North Korea has about 70 submarines of which 15 or so are capable of serious damage. Kim continues to move toward war. This has been ongoing since the death of Kim Jong Il.
North Korea has capacity to cause problems. I am sure the Western measures in the region are prepared for what is to come, but, the mass chaos North Korea can cause in the waters around the peninsula is considerable.
August 23, 2015
North Korea has capacity to cause problems. I am sure the Western measures in the region are prepared for what is to come, but, the mass chaos North Korea can cause in the waters around the peninsula is considerable.
By Yonhap News
More than 50 North Korean submarines (click here) are
apparently away from their bases for operations, a sign that the North
is gearing up for combat while participating in high-level talks aimed
at easing tension, an official here said Sunday.
“Seventy
percent of North Korea’s submarines left their bases, and their
locations are not confirmed,” the South Korean military official told
reporters.
The North is known to have around 70 submarines.
North
Korea has also doubled the number of its artillery troops on the
border, with the command to be combat-ready, according to South Korea’s
military.
The North’s conflicting
signals underscored challenges in dealing with an unpredictable
communist country, which has a track record of staging provocations
against South Korea.
Six South Korean
fighter jets, deployed to take part in the Red Flag Alaska exercise,
returned home Sunday ahead of schedule. The F-16s were initially
scheduled to fly back to the country later this week....
Russia is also moving medium range missiles within reach of Europe. This is more than another Cold War. Russia has serious economic problems and not necessary because of the sanctions due to issues with Ukraine. Even if there were no sanctions, Russia would have economic problems anyway simply because it depends on the sale of oil. The sanctions simply limit Russia's options to support their short fall.
August 21, 2015
By Bill Gertz
Russia is nearing deployment (click here) of a new missile capable of targeting all of Europe with nuclear or conventional warheads, according to defense officials.
Disclosure of the new SSN-30A missile (click here) threat comes as Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Thursday warned that Moscow under Vladmir Putin is reemerging as an existential security threat.
Russia “is a very, very significant threat,” Carter told reporters at the Pentagon. “And I think a point that they’ve made, but I would certainly make: Russia poses an existential threat to the United States by virtue simply of the size of the nuclear arsenal that it has.”
Regarding the SSN-30A, designated as the “Kalibr” missile, Pentagon officials said the new naval weapon can be equipped with both nuclear and conventional warheads and can reach most of Europe when fired from ships in the Black Sea....
Ever since the Axis of Evil speech and the invasion into Iraq the tensions are significant between The West and other nations that would consider them opposed to them. This is a global posture to protect from USA aggressions. One of the best aspects of any peace initiative by the USA is normalizing relations with Cuba. There have been significant tensions with near border countries to the USA ever since Iraq. Defusing those tensions by reengaging Cuba is important to hemisphere stability and peace.
Negotiations have resumed (click here) to defuse escalating tensions between the
Koreas. But Seoul has accused North Korea of mobilizing ground troops
and submarines.
South and North Korea resumed talks Sunday afternoon to ease tensions after an exchange of artillery and mutual threats have renewed fears of open confrontation. The first ministerial-level meetings in a year began Saturday and went long past midnight in the border village of Panmunjom.
But even as the parlay resumed, South Korea's military is reporting that it detected unusual troop and submarine movements in North Korea that indicated Pyongyang gearing up for a possible strike.
Seoul's Defense Ministry says at least 50 of the North's 77 attack submarines had left their bases and were undetectable by the South Korean military as of Saturday. There were also reports of increased artillery deployments on its side of the so-called Demilitarized Zone, the most heavily-armed frontier in the world....
..."Our military and people are prepared to risk their lives in an all-out war, to defend the system our people choose," the Foreign Ministry said on the official Korean Central News Agency, shortly before the Panmunjom talks began.
I believe that is true, especially since the "TED Talk" of a young North Korean woman. The nationalism practiced by the North Korean government works.
