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North Korean Electronic Attack Downed US Military Plane Jamming GPS Signals

Sep 092011

A North Korean electronic attack downed a U.S. military plane during military exercises in March, it is now being reported. It sounds like Kim Jong-Il is playing with his war games again.

Kim Jong-Il has never shied away from exhibiting his military prowess, mostly for the benefit of people who are pathetically ignorant of the world outside of anything the hermit communist nation of North Korea tells them.

Most recently the petite tyrant forced down a U.S. military plane during military exercises by jamming the GPS system. The North Korean electronic attack happened in March and is just now being reported.

SEOUL – A US military reconnaissance plane came under electronic attack from North Korea and had to make an emergency landing during a major military exercise in March, a political aide said Friday.

The aide said the plane suffered disturbance to its GPS system due to jamming signals from the North’s southwestern cities of Haeju and Kaesong as it was taking part in the annual US-South Korea drill, Key Resolve.

The incident was disclosed in a report that Seoul’s defense ministry submitted to Ahn Kyu-baek of parliament’s defense committee, the aide to Ahn said.

Spokesmen for the defense ministry and US Forces Korea declined to comment.

Jamming signals — sent at intervals of five to 10 minutes on the afternoon of March 4 — forced the plane to make an emergency landing 45 minutes after it took off, the aide quoted the report as saying.

The signals also affected South Korean naval patrol boats and speedboats, as well as several civilian flights near Seoul’s Gimpo area, according to the report.

Seoul mobile users also complained of bad connections, and the military reported GPS device malfunctions as the South and the US were staging the drill, which was harshly criticized by the North.

The Communist state has about 20 types of jamming devices, mostly imported from Russia, and has been developing a new device with a range of more than 62 miles (100 kilometers) near the heavily-fortified border, the Yonhap news agency has said.

This is the type of thing that happens when no one in the world is scared of us any more.

Korean Conflict: North Korea Warns South Korea to Stop Military Drill

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Dec 172010

North Korea warns South Korea to stop military drills or they will strike again. If the North Koreans do strike South Korea again it will be the third incident in recent weeks.

North Korean officials are threatening to hit the South harder than they did in last month if the Republic of Korea doesn’t call off planned military exercises on the island of Yeonpyeong early next week.

North Korean official news agency KCNA said the “intensity and scope” of its retaliation will be worse if the Seoul goes through with its announced one-day live-fire drills sometime between Saturday and Tuesday on Yeonpyeong Island.

The North said the planned drills were an attempt “to save the face of the South Korean military, which met a disgraceful fiasco” during last month’s clash.

North Korea shelled Yeonpyeong island on November 23rd killing civilians and military personal alike setting of increased tensions between the two countries. That attack followed the sinking of a South Korean Warship in April. Any one of those incidents could have set off aggressive hostilities, but the South Koreans kept an all out war in check and not responded militarily to the aggression of the North. Yet.

China is backing North Korea’s play while the United States is backing South Korea. Some think that if the two countries begin open battle that it will be a proxy war between the United States and China. Russia has stayed out of the fray until recently.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin met with envoys from the Republic of Korea and the United States and asked them to cancel the planned military exercises.

In response, the Obama Administration has sent former New Mexico governor and Clinton Administration Energy Secretary Bill Richardson to North Korea on a diplomatic mission. Lets hope he doesn’t lose any more nukes while he’s visiting Pyongyang.

All this seems to be fulfilling the prophesies of Baba Vanga. That’s just a little disconcerting.

Read more about the Korean conflict here.

North Korea, Obama Plots Nuclear War

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Jun 212009

North Korea is saying that Barack Obama is plotting nuclear war with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak. The North Koreans claim that the U.S. President is escalating the nuclear threats by reassuring South Korea of U.S. support should there be a North Korean launch.

North Korea, Obama Plots Nuclear War

The North Korean nuclear threat continues to escalate on every front. As we have reported, the U.S.S. John McCain is tailing a suspicious North Korean ship that is now making its way towards Myanmar. In addition, there are reports that the George Washington Carrier Strike Group has departed its port in Japan to move closer to the Korean Peninsula. Intelligence coming out of South Korea and Japan indicates that North Korea is preparing a strike on Hawaii sometime between July 4 and July 8, 2009.

