In the first step toward erecting a multibillion-dollar shield to protect the United States from foreign missiles, the U.S. Navy will begin deploying state-of-the-art destroyers to patrol the waters off North Korea as early as next week.
The mission, to be conducted in the Sea of Japan by ships assigned to the Navy's 7th Fleet, will help lay the foundation for a system to detect and intercept ballistic missiles launched by "rogue nations." - Sep. 25, 2004 #msg-4129889
In addition to North Korea the Sea of Japan also frames China and Russia.
Japan has indicated that it might allow the US to establish its Middle East command headquarters strangely enough not in the Middle East but in Japan next to North Korea, Russia and China. #msg-4357274
Bush also intends to place missiles in Iraq, Afghanistan and some of the former Soviet republics this would surround Russia, China, North Korea, Myanmar and others.
A key component of national missile defense, whose development is receiving priority this year, is likely to strategically tie the United States to Iraq, Afghanistan and some of the authoritarian former Soviet republics, requiring permanent US military bases there, according to officials and scientists involved in the project. - Sept 5, 2004 #msg-3972175
Furthermore we have Russia saying a United States deal with Denmark to upgrade a radar in north-western Greenland has raised fresh security concerns over Washington's planned missile defence shield, known as 'son of star wars'.
The deal signed on Friday allows Washington to upgrade the Thule radar to use it in a chain of similar US installations stretching from Alaska to Australia designed to avert potential missile attacks against North America. - August 10, 2004 #msg-3767753
This much bigger global war this administration is setting up is not about terrorism.
Japan intends to set up intelligence station at East China Sea
www.chinaview.cn 2004-11-09 10:14:20
BEIJING, Nov. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- Japan Defense Agency is studying the possibility of adding an electromagnetic wave detecting system on the East China Sea to strengthen collection and management of intelligence from China as well as supervision over Chinese warships and jets, People's Daily Online said.
The Agency decided earlier to build a station on Miyako Island of Okinawa County to intercept and handle communication signals of Chinese warships and aircraft, which will be put into operation in 2008. Since the China-Japan dispute over resources of East China Sea surfaced, Japan has enhanced all kinds of military deployment in this sea area and the two countries conducted consultations at the end of last month.
The Agency believes that a station on Miyako Island is not enough, and another one must be added at a southwest island to intercept and decode the rivalry's radio communication signals, Xinhuanet quoted Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun as saying.
HK-based Ming Pao Daily News reported on November 7 that presently Japan only has a radar station on Miyako Island without troops deployed there. The Agency has decided to dispatch Ground Self-Defense Force to the island with a newly established "communication intelligence team" and unmanned surveillance planes. The F4 fighters on Naha Base will also be replaced by more advanced F15 fighters, and fighters will be sent to Shimoji, an island near Taiwan, to enhance defense capability in the southwest.
The Agency has planned to build an 850-people army to be sent to Naha City, Okinawa, to form a 2,300-member brigade there, the report pointed out. To guard against enemy's attacks against the isolated islands, the Agency changed its defense ideology in the past (that is, taking the Soviet Union as the imaginary enemy and attaching importance to defending the north) and made clear the policy of reinforcing military deployment on southwest islands.
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