North Korea says/does surprising and alarming thing - Page…

On June 26 2014 08:04 xes wrote:

You're right. We should bomb the shit out of North Korea and then plow it over and turn it into a giant parking lot: no regime to worry about, no refugees of a collapsed totalitarian regime either.

(LEAD) N. Korea fires 2 short-range missiles into East Sea

SEOUL, June 29 (Yonhap) -- North Korea fired two short-range missiles into the East Sea early Sunday, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, in the second such launch in three days.

"North Korea fired each one missile presumed to be Scuds from the vicinity of Wonsan, Gangwon Province, at about 4:50 a.m. and 4:58 a.m. into the East Sea," the JCS said. "Their range is about 500 kilometers," it said.

The missiles landed in international waters northeast of the East Sea, a JCS official said, adding that the North did not make any prior announcement for civilian flights or vessels.

The missile launch came three days after the North fired three short-range projectiles into the East Sea on Thursday. This marks the North's 11th firing of short-range missiles and the fourth ballistic missile launch this year.

It also came days before Chinese President Xi Jinping's planned visit to South Korea on July 3-4. The military sees this as a kind of "military demonstration" aimed at drawing attention of the international community ahead of the visit.

.....

Source

North Korea 'test-fires short-range missiles'

North Korea has fired two missiles into the sea from its east coast, reports from South Korea say.

A defence ministry spokesman in Seoul declined to give further details, but Yonhap news agency said they were Scuds with the range of 500km (310 miles).

The apparent test comes just days after North Korea said it successfully fired new precision-guided missiles.

.....

Source

On June 26 2014 18:01 calh wrote:
To be fair, any other country would at least issue a diplomatic protest agaisnt a film about killing their IRL leader.

Japan takes historic step from post-war pacifism, OKs fighting for allies

(Reuters) - Japan took a historic step away from its post-war pacifism on Tuesday by ending a ban that has kept the military from fighting abroad since 1945, a victory for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe but a move that has riled China and worries many Japanese voters.

The change, the most dramatic shift in policy since Japan set up its post-war armed forces 60 years ago, will widen Japan's military options by ending the ban on exercising "collective self-defence", or aiding a friendly country under attack.

Abe's cabinet adopted a resolution outlining the shift, which also relaxes limits on activities in U.N.-led peace-keeping operations and "grey zone" incidents short of full-scale war, Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera told reporters.

.....

The new policy has angered an increasingly assertive China, whose ties with Japan have frayed due to a maritime row, mistrust and the legacy of Japan's past military aggression. "China opposes the Japanese fabricating the China threat to promote its domestic political agenda," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a news conference in Beijing.

"We demand that Japan respect the reasonable security concerns of its Asian neighbours and prudently handle the relevant matter."

South Korea, like Japan allied with the United States, but still aggrieved about Tokyo's 20th century colonisation of the Korean peninsula, said it would not accept any change in policy affecting its security unless it gave its agreement.

.....

Source

Japan military approved to fight abroad for first time since 1945

.....

In one of the biggest changes to Japanese security policy since the war, the ruling coalition gave approval to reinterpret the constitution on military affairs. It now awaits endorsement — a formality — by the cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has made raising the country’s military profile a cornerstone of his nationalist policies.

The move will allow the military to defend other nations in what is known as “collective self-defense.”

Previous governments have said that Japan’s war-renouncing constitution limits the use of force to defending Japan.
Abe, who has pushed hard for the change, cites a deteriorating security environment, notably China’s military rise and North Korea’s missile and nuclear threats.

.....

Source

(LEAD) N. Korea again fires 2 short-range missiles into East Sea

SEOUL, July 9 (Yonhap) -- North Korea fired off two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea from an inland site on Wednesday, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) in South Korea said Wednesday, the latest in a series of launches in recent months.

The launches come hours before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was to meet with his Chinese counterpart in annual high-level talks in Beijing to discuss a broad range of bilateral issues. North Korea's missile and nuclear program could be also on the agenda.

.....

Source

N. Korea protests against U.S. film about assassination attempt on leader

SEOUL, July 9 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has filed a protest with the United Nations against a U.S. movie featuring an assassination attempt on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, calling on the U.S. government to ban the release of the movie, a U.S. report said Wednesday.

In a letter sent to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on June 27, North Korean Ambassador to the U.N., Ja Song-nam, called the movie "The Interview" an insult to the North Korean leader, the Washington-based Voice of America said.

.....

Allowing the production and release of the movie about targeting a head of state is an explicit support for terrorism and an act of war, the letter said, calling on the U.S. government to ban the movie.

In the letter to the U.N., the North requested Ban adopt the North Korean statement in a general meeting and the security council, the radio report said.

.....

Source

On July 09 2014 18:26 Simberto wrote:
I am still convinced that someone paid that NK guy off, and he is protesting the movie as a publicity stunt. What better advertisement for your probably mediocre movie than "The North Koreans threatened to go to war over this movie. You must watch it."

On July 13 2014 07:08 OzVelas wrote:
http://www.thesportbible.com/articles/north-korea-close-to-winning-the-world-cup

WTF ahah

On July 13 2014 07:08 OzVelas wrote:
http://www.thesportbible.com/articles/north-korea-close-to-winning-the-world-cup

WTF ahah

North Korea fires two more short-range missiles into sea ahead of South Korea, US joint military drill

North Korea fired two short-range missiles into the sea Sunday, Seoul's military said, in an apparent show of anger at an upcoming joint military drill between South Korea and the US.

The North fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off the east coast at 1:20am and 1:30am (local time), the South's defence ministry told AFP.

"Their range appears to be around 500 kilometres," he said, adding Seoul's military had stepped up monitoring for additional launches.

The move - the latest in a series of similar launches in recent weeks - came a day after Pyongyang condemned an upcoming Seoul-Washington naval joint exercise.

.....

"The US should properly understand that the more persistently it resorts to reckless nuclear blackmail and threat, the further (the North) will bolster up its cutting edge nuclear force for self-defense," said the North's top military body, the National Defence Commission.

The North has habitually slammed joint military exercises held south of the border and often responded with missile launches.

.....

Tokyo lodges protest

The missile launch prompted Japan to lodge a protest with Pyongyang, the Japanese government said.

"This is a clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions," Japanese chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters. "The government made a protest through diplomatic channels in Beijing."

.....

Source

(2nd LD) N. Korea fires some 100 artillery shells into East Sea

SEOUL, July 14 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Monday fired about 100 artillery shells into the East Sea from a place close to the inter-Korean border, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, the latest in a series of military provocations.

"North Korea fired off around 100 artillery shells in a northeast direction into the East Sea for about 30 minutes from 11:43 a.m. from a place hundreds of meters away from the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Kosong, Kangwon Province," JCS spokesman Um Hyo-sik said.

"They landed in the sea, some 1 to 8 kilometers north of the Northern Limit Line (NLL)," he said, citing the de facto inter-Korean maritime border.

While it is not known exactly which artillery pieces the North used, the South Korean military said they were most likely 122-, 240- or 76.2-millimeter guns.

"Some of the shells travelled some 3 kilometers, and others the maximum of 50 kilometers," a JCS officer said, requesting anonymity.

"It is not unusual for Pyongyang to carry out such a shelling from its east coast, but it is rare that the North has done so near the military demarcation line," he noted.

.....

Source

On July 13 2014 07:08 OzVelas wrote:
http://www.thesportbible.com/articles/north-korea-close-to-winning-the-world-cup

WTF ahah