Needless to say, the prospect of a strike on Hawaii is cause for concern for Hawaiians and those who might be planning to vacation at the tropical paradise sometime this summer. Hawaii’s tourism department is reassuring people that the state has a huge military presence, so it’s safe to travel there. I don’t find that particularly reassuring considering the huge military presence that was in Hawaii on December 7, 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

However, we are assured that the military is taking extraordinary precautions. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered additional protections. This week a military SBX radar system (pictured below), began making its way out to sea. The golf ball shaped missile defense system is designed to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles during their final phase of flight.

Pyongyang is accusing the U.S. President, Barack Obama of plotting nuclear war. Even though the North Koreans have been saber rattling for months now, they say that a promise by Obama to the South Korean President, Lee Myung-Bak, that the United States will support South Korea, providing a nuclear umbrella, in the event of a North Korean launch of a nuclear strike.

In a first official response to last week’s US-South Korean summit, the state-run weekly Tongil Sinbo said in its Saturday edition Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak “are trying to ignite a nuclear war”.

“The US-touted provision of ‘extended deterrence, including a nuclear umbrella’ (for South Korea) is nothing but ‘a nuclear war plan,’” Tongil Sinbo said.

It said it wasn’t a coincidence that the United States has brought “nuclear equipment into South Korea and its surroundings and staged massive war drills every day to look for a chance to invade North Korea.”

Pyongyang has created weeks of tension by conducting a second nuclear test and test-firing missiles.

At a summit with Lee in Washington Wednesday, Obama warned that North Korea is a “grave threat” and vowed to defend South Korea.

A Seoul presidential official told Yonhap news agency Lee would seek a written US commitment to provide a nuclear “umbrella” for Seoul as part of “extended deterrence” against Pyongyang.

It seems that Obama’s charm and charisma aren’t making America’s enemies like us better. I thought he was going to fix all these problems by engaging Pyongyang in talks. Talking with North Korea doesn’t seem to be working any better than his attempts to talk with the Iranians.

North Korean Nuclear Threats – Video

North Korea Threatens Nuclear War

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Jun 142009

As tensions continue to rise between North Korea and the rest of the world, North Korea is now threatening nuclear war. Read about it and see a video below.

North Korea Threatens Nuclear War

North Korea has been testing nukes and long range missiles for a while now. In recent months, the nuke tests and threats have increased significantly. As we have reported before, there are a few possible reasons for this escalation of defiance. One is preparations for the recently announced accession of Kim Jong-Il’s son, Kim Jong-Un to the position of Dictator in Chief of the isolated communist state. Another more ominous possibility is that Pyongyang is in the market to sell nuclear technology to rough states and are demonstrating what they have for sale.

The U.N. has done what the UN does, given stern warnings and let the North Koreans know that they will be very, very unhappy if the DPRK nukes their neighbors, South Korea or Japan. I believe they are drafting and sending a stern letter to Kim to that effect. While visiting Europe last week, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, said he’d have to give a great deal of thoughtful contemplation about the whole matter should North Korea not step back from their threatening behavior.

I’m sure all that has the North Korean government shaking in their proverbial boots.

Well, they might not be shaking in their boots because instead of backing off, they are upping the ante. They are now saying that if the U.N. follows through with the sanctions they are planning to impose that there will be nuclear war on the Korean peninsula. They also vow to step up their nuclear weapon making program.

North Korea’s communist regime has warned of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula while vowing to step up its atomic bomb-making program in defiance of new U.N. sanctions.

The North’s defiance presents a growing diplomatic headache for President Barack Obama as he prepares for talks Tuesday with his South Korean counterpart on the North’s missile and nuclear programs.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak told security-related ministers during an unscheduled meeting Sunday to “resolutely and squarely” cope with the North’s latest threat, his office said. Lee is to leave for the U.S. on Monday morning.

A commentary Sunday in the North’s main state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, claimed the U.S. has 1,000 nuclear weapons in South Korea. Another commentary published Saturday in the state-run Tongil Sinbo weekly claimed the U.S. has been deploying a vast amount of nuclear weapons in South Korea and Japan.

Obama was golfing today and has not commented on the situation in North Korea or the Iranian uprising as students attempt to free themselves from the oppressive dictatorship there.

