Sunday, December 2, 2012

DTN News: North Korea Top Stories / Headlines News Dated December 2, 2012

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DTN News: North Korea Top Stories / Headlines News Dated December 2, 2012

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 2, 2012: Comprehensive daily news related to North Korea for the world of TODAY.
*Comprehensive daily news related to North Korea Top Stories / Headlines News for the world of TODAY.

  1. North Korea plans new rocket launch as Kim Jong-un asserts power

    Toronto Sun-5 hours ago
    Kim Jong-un North Korea leader Kim Jong-un waves to the crowd during a military parade to celebrate the centenary of the birth of North Korea ...

  2. North Korea plans rocket launch within days

    CNN International-16 hours ago
    (CNN) -- North Korea plans to launch a rocket carrying a satellite between December 10 and 22, a spokesman for the Korean Committee for ...

  3. North Korea Plans Another Rocket Try

    Wall Street Journal-15 hours ago
    SEOUL—North Korea said Saturday it would make another attempt to launch a satellite this month, a plan that was immediately condemned by ...

  4. North Korea announces December rocket launch

    AFP-17 hours ago
    SEOUL — North Korea announced Saturday it will launch a rocket later this month, triggering condemnation from the US and racking up ...

  5. North Korea poised for another rocket launch

    The Australian-15 hours ago
    NORTH Korea has confirmed it plans to launch another long-range rocket in a move that will be seen worldwide as a defacto ballistic missile ...

  6. North Korea to launch rocket within days, say officials

    The Guardian-15 hours ago
    North Korea is to launch a long-range rocket later this month in a move likely to heighten tensions with Washington, Tokyo and Seoul, ahead of ...

  7. North Korea hit Taiwan for six in East Asian Cup

    Taipei Times-9 hours ago
    Taiwan's national soccer team fell to a 6-1 defeat at the hands of North Korea yesterday in the second round of East Asian Cup qualifiers at the ...

  8. North Korea Unveils New Rocket Launch Plan

    Sky News-13 hours ago
    North Korea says it is to launch a long-range rocket later this month. The launch, planned for between December 10 and December 22, has ...

  9. North Korea plans rocket launch

    Irish Times-14 hours ago
    North Korea is to carry out its second rocket launch this year in December as South Korea holds its presidential election in a move that will ...

  10. North Korea to launch rocket in December: KCNA

    Channel News Asia-16 hours ago
    SEOUL: North Korea said Saturday it would carry out a new rocket launch this month, following a failure in April that was condemned by the ...
November 30. 2012 Juche 101

DPRK FM Meets Burkina Faso Ambassador
Malaysian Political Party Leader Supports Korean People's Cause
Congratulatory Message to Prime Minister of Ivory Coast

CPC Delegation Lays Wreath before Friendship Tower
Tribute Paid to Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il
Chinese Party Delegation Leaves
Russian Delegation Goes Back
Opera "The Flower Girl" Staged 1,500 Times
Banquet Given on Day of Airmen in DPRK
State Academy of Sciences Greets 60th Anniversary
National Exhibition of Liquor, Condiments Held in Pyongyang
3rd Symposium on Cyclic Production System Held
Acupuncture Therapy Put on Scientific Basis in DPRK
Railroading of Budget for Naval Base on Jeju Island Protested
Speedy Construction of Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum under Way
New Korean Film Produced
New Kinds of Saunas Appear in Pyongyang
Lee Myung Bak Group's True Colors as War Maniac Exposed
Elimination of Old Forces Is Basic Requirement for Realizing New Politics in S. Korea
Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Demise Marked by Foreign Papers
Committees for Remembering Kim Jong Il Inaugurated in Different Countries
Kim Jong Un's Revolutionary Activities Given Publicity in Foreign Countries
Kim Jong Il Highly Praised in Benin and Brazil
Kim Jong Il's Feats Praised by Ecuadorian Library

For Spanish-speaking People
Kim Jong Un recibe a la delegacion de partido chino
Exhibicion nacional de licores y alimentos basicos en Pyongyang
Se usa en tratamiento el plano de los puntos de acupuntura en nervio meridiano
Es preciso eliminar las fuerzas conservadoras, insiste Rodong Sinmun


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DTN News: Syria Top Stories / Headlines News Dated December 2, 2012

Defense News: DTN News: Syria Top Stories / Headlines News Dated December 2, 2012
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 2, 2012: Comprehensive daily news related to Syria for the world of TODAY.
*Comprehensive daily news related to Syria Top Stories / Headlines News for the world of  TODAY

  1. News for syria news agency

    IBNLive
    1. Syria reports Internet service has been restored in Damascus
      Fox News ‎- 8 hours ago
      Syrian state media says Internet, telephone service have been restored in Damascus.

