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Japan is on full alert ahead of an expected mid-range missile launch by North Korea, its defence minister says, as South Korea raised its military watch alert to 'vital threat'.

'We have been on full alert since we deployed military units, and so we will maintain this sense of vigilance,' Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera told reporters on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe separately said: 'We are making utmost efforts to protect our people's lives and ensure their safety.'

The South Korea-US Combined Forces Command raised its 'Watchcon' status from 3 to 2 reflecting indications of a 'vital threat', Yonhap news agency said, citing a senior military official.

South Korean intelligence says the North has prepared two mid-range missiles for imminent launch from its east coast, despite warnings from ally China to avoid provocative moves at a time of soaring military tensions.

Japan, where the armed forces have been authorised to shoot down any North Korean missile headed towards its territory, on Tuesday stationed Patriot missiles in its capital to protect the 30 million population.

In addition to PAC-3 batteries, Aegis destroyers equipped with sea-based interceptor missiles have been deployed in the Sea of Japan (East Sea).

Nevalo wrote:NK getting ready to launch missiles

Mason wrote:i am completely ignorant to this all but surely if north korea launch a missile of any sort won't they be completely destroyed by china/russia/usa?

alphacat wrote:First we discover that North Koreans smoke weed... because it's, like, legal and grows everywhere there (although it's supposedly only ditchweed quality)...

Today I find out that there is - apparently - something of a meth epidemic there, and it's being smuggled into China and causing a huge addiction problem in border areas...


~WHAT.THE.FUCK.~

Dahneboy wrote:they are like a chiwawa compared to us lol

A former North Korean spy has claimed Pyongyang’s threats of military action are a sign that Kim Jong-un is struggling to control his armed forces.

Kim Hyun-Hee, who bombed a South Korean airliner in 1987 on the orders of Kim Jong-un’s father, Kim Jong-il, killing 115 people, said the young Kim is still attempting to consolidate his leadership following his father’s death in 2011.

Ms Kim planted the bomb during a stopover in the Gulf, but was caught with a colleague in Bahrain as they tried to flee using fake Japanese passports. They both ate their Pyongyang-issue cyanide capsules. The man died instantly but she somehow survived. Ms Kim was sent to Seoul and was eventually pardoned after confessing, although she admitted to ABC that she now lives in constant fear of assassins from the North tracking her down.

“Kim Jong-un is too young and too inexperienced,” she told Australia’s ABC television from a secret address in Seoul. “He’s struggling to gain complete control over the military and to win their loyalty. That’s why he’s doing so many visits to military bases, to firm up support.” It is not known what links Ms Kim still has in the North, and her assessment of the situation runs counter to that of other veteran Pyongyang watchers.

South Korea raised its surveillance alert level to “vital threat” – the last stage before war – amid fears that Pyongyang is set to launch a medium range missile, capping weeks of threats and psychological warfare. Seoul said the chances of a launch were “very high” ahead of the birth date next Monday of the North’s founder, Kim Il-sung. Intelligence sources say the missile is likely to be the untested Musudan, whose range of up to 3,500km technically put?s Japan and the US territory of Guam within reach.

Though many military experts doubt the North’s missile capabilities, Japan has already deployed Patriot missiles in Tokyo and Aegis destroyers to its coast, and is threatening to shoot down the North Korean missile.

The North’s official news agency warned on Tuesday that the situation on the Korean Peninsular is “inching closer to a thermonuclear war”. But Ms Kim told ABC she believes North Korea is merely “using its nuclear program... to push South Korea and the United States for concessions”.

Dahneboy wrote:they are like a chiwawa compared to us lol

Dahneboy wrote:they are like a chiwawa compared to us lol

particle-jim wrote:

Dahneboy wrote:they are like a chiwawa compared to us lol

*chihuahua

particle-jim wrote:

Dahneboy wrote:they are like a chiwawa compared to us lol

*chihuahua