North Korean nuclear crisis

[rock127]

Anonymous reportedly hacks North Korea Twitter, Flickr accounts

"Hacktivist" group Anonymous promised to take on North Korea, and it's apparently made good on that promise, even as the U.S. and North Korea continue to dance around each other like drunken townies in a dive bar. It appears Anonymous has hacked North Korea propaganda outlet Uriminzokkiri's Twitter and Flickr accounts, planting a Guy Fawkes mask on the Flickr account and an image of Kim Jong Un with pig ears and snout, tagged as "Nuke Nuke Mickey Lover." We're not sure how this will do anything other than annoy the North Korean government, since the majority of its citizens don't have access to the Web, but maybe annoying Kim Jong Un was the point all along.

 

[Yusuf]

Re: North Korea Confirms It Conducted 3rd Nuclear Test

They are going to test a missile that's it.

 

[rock127]

This Pig does look like a Pig

 

[SajeevJino]

N. Korea loads two medium-range missiles on mobile launchers ​

North Korea has loaded two intermediate-range missiles onto mobile launchers and hidden them in an unidentified facility near the east coast, Seoul military sources said Friday, triggering speculation that the North is ready for an abrupt missile launch.


Earlier this week, the communist state had moved the "Musudan" medium-range missiles to its east coast, prompting the United States to send its advanced missile defense system to its base on the Pacific Ocean island of Guam.

South Korea has also sent its Aegis destroyers equipped with advanced radar systems to the East and West Seas.

South Korean and U.S. intelligence officials have been closely monitoring the North Korean facility believed to contain the Musudan missiles on the TELs (transporter-erector-launcher). The missile can fly 3,000-4,000 kilometers and is capable of hitting the U.S. base in Guam in the Pacific Ocean.

"Early this week, the North has moved two Musudan missiles on the train and placed them on mobile launchers," a senior military official familiar with the knowledge of the matter said.

In response to the North's military move, South Korea has sent two Aegis destroyers equipped with advanced radar systems to both of its coasts, Navy officials said.

The 7,600-ton Aegis destroyers with SPY-1 radar, which can track hundreds of targets as far as 1,000 kilometers away, have been on standby on the east and west coasts of the Korean Peninsula to track missile launches by Pyongyang, according to a senior Navy official.
"If the North fires off a missile, we will trace its trajectory," the official said asking for anonymity citing confidential information.

Meanwhile, the defense ministry has dispatched a team of inspectors to the front-line island of Yeonpyeong to look into the border crossing by a North Korean defector across the tensely guarded western sea border.


(LEAD) N. Korea loads two medium-range missiles on mobile launchers | YONHAP NEWS

 

[SajeevJino]

More than Wikipedia ..thank you RIA NOVOSTI for the Info graphic

 

[nrupatunga]

 

[tramp]

More than Wikipedia ..thank you RIA NOVOSTI for the Info graphic

North has about half the population of South, but double the number of combat ready troops!!

Maybe military is the only employment North Koreans can find.

 

[SajeevJino]

B 1 Joins after B2 and F 22​

After moving two Langley's F-22 Raptor stealth fighters to Osan airbase, in South Korea, launching a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber on a round-trip training mission over a South Korean's gunnery range from the Continental U.S., and deploying THAAD anti-ballistic missile defense system to Guam, positioning two guided-missile destroyers in the waters near the Korean peninsula, the Pentagon has decided to strengthen its presence in the region by deploying several B-1 Lancer long range bombers to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.

From his station in Amarillo, Texas, author, investigative journalist, technologies expert Steve Douglass heard something interesting. In a message he sent us on Facebook he said:

"Late last night I monitored "DARK" flight of seven on PRIME (311.000 MHZ STRATCOM PRIMARY) asking for current weather for UAM [airport code for Guam - Andersen Air Force Base]. On the frequency of 251.100 Mhz,DARK flight also was calling for "GASSR 11 and GASSR 12"³ (KC-135s) for "Tanker drag to BAB [Beale AFB, California]".

"Dark" is the standard radio callsign for the 7th Bomb Wing's B-1s based at Dyess AFB, near Abilene, Texas.

