North Korean nuclear crisis

[arnabmit]

So the yearly NoKo hot gas production is over for this year. Until the next year then...

 

[SajeevJino]

Will the missile blast off or not?

Kim is dead scared of US and ROK warnings even he is not out from his house past two weeks ....oh he is out for tributing his grandfather

 

[amoy]

Kerry tells China that US will reduce missile defenses in area if N. Korea drops nuclear plans - World - The Boston Globe

In a news conference after meetings with China's top leaders, Kerry said the United States would reduce its missile defenses in Asia if North Korea abandoned its nuclear weapons program.

Kerry's overture appeared aimed at addressing Chinese concerns that North Korea's provocative actions were leading the United States to build up military strength in the region as China is boosting its own influence there.

''On missile defense, we discussed absolutely why we have taken the steps that we have taken,'' Kerry said, referring to efforts the United States is taking to defend Guam, Hawaii, and the United States' allies in Asia against a potential North Korean missile attack. The United States has dispatched two ships capable of missile defense and said it would speed up land-based missile defenses for Guam.

''Now obviously if the threat disappears — i.e. North Korea denuclearizes — the same imperative does not exist at that point of time for us to have that kind of robust forward leaning posture of defense,'' he added. ''It would be our hope in the long run, or better yet in short run, that we can address that.''

Kerry's offer to cut back on the newly fortified missile defense appeared to be part of a diplomatic strategy to get China, the North's only true ally, to do what it has long resisted — to crack down hard enough on Pyongyang that its leaders will give up an increasingly sophisticated nuclear program.

In the past China has worried that any move to destabilize the North would lead to a collapse of the regime and deliver the entire peninsula to the United States' sphere of influence, possibly bringing US troops in South Korea closer to its border.

China remains a linchpin to the Obama administration's policy of holding a tough line on Pyongyang, a reversal from the past. Previous administrations used aid to mollify the North and gain concessions on its nuclear program, only to see the North's promises evaporate once the aid had been delivered.

Kerry said the Chinese shared the US goal of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, although he declined to say what steps China said it would take to accomplish it.

Even if China were to take a harsher stance, North Korea might not fall into line. Under the new leader, Kim Jong Un, the North has snubbed China several times, including refusing Chinese entreaties to cancel its recent nuclear test that set off tensions on the Peninsula.

Kerry's remarks are likely to stir concern among staunch advocates of missile defense in the United States, who also see antimissile systems as a means of responding to China's growing military might.

At the core of the issue is the United States' inability to draw North Korea into a serious round of nuclear talks. North Korea's apparent determination to expand its nuclear weapons program and the US demand that it commit up front to eventually relinquishing its nuclear arms have raised the question of whether there is even any basis for negotiations.

''China has an enormous ability to help make a difference here,'' Kerry said Friday during a stop in Seoul, adding that he had planned in meetings with Chinese leaders to ''lay out a path ahead that can defuse this tension.''

The Chinese stance on North Korea has never been a simple one, though. On the one hand, the Chinese prize stability and are eager to avoid a crisis on the Korean Peninsula that would spawn a flood of refugees or prompt the United States to shift more forces to the Pacific.

After Kim's recent boasts about North Korea's ability to carry out military strikes, the Obama administration decided to speed up the deployment of missile defenses to Guam and sent Aegis cruisers equipped with antimissile systems into the region. It also conducted a military exercise in which B-2 bombers flew to South Korea before returning to their base in the United States, and it briefly deployed two F-22 fighters in South Korea as well.

On the other hand, that same Chinese concern for stability has meant that it is reluctant to take steps that would undermine the North Korean government's hold on power and eliminate a friendly buffer between Chinese territory and South Korean and US forces.

 

[SajeevJino]

US chopper crashes near North Korea​

A US military helicopter has crashed near the North Korean border, a South Korean defence official says. There were no reported casualties.


The helicopter, identified by the Yonhap news agency as a UH-60 Black Hawk, came down in Cheolwon county, which touches on the border with North Korea, a defence ministry spokesman told AFP.

The cause of the crash was not immediately clear but the incident took place during South Korea-US joint military exercises.

Yonhap quoted rescue workers as saying the 12 service personnel on board the helicopter had survived the crash, which comes at a time of heightened military tensions on the Korean peninsula.