North Korea Threatens Nuclear War – Video

More North Korea Nuke Tests: China Warns U.N. Not to Use Force

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Jun 122009

There are indications that there will be more North Korea nuke tests. At the same time, China warns the U.N. not to use force to enforce the sanctions they approved in response to North Korea’s recent prolific nuclear-bomb test and missile launches. All of this is making Japan and South Korea very nervous. Read about it below, see photos and a video.

More North Korea Nuke Tests?

It comes as not great surprise that North Korea is defying the world and planning a third round of nuclear bomb tests. They have just gotten chastised by the U.N. for nuke tests and missile launches they conducted in May. The U.N. sanctions, Resolution 1874, are still being drafted, but were passed unanimously, including the support of China and Russia, just this past Wednesday. I’m sure that scares the Pyongyang regime to no end. They are likely to get a letter telling them just how naughty they are being, in the vein of the usual toothless U.N. resolutions.

Susan Rice, US ambassador to the UN, has said that the sanction have to signal to North Korea that there is a price to be paid for defying the U.N. and performing more nuclear testing. The sanctions include tighter arms embargo, more financial restrictions and tougher inspections of cargo suspected of containing banned missile or nuclear related items.

Actually, North Korea is using the sanctions as their excuse for furthering their defiance and threats against the rest of the world. They call U.S. attempts to impose blockades as an ‘act of war’ and has now vowed to weaponise all of its plutonium.

The recent dramatic increase in North Korean nuke tests is naturally sending chills up the spines of South Korea and Japan. South Korea is bracing for the probably provocation from the north. They have deployed troops to Yeonpyeong and Baekryeong islands, islands off the disputed sea border with North Korea as a precaution.

There are a few reasons for North Korea’s most recent defiance. They are unpredictable at best, but the escalation in their showcasing in front of the world is partly in preparation for a transfer of power from Kim Jong-Il to his youngest son, Kim Jong-Un. In our world, it may seem like an odd way to transfer power from one generation to the next. However, this is how the elder Kim’s father introduced him to the North Korean people as a great warrior and it’s likely that Kim is doing the same for his own son. Another reason is testing the new American President. This gives the communist dictatorship more power in the eyes of their people. They can represent the weak response from Obama as a victory over the great American power – enhancing their own power over their people.

Yet another reason for this posturing is to get a ransom out of the rest of the world. They do have demands. The North is demanding that firms in Kaesong, South Korea raise the wages for its 40,000 workers from $75 per month to $300 per month. Some feel this demand is an attempt to put Kaesong out of business. Kaesong has been an attempt for a reconciliation between the two Koreas and to help the North that has been impoverished by a communist government. In 2008, South Korean paid 26 million dollars to Pyongyang (not the workers). Some feel that North Korea is concerned that the workers there are getting exposed to the South Korean lifestyle. By making these demands, they can blame Seoul for closing the plants rather than having to appear to be refusing that opportunity for their workers themselves.

Regardless of the reasons for Kim Jong-Il and his repressive regime rattling sabers, the problem remains the same. South Korea, Japan, Taiwan are all in immediate danger. There are rumors that North Korea has the capability to deliver nukes to the United States, Alaska to be specific.

Pyongyang doesn’t seem to have much to fear. Obama made a statement that he’s going to ‘take a very hard look’ about how to respond should they continue to destabilize the region. That undoubtedly has Kim shaking in his high heeled boots. There was a weak response out of Washington that it has no intention to respond to more North Korea nuke tests and even went so far as to express fear that they were actually attempting to sale their nuclear technology to rough states.

In addition to Washington’s weak response, China has come out and warned the U.N. not to use force when implementing the sanctions against the North Korean regime.

It really seems that North Korea has nothing to fear from the U.N. or the U.S. and a lot to gain financially and from the propaganda value of the nuke tests.

North Korea Nukes – Cartoons

North Korea Military Training – Video

Kim Jong Un is Kim Jong Il Successor (Photo)

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Jun 022009

There are reports coming out of South Korea that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il has named his third and youngest son, Kim Jong-Un as his successor. Read about it and a biography below and see the only known photograph available in the West of Kim Jong-Un, an age progression photograph.

Kim Jong Un

Kim Jong Un is believed to be the youngest son of North Korean Kim Jong Il. There are reports that he has been tapped to be Kim Jong-Il’s successor. The 26-year-old son of the communist dictator will be the third generation of the Kim dynasty to rule North Korea. Typical of the Pyongyang secrecy, there has been no confirmation of his choice as his father’s successor.

