Crisis nuclear, Corea del Norte

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea, facing international censure for this week's nuclear test, threatened on Wednesday to attack the South after it joined a U.S.-led plan to check vessels suspected of carrying equipment for weapons of mass destruction.

Adding to mounting tension in the region, South Korean media reported that Pyongyang had restarted a plant that makes plutonium that can be used in nuclear bombs.

In Moscow, news agencies quoted an official as saying that Russia is taking precautionary security measures because it fears tensions over the test could lead to nuclear war. The U.N. Security Council is discussing ways to punish Pyongyang for Monday's test, widely denounced as a major threat to regional stability and which brings the reclusive North closer to having a reliable nuclear bomb. North Korea's latest threat came after Seoul announced, following the nuclear test, it was joining the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative, launched under the George W. Bush administration as a part of its "war on terror."

"Any hostile act against our peaceful vessels including search and seizure will be considered an unpardonable infringement on our sovereignty and we will immediately respond with a powerful military strike," a North Korean army spokesman was quoted as saying by the official KCNA news agency.

He reiterated that the North was no longer bound by an armistice signed at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War because Washington had ignored its responsibility as a signatory by drawing Seoul into the anti-proliferation effort.

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Seoul shares closed lower with traders saying the latest rumblings underscored the risks for investors stemming from simmering troubles along the Cold War's last frontier. The main index has fallen 3 percent this week. The won currency was also down.
The nuclear test has raised concern about Pyongyang spreading weapons to other countries or groups. Washington has accused it of trying try to sell nuclear know-how to Syria and others.
The rival Koreas fought two deadly naval clashes in 1999 and 2002 near a disputed maritime border off their west coast and the North has threatened in the past year to strike South Korean vessels in those Yellow Sea waters.
Analysts say Pyongyang's military grandstanding is partly aimed at tightening leader Kim Jong-il's grip on power so he can better engineer his succession and divert attention from the country's weak economy, which has fallen into near ruin since he took over in 1994.

Many speculate Kim's suspected stroke in August raised concerns about succession and that he wants his third son to be the next leader of Asia's only communist dynasty.
There may be little the international community can do to deter the North, which has been punished for years by sanctions and is so poor it relies on aid to feed its 23 million people.

A U.S. Treasury Department official said it was weighing possible action to isolate the North financially.

A 2005 U.S. clampdown on a Macau bank suspected of laundering money for Pyongyang effectively cut the country off from the international banking system.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed in a phone call a strong international response was needed, including U.N. action, Lee's office said.
The secretive North appears to have made good on a threat issued in April of restarting a facility at its Yongbyon nuclear plant that extracts plutonium, South Korea's largest newspaper, Chosun Ilbo, reported.

"There are various indications that reprocessing facilities in Yongbyon resumed operation (and) have been detected by U.S. surveillance satellite, and these include steam coming out of the facility," it quoted an unnamed government source as saying.

The Soviet-era Yongbyon plant was being taken apart under a six-country disarmament-for-aid deal and there were no signs yet that the North, which conducted its only prior nuclear test in October 2006, was again separating plutonium.

'GRAND UNDERTAKING'

North Korea's meager supply of fissile material is likely down to enough for five to seven bombs after Monday's test, experts have said. It could probably extract enough plutonium from spent rods cooling at the plant for another bomb's worth of plutonium by the end of this year.
Japan's upper house of parliament denounced the test and said in a resolution the government should step up its sanctions.
North Koreans celebrated, with a rally in the capital of top cadres and military brass, KCNA said.

"The nuclear test was a grand undertaking to protect the supreme interests of the DPRK (North Korea) and defend the dignity and sovereignty of the country and nation," it quoted a communist party official as saying.

The North's next step may to be resume operations at all of Yongbyon, with experts saying it could take the North up to a year to reverse disablement steps. Once running, it can produce enough plutonium to make one bomb a year.
The hermit state has also threatened to launch a long-range ballistic missile if the Security Council does not apologize for tightening sanctions to punish it for an April launch widely seen as a missile test that violated U.N. measures.

(Additional reporting by Jack Kim, Rhee So-eui and Kim Junghyun in Seoul, Isabel Reynolds in Tokyo and Oleg Shchedrov in Moscow; Editing by Jonathan Thatcher and Bill Tarrant)

Fuente: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090527/ts_nm/us_korea_north

fearandir escribió:Hummm las nenitas de la fuerza aerea que nunca se acuerdan de sus compañeros de MARINA . Corea es una península y si no me equivoco su vecina corea del sur tiene una gran fuerza de Marina, por no hablar de Japón y las bases americanas allí ubicadas.

