Here is a better, aerial view of that com array display onboard the little ship that went to see Neptune and the bottom of the drink .
Posted on 12/26/2001 7:15:59 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo
More color photos of the North Korean spy ships' Christmas machine gunning and RPG-missile firing against the Japanese Coast Guard, in a major shooting/sinking incident in the East China Sea (largely unnoticed by world media and here on FR, but the first time since World War II Japan was involved in hostilities against an enemy power on the sea).
Major event with major reprecussions.
Then there's the obligatory standing heads:
"...demands withdrawal of US..."
"...receives gifts from..."
"...sings praises to great leader Kim..."
"...Imperialist Japan..."
"...illegally sank yet another fishing boat/research submarine/rescue ship..."
Bear in mind, though, that NK is always pulling crap like this. They'll snoop around in a mini-sub, send a raft full of commandoes, or exchange in some gunfire with ROK forces. It's what the DPRK does. As jarring as this is coming at the same time we're at war, the DPRK has been making mischief ever since the 1953 ceasefire. This is just another episode in that long story.
The DPRK are not going to like this; they are already starting to growl like the dogs they are through their KCNA news service.....
Some air forces in the world are placing conformal antennas in aircraft doors, depending upon frequency band and other considerations.
Given the close association between spy agencies and the drug trade (who better to honcho such trade?), including our own sick and long overdue for scrapping CIA, it could very well be both.
North Korea Denies Involvement in Mystery Ship Gunbattle, Accuses Japan of Launching Smear Campaign
By Joji Sakurai
Associated Press Writer
Published: Dec 26, 2001TOKYO (AP) - North Korea denied any link to a ship that traded shots with Japanese patrol boats before being sunk last weekend, and the communist nation accused Japan on Wednesday of conducting a smear campaign against it.
The clash occurred Saturday when the unidentified ship, which was plying southern waters within Japan's exclusive economic zone, ignored orders to stop for inspection and instead sped off toward China.
It ended six hours later when the boat sank in the East China Sea following a fire fight with Japanese gunboats. Thirteen crew members went missing and three Japanese coast guard sailors were injured.
Breaking its silence for the first time since the incident, communist North Korea slammed what it called a "smear campaign launched by the Japanese authorities linking (North Korea) for no reason" with the ship.
A statement issued through its official Korean Central News Agency said the high-seas clash was "brutal piracy and unpardonable terrorism of modern brand that could be committed only by samurais of Japan in defiance of international laws."
Japanese media reported Wednesday that Japanese defense officials had gathered evidence linking North Korea to the ship.
Days before the pursuit at sea, Japan's Defense Agency - acting on a tip from the U.S. military - tapped a radio exchange carried on a Pyongyang frequency, the Sankei newspaper and other Japanese media reported.
The U.S. military had spotted the ship near Japan's southwestern island of Amami-Oshima on Dec. 18, reports said. Radio communication indicated that the suspicious vessel may have been on a drug-smuggling mission, Sankei reported, quoting unidentified Defense Agency sources.
Defense Agency official Ichiro Imaizumi said he could not comment on the reports. But he confirmed that Japan had reason to believe the sunken vessel was from North Korea, which sent a nearly identical ship into Japanese waters in 1999.
Japan wants to raise the ship to help determine what measures to take against the country of its origin. But Imaizumi said rough seas may prevent any salvage attempt until spring.
Officials also worry that raising the wreckage could pose diplomatic challenges because it sank outside Chinese territorial waters but inside China's exclusive economic zone. Any talk of lifting it from the bottom would require coordination with Beijing.
Officials have said the crew may have blown a hole in the ship to avoid capture. A Japanese sailor said he saw a bright flash aboard the boat about two minutes before it sank.
Two bodies from the mystery ship's estimated crew of 15 have been recovered.
AP-ES-12-26-01 1005EST
All of these missions made clear by the testimony of defecting DPRK agents/military.
Probably almost never. See, if you eat a dog, he isn't around anymore. Therefore if millions of Asians are eating dogs all the time, millions of dogs are disappearing every day. After a few days, there are no dogs left.
The only way to sustain a diet of dogs for an entire nation is to raise dogs as you would cattle, large scale operations.
If people eat dogs anywhere, it is only occasionally.
Not inching, but hurtling towards it at full throttle up.
Here is a better, aerial view of that com array display onboard the little ship that went to see Neptune and the bottom of the drink .
You're funny!
Let's not forget about Argentina/Argentina.
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