At first blush it seems an odd time to name an heir to the throne of North Korea. What with the recent saber rattling and threats coming out of the communist state. But when one considers that Kim Jong-Il was given a similar entry into the public eye, it makes more sense. That and the suspicion that Kim Jong-Il suffered a stroke in August 2008 and the 100th anniversary of his father’s, Kim Il Sung, birth is coming up in 2012, it all starts to fall into place. Kim has said that he will name a successor on his father’s 100th birthday, April 15, 2012. Like his father, Kim Jong-Il seems to be preparing a military build-up that his son will be given credit for, and therefore public support for, in order to usher in his rule. Should it be necessary, Jong-Un will rule under the guidance of his uncle, Jang Seong Taek, until he is capable of ruling on his own.

There is no illusion here that Kim Jong-Il or any of his children are actually in control of North Korea. It is most likely that the military commanders are making these decisions, as they have apparently been made throughout Kim’s rule. That would give us an indication as to why Kim’s third son has been chosen. The oldest son, Kim Jong Nam, 38, was a favorite to be the successor until he was caught sneaking into Japan to go to Disney World in 2001. The second son, Kim Jong-chol, is considered too effeminate. He has ‘a woman’s heart’. That leaves Jong-Un, a lover of heavy drink, as the successor. This seems like a perfect situation to keep the military in control of the most repressive regime on the planet.

Kim Jong Un Biography

There is very little information available about Kim Jong-Un or anyone else in his family. He was born on January 8, 1983. He is 26-years-old. He studied at the Kim Il-Sung Military University for five years. He was educated in Switzerland, as were his brothers. He was not allowed to associate with school mates after school and was picked up everyday immediately after classes. Most classmates and school officials thought he was the son of the driver who picked him up. He used the name Pak Chol while in school.

Jong-Un learned French, English and German. He was thought to be competitive, introverted, friendly and timid. He loved basketball, was a fan of Michael Jordan and Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Jong-Un is the son of Jong-Il’s third wife, Ko Yong Hi. She was a former dancer who was considered Jong-Il’s favorite wife. She reportedly died of cancer in 2004, however, other reports are that she died under ‘suspicious circumstances’. She is reported to have doted on her son, calling him her ‘Morning Star King’.

Jong-Un’s grandfather founded the Worker’s Party that rules North Korea today. It is an orthodox communist party that has oppressed the people of North Korea for generations. Kim Il-Sung was known to the North Koreans as ‘Great Leader’. His son, Jong-Il has been known as ‘Dear Leader’. Reports are that Jong-Un is being hyped as ‘Commander Kim’. The propaganda campaign is also reported started in that school children are being taught songs praising him as the next leader and the regime is pledging allegiance to him.

The photograph above is the only known photograph of him available in the West. He was approximately 11-years-old at the time that photo was taken. I have provided a possible age progression photo of him below (just for fun).

Kim Jong Un Age Progression Photo?

More photos have become available of Kim Jong-Un since I first wrote this article. You can see them below.

Kim Jong Un is Kim Jong Il Successor – Photos

Kim Jong Il – Video
Kim Jong Il sings ‘Wocket Man’

North Korea Threatens US Warships; Threatens War With South Korea

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May 272009

Just days after an underground test of a nuclear bomb, North Korea has threatened U.S. and South Korean Warships that are patrolling the disputed maritime border. South Korea has said that it would search suspect ships, and North Korea in turn says that that is equal to a “declaration of war”.

Yongbyon Nuclear Facility

The U.S. is currently leading what is called the Proliferation Security Initiative; a program to search and intercept suspected ships that may be aiding North Korea in proliferation of nuclear weapons. The South Koreans joined the initiative and the North decided to do a little saber rattling. They are now warning the United States and South Korea that any attempt to board or intercept ships could be met with retaliation.

In a statement from North Korea’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said:

“Now that the South Korean puppets were so ridiculous as to join in the said racket and dare declare a war against compatriots (North Korea is) compelled to take a decisive measure.”

South Korea had previously held off joining the Proliferation Security Initiative in hopes of seeking reconciliation with Pyongyang. The underground test of nuclear weapons spurred the South to join the United States led initiative and has further isolated the North.

