North Korea Has 1, 000 Missiles, South Says – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in March 17th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Koreas, Business Leaders, Defense Chief, Intermediate Range, Kim Tae, Korea South, Missile Arsenal, News Agency, North-Korea, Nytimes, pyongyang, Range Missiles, South-Korea, Targets

North Korea has increased its missile arsenal by 25 percent in the past two years to about 1,000, expanding the threat the state poses to the region, the South’s defense chief said Wednesday.
Pyongyang’s arsenal includes intermediate-range missiles that can hit targets at up to 3,000 km (1,860 miles) away, Yonhap news agency quoted Kim Tae-young [...]

Why Japan is ready for anything Pyongyang might want to throw at it | World news | guardian.co.uk

Posted by Matt in February 28th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Japan, Ballistic Missile Defence, Confidence, Guardian Co Uk, Guardian Uk, Japan, Lucky, Missile Battery, News Uk, Opportunity, Patriot Pac, pyongyang, Taniguchi, weapons, World News

“If an enemy dares to attack us, that’s lucky for us,” an unsmiling Taniguchi said. “Once they are within range, it is our opportunity, not theirs.”
Taniguchi’s confidence in Japan’s ability to defend itself rests on the weapons under his command – an American-designed, Japanese-built Patriot PAC-3 missile battery, attached to one of the six ballistic [...]

Pakistani scientist depicts more advanced nuclear program in North Korea – washingtonpost.com

Posted by Matt in December 28th, 2009 | no comment

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North Korea has constructed a plant to manufacture a gas needed for uranium enrichment, according to a previously unpublicized account by the father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb program, a development that indicates Pyongyang opened a second way to build nuclear weapons as early as the 1990s.
Pakistani scientist depicts more advanced nuclear program in North [...]

DEBKAfile – Iran set to launch 200-kg spy satelite into orbit

Posted by Matt in November 7th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Ambassador, beijing, Debkafile, Feb 2, Intelligence Sources, Iran, Kg, Launch, Missile Experts, Missile Program, North-Korea, Omid, Orbit, pyongyang, Rapid Pace, Spy Satelite, Spy Satellite, Technical Assistance, tehran

Iran is ready to launch its second homemade spy satellite, with the Safir 2 rocket (Messenger of Ambassador) already in position on its pad, DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report. The new satellite weighs 200 kgs, ten times more than Omid 1 (Hope), which was successfully tested only ten months ago, on Feb. 2. Tehran’s [...]

North Korea threatens to expand nuclear arsenal

Posted by Matt in November 2nd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Koreas, Nuclear, Bilateral Talks, Central News Agency, Communist Regime, Foreign Ministry, Korean Central News, Korean Central News Agency, Negotiator, Nkorea, North-Korea, northkorea, Nuclear Arsenal, pyongyang, Sit, Sung Kim, Veiled Threat

North Korea issued a veiled threat Monday to increase its nuclear arsenal if U.S. officials do not quickly agree to the one-on-one talks that the communist regime is demanding.
The regime’s impatience came days after No. 2 nuclear negotiator Ri Gun came away from meetings with Washington envoy Sung Kim without an agreement to hold bilateral [...]

Top defector to Seoul: ‘Call China to account’ for its alliance with North Korea

Posted by Matt in October 28th, 2009 | no comment

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Hwang Jang-Yop, the highest-ranking North Korean official ever to defect to the South, said China holds the key to the fate of ruling regime in Pyongyang.
Hwang called for South Korea to forge a free-trade deal with Beijing as a way to fully isolate the North’s economically and topple the Kim dynasty that has controlled North [...]

China Violates North Korea Sanctions – WSJ.com

Posted by Matt in October 15th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Koreas, Affection, Diplomatic Ties, Intense International Pressure, International China, Kim Jong Il, Korean Capital, North Korean, North-Korea, Nuclear Arsenal, Ostensible Purpose, Pacts, pyongyang, Republic Of Korea, S Republic Of Korea, Tarmac, United Nations, United Nations Security, Wen Jiabao, Wsj

Kim Jong Il hugged Wen Jiabao on the Chinese premier’s arrival in Pyongyang on October 4. Analysts were surprised at the time that the reclusive North Korean supremo made the trip to the tarmac to show his affection. Now we know why: Mr. Wen came to the North Korean capital less to mark 60 years [...]

A New Nuclear-Arms Race – WSJ.com

Posted by Matt in September 17th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Missiles, Nuclear, Ally, Band Radar, Bush, Collaboration, Czech-Republic, Eastern Seaboard, Interceptor Missiles, Iranian Missiles, Medium Range Missiles, Missile Defense System, Missiles Iran, Nuclear Arms Race, Nuclear Proliferation, Obama, Poland, pyongyang, Range Capability, Shot Heard Round The World, Wsj, X Band

Call it a shot heard round the world. The Obama Administration’s announcement yesterday that it is abandoning a Bush-era plan for a missile-defense system in Europe is not just about Europe. It also makes Americans more vulnerable and the U.S. a less reliable ally. Moreover, it will likely go down in history as the start [...]

DEBKAfile – Japan: Secret Syrian-Iranian-NKorean missile-test fails, kills 20 Syrians

Posted by Matt in August 15th, 2009 | no comment

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Japanese intelligence has learned that in late May, Iran, Syria and North Korea secretly test-launched in southern Syria a new short-range ballistic missile developed jointly by Pyongyang, Tehran and Damascus as a substitute for the outdated Scuds still in use in their armed forces, DEBKAfile’s military sources report. In May, several new missiles were flown [...]

Is Myanmar going nuclear?

Posted by Matt in July 21st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Asia, Koreas, Nuclear, Alarm Bells, Atomic Bomb, Blogged, Burma, Flock Browser, Korean Ship, Military Run, myanmar, Nuclear Club, pyongyang, Radar Screen, Secret Meeting, Ship Photographs, Southeast Asian Nation, tunnels

The recent aborted voyage of a North Korean ship, photographs of massive tunnels and a top secret meeting have raised alarm bells that one of the world’s poorest nations may be aspiring to join the nuclear club—with help from its friends in Pyongyang. No one expects military-run Myanmar, also known as Burma, to obtain an [...]