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Israel tests Arrow ballistic missile interceptor

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According to Yahoo!News & Channelnewsasia:

ERUSALEM (AFP) – - Israel on Tuesday tested its Arrow ballistic missile interception system, a costly project launched two decades ago aimed at countering strikes mainly from archfoe Iran.

The Arrow (Hetz in Hebrew) intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile similar to Iran’s Shahab-3 which can reach Israel. The missile was fired by an Israeli fighter plane over the Mediterranean, a defence official said.

“This morning, the Arrow system performed a successful test,” the defence ministry said in a statement.

“The success of the project marks a key step in its development plan and the improvement of the operational systems to offer a response to the growing threat of ballistic missiles in the region.”

- What’s is going on here, do Israel want to provoke an action from Iran or it’s just a show of “ability” to shoot down any incoming ballistic missile from Iran?

Apparently Iran’s buddy North Korea had successfully tested a longer range rocket that supposedly “sent” a satellite into space…and probably with the new information declared by the public media…North Korea can now easily begin their nice little private “auction” on the missile design or trade it in exchange with other country such as Iran.

Now that Obama just slapped 6 Iranian firms with “sanctions” for trying to acquire some kind of “unconventional weapons” which may possibly belong towards “weapons of deadly consequences”…many can imagine what exactly are those “unconventional weapons”.

Let me list out some possible suspects

  1. Electric “non-deadly” weapon?
  2. Sonic high frequencies “brain vibrator”?
  3. Super lethal Chemical/Biological/Nuclear weapons?
  4. Made In China weapons?
  5. A super spy?

Of course all other suspects may be included in the television series “future weapons”…but what exactly does Iran wants? This probably may be a taboo topic hence not much was revealed in the media….for now.

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Defiant North fires rocket

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Obama leads global condemnation; Security Council to meet Monday

SEOUL/TOKYO – BRUSHING aside warnings from the international community, North Korea launched a long-range rocket yesterday, putting another wrinkle into efforts to denuclearise the North and raising tensions in the region.

The rocket hurtled over Japan within seven minutes of liftoff at 11.20am local time from the North’s north-east coast.

For some tense moments, Japan’s military, which had been given authority to shoot down any threat to its soil, watched the rocket fly through its territory. North Korea had warned that any attempt to block its launch or intercept the rocket would be tantamount to war.

The rocket traced out its predicted flight path, dumping its first stage booster – the engine – into the ocean 280km west of Japan, and its second booster 1,270km in the Pacific Ocean east of the Japanese coast.

Four hours after the launch, Pyongyang declared it a success.

‘The satellite is orbiting Earth and transmitting the melodies of the immortal revolutionary paeans Song Of General Kim Il Sung and Song Of General Kim Jong Il, as well as measurement data back to Earth,’ the state-run Korean Central News Agency said, referring to praise music for North Korea’s late founder and his son, its current leader.

But the US military said that no object entered orbit. The final two stages of the rocket and its payload – the part carrying the satellite – landed in the Pacific Ocean, according to North American Aerospace Defence Command and US Northern Command officials.

Words Must Mean Something

Words Must Mean Something

- this means either the N.Korea knew about it’s satellite failure but success on testing the range if a longer range missile.

Cloak and dagger scenairo here, even the press dare not leak any information if the missile was shot down or not.

The problems is KoRea had threaten war if the ‘Satelite’ is shot down.

Obama had just got his first taste of serious threat of global poportion, what will he and his advisors decide to do to punish north Korea?

Does it means more economic sanctions which obviously did not work previously or international condemation or military actions?

Time will tell…

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The North Korea Madness.

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North Korean ballistic missiles

North Korean ballistic missiles

April 2009 will be the month that historian will remember as the day of infamy for North Korea at least.

N.Korea had been trying their luck to boost attention back to them by planning to send a “satellite” into space (ICBM anyone?) and concurrently threaten more nuclear test.

Any sane leaders of the world will condemn such actions and declare “financial punishment” in the form of economic sanctions.

However, I personally think N.Korea either have a suicidal wish or they just want more assistance instead…for more money & food.

In the mean time, N.Korea conveniently stated their launch date (between April 4th to 8th) for their “satellite” for the neighbors to prepare for either a big spectacular fireworks or interception by Japan.

Well, the world can easily monitor the live photographic feeds from military satellites to “estimate” the date of launch from the time the rocket was placed on the platform to the fueling preparation and completion of fueling.