  2. Syrian Arab news agency - SANA - Syria : Syria news ::

    208.43.232.81/index_eng.html
    DAMASCUS COUNTRYSIDE, (SANA)- Terrorists on Wednesday blew up two car bombs loaded with large amounts of explosives in the Main Square in ...

  3. Syria rebels bombed as opposition open to ... - Yahoo! News

    news.yahoo.com/syrian-jets-bomb-rebels-internet-down... - United States
    4 hours ago – News: BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian jets bombed rebel-held areas of ... On Saturday, state news agency SANA gave a third reason for the outage, ...

  4. Syrian Arab News Agency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Arab_News_Agency
    The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) (Arabic: الوكالة العربية السورية للأنباء‎ Al-Wakālah al-'Arabīyah as-Sūrīyah al-'Anbā) is a news agency in Syria.

  5. BBC News - Damascus airport flights disrupted for second day

    www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20552387
    1 day ago – Airlines suspend flights to the Syrian capital Damascus for a second day ...However, an airport source in Damascus told AFP news agency on ...

  6. Syria News

    topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/.../syria/index.html
    2 days ago – In Syria, Internet access disappeared across the country, and commercial.... Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency called the ships “a serious ...

  7. Syrian News Agency (all4syria) on Twitter

    https://twitter.com/all4syria
    Syrian News Agency. @all4syria. Syria · http://www.all4syria.info. Follow Following Unfollow Blocked Unblock Pending Cancel. 23,770 Tweets · 911 Following ...

  8. Syrian News Agency

    saaa25.net/
    The Brutality of the regime won't stop our demos. Saturday, 03 March 2012 23:58 From LCCThe Local Coordination Committees in Syria documented 619 ...

  9. Syrian Arab News Agency - SANA | Facebook

    www.facebook.com/SANAenglish
    Weather: Temperatures around the seasonal average. Partly cloudy in general. Light E/SE winds. A cool night tonight with frost warnings in the highlands.

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DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: U.S. DoD Awarded Contract To Lockheed Martin For Airborne Mine Countermeasures Test In Support of MH-60S Aircraft

Defense News: DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: U.S. DoD Awarded Contract To Lockheed Martin For Airborne Mine Countermeasures Test In Support of MH-60S Aircraft
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources U.S. Department of Defense No. 933-12 - November 30, 2012
(NSI News Source Info) SINGAPORE - December 1, 2012:   Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors, Owego, N.Y., is being awarded a $9,088,594 firm-fixed-price and cost-reimbursement modification to a previously issued delivery order placed against Basic Ordering Agreement N00019-09-G-0005 for additional Airborne Mine Countermeasures test support and system development efforts in support of the MH-60S aircraft.  



Work will be performed in Owego, N.Y., and is expected to be completed in May 2014.  

Contract funds in the amount of $2,080,998 will be obligated at time of award, $1,327,000 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. 

 The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. 


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DTN News - SINGAPORE NEWS: President Tan Calls For More Exchanges Between Singapore And Indonesia

Defense News: DTN News - SINGAPORE NEWS: President Tan Calls For More Exchanges Between Singapore And Indonesia
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources Channel News Asia
(NSI News Source Info) SINGAPORE - December 1, 2012: Singapore President Tony Tan Keng Yam has called for more cultural and student exchanges between Singapore and Indonesia to enhance bilateral people-to-people ties.

"It is the young people - Indonesia and in Singapore - that represents the true hope for our two countries. I'm happy that Gadjah Mada University has a very deep interaction with our universities in Singapore," said Dr Tan during his visit to Gadjah Mada University, one of Indonesia's top institutes of higher learning.

The Singapore president was speaking in Central Java, the final-leg of his five day state visit to Indonesia.

President Tan also visited Borobudur Temple in Magelang, which dates back to the 9th century.

He said the ancient Buddhist temple had a special significance not only for Indonesia but also for the world, adding that more cultural exchanges between Singapore and Indonesia should be encouraged. 