US chopper crashes near North Korea

 

[sorcerer]

North Korea says it won't warn South Korea before an attack
(CNN) -- North Korea is raising the temperature on its neighbors, saying in its latest threat that it would not give any advance warning before any attack on South Korea.

"Our retaliatory action will start without any notice from now," Pyongyang said in a statement published Tuesday by its official news agency, KCNA.

North Korea said it was responding to what it called insults from the "puppet authorities" in the South, claiming that there had been a rally against North Korea in Seoul -- a rally it called a "monstrous criminal act."

North Korea says it won't warn South Korea before an attack

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Looks like North Korea is afraid of losing the Limelight because of Boston Bombings, just before the stage was set for a talk with the US.
Kim jong un...please wait...you are in queue[

 

[average american]

There is a saying barking dogs dont bite.

 

[sorcerer]

There is a saying barking dogs dont bite.

I agree.
But barking dog gives sleepless nights.

 

[Yusuf]

Re: North Korea Confirms It Conducted 3rd Nuclear Test

NoKo is now saying it will not talk with the US as the US is threatening NoKo with nukes.

Its like a nice comedy show this from Chubby

 

[sorcerer]

Kim could have settled for food aid a week back.
Now that the Whitehouse phone lines are busy, he wont even be able to get through.


I hope, the Hollywood makes a comedy movie along these lines.

 

[tramp]

How North Korea Tipped Its Hand

When North Korean engineers launched a satellite into space on December 12, it seemed like business as usual, with the familiar cycle of condemnations from the west and statements of defiance from the Hermit Kingdom. But that launch also led many U.S. intelligence analysts to assess that Pyongyang possessed the ability to miniaturize the components necessary to yield a nuclear explosion for a crude warhead that would sit atop a ballistic missile.
After the North Korean launch, U.S. Navy ships managed to recover the front section of the rocket used in it, according to three U.S. officials who work closely on North Korean proliferation. That part of the rocket in turn provided useful clues about North Korean warhead design, should the next payload be a warhead rather than a satellite.
The same basic engineering and science needed to launch a satellite into space is also used in the multi-stage rockets known as inter-continental ballistic missiles. The front of the satellite rocket, according to three U.S. officials who work closely on North Korean proliferation, gave tangible proof that North Korea was building the missile's cone at dimensions for a nuclear warhead, durable enough to be placed on a long-range missile that could re-enter the earth's atmosphere from space.
"Having access to the missile front was a critical insight we had not had before," one U.S. non-proliferation official told The Daily Beast. "I have seen a lot of drawings, but we had not seen the piece of that missile at that time." This official continued: "we looked at the wreckage from the launch and we put it together with other kinds of intelligence and came to this judgment that they had figured out the warhead piece."
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released a classified assessment last month saying that it now has "moderate confidence" that the "North currently has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles however the reliability will be low," South Korea has provided additional intelligence bolstering this conclusion, according to U.S. officials.
That assessment, in line with but more assertive than earlier comments from the agency., was made public three days ago, in a question from Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Republican from Colorado, to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey. The Pentagon spokesman, George Little and the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, soon after the disclosure issued statements trying to play down the news. Clapper said, "it would be inaccurate to suggest that the North Korean regime has fully developed and tested the kinds of nuclear weapons referenced in the passage." He added "North Korea has not yet demonstrated the full range of capabilities necessary for a nuclear armed missile."
But neither Little or Clapper disputed the basic judgment that North Korea could likely build a nuclear warhead of low reliability. While the DIA assessment does not represent the view of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, the recovered satellite rocket helped move CIA analysts away from their skepticism about North Korea's ability to build a nuclear warhead as well. "The DIA was always more forward leaning on this," one U.S. official said. "The CIA was always extremely cautious on this. The doubters in the CIA finally found some common ground with DIA when we did the recovery." (The CIA declined to comment.)
Intelligence suggesting North Korea could design a nuclear warhead has been building for many years. A.Q. Khan, the man considered to be the father of the Pakistani nuclear program, for example has said in interviews and correspondence that in 1999 on a visit to North Korea he was shown boxes of components for three finished nuclear warheads that could be assembled within an hour.
One U.S. official who works on North Korean proliferation said there was reason to believe that Khan could have been lying when he said this. "Khan was like a used car salesman," he said. "He wanted future customers to think he could get them the full package even though many times the equipment would not work as well as he said." This official said there may have been components for warheads in a box, but "we never knew if those components could actually work."
More recently though, other kinds of intelligence have also come to the attention of the U.S. intelligence community that suggest North Korea has mastered the miniaturization and warhead design work as well. Another U.S. official who works on North Korea work told the Beast that South Korea has recently shared more traditional kinds of intelligence with the United States about North Korea's warhead design work, but did not get into the details of that intelligence.