USA seems to be confident that the “missile” won’t have the range to be able to reach Alaska hence declare they “won’t be shooting down the North Korean missile” but if that missile fails and it looks like it’s going to drop debris on Japan, that they might take some action.

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported Sunday that spy satellites had photographed the nose cone of a long-range North Korean rocket on its launch pad.

“But it is impossible to tell what object has been loaded onto the round-shaped (rocket) top — a satellite or a warhead,” an unnamed government source told Yonhap.

Now that we won’t know

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NKorea puts military on full combat alert!

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According to Yahoo!News:

SEOUL (AFP) – - North Korea put its military on full combat alert as US and South Korean troops began a major joint exercise on Monday.

Pyongyang also warned that any attempt to block its upcoming satellite launch would spark a war.

The communist state also severed its last communications channel with South Korea for the duration of the 12-day exercise, which Pyongyang has branded a rehearsal for invasion.

Last week the North threatened South Korean civilian airlines using its airspace, forcing them to re-route flights.

The North Korean military described the exercise as “unprecedented in the number of the aggressor forces involved and in duration.”

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- Red Alert! North Korea is on another brink of war which may affect neighboring regions, if USA & Japan shoots down NKorea’s ‘satellite’ from the sky…it will mean that North Korea will wage a total war against ‘aggressors’.

We have to be reminded that North Korea have the Atom Bomb or Nuclear Bomb that can totally annihilate millions of people in an instant or simply explode nuke in mid air to send extremely strong EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) downwards causing all exposed electronics to cease functioning…which means a city wide long term black out, knock out thousands of modern vehicles that have a chip inside their cars, majority of all communication devices will be dead such as mobile phones, radio, television and walkies talkies.

This news may be the last news you ever read about if you in the range or North Korea’s ‘satellite’ path…or North Korea is gambling that US or Japan will shoot it down and lure them into a conflict that have global implications.

This event coincides with Iran testing of their air-to-sea missiles which spells ominous coincidence or sheer logical to think both events were linked.

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Iran tests new air-to-sea missile

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According to Channelnewsasia:

Faked Missiles But Looks Really Dangerous!

Faked Missiles But Looks Really Dangerous!

TEHRAN – Iran said on Sunday it “successfully” tested a new air-to-sea missile with a range of 110 kilometres (68 miles), the Fars new agency reported. It did not say when the test was conducted.

“Iranian defence specialists are able to successfully install missiles with a range of 110 kilometres on fighter planes and launch them,” the report said, adding that the high-precision weapon weighs about 500 kilos.

The report said the latest test showed the Islamic republic’s “ability to automatically direct the missile and carry warheads to destroy large targets at sea.”

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- Very very ominus event indeed!

This means Iran is ready for the final showdown with short range and long range missiles for any event of any preemptive attack by anyone….

Or they are ready to blockade the Straits Of Hormuz to raise the oil prices?

There might be lot’s of speculation that Israel may attack Iran but it seems that the dateline had been changed many times to confuse the enemy or simply just a result of internal conflicts.

Regardless, Iran is currently preparing for the possible conflict in the near future…but it seems that Israel might be going alone for now….unless Iran do something really serious to the rest of the world….that cannot be forgiven.

Currently, oil prices is on the rise probably due to a weaker dollar…it may continue to rise until 15 of march where it will either spike or dip depending on many factors.

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Official: NKorea gearing up to fire missile

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According to Yahoo!News:

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea appears to be preparing to test-fire a ballistic missile that could be capable of striking the western United States, a South Korean official and reports said Tuesday.

The move comes amid heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula, with the North declaring last week that it was abandoning pacts designed to prevent hostilities with the South.

The two Koreas technically remain at war because their three-year conflict ended in 1953 with a truce, not a peace treaty. Relations have been tense since President Lee Myung-bak took office a year ago with a tough new policy on Pyongyang, and rhetoric from the North Korean capital has escalated in recent days.

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- This escalation had been on going for ages and it had so far end with North Korea peacefully quiet down after receiving some kind of assistance or attention from the west or it’s neighbors.

North Korea don’t really have anything to gain other than to hold the region hostage again for more help from the world to it’s own suffering such as famines, floods, drought, fuel shortages to economic crisis.

Maybe this time round N Korea is serious about shooting a more advanced version ballistic missile that can deliver a nuclear bomb which Iran had been successful…this may be the beginning of a very big bang.

I really dare not speculate so much as it could be a new North Korean leader might had taken control…and he had to demonstrate his “power” or at least showcase his “leadership” skills to his own people.

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