Foreign Correspondence

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Russia’s Pacific Fleet Practices for Bush’s Pacific War

In the Pacific Theatre Southeast Asia will be a crucial component of Bush’s world war.
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The Chinese press has slammed the US military exercises, with the leading People's Daily outlining a perceived US plan to build up a line of defense in the Western Pacific that starts with Japan and extends down China's coastline through Taiwan and the Philippines.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2004/07/12/2003178661
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Russian Nuclear Sub Successfully Launches ICBM
Created: 02.11.2004 14:27 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:27 MSK, 2 hours 37 minutes ago


MosNews


A nuclear-powered submarine of Russia’s Pacific Fleet carried out a test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile from the waters of the Sea of Okhotsk on Tuesday, the Itar-Tass news agency reports.

The Svyatoi Georgiy Pobedonosets (St. George the Victor) submarine launched the missile from underwater in the direction of the Chizha testing area in Novaya Zemlya, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry has told the agency. The missile’s warhead successfully reached the target at the scheduled time, the source said.

Tuesday’s ballistic missile launch was the first in the Pacific Fleet this year. So far only missile-armed submarines of the Northern Fleet have been involved in mock-combat launches. They have carried out five successful tests of sea-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles.

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/11/02/missilelaunch.shtml