its long-range artillery positioned along the border represented the other areas where the South remained under strength.
“A fierce and large-scale engagement between ground troops is inevitable upon the start of a war,” the document said, predicting that U.S. and South Korean air forces would have difficulties navigating the rugged topography to provide close air support.
The U.S. has 28,500 troops and about 80 non-rotational fighter aircraft stationed here as a deterrent against North Korea.
The document said other assets South Korea should introduce to improve its defenses against nuclear and missile threats include interceptors that can be launched from naval vessels.
Refurbishment of defense facilities against electromagnetic pulses emitted from a nuclear explosion is also part of the systems the document suggested. The pulses, weapons experts say, can paralyze defense systems outside the range of a blast.
I have often wondered about Japan, and I have what’s probably a dumb question—I’m sure they have the technology for some advanced weaponry, but would they actually create such weapons in secret? In their place, I would.
So there is more courage and patriotism in South Korea than in the US? (government, that is)
And no doubt thinking of new ways to dismantle more of our defense systems.
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