North Korea on war readiness. US-South prepare. Tehran watches

[Christians4LessGvt]

North Korea on war readiness. US-South prepare.
Tehran watches

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis

May 25, 2010, 10:42 AM (GMT+02:00)


South Korean Cheonan sunk by North torpedo

North Korean ruler Kim Jong-il ordered his military to prepare for all-out war after
Barack Obama sent the US military to work with Seoul to prepare for future
aggression and plan a joint submarine maneuver for the near future.

Tuesday, May 25, military observers in the Korean Peninsula and Japan were predicting
limited skirmishes on land, sea and air. Some sources found North Korea capable of
going all the way to test-firing a nuclear warhead for the first time.

Monday, May 24, President Barack Obama ordered the 28,000 US soldiers
stationed in Korea to "work closely with the Republic of Korea to ensure readiness
and deter uture aggression." President Lee Myung-bak said Pyongyang must pay
a price for the torpedo attack on a South Korean Chenan that killed 46 sailors in March.
Officials accused Kim of personally ordering a submarine to sink the corvette.
Seoul also suspended inter-Korean trade, investment and non-humanitarian aid
and banned North Korean merchant ships from passing South Korean waters.

Washington and Seoul have been hoping Beijing would step in to cool the crisis
and avert a clash on China's doorstep. But US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
who attended the two-day annual US-Chinese conference in Beijing, failed
to persuade Chinese President Hu Jintao to rein in the North Korean ruler and calm
the crisis.

China is also reluctant to joint South Korean plans backed by the US and Japan
to bring the issue before the UN Security Council for further sanctions against
the North. Past penalties for its nuclear activities have already ravaged the
North Korean economy.

debkafile's military sources point to the Korean crisis's grave repercussions for
current Middle East war tensions. North Korea and Iran have worked closely
together in the development of their clandestine nuclear weapons programs.
The two rogue powers often pursue the same diplomatic tactics for fobbing
off international pressures. For Syrian president Bashar Assad, the brazenly
defiant Kim Jong-Il is a role model. Above all, Pyongyang is the primary source
of nuclear technology and sophisticated missiles for Iran and Syria. The plutonium
reactor which the Israeli Air Force destroyed in September 2007 in northern
Syria was made in North Korea and, according to debkafile's intelligence sources,
North Korean nuclear scientists and technicians are back at work in the country.

While Israel regards the Korean conflict as remote, Tehran and Damascus are
spying its every twist and turn and drawing lessons on the responses of the
world powers for their own use. They are especially interested in China's handling
of this crisis as a pointer to whether or not it will veto the sanctions before the
UN Security Council against Iran.

By and large, Beijing seeks to manipulate the North Korean and Iranian nuclear
programs as levers for reducing American influence in Asia and the Middle East alike.
Therefore, a decision by Hu to go easy on Pyongyang in the current crisis may well
be a good-news signal for Tehran.

[Plane]

Kim Jong-il is old and ill.

He has a new wepon , and he thinks that because he has atomic bombs he can murder at will and thumb his nose at any other nation.

I really don't see the guy as being obedient to Chineese leadership , North Korea is an unpleasant and embarrasing legacy , but what can the government say to all the veterans of the volenteer force who threw themselves onto American bayonettes in mass wave attack and suffered terific casualtys from airstrike and harsh weather?

It is hard enough for them to say that Mao was wrong about anything , saying that Mao wasted all of that effort and blood must stick in the throat.

Kim Jong-il will explore his new boundrys , his ability to kidnap , murder and abuse no longer diminished by exposure to the world , restored by the atomic power so craved by all the craven of the world.

I beleive we are going to have to take one of these bombs right in the teeth before we counterattack , but there will be little restraint at that point.


I kinda wish that the anti missle lasers were better supported , just when we get a few of them to operate we stop developing them.

Is it such a burr in the throat of Democrats to say that Reagans ray gun was a good idea after they built a legacy of ridiculing it?

Haveing only one of the things ready to use is insufficient for anything more than covering the retaliation a little bit.

It is too late for a crash program for building an effective sheild for Seoul , I don't think Kim Jong-il wants to wait any longer , he is a gambler, and he is so old and sick now that he might consider the stakes to be low.




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