Japan, South Korea, US deploy guided missiles near North Korea

[MindWars]

Japan, South Korea, and the United States dispatched naval vessels equipped with missile defense technology to an area of the Sea of Japan where four missiles recently fired by North Korea landed.
Tensions on the Korean peninsula near boiling point
Japan, South Korea, US Deploy Guided Missiles Near North Korea
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Maybe it is all a show to distract from the economic collapse lol................. Danger zone Kim is going coo coo....

 

[B. Kidd]

Could be time to cull the N. Korean herd.

 

[The Great Goose]

Could be time to cull the N. Korean herd.

Just the leaders.

 

[waltky]

North Korea Poses Nuclear Threat to Hawaii...

Specialists Think North Korea Poses Nuclear Threat to Hawaii
11 Apr 2017 | Nuclear arms experts think North Korea already has the ability to target Hawaii with a nuclear-tipped ICBM

Nuclear arms experts think North Korea already has, or soon will have, the ability to target Hawaii with a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile with possibly about the same destructive force as the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Warnings are mounting apace with that growing threat. "North Korea's unprecedented level of nuclear testing and ballistic missile development offers a sobering reminder that the United States must remain vigilant against rogue nation-states that are able to threaten the homeland," Air Force Gen. Lori Robinson, who heads the North American Aerospace Defense Command, told a congressional committee Thursday.

In Hawaii a profusion of four-star military commands -- including U.S. Pacific Command, which oversees U.S. military activity over half the globe -- makes Oahu a strategic and symbolic target. The threat from an unpredictable North Korea, in turn, is prompting a revisitation of some old Cold War practices that until recently seemed laughable. Duck and cover? Still there in the form of "shelter in place," state officials say.

A visitor walks by the TV screen showing a news program reporting about North Korea's missile firing, at Seoul Train Station in Seoul, South Korea​

Nuclear fallout shelters? In 1981, Oahu had hundreds of them. The Prince Kuhio Building could hold 14,375 people -- not because it has a secret underground bunker, but because its concrete parking structure could be used as shelter. "Each one of those facilities had to be surveyed for how much concrete density [was present]," said Toby Clairmont, executive officer of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, the successor to Civil Defense. "And they had to be equipped, so they put medical kits in them, food, sanitary kits, all that kind of stuff." As time went on, funding for those provisions stopped, and the stocks were disposed of because they became too old, Clairmont said. In the majority of cases, existing fallout shelter markings are out of date and no longer applicable.

Alternatively, the U.S. military would try to shoot down an incoming North Korean ICBM with ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California, although the $36 billion system was rated by the Pentagon in December as having low reliability. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, ICBMs in the late 1990s came off Hawaii Emergency Management's threat list of mostly natural hazards. Terrorism was added, and in 2006 the state practiced for a half-kiloton explosion in Honolulu Harbor that resulted in up to 8,000 casualties with injuries or radiation.

A new threat

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

North Korea Poses Nuclear Threat to Hawaii...

Specialists Think North Korea Poses Nuclear Threat to Hawaii
11 Apr 2017 | Nuclear arms experts think North Korea already has the ability to target Hawaii with a nuclear-tipped ICBM

Nuclear arms experts think North Korea already has, or soon will have, the ability to target Hawaii with a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile with possibly about the same destructive force as the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Warnings are mounting apace with that growing threat. "North Korea's unprecedented level of nuclear testing and ballistic missile development offers a sobering reminder that the United States must remain vigilant against rogue nation-states that are able to threaten the homeland," Air Force Gen. Lori Robinson, who heads the North American Aerospace Defense Command, told a congressional committee Thursday.

In Hawaii a profusion of four-star military commands -- including U.S. Pacific Command, which oversees U.S. military activity over half the globe -- makes Oahu a strategic and symbolic target. The threat from an unpredictable North Korea, in turn, is prompting a revisitation of some old Cold War practices that until recently seemed laughable. Duck and cover? Still there in the form of "shelter in place," state officials say.

