Thursday, June 22, 2006
NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR FOOTPRINT
LEAVES LARGE SHADOW
The Pentagon announced yesterday that it has in place an operational missle defense system. Sources in the BMD office confirm that recent "testing" status has been changed to "operational" for the multi-layered vision of the late President Reagan, who started with SDI or Space Defense Initiative, thereby enabling us to gain this ability to defend ourselves from ballistic missle attack.
Through stalwart defense of military spending in the House to continue to fully fund these programs, we posess not only the cutting edge in ballistic missle threats, but the only technology to "shoot missles down" and it's only for us and our allies.
This revelation was not made through normal news dissemination channels, the source remained unidentified, though he and his bosses were quoted extensively. An intended leak, I'd say, to confront news that North Korea has been prepared to test launch a missle our intelligence services term as a viable threat or capable of reaching U.S. mainland.
Under the control of current dictator Kim Jong Il, since the mid 90's, North Korea has built up it's missle program and made large strides with help from China, Russia and Iran.
The North faces a barrage of complaints and charges from it's Asian neighbors, although China refuses to endorse sanctions against it, China does act as a go-between, apparently asking Kim Jong Il, on behalf of the international communtiy, to halt his aggressive nuclear program and ballistic missle testing program, both programs which fly outside the sanctioning of the Nuclear Non-Prolifieration Treaty, and the halting of missle tests.
Kim Jong Il haughtily defended his 'right' to persue missle expertise, a skill only testing will achieve. What was supposed to be a satellite launch, turned out to be a live fire of a missle into the Sea of Japan, over the Japanese mainland itself. This deceptive behaviour is common with the North, and the International community has roundly condemned the upcoming missle test.
Japan Prime Minister Koizumi says, "...if they ignore our views and launch a missle, then the Japanese government, consulting with the U.S., would have to respond harshly".
The Australian PM chimed in with the strongest possible language, warning of "serious consequenses" should North Korea go through with it's planned missle test flight.
The United States and it's allies in the South Pacific and Asian theatre agree, a ballistic missle test would be a "highly provocative act" which would not be without consequences.
America's Ballistic Missle Defense (BMD) system consists of landbased missles, sitting in Ft. Greeley, Alaska and Vandenburg AFB in Southern California, both areas inside the capability arc of the Taepo'dong-2 missle, and sea-based missles, fired from strategically located Aegis warships. Two Aegis cruisers are sitting off the Korean peninsula now as a first line of missle defense for our Asian allies. Israel also has several Aegis systems, designed to repel the known inter-theatre ballistic missle threat if faces from Iran, Syria and others.
North Korea's "robust" missle program has successfully test fired and launched missles in the past, and poses the most present threat to the United States mainland with the successful launching of the Taepo'dong-1 and 2 missle some years ago. With recent innovations, as well as satellite reconnaissance and intelligence from defectors, the known range of the Taepo'dong-2 missle has increased to include a large area of the western United States, in an arc from Arizona to Wisconsin.
Katykarter ¶ 3:55 PM
LEAVES LARGE SHADOW
The Pentagon announced yesterday that it has in place an operational missle defense system. Sources in the BMD office confirm that recent "testing" status has been changed to "operational" for the multi-layered vision of the late President Reagan, who started with SDI or Space Defense Initiative, thereby enabling us to gain this ability to defend ourselves from ballistic missle attack.
Through stalwart defense of military spending in the House to continue to fully fund these programs, we posess not only the cutting edge in ballistic missle threats, but the only technology to "shoot missles down" and it's only for us and our allies.
This revelation was not made through normal news dissemination channels, the source remained unidentified, though he and his bosses were quoted extensively. An intended leak, I'd say, to confront news that North Korea has been prepared to test launch a missle our intelligence services term as a viable threat or capable of reaching U.S. mainland.
Under the control of current dictator Kim Jong Il, since the mid 90's, North Korea has built up it's missle program and made large strides with help from China, Russia and Iran.
The North faces a barrage of complaints and charges from it's Asian neighbors, although China refuses to endorse sanctions against it, China does act as a go-between, apparently asking Kim Jong Il, on behalf of the international communtiy, to halt his aggressive nuclear program and ballistic missle testing program, both programs which fly outside the sanctioning of the Nuclear Non-Prolifieration Treaty, and the halting of missle tests.
Kim Jong Il haughtily defended his 'right' to persue missle expertise, a skill only testing will achieve. What was supposed to be a satellite launch, turned out to be a live fire of a missle into the Sea of Japan, over the Japanese mainland itself. This deceptive behaviour is common with the North, and the International community has roundly condemned the upcoming missle test.
Japan Prime Minister Koizumi says, "...if they ignore our views and launch a missle, then the Japanese government, consulting with the U.S., would have to respond harshly".
The Australian PM chimed in with the strongest possible language, warning of "serious consequenses" should North Korea go through with it's planned missle test flight.
The United States and it's allies in the South Pacific and Asian theatre agree, a ballistic missle test would be a "highly provocative act" which would not be without consequences.
America's Ballistic Missle Defense (BMD) system consists of landbased missles, sitting in Ft. Greeley, Alaska and Vandenburg AFB in Southern California, both areas inside the capability arc of the Taepo'dong-2 missle, and sea-based missles, fired from strategically located Aegis warships. Two Aegis cruisers are sitting off the Korean peninsula now as a first line of missle defense for our Asian allies. Israel also has several Aegis systems, designed to repel the known inter-theatre ballistic missle threat if faces from Iran, Syria and others.
North Korea's "robust" missle program has successfully test fired and launched missles in the past, and poses the most present threat to the United States mainland with the successful launching of the Taepo'dong-1 and 2 missle some years ago. With recent innovations, as well as satellite reconnaissance and intelligence from defectors, the known range of the Taepo'dong-2 missle has increased to include a large area of the western United States, in an arc from Arizona to Wisconsin.
Katykarter ¶ 3:55 PM
