Noord-Korea dreigt met kernoorlog

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Op zaterdag 24 juli 2010 00:49 schreef Rekkie het volgende:
Te-le-graaf

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Op zaterdag 24 juli 2010 00:47 schreef Verburg_K het volgende:

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Wat gaan we nu beleven ???

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Op zaterdag 24 juli 2010 00:54 schreef Sigmund666 het volgende:
Telegraaf
De krant waar een tumor een nieuwe vorm van kankerAIDS is, en paracetamol een nieuwe drug genaamd Viacocrack is.

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Noord-Korea heeft zaterdag gezworen een 'grote militaire aanval' te doen op Zuid-Koreaanse luidsprekers en andere propagandainstallaties langs de zwaarbewaakte grens en dat de vergelding een 'genadeloze aanval' zal zijn, waarbij zelfs niet moet worden uitgesloten dat 'Seoul in een zee van vuur verandert'.

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Op zaterdag 24 juli 2010 00:53 schreef Verburg_K het volgende:
http://www.netwerk.tv/uitzending/2010-07-23

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Op zaterdag 24 juli 2010 00:49 schreef Rekkie het volgende:
Te-le-graaf

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Op zaterdag 24 juli 2010 03:07 schreef herbert64 het volgende:
Gewoon een bom erop.

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Op zaterdag 24 juli 2010 03:09 schreef remlof het volgende:

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Zo eenvoudig is het niet als Seoul onder het bereik van de Noordkoreaanse artillerie ligt.

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Major General Luo Yuan, deputy secretary general with the PLA Academy of Military Sciences, explained the reasons why China is opposed to the U.S.-South Korean military exercises in the Yellow Sea in a recent online discussion with netizens on People's Daily Online.

Luo pointed out five reasons behind China's opposition to the joint military exercises:

First, in terms of security, Chairman Mao Zedong once said, "We will never allow others to keep snoring beside our beds." If the United States were in China's shoes, would it allow China to stage military exercises near its western and eastern coasts? Just like an old Chinese saying goes, "Do not do unto others what you do not want others to do unto you," if the United States does not wish to be treated in a specific way, it should not forcefully sell the way to others.

Second, in terms of strategic thinking, China should take into account the worst possibility and strive to seek the best results. The bottom line of strategic thinking is to nip the evil in the bud. The ultimate level of strategic thinking is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Preventing crisis is the best way to resolve and overcome the crisis. China's current tough stance is part of preventive diplomacy.

Third, in terms of geopolitical strategy, the Yellow Sea is the gateway to China's capital region and a vital passage to the heartland of Beijing and Tianjin. In history, foreign invaders repeatedly took the Yellow Sea as an entrance to enter the heartland of Beijing and Tianjin. The drill area selected by the United States and South Korea is only 500 kilometers away from Beijing. China will be aware of the security pressure from military exercises conducted by any country in an area that is so close to China's heartland.

The aircraft carrier U.S.S. George Washington dispatched to the Yellow Sea has a combat radius of 600 kilometers and its aircraft has a combat radius as long as 1,000 kilometers. Therefore, the military exercise in the area has posed a direct security threat to China's heartland and the Bohai Rim Economic Circle.

Fourth, in a bid to safeguard security on the Korean Peninsula, the U. N. Security Council has just issued a presidential statement, requiring all parties to remain calm and restrained to the so-called "Cheonan" naval ship incident, which had caused a major crisis on the Korean Peninsula.

On the other hand, the joint military exercise by the United States and South Korea on the Yellow Sea has created a new crisis. This is another reason why China strongly opposes the military exercise on the Yellow Sea. In order to safeguard security on the Korea Peninsula, no country should create a new crisis instead they should control and deal with the existing one.

Fifth, in terms of maintaining China-U.S. relations, especially the two parties' military relations, China must declare its solemn stance. China has been working to promote the healthy development of China-U.S. military relations. Therefore, China has clearly declared that it is willing to promote the development of the two parties' relations. Deputy Director of the General Staff Gen. Ma Xiaotian has also expressed his welcome to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates to visit China at a proper time.

Ma had made it clear at the meeting in Singapore that three key problems greatly impeded China-U.S. exchanges. First, the Unites States' arms sales to Taiwan. Second, the frequently detected American military aircraft and ships over and on the East and South China seas at close range. Third, the 2000 U.S. National Defense Authorization Act and the Delay Amendment restricted military exchanges with China in 12 fields.

