'Sea of Japan' New Name: 'Nuclear Sea of Fire'

[GuyJean]

North Korea has a better idea than the South for renaming 'Sea of Japan'.

N. Korea Threatens to Turn Japan into 'Nuclear Sea of Fire
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/040923/kyodo/d859cfqg0.html

"If the United States ignites a nuclear war, the U.S. military bases in Japan would serve as a detonating fuse to turn Japan into a nuclear sea of fire," the paper said in an article, according to Yonhap...

The threat comes as Japanese and U.S. reconnaissance information indicate that North Korea may be preparing to test-fire either a Rodong or a Taepodong ballistic missile or conduct a missile engine combustion test, Japanese government sources said Thursday.

The data, mainly from radio and U.S. reconnaissance satellites around the middle of last week, has led the Japanese government to set up an ad hoc office at the Prime Minister's Office and send aircraft, an Aegis-equipped destroyer and other vessels to the Sea of Japan to gather further information.

yay...

GJ

[Skankster]

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Im quite confident that the US has little to none dependable insiders in NK to get any significant intelligence data.


Very worrisome. at least Clinton had monitors there.

[Taro Toporific]

6-Nation North Korean Nuclear Talks in Doubt
NYTimes.com (no registration required) September 26, 2004 by James Brook
....The urgency of defusing North Korea's arsenal became clear this week when American and Japanese officials reported that soldiers and vehicles were gathering around North Korean missile sites, and the country's main newspaper warned that North Korea could "turn Japan into a nuclear sea of fire." The Kyodo news agency of Japan said the latest analysis indicated that North Korea was conducting missile preparedness drills in northwestern North Korea. At a site in the east, North Korea may be preparing the test burn of an engine of a modified Soviet-made submarine-launched missile, Kyodo reported Saturday. Known as an SSN6, this missile has a range of up to 2,500 miles, roughly the distance from North Korea to Guam.