In threatening U.S. and South Korean civilian and military vessels off the coast of the western maritime border, Pyongyang said that they could no longer guarantee those ships safe passage.

“They should bear in mind that the (North) has tremendous military muscle and its own method of strike able to conquer any targets in its vicinity at one stroke or hit the U.S. on the raw, if necessary,” it said.

United States spy satellites have detected that North Korea has restarted its Yongbyon nuclear plant; a development that is disconcerting to the United States and South Korea as they had looked to gain ground in talks with the rogue state which had never really taken off.

The maritime border with South Korea has been an issue of contention with the North since the end of the Korean war in the early fifties; and it has been the source of a couple of skirmishes in the past ten years. This however has the potential to become very volatile, with North Korea actually threatening U.S. warships.

North Korea Threat Video

North Korea Test-Firing Missile – Threatens Merciless Retaliation

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Mar 092009

North Korea has put their military on full combat ready status opposing the joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises that began on Monday. They are also suspected of test-firing a long-range ballistic missile. They are threatening merciless retaliation against any country that attempts to interfere with their missile launch. Read more about this threatening situation below.

North Korean Threats

The world feels increasingly unstable in recent months. Its seems that all the enemies of the United States are standing in line for an opportunity to take a swipe at the U.S. and her allies. Each, in their turn, are putting on a show for their people. Seeming to show that they can make the great United States back down when faced with their threats and boasting.

Yesterday it was Iran, today it is North Korea. Russia was the first to take a swipe at the new American President. But they are much too sophisticated at this game to show their hand. Their threats are much more subtle and unpredictable. Venezuela has taken a swipe or two. Their clown prince, Hugo Chavez, threatens, then makes jokes, then threatens, then gives advice. He seems to go with whatever his mood is on any given day. What has been evident with him is that he shows no respect for the man who is currently in power in the United States.

Now Korea is making open threats to the United States, South Korea and Japan. Both South Korea and Japan have benefited from North Korea and her sponsor, China, knowing the the United States had a strong military presence in the waters just off their shores. Now, no one believes the Obama Administration has the strength to deal with the wolves of the world. So communist dictators can make the lives of their own people and the lives of the people in their vicinity even more miserable. Thus is the case of North Korea and Kim Jong-Il.

Pyongyang has announced that they are launching a satellite on Monday and if anyone attempts to interfere with that launch, they will view it as a declaration of war. Of course, all the surrounding countries suspect this is really a test-firing of a long range missile that North Korea has bragged could reach Alaska.

We will retaliate (over) any act of intercepting our satellite for peaceful purposes with prompt counterstrikes by the most powerful military means,” the official Korean Central News Agency quoted a spokesman of the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army as saying.

If countries such as the United States, Japan or South Korea try to intercept the launch, the North Korean military will carry out “a just retaliatory strike operation not only against all the interceptor means involved but against the strongholds” of the countries, it said.

“Shooting our satellite for peaceful purposes will precisely mean a war,” it added.

North Korea earlier announced it is preparing to put a communications satellite into space, but outside observers suspect it may in fact be a test-firing of a long-range ballistic missile.

The United States, Japan and South Korea have said that even if Pyongyang calls the launch a missile test, it would violate existing U.N. Security Council resolutions.

The same North Korean statement said the country’s military will cut off communications with its South Korean counterparts during the U.S.- South Korean exercises for the duration of the exercises beginning Monday.

In addition, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), has demanded that the U.S. and South Korea call off their joint exercises, saying that they will not guarantee the safety of civilian airplanes flying through the territory during the exercises.

A separate, more rare statement by the KPA’s Supreme Command was quoted by the KCNA as saying that its soldiers are under orders to be “fully combat-ready” during U.S.-South Korean military exercises beginning Monday.

The North’s armed forces have been ordered to “deal merciless retaliatory blows” should there be any intrusion “into the sky and land and seas of the DPRK even an inch.”

Our allies have a right to be nervous. No one seems to be intimidated by Barack Obama in the least. There isn’t another country obviously qualified to step in a power vacuum that would be created by the United States losing power. Certainly, not a benign power. When the world is without a leader, all the other powers and petty dictators of the world start vying for their own places in a new pecking order.

North Korean Threats – Video

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