"I believe we can do more to encourage cultural exchanges between Indonesia and Singapore. Singapore has a number of developments which can be used to showcase some of the Indonesian cultural heritage," said Dr Tan.

Singapore can help showcase Indonesia's arts when the Singapore National Art Gallery opens in 2015, he added.

Dr Tan also visited Dukun, a village in Magelang located 15km from the foot of Mount Merapi.

Mercy Relief, a Singapore Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), has been performing humanitarian work in the village since 2006.

It was the only foreign NGO that helped villagers evacuate and subsequently rebuild their lives after the 2008 Mount Merapi eruption.

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DTN News - INDIA DEFENSE NEWS: IAF In Mountain Strike Corps To Counter Chinese Might

Defense News: DTN News - INDIA DEFENSE NEWS: IAF In Mountain Strike Corps To Counter Chinese Might
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources Rahul Datta ~ The Pioneer
(NSI News Source Info) SINGAPORE - December 1, 2012: Keeping China’s growing military prowess in mind, the Indian Air Force (IAF) will now be part of India’s proposed mountain strike corps that will be based in Uttarakhand and the North-East.

This move came about after the Government turned down the Army’s Rs 60,000-crore proposal seven months back on the grounds that it was too Army-specific and that the three Services should jointly put up the proposal.

The new proposal sent to the Defence Ministry by Chairman Chief of Staff Committee Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne 10 days back projects requirements for combat helicopters, radars, anti-aircraft and anti-missile guns and electronic surveillance equipment.
This is besides the Army’s projection of recruiting nearly 40,000 to 60,000 jawans and officers trained in mountain warfare apart from acquisition of artillery guns, howitzers and long and short range infantry weapons including rifles.
Incidentally, the earlier proposal was drafted by the Army alone after the Government gave an approval in principle more than a year back. However, the Finance Ministry later sent back the proposal to the Defence Ministry and asked it to come up with a joint proposal by the three Services, sources said here on Wednesday.
Explaining the rationale behind the objection on the Army’s proposal, sources said given the magnitude of the project with huge expenditure involved, the Government wanted to avoid a scenario where the IAF and the Navy also put forward their requirements at a later stage. Against this backdrop, the Government asked the Chairman Chief of Staff Committee to draw a joint proposal about the strategy to meet the challenge of China’s growing military prowess and listing their requirements in a synergised manner for the strike corps, officials said.
The new proposal reinforces the need for setting up the corps at the earliest with air elements including combat helicopters to provide cover to advancing troops from enemy and destroy its fortified positions and gun locations.  Moreover, the new plan also gives details of the deployment of frontline IAF fighter jets in forward bases in the North-East and Uttarakhand and requirements to upgrade these bases to aid the proposed corps, sources said.
The Army has already started raising the second mountain division (one division has 10,000 men). The first division was raised a year back for Arunachal Pradesh and these two divisions will form part of the strike corps. The raising of a strike corps is the brainchild of former Army Chief VK Singh. The objective was to launch a counter-offensive in Tibet if China carries out a Kargil-type  adventure.
Moreover, rapid modernisation of China’s armed forces and its vastly superior infrastructure in Tibet and other areas along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) opposite Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh regions was another reason for this strike corps as China has carried out offensive exercises in Tibet Autonomous Region in the past few years.
Besides these factors, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) also expressed reservations about the corps saying such a move may send wrong signals to Beijing and escalate tension in the region.
The PMO felt that China in the last few years has not increased its troop strength along the LAC and any accretions by India will prove counter-productive as both the countries are holding regular dialogue to resolve the vexed boundary dispute. However, the defence establishment maintained that China has improved its military infrastructure backed by excellent sensors and radars and therefore, did not need to have troops on the ground to guard its territory. Enjoying this advantage over India, China has not increased its troop strength in the last few years.
India lacks infrastructure including roads, rail and airfields and has to maintain its presence in the Ladakh region and Arunachal Pradesh throughout the year. While China has built more than a 10,000-km long rail network and airports in the Tibet region and can rush troops and maintain logistical support in case of an eventuality, India is way behind and troops have to be physically present there.

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Friday, November 30, 2012

DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: China's New Fighter Jet J-15 Has Range of 3,000 Km

Defense News: DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: China's New Fighter Jet J-15 Has Range of 3,000 Km
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources Zee News
(NSI News Source Info) SINGAPORE - November 30, 2012: Chinese fighter jet J-15, which successfully landed on the country's first aircraft carrier, has a range of about 3,000 km without refueling and strong sea-air combat capability, said an official.