The current barriers have not been eliminated, while the United States has created another obstacle. This time, they not only sent military ships, nuclear submarines and Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers, but also aircraft carriers.

Luo added that a U.S. aircraft carrier had once been in the Yellow Sea in 1994, also known as the "Kitty Hawk issue," which caused strong reactions from China at that time. After that, aircraft carriers have never appeared in the Yellow Sea area.

The United States and South Korea said that the joint military exercise aims at putting pressure on North Korea and deterring North Korea's submarines. However, as the Yellow Sea is a marine outlet, the joint military exercises actually include the task of military surveillance. Any aircraft carrier has strong reconnaissance and early warning capacities therefore it can also monitor and detect on the circumjacent hydrologic geology, meaning that it can detect Chinese marine outlets over and over again.

As the Yellow Sea is a high sea, the aircraft carrier can also detect the hydro-geological conditions of China's submarines' channels out to sea. Therefore, the two purposes of the joint military exercise, strategic reconnaissance and testing initial combat plans, will pose a threat to China. The United States has always talked about the China military as a threat, but this joint military exercise by the United States and South Korea proved that it is not China but the U.S. military that is the threat.

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Israel has told the United Nations Security Council's North Korea sanctions panel that ballistic missile proliferation by Pyongyang is destabilizing the Middle East and has urged countries to step up efforts to stop it. "Israel would like to express its ongoing concern regarding the proliferation of ballistic missiles from North Korea, and to encourage the international community to strengthen its efforts in response to these dangers," Israel's UN mission said in a letter to the North Korea sanctions committee that was sent last week but published on Friday.

"Israel is particularly concerned by the dangerous effects of the proliferation activities of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea [North Korea] on the stability and the peace efforts in the Middle East," said the letter.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in May that a shipment of North Korean weapons, including rockets and rocket-propelled grenades, seized in Thailand last December was headed for Islamist groups Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

He also said North Korea was providing Iran and Syria with aid for their missile programs.

Pyongyang was hit with fresh UN sanctions last year to punish it for a nuclear test in May 2009, which marked its second atomic detonation. The expanded measures were aimed at cutting off North Korea's arms sales, a vital export estimated to earn the destitute state more than $1 billion a year.

North Korea's biggest arm sales come from ballistic missiles, with Iran and other Middle Eastern states as customers, according to U.S. government officials.

Iran is also under sanctions for refusing to halt sensitive parts of its nuclear program that could be used to produce atomic weapon fuel. Tehran rejects Western allegations that its nuclear program is aimed at producing arms.

A UN panel of experts delivered a report to the North Korea sanctions committee in May that suggested North Korea has been using front companies to export nuclear and missile technology worldwide and has helped Iran, Syria and Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma.

Meanwhile, the United States said on Friday it had no interest in getting into a "war of words" with North Korea, following a North Korean threat to launch a "sacred war" against the United States and its ally, South Korea.

"We are not interested in a war of words with North Korea. What we need from North Korea is fewer provocative words and more constructive action," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said when asked to respond to the North Korean comment.

North Korea said earlier it would begin a "sacred war" against the United States and South Korea at "any time necessary," based on its nuclear deterrent, in response to "reckless" military exercises by the allies.

The North's powerful National Defense Commission again denied in a statement the country was behind the sinking of a South Korean warship and said it could be forced to retaliate against the two countries, which begin large-scale military drills on Sunday.

"The army and people of the DPRK will start a retaliatory sacred war of their own style based on nuclear deterrent any time necessary in order to counter the U.S. imperialists and the South Korean puppet forces deliberately pushing the situation to the brink of a war," the commission said.

The statement was part of a verbal onslaught by the North after a South Korea-led team of investigators concluded in May that a North Korean submarine had torpedoed a South Korean warship in March, killing 46 sailors.

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Op zaterdag 24 juli 2010 03:16 schreef DeParo het volgende:
Stel dat dit gebeurt zo'n oorlog, dan moet Amerika alle aandacht verschuiven naar dit gebied, ook de eigen westkust is namelijk risicogebied. Andere groepen en landen kunnen van de chaos gebruik maken.

Israel to UN: North Korea arms proliferation destabilizing the Middle East.

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http://www.haaretz.com/ne(...)middle-east-1.303720
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Op zaterdag 24 juli 2010 03:21 schreef remlof het volgende:

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Ow ja, gaat Israël zich er ook nog eens mee bemoeien