Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Hyperinflation Looms in Iran
N. Korea Says it Will Restart Shut-Down Nuclear Complex
Yongbyon Facility Includes Uranium Enrichment Unit
The torrent of North Korean threats and belligerent announcements continues.
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This much is certain: Iran is watching and drawing conclusions.
Related: Japan Fears Decrepit N. Korean Plant Could Suffer Accident
Monday, April 01, 2013
Threats Prevent Jordanian Singer from Performing in Israel
New N. Korean Premier is Regime-Certified 'Reformer'
Pak Pong Ju is North Korea's new prime minister, a regime-certified "reformer."
Israel's Finance Minister Pledges to Protect Middle Class
Lapid Says He Won't Let Israel Become Cyprus or Greece
Maspik! says Yair Lapid in a welcome departure from the European-American austerity script that seeks to punish--and pauperize--the middle classes in the name of economic reform.
Israel's finance minister says the State depends on middle class workers, whose economic problems must be addressed, adding they can no longer be used like an "ATM."
S. Korea Vows Immediate Reaction to Any Attack by North
Assurance of Armed Response Amid Rising Tensions
South Korea says it has authorized its military commanders to immediately respond to any attack by North Korean forces. The announcement comes as the United States deploys stealth fighter jets to join a joint military exercise with its ally while the North Korean regime warns the region is at the brink of nuclear war.
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To paraphrase Henry Kissinger, the failure of the international community to stop North Korea, a small, impoverished nation with no natural resources, from developing nuclear weapons and long-range rockets in order to threaten its neighbors makes a mockery of the term international community.
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Global Demand for Coal Set to Increase
Japanese Firms Preparing to Import US Shale Gas
Japan's top trading firms are gearing up to import shale gas from the United States. Imports could start as early as 2017.
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North Korea and Iran Could be Developing and Might Have Already Deployed Super Weapons Capable of Striking the US
North Korea and Iran are believed to have jointly developed and test-fired cargo vessel-based ballistic missile launch systems that can be concealed in shipping containers aboard seemingly civilian ships (flying flags of convenience).
North Korea and Iran are suspected of seeking to develop an ICBM with unlimited range attack capabilities--namely, a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) missile. Click here to read more about FOBS, which would allow a path to North America over the South Pole. There is no known defense against such an attack.
Nor is there a known defense against ship-based ballistic missiles targeting U.S. coastal cities or aiming to destroy the country's communications and electronics systems in an EMP attack--detonation of a nuclear warhead high above the Midwestern United States.
For all we know, North Korea and Iran might have already deployed a fleet of such ships. The vessels could be lurking even now, as of this writing.
Related: N. Korean Nuclear Bomb Test Secrecy Fuels Speculation Regarding Uranium
Also Related: U.S. F-22 Stealth Fighters Joint Drill With S. Korea
North Korea: 'Nukes are Nation's Life'
Vows to Strengthen Arsenal, Launch More 'Satellites'
North Korea says its "life" depends on nuclear weapons, vows to add to its arsenal.
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The statement should not surprise Foreign Confidential readers. This blog has predicted, practically since its inception, that the North will never abandon atomic arms, contrary to the view of appeasers and legions of dumbbell diplomats, who foolishly--dangerously--believe it is possible to do business with the Kimist regime.
Worse, even, any chance there might have been to bribe the North into scrapping its weapons of mass destruction was completely blown by the unbelievably unnecessary and incredibly idiotic U.S./NATO intervention in Libya--on the side of Al Qaeda-associated and -sympathizing Islamists. Like it or not, the United States and its Western allies had made a deal with the Libyan dictator, which he had lived up to, scrapping his WMD programs and providing important support for the fight against radical Islam. Betraying him basically guaranteed that in the future no regime would ever again give up WMD absent armed conflict and military defeat.
Saturday, March 30, 2013
San Diego on North Korea's Attack Map
San Diego, California, the state's second largest city, and a city long associated with the U.S. Navy, is on North Korea's seemingly absurd--but seriously disturbing--attack map.
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Appeasers/engagers and diplomacy-at-all-cost-ers pooh-pooh the map and North Korean threats as propagandistic posturing and bluster.
Maybe so. One can only hope for the best … and prepare for the worst … including, if necessary, preemptively destroying the enemy before it destroys us. As the Talmud teaches, (derived from Deuteronomy 22:26): Habah l'hargecha hashkem l'hargo -- "If someone is coming to kill you, rise against him and kill him first. However, it should never be done with glee."
Consider the following:
- North Korea has nuclear weapons and has threatened--actually vowed--to use the weapons against the United States.
- North Korea has long-, medium- and short-range ballistic missiles.
- North Korea has one of the world's largest arsenals of chemical weapons and is also believed to have developed biological weapons--in close cooperation with Iran.
- North Korea has one of the world's largest armed forces, including submarines and special forces capable of quickly overpowering South Korean positions.
- North Korea has announced that it has "entered a state of war" with South Korea and that it intends to conduct a "war of national liberation" against the South.
- Nearly 30,000 U.S. soldiers stationed in South Korea are within North Korean artillery range. Correctly or incorrectly, the North sees these troops as sitting ducks.
- North Korean missiles fired from North Korean territory can hit U.S. bases on Okinawa, Japan, and Guam.
- While unlikely, it could be possible for North Korean missiles fired from North Korean territory to hit Hawaii, Alaska and California.
- North Korea and Iran are believed to have jointly developed and test-fired ballistic missiles from cargo vessels.There is no known defense against missiles fired into U.S. coastal cities from such vessels, thousands of which approach U.S. waters every day. Nor is there any known defense against a high-altitidue EMP missile strike fired from a seemingly civilian freighter or barge.
- Nuclear bombs and warheads can be concealed in shipping containers.
- North Korea and Iran could be working on a FOBS (Fractional Orbital Bombardment System).The U.S. has no known defense against a FOBS missile or pseudo-satellite--i.e. nuclear warhead--attack from over the South Pole.
- Iranians have attended every North Korean nuclear and major missile test.
- Iran, which muses openly about "a world without America and Zionism," has threatened to attack the U.S. from the Gulf of Mexico.
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