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– South Korea, Japanese Media: Pyongyang Preparing to Test-Launch Long-Range Taepodong-2 Missile (source)
Today the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) reiterated its refusal to forsake its small nuclear arsenal until the Republic of Korea and the USA, Seoul’s main ally, demonstrate peaceful intentions. The Stalinist regime in Pyongyang also warned that continued tensions could lead to nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula. The latest hostile missive from the North was communicated by state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). Relations between North and South Korea have deteriorated since conservative President Lee Myung-bak, whom North Korea labels a “disgusting stooge” of Washington, terminated a decade of unconditional aid to the North and implemented a rigorous policy linking aid to disarmament. “No one knows when the hostile policy desperately pursued toward [North Korea] . . . will lead to a nuclear war,” the KCNA rumbled.
Pictured above: DPRK leader Kim Jong-il visits the 131rd military unit at an undisclosed site, in this undated picture released by KCNA on February 1, 2009. KCNA did not indicate when the photograph was taken. In recent months Western media outlets have been unable to positively ascertain Kim’s health and whereabouts.
This past Friday, on January 30, the DPRK announced that it was unilaterally scrapping all peace accords with the Republic of Korea and declared a “state of heightened confrontation” along the border, especially at the western end, which terminates in the Yellow Sea, the scene of bloody naval clashes in 1999 and 2002. “But South Korean officials,” media in the Republic of Korea, reports, “said there have not been any special movements of troops or weapons on the northern side of the border.” The South has deployed a destroyer near the disputed border and stepped up surveillance by radar, drones and other reconnaissance planes, the South Korean government’s Yonhap news agency revealed.
“The North is apparently paving the way for military provocations,” Yoo Ho-Yeol, a professor at Korea University, rightly informed the AFP news agency, adding: “It is also seeking to shift responsibility for a possible military clash to the South.” Political analyst Paik Hak-Soon warns that “armed clashes may break out soon,” but Baek Seung-Joo counters by saying that the North Korean statements are likely designed to apply pressure on South Korean President Lee. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff declined to comment on North Korea’s latest saber rattling. “We are preparing for every contingency,” a Seoul military spokesman told AFP.
Pictured here: South Korean special forces soldiers ford a river during a winter military exercise in Pyeongchang, east of Seoul, on January 19.
This past weekend’s provocations from Pyongyang represent the latest in several weeks of escalating belligerent rhetoric. On January 26 the North accused South Korea of holding military exercises to prepare for a war against the communist regime and threatened to “wipe out” the invaders. A commentary published in Minju Joson, the newspaper of the North’s cabinet, contended that Seoul’s “severe winter training” was “aimed to deliberately get on the nerves of the army and people of the DPRK in a bid to invent a pretext for provoking a war of aggression against it.” Seoul officials responded by telling Yonhap that the winter training exercises are part of a regular training scheduled throughout the year.
According to a report released by the Council on Foreign Relations last Wednesday, South Korea and the United States should maintain about 460,000 troops to deal with any “unusual situation” on the Korean Peninsula that results from internal instability in North Korea. In 1999 the South Korea-US Combined Forces Command drew up an action plan to respond to “sudden changes” in North Korea, codenamed CONPLAN 5029. Contingencies include a mass influx of North Korean refugees, a civil war sparked by a revolt or coup, South Koreans being held hostage in the North, and natural disasters. The plan also contains measures to prevent Pyongyang’s weapons of mass destruction from being smuggled out of the country, if the regime experiences a “domestic crisis” or suddenly collapses.
Prior to US President Barack Hussein Obama’s inauguration on January 20, South Korean troops were already intensely monitoring North Korean military activity, in case the Stalinist regime decided to carry out its “all-out confrontational posture” against South Korea or enforce its claim over the disputed Yellow Sea border. “If we analyze the background, it is reasonable to understand [North Korea’s moves] in connection to the U.S. presidential inauguration,” explained Won Tae-jae, spokesman for the South Korean Ministry of National Defense, adding: “We’re monitoring their moves by raising maximum watch.” Another South Korean defense official told Yonhap that the air force has lengthened its reconnaissance missions to observe North Korean troop movements and that, moreover, communications between US and South Korean intelligence officials has increased.
In a related story, China’s Central Military Commission, which can refer to one of two inter-related organs representing the Chinese state and the ruling Communist Party of China, called for the absolute obedience of the People’s Liberation Army to the party. This injunction was released in in the wake of growing unrest sparked by secessionist movements in Tibet and Islamist-infested Xinjiang and the global credit crunch, which has provoked an economic recession in China. “All military forces should ensure that they uncompromisingly obey the Party and Central Military Commission’s command at any time and under any circumstances,” warned the commission in a statement reported by Xinhua news agency. China’s military budget in 2008 was 417.77 billion yuan ($61.09 billion), up 17.6 percent from 2007, but Sinologists estimate that real defence spending could be triple the published figure. Another scenario that might require the PLA’s “uncompromising obedience” to the CPC leadership is the eruption of war between North and South Korea, where Beijing would more than likely ally itself with Pyongyang.
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>It seems that North Korea is also developming missile technology which it can launch nuclear warheads that can reach the West Coast of the USA.Much of this brand of technolocy is shared with fellow Communist bloc ally-Iran which has also been developing missile technology that can reach Europe, and also especially Israel. How is it appropiate that the anti-missile program gets a footing in “former” Soviet Republics such as either the Czech Republic of Azerbijan whom both have aligned themselves with Iran and also its ally-Baathist Syria?
>You might also want to look at a possible report from TimesOnline, on how “eco-terrorists” have flirted the usage of insects to cripple the USA’s food supply.I say this is an operation more on the lines of Spetsnaz operatives to use chemicals to kill the crops that’ll feed the USA. Such an operation like this would be used to cripple the USA’s resolve to feed its own people and be the perfect timing for the Communist bloc to implement a Red Dawn-style invasion.This brand of tactic has been used in previous military history such as Imperial Japanese employing bugs and chemicals to defeat the Chinese resolve, and also used by the Monguls whom sparked the Black Plague throughout Europe.