Zhang Junshe, deputy director of the country's Naval Military Studies Research Institute, told that the successful takeoff and landing of the J-15 is a clear sign of an increase in the fighting capacity of the aircraft carrier. Carrier-based aircraft is an important symbol of the fighting capacity of an aircraft carrier, he said. 

Zhang said the J-15 is China's first generation of independently developed carrier-based aircraft. It is a third-generation fighter with strong sea-air combat capability and supersonic speeds. It can carry multiple types of long-range anti-ship and air-to-air missiles. 

The J-15 has a range of about 3,000 km without refueling, and thus has strong long-range combat capability, said the media report. After the successful takeoff and landing of the carrier-based aircraft, the navy will now test other components of the carrier battle group.

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DTN News - ISRAELI DEFENSE NEWS: Israeli Defense Chief Sounds Ready To Hit Iran, Thanks In Part To Iron Dome

Defense News: DTN News - ISRAELI DEFENSE NEWS: Israeli Defense Chief Sounds Ready To Hit Iran, Thanks In Part To Iron Dome
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources By Spencer Ackerman - Wired
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - November 30, 2012: Israel’s retiring defense chief thinks Iran needs to be “coerced” in 2013 from building an atom bomb, despite any U.S. hopes that sanctions will bring Tehran to the negotiating table. And the recent success of his new, U.S.-funded missile defenses seems to have convinced him that Israel is better able than ever to deter its Iran-backed foes.

“Of course, we would love to see some heavenly intervention that will stop them, to wake up some morning and learn that they’ve given up on their nuclear intentions,” Barak told reporters at the Pentagon Thursday during a joint press conference with Leon Panetta, his American counterpart. “You cannot build a strategy based on these wishes or prayers. Sanctions are working and they are more hurting than anything I remember from the past vis-a-vis Iran, but I don’t believe these kinds of sanctions will bring the ayatollahs to a moment of truth where they sit around a table, look into each other’s eyes and decide that the game is over.”

Not exactly what Panetta wanted to hear during what was supposed to be a friendly press conference in which they celebrated how the U.S.-backed Iron Dome rocket defense system stopped Hamas’ rocket attacks cold. The U.S. defense chief, who effused over the retiring Barak as “a man of peace” and praised their long friendship, said the “unprecedented pressure” on Iran from international sanctions present “time and space for an effort to try to achieve a diplomatic solution.”
Not likely, thinks the retiring Barak. “During the coming year and hopefully before they reach what I have called a ‘zone of immunity’” — a point at which Israeli airstrike couldn’t meaningfully hinder Iranian nuclear work — Iran “will be coerced into putting an end to it this way or another way,” Barak said. “The physical attack option is an option that should be there, should remain on the table, never be removed.”
That may be short of a pledge to attack Iran next year, but it’s hardly a vote of confidence in any alternative. And it reflects a lingering divide in U.S. and Israeli goals on Iran, despite the rhetoric of unity. “We will prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” Panetta said, “and that remains our policy.” Barak’s policy is different: to stop Iran from even getting to the point in its technological nuclear work where an airstrike is senseless, before Iran gets the bomb. The Israeli defense chief acknowledged “sometimes slight differences” with U.S. policy “that should be better discussed behind closed doors.”
However much Barak seems resigned to Iran’s determination “to go in the footsteps of Pakistan and North Korea,” he also mused out loud about Iron Dome as a security game-changer for Israel. Not because a system that was “extremely successful” at stopping unguided Qassam rockets can also stop Iranian Shahab-3 ballistic missiles — it can’t. But because of the demonstration effect that Israeli missile-defense technology can have on Iran and its proxies.
“The very knowing of the other side that you have such an effective system, especially when we’ll be equipped with many more interceptors, it will change the balance of contemplation on the other side,” Barak said. “It creates a logical kind of deterrent, not a psychological one, because any enemy that tries against Israel is exposed to the effectiveness of our efforts that we’ve seen during in this operation.” Especially since, Barak noted, Iron Dome’s big brothers — David’s Sling and the Arrow — are in development to stop more powerful missiles launched by Iran and Hezbollah.
Barak won’t be defense minister next year, as he announced this week he’s retiring from politics. But if other prominent Israeli decision-makers think that Iron Dome restored Israel’s ability to deter adversaries, imagine the value they might place on an Iran attack next year.

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