Posted on 04/09/2013 8:44:44 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Is the U.S. working to de-escalate a North Korean standoff? By Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – 5 hrs ago
Warships might not sail, more missile tests might be postponed, potentially provocative photos of bombers will stay under wraps: After a muscular, even aggressive early response to North Korea’s nuclear saber-rattling, the United States has shifted into a more cautious mode, eager to avoid giving Pyongyang any excuse for further escalation, officials say.
The White House, the Pentagon and the State Department “are looking very carefully” at American words and pending actions “to make sure that they can’t be misread, or that the likelihood of them being misread is low” as well as “to not give the North Koreans fodder for escalation, excuses to take action,” according to an administration official familiar with the U.S. strategy.
“There’s not a formal review going on,” and “we are not going to withhold or postpone any step that we consider necessary for the safety of the American people,” the official, who requested anonymity, told Yahoo News.
“But those things that could be not necessary? We’re giving those a closer look,” the official said. That means assessing “our ship deployments, missile tests” to make sure they don’t unnecessarily raise the temperature in the already heated standoff.
The most obvious sign of this new approach out of Washington was Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s decision late last week to postpone the test launch of an InterContinental Ballistic Missile that had been scheduled for Tuesday.
"We recognized that an ICBM test at this time might be misconstrued by some as suggesting that we were intending to exacerbate the current crisis with North Korea," a defense official said Monday on condition of anonymity. "We wanted to avoid that misperception or manipulation."
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We shall see.
24 hours now, until “go” time.
IT’S ready for launch!
Appeasers.
It does not surprise me. Knowing who runs the National Security Council and State Department and their lack of knowledge in how to deal with North Korea, and what is worse, THAT NORTH KOREA KNOWS THEY LACK THAT CAPABILITY.
We’re fast turning into French. And it makes me a ...see tag line.
What’s the mimimum it would take to get involved in Ham Radio?
I don’t have any fancy devices at all. In fact, my husband accidentally threw out our old multi-band radio because he thought it was broken. I LOVED listening to it at night before bed.
On the internet, there are a few good sites. My favorite is this: http://websdr.org/
It uses Java, so you just click to accept the program if it prompts you to.
The first one on this list is http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
which is quite popular right now and has quite a large range to listen to compared to other stations. It also has a chat client where interested people are posting just down below. Be warned. Since the whole Nork thing has kicked up (and links to the site has been posted)....the ‘script kiddes’ and ‘nOObs’ are posting there and don’t have any idea what they’re talking about.
Thank goodness....there are some experienced (and patient) HAM ops on there to guide them along.
I’m self taught with those formats, but it doesn’t take long to figure them out. I was intimidated at first....but then it became easier to navigate and it’s really fun.
Maybe they’ll just substitute a Taepodong for the usual flight test target, a Coleman Aerospace Hera missile, and save some money. Nice of North Korea to help us out with sequestration cuts by supplying a free target. The former is probably more likely to launch fly correctly than the latter anyway.
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