11-28-17

Disturbing discovery in Japan: In this Monday, Nov. 27, 2017 photo, an unidentified boat is pictured in Oga, Akita prefecture, northern Japan after being washed ashore. Japan is urging local authorities and fishermen to be on the alert after several boats thought to be from North Korea were found on its northern coast. 

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North Korea fires ANOTHER ballistic missile 

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Japan has detected radio signals suggesting North Korea may be preparing for another ballistic missile launch, although such signals are not unusual and satellite images did not show fresh activity, a Japanese government source said on Tuesday.

After firing missiles at a pace of about two or three month since April, North Korean missile launches paused in September, after Pyongyang fired a rocket that passed over Japan’s northern Hokkaido island. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, citing a South Korean government source, also reported that intelligence officials of the United States, South Korea and Japan had recently detected signs of a possible missile launch and have been on higher alert. Asked about the media reports, Pentagon spokesman Colonel Robert Manning told reporters the United States continued to watch North Korea very closely. “This is a diplomatically led effort at this point, supported by military options,” he said.” The Republic of Korea and U.S. alliance remains strong and capable of countering any North Korean provocations or attacks.”

North Korea fires ballistic missile: report

North Korea has fired an “unidentified ballistic missile,” South Korea’s news agency reported Tuesday afternoon, citing the South Korean military. 

The missile was fired from an area north of Pyongyang at dawn on Wednesday and flew eastward, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The South Korean military is working with the U.S. to analyze the launch, according to the Yonhap News Agency.

North Korea has not launched a missile since September, when it fired a rocket that passed over Japan’s Hokkaido Island. 

Prior to that incident, it had launched missiles at a rate of two or three per month since April. 

There were some signals that Pyongyang could be preparing another ballistic missile launch. A Japanese government source told Reuters on Tuesday that it had detected radio signals suggesting that such a launch could be imminent. 

The launch comes less than two weeks after President Trump’s return from the region — where he warned Pyongyang “do not try us” by escalating nuclear provocations — and just a week after he announced that the U.S. was designating the reclusive country as a state sponsor of terror. 

The designation, designed to further isolate North Korea for its pursuit of nuclear weapons, allows the U.S. to cut off foreign assistance, weapons sales, commercial exports and financial transactions with Pyongyang. 

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson conceded the “practical effects may be limited” because Pyongyang is already heavily sanctioned by the U.S. government — although he called the move “very symbolic” of U.S. efforts to pressure Kim Jon Un into dropping his nuclear program. 

“We still hope for diplomacy,” Tillerson told reporters last week at the White House. “This is only going to get worse until you’re ready to come and talk.”

Trump’s national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, told reporters earlier this month that the U.S. is “running out of time” to halt North Korea’s bid for nuclear missiles capable of reaching the mainland United States.

The president has promised to rain “fire and fury” on North Korea if it continues to threaten the U.S. 

Source The Hill

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Japan On Alert as it Finds Boats Thought to be From North Korea

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Kim Jong-un to ‘launch WMD’ on THIS date – and it’s BEFORE Christmas NORTH KOREA is preparing to launch a “weapon of mass destruction” before Christmas, according to shock claims.

North Korea preparing for missile launch in ‘NEXT FEW DAYS’ – DAILY NEWS

North Korea preparing for missile launch in ‘NEXT FEW DAYS’ NORTH Korea is preparing for an imminent missile test after government officials intercepted radio signals.

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NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR ALERT! JAPAN DETECTS RADIO SIGNALS INDICATING NEW LAUNCH IMMINENT

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Japan on alert as boats thought to be from North Korea are found

TOKYO 

Japan is stepping up patrols and urging local authorities and fishermen to be on the alert after several boats thought to be from North Korea, some carrying dead bodies, were found on its northern coast.

“The coast guard and police have to cooperate to step up sea patrols around Japan,” the chief government spokesman, Yoshihide Suga, said Tuesday when asked about reports that a boat carrying eight dead bodies was found on the coast of Akita prefecture, which faces North Korea across the Sea of Japan.

“The government intends to improve this to ensure we can guard against suspicious boats or people arriving in Japan,” Suga said.

He said local authorities, fishermen and residents should report if they spot any questionable boats or people.

Last week, police rescued eight people thought to be North Korean fishermen who ended up stranded along with their squid catch.

A week earlier, the coast guard rescued three North Korean men from a capsized fishing boat off Japan’s northern coast. They were transferred hours later to another North Korean vessel that was to return them home. The coast guard later found three bodies of missing crew members from that boat, then four more bodies in another capsized boat believed to be North Korean. They were thought to have drowned.

It is unclear if the people aboard the several dozen North Korean boats that drift near Japanese shores each year are intending to defect or simply unable to make their way back aboard their unseaworthy wooden boats.

The boat recovered Monday was spotted on Saturday, but seas were too rough at the time for rescuers to approach it. It was unflagged and was reported to be “nationality unclear.”

However, a coast guard official reached by phone in Akita said one of the bodies was holding a 1,000 won North Korean note, suggesting the boat was from there.

Six bodies were found inside a storage room near the bow of the boat, below deck, and another two near the stern. All were men and partially decomposed, the official said. She spoke on condition of anonymity, following coast guard policy.

The crude vessel with its very low gunwale had lost its propeller and rudder, and was similar to other poorly equipped boats often seen operating from North Korea.

Autopsies of the dead men were underway. 

Source McClatchy

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