Nbadan
11-10-2004, 05:10 PM
Associated Press Writer
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's navy went on alert Wednesday when an unidentified submarine made a brief incursion into the country's southern waters near Okinawa.
The submarine left Japanese waters shortly after it was spotted and a reconnaissance aircraft and destroyer were monitoring its movements, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said. Tokyo also was trying to determine where the vessel came from.
If the submarine's origin is identified, Japan will take ``necessary steps,'' Hosoda said, without elaborating.
Kyodo News quoted unidentified defense officials as saying that the vessel may be a Chinese nuclear submarine.
Guess it's time for the war in the Pacific to take off again.
As a sidenote:
Jane's Defense Weekly is reporting this week that Kim Jong-Il, unstable North Korean dictator (I wrote about his kidnapping habit in the British Guardian) may be able to target California with sea-launched missiles. His know-how, the Reuters story relates, comes from 12 ex-Soviet submarines that fell into his hands. They came with their original launch tubes and stabilizing gear intact. Where does Kim get those wonderful toys?
Funny story: According to U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency documents from 1994 (which you can browse here), they were furnished by Reverend Moon.
Robert Parry, the ace reporter who broke the Iran-Contra story, obtained these files through the Freedom of Information Act while writing his 2000 story, "Rev. Moon, North Korea and the Bushes," about Moon's gifts to the Communist regime. Read on, if you dare. (Glossary: KN = North Korea)
Gorenfeld (http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog/2004/08/rev-moons-submarines-sold-to-kim-jong.html)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's navy went on alert Wednesday when an unidentified submarine made a brief incursion into the country's southern waters near Okinawa.
The submarine left Japanese waters shortly after it was spotted and a reconnaissance aircraft and destroyer were monitoring its movements, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said. Tokyo also was trying to determine where the vessel came from.
If the submarine's origin is identified, Japan will take ``necessary steps,'' Hosoda said, without elaborating.
Kyodo News quoted unidentified defense officials as saying that the vessel may be a Chinese nuclear submarine.
Guess it's time for the war in the Pacific to take off again.
As a sidenote:
Jane's Defense Weekly is reporting this week that Kim Jong-Il, unstable North Korean dictator (I wrote about his kidnapping habit in the British Guardian) may be able to target California with sea-launched missiles. His know-how, the Reuters story relates, comes from 12 ex-Soviet submarines that fell into his hands. They came with their original launch tubes and stabilizing gear intact. Where does Kim get those wonderful toys?
Funny story: According to U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency documents from 1994 (which you can browse here), they were furnished by Reverend Moon.
Robert Parry, the ace reporter who broke the Iran-Contra story, obtained these files through the Freedom of Information Act while writing his 2000 story, "Rev. Moon, North Korea and the Bushes," about Moon's gifts to the Communist regime. Read on, if you dare. (Glossary: KN = North Korea)
Gorenfeld (http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog/2004/08/rev-moons-submarines-sold-to-kim-jong.html)