El_señor_oscuro escribió:Corea del Norte no es Irak, ni sus misiles son los Al Hassam. Estos misiles de rango medio (los que fabrica Corea del Norte) no son fáciles de interceptar, aún con la ultima versión de los patriots. Que desde fuera parece que Corea del Norte no tiene ninguna tecnología, pero estos misiles son herederos de la ultima tecnología soviética disponible, y con muchísimas mejoras. Y misiles disponibles para alcanzar Japón no lo tienen contados, sino por centenares.

El_señor_oscuro escribió:Y en el momento que fabriquen un misil intercontinental que llegue a EE.UU. continental, se va a producir una guerra fría entre estos dos países. Primero, porque Rusia no va a a dejar a EE.UU. que fabrique un sistema antimisiles para este tipo de misiles, y por supuesto, sistemas como el Patriot sólo sirven para misiles de corto alcance.

G0RD0N escribió:Me parece que se os va un poco la olla con lo de Corea del Norte... la pueden dejar como un cenicero cuando a USA, China y Rusia les de la gana y ellos lo saben.

Sin embargo, con estas demostraciones de poder pueden obtener algunas medidas de desbloqueo a ciertas necesidades de tecnología o financiación que puedan tener ahora, que las tienen y graves.

Me da bastante más miedo Irán como se le ponga tiesa al Ahmadinejad de turno que los 4 retarded de Corea del Norte quieran liarla voluntaria y unilateralmente. Otra cosa es que conjuntamente al saber que USA está pringada con Irak, Iran, Afganistán y Pakistán y empiezan a estar bastante saturados, les hayan dicho que tensen la cuerda a ver por donde saltan. Eso sí que sería muy grave y se podría liar una gorda en asia que nos afectaría a todos.

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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea, facing international censure for this week's nuclear test, threatened on Wednesday to attack the South after it joined a U.S.-led plan to check vessels suspected of carrying equipment for weapons of mass destruction.

Adding to mounting tension in the region, South Korean media reported that Pyongyang had restarted a plant that makes plutonium that can be used in nuclear bombs.

In Moscow, news agencies quoted an official as saying that Russia is taking precautionary security measures because it fears tensions over the test could lead to nuclear war. The U.N. Security Council is discussing ways to punish Pyongyang for Monday's test, widely denounced as a major threat to regional stability and which brings the reclusive North closer to having a reliable nuclear bomb. North Korea's latest threat came after Seoul announced, following the nuclear test, it was joining the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative, launched under the George W. Bush administration as a part of its "war on terror."

"Any hostile act against our peaceful vessels including search and seizure will be considered an unpardonable infringement on our sovereignty and we will immediately respond with a powerful military strike," a North Korean army spokesman was quoted as saying by the official KCNA news agency.

He reiterated that the North was no longer bound by an armistice signed at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War because Washington had ignored its responsibility as a signatory by drawing Seoul into the anti-proliferation effort.

INVESTOR RISK

Seoul shares closed lower with traders saying the latest rumblings underscored the risks for investors stemming from simmering troubles along the Cold War's last frontier. The main index has fallen 3 percent this week. The won currency was also down.
The nuclear test has raised concern about Pyongyang spreading weapons to other countries or groups. Washington has accused it of trying try to sell nuclear know-how to Syria and others.
The rival Koreas fought two deadly naval clashes in 1999 and 2002 near a disputed maritime border off their west coast and the North has threatened in the past year to strike South Korean vessels in those Yellow Sea waters.
Analysts say Pyongyang's military grandstanding is partly aimed at tightening leader Kim Jong-il's grip on power so he can better engineer his succession and divert attention from the country's weak economy, which has fallen into near ruin since he took over in 1994.

Many speculate Kim's suspected stroke in August raised concerns about succession and that he wants his third son to be the next leader of Asia's only communist dynasty.
There may be little the international community can do to deter the North, which has been punished for years by sanctions and is so poor it relies on aid to feed its 23 million people.

A U.S. Treasury Department official said it was weighing possible action to isolate the North financially.

A 2005 U.S. clampdown on a Macau bank suspected of laundering money for Pyongyang effectively cut the country off from the international banking system.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed in a phone call a strong international response was needed, including U.N. action, Lee's office said.
The secretive North appears to have made good on a threat issued in April of restarting a facility at its Yongbyon nuclear plant that extracts plutonium, South Korea's largest newspaper, Chosun Ilbo, reported.

"There are various indications that reprocessing facilities in Yongbyon resumed operation (and) have been detected by U.S. surveillance satellite, and these include steam coming out of the facility," it quoted an unnamed government source as saying.

The Soviet-era Yongbyon plant was being taken apart under a six-country disarmament-for-aid deal and there were no signs yet that the North, which conducted its only prior nuclear test in October 2006, was again separating plutonium.