February 2013
As a child growing up in North Korea, (click here) Hyeonseo Lee thought her country was “the best on the planet.” It wasn't until the famine of the 90s that she began to wonder. She escaped the country at 14, to begin a life in hiding, as a refugee in China....
Aggression by North Korea is also opportunistic to other countries that consider the USA a real problem for them. North Korea also counts on that fact in it's success to war.
There is a very real reason for peace and a balance of power. The Non-Proliferation Treaty exists for a reason. That reason is to avoid the demise of nations of people BY ACCIDENT. A conventional war requires preparedness, nuclear war is already prepared. A nuclear war is the "go to game" if preparedness is not possible.
The Non-Proliferation Treaty isn't about being a military dove, it is about the survival of humanity.
Russia is also moving medium range missiles within reach of Europe. This is more than another Cold War. Russia has serious economic problems and not necessary because of the sanctions due to issues with Ukraine. Even if there were no sanctions, Russia would have economic problems anyway simply because it depends on the sale of oil. The sanctions simply limit Russia's options to support their short fall.
By Bill Gertz
Russia is nearing deployment (click here) of a new missile capable of targeting all of Europe with nuclear or conventional warheads, according to defense officials.
Disclosure of the new SSN-30A missile (click here) threat comes as Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Thursday warned that Moscow under Vladmir Putin is reemerging as an existential security threat.
Russia “is a very, very significant threat,” Carter told reporters at the Pentagon. “And I think a point that they’ve made, but I would certainly make: Russia poses an existential threat to the United States by virtue simply of the size of the nuclear arsenal that it has.”
Regarding the SSN-30A, designated as the “Kalibr” missile, Pentagon officials said the new naval weapon can be equipped with both nuclear and conventional warheads and can reach most of Europe when fired from ships in the Black Sea....
Ever since the Axis of Evil speech and the invasion into Iraq the tensions are significant between The West and other nations that would consider them opposed to them. This is a global posture to protect from USA aggressions. One of the best aspects of any peace initiative by the USA is normalizing relations with Cuba. There have been significant tensions with near border countries to the USA ever since Iraq. Defusing those tensions by reengaging Cuba is important to hemisphere stability and peace.
South and North Korea resumed talks Sunday afternoon to ease tensions after an exchange of artillery and mutual threats have renewed fears of open confrontation. The first ministerial-level meetings in a year began Saturday and went long past midnight in the border village of Panmunjom.
But even as the parlay resumed, South Korea's military is reporting that it detected unusual troop and submarine movements in North Korea that indicated Pyongyang gearing up for a possible strike.
Seoul's Defense Ministry says at least 50 of the North's 77 attack submarines had left their bases and were undetectable by the South Korean military as of Saturday. There were also reports of increased artillery deployments on its side of the so-called Demilitarized Zone, the most heavily-armed frontier in the world....
..."Our military and people are prepared to risk their lives in an all-out war, to defend the system our people choose," the Foreign Ministry said on the official Korean Central News Agency, shortly before the Panmunjom talks began.
I believe that is true, especially since the "TED Talk" of a young North Korean woman. The nationalism practiced by the North Korean government works.
February 2013
As a child growing up in North Korea, (click here) Hyeonseo Lee thought her country was “the best on the planet.” It wasn't until the famine of the 90s that she began to wonder. She escaped the country at 14, to begin a life in hiding, as a refugee in China....
Aggression by North Korea is also opportunistic to other countries that consider the USA a real problem for them. North Korea also counts on that fact in it's success to war.
There is a very real reason for peace and a balance of power. The Non-Proliferation Treaty exists for a reason. That reason is to avoid the demise of nations of people BY ACCIDENT. A conventional war requires preparedness, nuclear war is already prepared. A nuclear war is the "go to game" if preparedness is not possible.
The Non-Proliferation Treaty isn't about being a military dove, it is about the survival of humanity.
