Posts Tagged ‘US’

Wiping the US off the Map?

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea threatened Wednesday to wipe the United States off the map as Washington and its allies watched for signs the regime will launch a series of missiles in the coming days.

Off China’s coast, a U.S. destroyer was tailing a North Korean ship suspected of transporting illicit weapons to Myanmar in what could be the first test of U.N. sanctions passed to punish the nation for an underground nuclear test last month.

It seems like North Korea is getting a bit more aggressive. Read the story here.

Integrating Russia Into Missile Plan

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III told Congress yesterday that the Obama administration is exploring ways to involve two Russian radar installations in a missile-defense system for Central Europe.

The comment raised new doubts about whether the administration would stick with its predecessor’s plan to put U.S. interceptors in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic, which has been coolly received by Russia and some in Europe.

Read more here.

North Korea Bombing the US

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Back in April, Pyongyang claimed that any sanctions against North Korea will be considered a “declaration of war.”  Yesterday, North Korea launched an underground nuclear test. The explosion was  so strong that it caused an earthquake along North Korea at 9:54AM.  These bombs are believed to be as strong as the ones that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in 1945.

Shortly after this happened, there has been talk about the UN imposing more sanctions against North Korea. Today, North Korea fired two more missiles.

Some believe that North Korea won’t be able to shoot long-range missiles until years from now. I don’t think North Korea is that stupid. Being that North Korea knows that the world is watching them, and that they are aware that other countries will take action to prevent this from continuing, why would they provoke them if they knew that they couldn’t fight back? I honestly think that North Korea is trying to provoke a nuclear war.  What do you think?