'GRAND UNDERTAKING'

North Korea's meager supply of fissile material is likely down to enough for five to seven bombs after Monday's test, experts have said. It could probably extract enough plutonium from spent rods cooling at the plant for another bomb's worth of plutonium by the end of this year.
Japan's upper house of parliament denounced the test and said in a resolution the government should step up its sanctions.
North Koreans celebrated, with a rally in the capital of top cadres and military brass, KCNA said.

"The nuclear test was a grand undertaking to protect the supreme interests of the DPRK (North Korea) and defend the dignity and sovereignty of the country and nation," it quoted a communist party official as saying.

The North's next step may to be resume operations at all of Yongbyon, with experts saying it could take the North up to a year to reverse disablement steps. Once running, it can produce enough plutonium to make one bomb a year.
The hermit state has also threatened to launch a long-range ballistic missile if the Security Council does not apologize for tightening sanctions to punish it for an April launch widely seen as a missile test that violated U.N. measures.

(Additional reporting by Jack Kim, Rhee So-eui and Kim Junghyun in Seoul, Isabel Reynolds in Tokyo and Oleg Shchedrov in Moscow; Editing by Jonathan Thatcher and Bill Tarrant)

Fuente: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090527/ts_nm/us_korea_north

G0RD0N escribió:Me da bastante más miedo Irán como se le ponga tiesa al Ahmadinejad de turno que los 4 retarded de Corea del Norte quieran liarla voluntaria y unilateralmente. Otra cosa es que conjuntamente al saber que USA está pringada con Irak, Iran, Afganistán y Pakistán y empiezan a estar bastante saturados, les hayan dicho que tensen la cuerda a ver por donde saltan. Eso sí que sería muy grave y se podría liar una gorda en asia que nos afectaría a todos.

Lit escribió:Los Al-Hassam son derivados de los Scud, por lo tanto tecnologia sovietica.
Que los misiles que hoy usa Corea sean de "ultima tecnologia sovietica", no dice mucho. Y no dice mucho porque a dia de hoy, el armamento de origen sovietico está una generacion por detrás del occidental.
Es muy facil decir con el paso del tiempo que el material que tenian lo iraquies era una porqueria, que era viejo, etc. Falso todo ello, los iraquies tenian el mejor material sovietico que se podia comprar....lo que ocurre es que ese material, no se puede equiparar con el material occidental.
Por no decir que tenian un ejercito mas numeroso y mucho mas acondicionado para el combate que Corea, se olvida, que en aquella epoca, el ejercito Iraquí era considerado como el cuarto ejercito del mundo, pero tenia bebian del mismo coctel que el ejercito koreano de hoy.... tropas numerosas pero mal equipadas aunque con pequeñas unidades de elite muy bien entrenadas y equipadas.

Lit escribió:¿Rusia no va a dejar a Estados Unidos fabriar un sistema antimisiles?....partiendo de la base de que ya lo tiene, dudo mucho que Rusia pueda hacer algo para impedir que USA se proteja en su propio territorio, me gustaria saber como lo va a impedir.

Y por cierto, los Patriots, se pueden usar contra misiles de todo rango, eso si, como bien dices, no son ni mucho menos perfectos.

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kyubi-chan escribió:

socram2k escribió:

Buenísimo

morlaco06 escribió:Estas "amenazas" creo que son necesarias para evitar conflictos belicos. Desde que existe este tipo de armamento nadie se atreve a meterse con nadie, exepto los que ya conocemos y contra los que no tienen. No se si me he explicado bien

kyubi-chan escribió:Después de lanzar cuatro nuevos misisles de corto alcance el jueves, hoy ha lanzado otros siete sobre el mar de Japón. Y a mi parecer la respuesta internacional no es tan dura como otras veces. Siguen siendo declaraciones del tipo: "debe respetar el tratado internacional y bla, bla, bla". Mientras que la coalición Ruso-China, por llamarlo de alguna forma, piden que se sienten de nuevos las partes a negociar.

¿Hará falta que Corea finalmente lance un pepino sobre una población para que se tome en serio su curiosa forma de hacer presión?. ¿Porqué Chinba y Rusia están tan interesados que se haga caso a este tipo de reivindicaciones de amenza que no es sino otra forma de hacer terrorismo?.

la respuesta internacional no es tan dura como otras veces. Siguen siendo declaraciones del tipo: "debe respetar el tratado internacional y bla, bla, bla"

Mientras que la coalición Ruso-China, por llamarlo de alguna forma, piden que se sienten de nuevos las partes a negociar.

¿Porqué China y Rusia están tan interesados que se haga caso a este tipo de reivindicaciones de amenza que no es sino otra forma de hacer terrorismo?