NORTH KOREA AIMS MISSILES TOWARDS AUSTRALIA

This is obviously blogworthy..
I read this morning that Nth Korea is strategically moving it's targeting of It's Missile defence systems towards South East Asia....Not a good thing, considering the very strange relationship that Our "allies" the USA has with them..

North Korea directs missiles towards Australia

NORTH KOREA'S forthcoming missile launch will be aimed towards South-East Asia and Australia for the first time, the US has warned.


The warning was delivered in person yesterday to the Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, by a senior official in the Obama Administration, Kurt Campbell, during a visit to Sydney.

North Korea, which claimed to have successfully tested a nuclear weapon in 2009, has for years worked to improve its long-range ballistic missile capability. 
Previous missile tests have been launched east, over Japan. 

But US intelligence suggests the launch announced for mid-April will be aimed south for the first time.

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"If the missile test proceeds as North Korea has indicated, our judgment is that it will impact in an area roughly between Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines," Dr Campbell, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific, said yesterday.

"We have never seen this trajectory before. We have weighed into each of these countries and asked them to make clear that such a test is provocative and this plan should be discontinued."

After the meeting Mr Carr told the Herald: "The North Korean nuclear and long-range missile plans represent a real and credible threat to the security of the region and to Australia."

The launch would be "in clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions."

Mr Carr said he and Dr Campbell had "shared views on how both the US and Australia could engage our regional partners and allies to encourage North Korea to abandon its plans".

The US President, Barack Obama, will be among some 50 leaders, including Australia's Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, to meet in a summit in the South Korean capital of Seoul on Monday to discuss nuclear disarmament. North Korea's abrupt announcement last week of its missile test is expected to dominate discussion.

The announcement from Pyongyang startled observers because it came less than three weeks after it had sealed a new agreement with the US in return for food aid.

South Korea has called the move a "grave provocation". Its president, Lee Myung-bak, has said he will ask Mr Obama to revise an alliance agreement that limits his country to missiles with a 300-kilometre range.

Japan's Defence Minister, Naoki Tanaka, said yesterday Tokyo was prepared to shoot down the North Korean long-range rocket if it threatened the country. (end snip)

Considering also, that the USA is about to send over the FIRST of it's NEW PERMANENT REVOLVING MARINE BASE personel to Darwin Australia (in the top far north) of Australia...

and this new presence was always going to cause tension within the region...

This reaffirms that WE need the USA to "defend" us...and that we are also a very strategic target, interesting, as the USA seems keen to hold onto this strategic alliance, even though, economically we are being bought out by foreign interests, China is just one country involved in this..

So really, is this just a scare tactic??? or manipulation and posturing?
If this missile test goes ahead, will it be seen as extreme provocation and retaliated against? Is this what is required?

ALSO : http://thirteenthmonkey.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/australia-usas-deputy-dawg-now-in_17.html


and HERE: http://thirteenthmonkey.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/there-goes-neighbourhood.html