Even if U.S. bombers routinely deploy to Guam (where at least two B-2s are reportedly already based), the fact that seven "Bones" were apparently moving together is something a bit unusual, even if they were not going to Andersen AFB (they might need the weather report for UAM because it was an alternate airfield or simply a stopover on their way to somewhere else).

The Aviationist » U.S. amassing B-1 strategic bombers near North Korea

 

[nrupatunga]

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Is Noko really serious here when they say this. WTF is goin on over there??

 

[W.G.Ewald]

North has about half the population of South, but double the number of combat ready troops!!

Maybe military is the only employment North Koreans can find.

NK paramilitary reserves are 25% of total population. That really is meaningless for military purposes.

 

[Yusuf]

Re: North Korea Confirms It Conducted 3rd Nuclear Test

All embassies told NoKo cannot guarantee safety of their missions from 10th of April. Desperation is showing. I hope the US and SoKo don't blink. Chubby in desperate trouble. He will test a couple of missiles in the next few hours or days. That's no victory for it. NoKo wants to talk now but also appear to have won and get some food and money.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Re: North Korea Confirms It Conducted 3rd Nuclear Test

All embassies told NoKo cannot guarantee safety of their missions from 10th of April. Desperation is showing. I hope the US and SoKo don't blink. Chubby in desperate trouble. He will test a couple of missiles in the next few hours or days. That's no victory for it. NoKo wants to talk now but also appear to have won and get some food and money.

It happens every year at this time.

 

[Yusuf]

Re: North Korea Confirms It Conducted 3rd Nuclear Test

It happens every year at this time.

Yeah but this year it has been a little more belligerent. Looks like they have a drought year and chubby wants to buy a new car and needs money

 

[W.G.Ewald]

A reading list.

10 illuminating books about North Korea

 

[W.G.Ewald]

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Cookies must be enabled. | The Australian

"While we get understandably focused on the tactical escalation, the real threat is North Korea's two-decade determination to develop nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles and to be able to deliver them to Japan, South Korea and eventually the US," Green tells Inquirer.

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The Chinese, Green argues, believe that time is on their side on the Korean peninsula. Their trade with South Korea is so huge that they think in time it will give them great influence over the shape of what happens on the peninsula.

In the meantime, the last thing they want is a North Korean collapse. Better to have a buffer state that is half mad than a collapsed North Korea and a unified Korean peninsula which is an ally of the US.

This is a tentative interpretation. The internal debate at the top of Chinese strategic policy on how to deal with North Korea is surely unresolved

 

[SajeevJino]

Evacuation plans for 7000 Australians living in South Korea as North prepares for nuclear strike against US​

AUSTRALIAN Defence officials are working on plans to evacuate thousands of Australians from South Korea, as Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Foreign Minister Bob Carr head to China tomorrow to urge Beijing to take stronger action against its close and unstable ally North Korea


Evacuation plans for 7000 Australians living in South Korea as North prepares for nuclear strike against US | The Courier-Mail

 

[Yusuf]

Evacuation plans for 7000 Australians living in South Korea as North prepares for nuclear strike against US​

AUSTRALIAN Defence officials are working on plans to evacuate thousands of Australians from South Korea, as Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Foreign Minister Bob Carr head to China tomorrow to urge Beijing to take stronger action against its close and unstable ally North Korea


Evacuation plans for 7000 Australians living in South Korea as North prepares for nuclear strike against US | The Courier-Mail

Beating the drums really loud. North to Strike against US as the report says and Aussies removing citizens from SoKo. yeah sure a concerted effort is on to get something done here. Regime change on US mind?

 

[SajeevJino]

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Soldiers of the US Army's 23rd Chemical Battalion in South Korea wear protective gear to give a demonstration of their equipment at Camp Stanley in Uijeongbu, north of Seoul.

South Korean soldiers place a camoflague net over their military vehicle during an exercise near the border village of Panmunjom, north of Seoul.

 

[Iamanidiot]

@Yusuf The pukes we have as neighbours are giving me shudders

 

[Yusuf]

@Yusuf The pukes we have as neighbours are giving me shudders

What's the context?