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Japan Defense Minister Officially Authorizes SDF Forces Shoot Down N. Korean Missile (Breaking)
Yahoo Japan Headline News (original in Japanese) from Japanese news sources ^ | 7 April 2013 | Yahoo! News Japan (original in Japanese)

Posted on 04/07/2013 6:59:27 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo

Japan's Defense Minister issued the official military order within the hour or so. It has been stated in news commentary that the North's Musudan intermediate ballistic missile which is an extreme threat to Japan and had been suddenly moved to North Korea's east coast just two days ago for possible launch without warning, without any kind of statement to international space or aviation bodies for a "test launch" of a missile, means that North Korea could launch a sneak missile launch without any warning to the world. So Japan's Defense Minister ordered Japan Self Defense Forces (SDF) into readiness with PAC-3 anti missile batteries to be activated along Japan's West Coast facing North Korea in the event any missile or portions of missile head toward Japanese territory. It will be shot down if a) called for and b) possible. Link to Japanese story. (They are not going to sit around and wait until a surprise launch on Wednesday next week aimed in the area of Japan).


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicken; dprk; japan; japanmissiledefense; kimjongun; korea; md; missiles; nkorea; nkwar; northkorea; pac3; pyongyang; sdf
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To: dragnet2

government officials can be bribed with cheap prostitutes and a bit of cash..

kinda like deomdRATS

61 posted on 04/07/2013 10:55:01 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: dragnet2

If so, why make threats? In other words, why doesn’t he just shut up and then when ready, strike?

“When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk. “


62 posted on 04/07/2013 11:25:43 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: concerned about politics
If it does, there's going to be tsunamis everywhere.

Tsuamis nowhere, even from a multi-megaton thermonuclear device. The distance from a blast with waves of any significance is measured in a few miles, at best.

A tsunami-causing earthquake's energy makes the energy of even the largest nuclear weapons look like a joke.

63 posted on 04/07/2013 11:48:01 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Spok

This missile has never been test launched so the odds of failure are very high.


64 posted on 04/07/2013 11:48:41 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Look like the Minister of Defense in Japan is taking the following more seriously than others, who have fabricated some odd stories about it instead.

North Korea urges embassy evacuations, diplomats say
By Will Englund, Published: April 5
The Washington Post

Excerpt:
"The British Foreign Office said its embassy 'received a communication from the North Korean government this morning saying that the North Korean government would be unable to guarantee the safety of embassies and international organizations in the country in the event of conflict from April 10.'"


65 posted on 04/07/2013 11:58:56 AM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: plain talk

Well look at Israel...They’ve been threatening to take Iran out for 10+ years.


66 posted on 04/07/2013 12:25:05 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

North Korea is out of the missile business.

Practice shots unless directed north over China will be shot down.


67 posted on 04/07/2013 12:27:44 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....History is a process, not an event)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

You know... seriously... we should take out the little fat boy and his palace some morning around 2:30 am and call him done.


68 posted on 04/07/2013 12:33:09 PM PDT by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

IIRC, Japan’s last two tests of SM-3 anti-missile defense systems were successful.


69 posted on 04/07/2013 12:36:34 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Any word Godzilla may call in action

Just kidding LOL!


70 posted on 04/07/2013 1:01:28 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: All

BTW Hey AIT UK Daily mail have good profile on Chia Chub Angela Lansbury aunt LOL!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305339/Kim-Kyong-hui-Who-really-power-Pyongyang-Kim-Jong-uns-AUNT-driving-force-rise-leader.html


71 posted on 04/07/2013 1:03:22 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: American Constitutionalist

” don’t annouce your weapons before you use them “.

Unless you think you can get paid for not launching them. I’m guessing that NK is thinking that Obama will cave and pay them.


72 posted on 04/07/2013 1:03:40 PM PDT by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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To: Old Sarge
That even made The Doctor and Rose LOL!

Had to look that up. As a sci fi fan I NEVER ‘got’ “Dr Who”. Perhaps it was the old Dr Who, with the perrenial scarf I did not like

73 posted on 04/07/2013 1:18:40 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I just hope that we are not shooting anything down. I would much happier if we were zapping things down.


74 posted on 04/07/2013 1:30:07 PM PDT by TBall
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To: Patriot95

I have been saying this for days...there is something fishy, very very fishy, going on here...first the Japanese Central Bank floods the yard with Yen, now this...All I can say is stay tuned!


75 posted on 04/07/2013 1:43:03 PM PDT by Shady (Libya shows us how Americans rate...)
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To: maine-iac7

Watch our own backyard and the Fed...


76 posted on 04/07/2013 1:47:21 PM PDT by Shady (Libya shows us how Americans rate...)
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To: Flint
I think we will be in a position to shoot it down if necessary and give Japan credit for it.

I think we should give Fiji the credit, they never get to make the news for anything.

77 posted on 04/07/2013 1:48:34 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: AmericanInTokyo

If they do launch an attack on Japan, I can’t picture China taking up arms together with North Korea, pact or no pact. They value stability. A pact with an unstable moron, who wants to start WW III just because he feels like it, will not be honored by the Middle Kingdom. Kim is so ronery.


78 posted on 04/07/2013 1:54:38 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Logical me

Captain of ship: “If they fire one, we will fire one.” Sonar man: “Roger Captain, FIRE ONE”


79 posted on 04/07/2013 1:55:33 PM PDT by mulder1 ("The past is prologue.")
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To: SevenofNine

His Aunt is a serious alcholic it’s been said...and why she was out of the picture for several years...then she was seen ofte with KimII since she basically was taking care fo him.

Most interesting is she is the daughter of the the Ki’ms father. Who began all this crap...so it’s surely something she will never be rid of..it’s what she is.

Interesting though...if she has any real power, and the media pits her up against S. Korea’s new female leader....which would make for headlines and may be where they go with this....it could be or get even more bizzare.


80 posted on 04/07/2013 2:01:51 PM PDT by caww
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