A visitor walks by the TV screen showing a news program reporting about North Korea's missile firing, at Seoul Train Station in Seoul, South Korea​

Nuclear fallout shelters? In 1981, Oahu had hundreds of them. The Prince Kuhio Building could hold 14,375 people -- not because it has a secret underground bunker, but because its concrete parking structure could be used as shelter. "Each one of those facilities had to be surveyed for how much concrete density [was present]," said Toby Clairmont, executive officer of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, the successor to Civil Defense. "And they had to be equipped, so they put medical kits in them, food, sanitary kits, all that kind of stuff." As time went on, funding for those provisions stopped, and the stocks were disposed of because they became too old, Clairmont said. In the majority of cases, existing fallout shelter markings are out of date and no longer applicable.

Alternatively, the U.S. military would try to shoot down an incoming North Korean ICBM with ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California, although the $36 billion system was rated by the Pentagon in December as having low reliability. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, ICBMs in the late 1990s came off Hawaii Emergency Management's threat list of mostly natural hazards. Terrorism was added, and in 2006 the state practiced for a half-kiloton explosion in Honolulu Harbor that resulted in up to 8,000 casualties with injuries or radiation.

A new threat

The North Koreans could probably not hit the islands, but might splash one into the ocean near there.

Their nukes are all like big firecrackers and their missiles seem to blow up or go off on a tangent on their own.

 

[B. Kidd]

Could be time to cull the N. Korean herd.

Just the leaders.

So, you have a delusion that the majority of N. Koreans' are capable of independent critical thought?

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - hit `em inna pocketbook - dat'll make `em sit up an' take notice...

Treasury Secretary Announces Sanctions Against Chinese Bank in Crackdown on North Korea
June 30, 2017 | Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Thursday announced U.S. sanctions against China's Bank of Dandong for its dealings with North Korea.

"Today, the Trump administration is continuing its efforts against the government of North Korea. Despite multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions imposing international sanctions, the government of North Korea continues its nuclear and ballistic missile programs," Mnuchin said Thursday during a televised White House briefing. "Today, Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has found the Bank of Dandong to be a foreign financial institution of primary money laundering concern under Section 311 of the U.S.A Patriot Act. This bank has served as a gateway for North Korea to access the U.S. and international financial systems, facilitating millions of dollars of transactions for companies involved in North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs," Mnuchin said. "The United States will not stand for such action. "This will require U.S. banks to ensure that the Bank of Dandong does not access the U.S. financial system directly or indirectly through other foreign banks. This action reaffirms the Treasury Department’s commitment to ensure that North Korea is cut off from the U.S. financial system," he said.

Sanctions were also announced by Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) against two Chinese individuals and one Chinese company in response to North Korea's weapons of mass destruction development and continued violations of United Nations Security Council resolutions. Chinese citizen Sun Wei, who has been closely aligned with the U.S.-designated Foreign Trade Bank in establishing and running a cover company on behalf of the bank, and Chinese citizen Li Hong Ri, who established several front companies used by Beijing-based, U.S.-designated Ri Song Hyok, were targeted by sanctions.

Dalian Global Unity Shipping Company was also sanctioned for operating in the transportation industry in the North Korean economy. The company was actively involved in eight cases of smuggling luxury goods. It reportedly transports 700,000 tons of freight annually, including coal and steel products, between China and North Korea. "While today’s actions are directed at Chinese individuals and entities, we look forward to continuing working closely with the government of China to stop illicit financing involving North Korea. We are in no way targeting China with these actions. We will be meeting with China and other countries at the G20 next week to further our efforts to cut off North Korea’s illicit activities," Mnuchin said. "North Korea’s provocative, destabilizing, and inhumane behavior will not be tolerated. We are committed to targeting North Korea’s external enablers in maximizing economic pressure on the regime until it ceases its nuclear and ballistic missile programs," he said. "This is very significant, since this is the first bank that we’ve cut off under this," Mnuchin said, adding that the U.S. "will continue to look at these actions and continue to roll out sanctions." "As I said, in this case it’s millions of dollars, but we are committed to cutting off all illegal funds going to North Korea," he added.

Treasury Secretary Announces Sanctions Against Chinese Bank in Crackdown on North Korea