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Israel reportedly bombed a missile base used by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria near the country’s border with Lebanon on Sunday, destroying multiple missile warehouses. “Israeli planes breached Lebanese and Syrian airspace and bombed the Syrian regime’s 155th Brigade [base] in the Qutayfa area, destroying a number of missile warehouses,” sources told a pro-rebel news outlet, NOW Syria reported. A Syrian activist also told the news outlet that Israeli planes “entered Syrian territory from Lebanon at 9:30 p.m. [Sunday] and bombed Scud missile warehouses belonging to the regime.” “The planes bombed three warehouses containing Scud missiles at the 155th...

China Constructs New Missile Base in Guangdong Province China reportedly has built a new missile base in the northern Guangdong Province in sourtheastern China. Chinese local media reported that China's new anti-ship ballistic missile will be deployed to the new missile base in Shaoguan where the new 96166 Unit has been already dispatched. Dong Feng 21C medium-range ballistic missiles as well as the DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile are planned to be deployed there. The report added that the new base could "have unique capabilities that could complicate the strategic calculus in Asia, and the South China Sea in particular." The...

/begin my translation N. Korea Digging New Tunnels Where Nuclear Tests Are Possible 5 Tunnels in the valley of Mu-myong Mountain... could also be missile bases Kim Jong-tae Intelligence agencies have learned that N. Korea is digging five new tunnels suspected to be a missile base in the valley of Mu-myong Mountain(2851 ft), Shi-jung County, Jagang Province, N. Korea. They are looking into it carefully. In particular, they do not rule out the possibility that the tunnels could be used for nuclear test. Furthermore, they also received intelligence that there are uranium-enrichment facilities at Hwa-pyong County, Jagang Province, and now...

(LEAD) N. Korea building new missile bases, silos along east coast: Report SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has been constructing new underground missile bases and silos along its east coast in recent years to deploy intermediate-range rockets targeting Japan and U.S. military facilities on the archipelago, a report said Thursday. "The new bases clustered along the east coastal line, in particular, are short- and medium-range missile bases aiming at Japan and U.S. military installations in Japan," said a report written by Yun Deok-min, a security expert at the state-funded Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security. About 200...

Japan mulls preemptive stike on N Korea missile bases Associated Press Tokyo, July 10, 2006 Japan is considering whether a preemptive strike on North Korean missile bases would be an acceptable form of self-defence under the pacifist Japanese constitution, the government spokesman said on Monday. "If we accept that there is no other option to prevent an attack ... there is the view that attacking the launch base of the guided missiles is within the constitutional right of self-defence. We need to deepen discussion," Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said. Abe added that the ruling party might take up the...

/begin my translation of his directive on 03/09/04 March 9th(, 2004) I cannot approve your proposal to expand the construction project at Samjiyon(Sam-ji-yon) County because it does not take into account the (dire) economic situation in the country. Instead of continuing the construction, it would be more effective to focus our currently available resources on the underground construction project at Mt. Moodubong(Moo-du-bong), and finish it quickly. If we need more cement, we should send all cement imported from China to the Mt. Moodubong construction site. The reason why I repeatedly emphasize Moodubong project, despite our difficult conditions, is that the...

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/030508/3/xban.html Thursday May 8, 14:47 PM Japan studied attack on N.Korea - report TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Defence Ministry studied the feasibility of attacking a North Korean missile base after the North test-fired a Rodong ballistic missile in 1993, but decided that its forces were likely to suffer heavy casualties, a Japanese newspaper has reported. Quoting unnamed sources on Thursday, the Tokyo Shimbun said a small group at the ministry studied the possibility of an attack by Japan's Self-Defence Force (SDF), despite Japan's pacifist constitution that has been interpreted to mean the nation's military must be restricted to self-defence. The...