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| DND to monitor No. Korea rocket launch | |
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| icefrog | Mar 27 2012, 08:33 PM Post #51 |
 
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N.Korea says it will never give up rocket launch North Korea insisted Tuesday it would go ahead with its satellite launch, snubbing a call from US President Barack Obama to drop the plan and accusing him of a "confrontational mindset". "We will never give up the right to launch a peaceful satellite, a legitimate right of a sovereign state and an essential step for economic development," a foreign ministry spokesman told the official KCNA news agency. The spokesman was responding to Obama's comments Sunday and Monday during a visit to South Korea for a nuclear security summit. http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NKorea_s...launch_999.html |
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| icefrog | Mar 28 2012, 06:55 PM Post #52 |
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Phl ready to evacuate OFWs from Korea MANILA, Philippines - The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) yesterday expressed readiness to evacuate 50,000 Filipinos staying in South Korea if necessary. Tension between South and North Korea is seen to escalate because of the latter’s declaration that it intends to launch a long-range rocket next month to put a satellite into orbit. The United States and other nations consider it a thinly veiled missile test that would breach a United Nations ban. http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?artic...ubCategoryId=63 |
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| icefrog | Mar 29 2012, 05:12 PM Post #53 |
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North Korea begins fuelling rocket: report North Korea has reportedly begun fuelling a rocket for a launch next month, defying calls to abort an event the West says is a disguised missile test, as the United States suspended planned food aid. "The launch is coming closer. The possibility is high that the launch date will be set for April 12 or 13," Japan's Tokyo Shimbun reported Thursday, quoting a source "close to the government" in Pyongyang. It cited the source as saying that North Korea had begun injecting liquid fuel into the rocket. South Korea's defence ministry said Sunday the North has transported the main body of the rocket to a site in the far northwest of the country in preparation for blast-off. Japan's newspapers pay close attention to North Korea and often break stories on the secretive state. South Korea's Joint Chief of Staff said it could not confirm the report. North Korea insisted this week it would go ahead with what it calls a peaceful satellite launch, snubbing a call from US President Barack Obama to drop the plan and accusing him of a "confrontational mindset". http://ph.news.yahoo.com/n-korea-begins-fu...-014401900.html |
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| seWer Rat | Mar 29 2012, 05:40 PM Post #54 |
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I doubt if North Korea will back down, unless the West buys the launch for hundreds of millions of dollars & shipments of grains & other food aid. |
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| Tsukiyomi | Mar 30 2012, 02:46 AM Post #55 |
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The US has already stopped shipments of food (I forgot to grab the news link) so a last minute bribe is unlikely and counterproductive... |
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| seWer Rat | Mar 30 2012, 03:06 PM Post #56 |
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Let's see if Japan follows through.. Japan orders interception of NKorean rocket Associated Press | Posted: Thursday, March 29, 2012 9:27 pm Japan's defense minister on Friday ordered missile units to intercept a rocket expected to be launched by North Korea next month if it flies over Japan. The order from Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka came at a meeting of Japan's national security council. It followed instructions issued earlier in the week for the military to prepare to intercept the satellite rocket if it enters Japanese territory. The Unha-3 rocket is expected to fly past western Japan after its launch from North Korea's west coast sometime between April 14 and 16. The plan has raised concerns that a failed launch, or a falling stage of the rocket, could endanger Japanese lives or property. A statement from the Defense Ministry said Japan would send destroyers equipped with Aegis missile defense systems to the Pacific and East China Sea and deploy mobile Patriot missile launchers to islands in Okinawa. An interceptor missile unit is also likely to be deployed in Tokyo, although the capital is well away from the expected flight path. Read more: http://chippewa.com/news/world/asia/japan-...l#ixzz1qa6s3heb Read more: http://chippewa.com/news/world/asia/japan-...l#ixzz1qa66rA7H |
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| icefrog | Mar 30 2012, 04:05 PM Post #57 |
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N.Korea test fires short-range missiles-reports SEOUL - North Korea fired two short-range missiles off its west coast on Thursday believed to be part of a test to upgrade capabilities, said news reports published on Friday, quoting South Korean military officials. North Korea has raised tensions in recent weeks by announcing it would launch a rocket to put a satellite into orbit, but regional powers are urging Pyongyang to drop the plan, saying it would violate U.N. Security Council resolutions. North Korea launched two short-range missiles believed to be surface-to-ship missiles from its west coast Thursday morning, South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper quoted government officials as saying. "The launch is believed to be to upgrade missile capabilities and not related directly to the North's long-range missile launch," the newspaper quoted a military official as saying. Another mainstream newspaper JoongAng Ilbo published a similar report. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino...issiles-reports |
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| israeli | Mar 30 2012, 06:34 PM Post #58 |
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Notice To Mariners No. 042-2012 Notice is hereby given to all mariners and other parties concerned that: 1.Reference: Letter from Gilberto G.B. Asuque, Assistant Secretary for Ocean Concerns, Office of the Undersecretary for Special and Ocean Concerns dated 26 March 2012 2.The Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will launch the “earth observation satellite” Kwangmyongsong-3 on 12 to 16 April 2012 and the coordinates of “falling area” are as follows: Point A Latitude 15 degs 08 mins 19 secs North Longitude 124 degs 46 mins 15 secs East Point B Latitude 15 degs 09 mins 35 secs North Longitude 123 degs 45 mins 27 secs East Point C Latitude 19 degs 23 mins 08 secs North Longitude 124 degs 45 mins 13 secs East Point D Latitude 19 degs 24 mins 32 secs North Longitude 123 degs 54 mins 26 secs East 3.In this connection, all ships/watercrafts transiting the vicinity of the abovementioned area are advised to take necessary precautionary measures. 4.The cooperation of all concerned in effecting widest dissemination of this information is requested. |
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| seWer Rat | Mar 31 2012, 06:58 PM Post #59 |
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US Navy ships out radar system ahead of North Korea launch http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/29/n...h-korea-launch/ The U.S. military is sending its most advanced radar system to the Pacific region ahead of North Korea's expected launch of a long-range missile in mid-April, according to a senior U.S. Navy official. The Sea-Based X-Band Radar sits atop a floating platform and has the ability to search and track targets. In addition, the system can communicate with potential U.S. interceptor missiles at Fort Greely, Alaska, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, that could shoot down a target missile. But the North Koreans have said they plan to launch their missile in a southerly direction, which would mean it is highly doubtful the intercept capability would be needed or used. The U.S. military will not officially say the radar is being deployed for the North Korean launch, but one senior U.S. official called the SBX-1 deployment "precautionary." Both officials declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the information. The Navy official acknowledged that the SBX-1 set sail from Pearl Harbor on March 23. The platform can operate hundreds of miles from the target area it is scanning, so it is not expected to sail close to North Korea. |
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| icefrog | Mar 31 2012, 07:18 PM Post #60 |
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It looks serious. Start of WWIII? |
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