 

[Razor]

North Korea demands lifting of sanctions as condition for US dialogue

North Korea has named its conditions for talks with the US – the removal of all U.N. sanctions following Pyongyang's nuclear and missile tests, and a promise by Washington not to engage in 'nuclear war practice' with Seoul.

North Korea said the Thursday demands will have to be fulfilled if Washington truly seeks any meaningful dialogue with Pyongyang.

"If the United States and the puppet South have the slightest desire to avoid the sledge-hammer blow of our army and the people... and truly wish dialogue and negotiations, they must make the resolute decision," the North's National Defense Commission said in a statement.

"Firstly, the sanctions resolutions by the U.N. Security Council that were fabricated with unjust reasons must be withdrawn," the North's top military body said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.

North Korea demands lifting of sanctions as condition for US dialogue — RT News

 

[sorcerer]

Firstly, the sanctions resolutions by the U.N. Security Council that were fabricated with unjust reasons must be withdrawn," the North's top military body said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.

This is where Kim Lost it

 

[SajeevJino]

North Korea demands lifting of sanctions as condition for US dialogue

They done the Job..Faced tough sanctions for two months and waiting for lift


anyway they achieved their Goal and fools the world

 

[sorcerer]

North Korea's aging war machine

 

[tramp]

Brat is now worried.. nobody is listening to his tantrums... what next?

 

[tramp]

 

[nrupatunga]

Analysis: North Korea blinked in missile standoff, but will threaten again

The latest North Korea crisis is over, but the question is: for how long?

The view doesn't look encouraging. North Korea's medium-range missiles remain locked on their launchers; U.S. and South Korean destroyers still ply Korea's coastline.

Across the region, Patriot anti-missile batteries are on the ready. One top U.S. nuclear expert says North Korea will need to test-fire more missiles and nuclear arms in the future.

"The problem is that, when there's a sense of crisis, the U.S. doesn't want to talk to Pyongyang because it would be rewarding bad behavior," said John Delury, a professor at Seoul's Yonsei University. "But then when the crisis abates, the U.S. doesn't want to talk with Pyongyang [either] because it's not a priority."

the tide turned away from confrontation only when the U.S. dialed down its displays of nuclear-capable weaponry, like B2 stealth bombers and F-22 super fighters, used as a show of force during war maneuvers close to North Korea's border.

 

[SajeevJino]

N Korea set to stage major military drill​

NORTH Korea appears to be gearing up for a major military exercise, a report says, amid tensions over an expected missile test and South Korea's pullout from a joint industrial complex.

Preparations are under way near the North's western port of Nampo for a combined live-fire drill involving artillery units and air force jets, the South's Yonhap news agency said on Sunday, citing a Seoul government source.

"It appears that the scale of the drill will be quite big," the unnamed official was quoted as saying, voicing fears of military provocations against the South or a missile test by Pyongyang during the exercise.

Pyongyang, which has a habit of linking high-profile military tests with key dates, celebrated the key dates without the test, fanning speculations that the wait may even take months.

Another Seoul military official quoted by Yonhap said the communist North may try to "fan military tension" after South Korea pulls out all its remaining workers from a jointly run factory park.

Kaesong - built in 2004 just north of the border as a rare symbol of inter-Korea co-operation and a valued source of hard currency for the impoverished North - has fallen victim to the growing cross-border tensions.

Seoul on Friday announced that it would withdraw all of its remaining workers from the site after Pyongyang rejected its ultimatum to join formal negotiations on restarting the stalled operations.

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[SajeevJino]

I think kim is a Harry potter Fan

 

[fruitcake]

Accept your own realities, instead of coming to DFI as a provocateur with your sophomoric nonsense.

The reality is that US supremacy is fading slowly. And for all those American patriots any condemnation of American actions would sound like nonsense.No empire has lasted for ever.

And of course some non Americans who think the West and the US are protecting "world peace", Democracy,freedom, Liberty etc would also find what I said as nonsense.

Those who understand double games of the Superpower and Western hypocrisy in general would agree with me.