Posted on 08/03/2006 12:17:22 PM PDT by Fighting Irish
North Korea has been building new underground missile bases along its east coast, targeting Japan and US military facilities in Japan, a report said.
Some 200 Rodong missiles with a range of up to 2,200 kilometers (1,360 miles) and 50 SSN-6 missiles with ranges of 2,500 to 4,000 kilometers are at the new bases, the state-run Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS) said in the report carried by Yonhap news agency.
"The new bases clustered along the east coastal line are for medium- and long-range missiles targeting Japan and US military bases in Japan," read the report by Yun Deok-Min, an IFANS arms control expert.
"Combined with its nuclear weapons, North Korea's ballistic missiles provides it with a powerful deterrent."
North Korea has also constructed new underground missile bases deep in mountains near its border with China, to avoid outside attacks, it said.
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A SBLM launched from a Los Angeles Class attack sub is also a strong deterrent. Only you never when its gonna be sent on its way 'cause you can't see it. We could put one of those in Kim's pajamas.
This US Air Force file image shows pilots checking the GBU-28 "Bunker Buster" a 5,000lb (2268kg), unpowered, hard target laser-guided weapon, with a range of more than six miles (9.65km). The British government is under pressure over reports that it will allow the United States to send two more planes carrying bombs and missiles to Israel via Britain in the next fortnight.(AFP/USAF-HO/File)
N. Korea has been helping Hezb'Allah build tunnels too.
Iranian Source: North Korean 'Experts' Helped Hizballah Build Tunnel Network
Correction: Correcting source date -- Report by Ali Nuri Zadah: "Iranian Officer: Hizballah Has Naval Commandos Unit"
Al-Sharq al-Awsat (Internet Version-WWW)
Wednesday, August 2, 2006
London -- When the chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces decided to set up special units for unconventional wars at the start of the Iran-Iraq war, Ayatollah Khomeyni assigned the command of these units to Dr. Mustafa Tshamran -- the assistant to the defense minister and the official in charge of military operations in Kurdistan against the Peshmerga forces belonging to the Iranian Kurdistan Democratic Party. When General Zahirnejad, the then commander of the land forces asked Khomeyni why he chose Tshamran -- a civilian who accepted to shoulder the responsibility of the war against the Kurds -- Khomeyni said that "Tshamran spent years in Lebanon and helped set up the 'Amal' movement with Imam Musa al-Sadr, and that is why he knows how to direct guerilla wars behind enemy lines."
And while Tshamran taught his men some of the art of guerilla warfare at the beginning of the revolution, the Revolutionary Guard afterwards took over the training of fighters from Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, and some Arab and Islamic states in the art of guerilla warfare and ways of fighting conventional armies, in addition to bombings, plane hijacking, and blowing up military and economic establishments.
Hundreds of Hizballah men who now face Israel's military arsenal took part in special training sessions at the Revolutionary Guard camps in Tehran, Isfahan, Mashhad, and Ahvaz. According to a high-ranking officer in the Revolutionary Guard who himself trained one of Hizballah's naval units, Hizballah still holds many surprises up its sleeve, given that, thus far, no direct confrontation as such has taken place between Hizballah and the Israeli Navy, although one of Israel's warships was hit by two C802 missiles with the help of the Revolutionary Guard in Lebanon which was not a direct confrontation. Indeed, Hizballah has a unit of divers and a unit of naval commandos which has speedboats of the Chinese Hudong (as transliterated) type, capable of delivering strikes against the Israeli navy.
The officer said that Hizballah -- thanks to the presence of hundreds of Iranian engineers and technicians and experts from North Korea, who were brought in as servants by the Iranian diplomats and employees in the bureaus and liaison offices belonging to Iran in Lebanon -- was able to build a 25-kilometer long underground belt, with each cavity (or hole) in the belt measuring some 12-18 square meters, with a sliding (mutaharrik) floor and semi-sliding (nisf mutaharrik) roof.
Every four cavities are linked together through a tunnel that fighters can easily enter to reach the next cavity.
Hence, it is the men of the Revolutionary Guard who built for Hizballah underground storage areas in al-Biqa which contain an enormous quantity of missiles and ammunition, at a depth of no more than 8 meters. There is a central operations room in Al-Biqa which is normally manned by four Revolutionary Guard officers and four Hizballah fighters, and therefore each area has a command and operations room.
With regard to the Hizballah missiles unit, it comprises some 200 technicians and specialists who received their training in Iran. Hizballah has three missile units which are under the supervision of a group of 20 people
(Description of Source: London Al-Sharq al-Awsat (Internet Version-WWW) in Arabic -- influential Saudi-owned London daily providing independent coverage of Arab and international issues; editorials reflect official Saudi views on foreign policy. http://www.asharqalawsat.com/asharqal-awsat/)
No leader of any country would, in their right mind, send a missile into one of our military bases AND ill-Kim is NOT in his right mind!
And only one will do the job also.
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