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Informant: ranger116

The United States, whose 7th Fleet is based in Japan, has already mobilised vessels, including the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk and its strike group, for exercises in the region. Guided missile carriers and destroyers were also in the deployment, according to the US Navy.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/10/19/1160851066708.html


From Information Clearing House

According to the report, the United States is considering a plan against North Korea to neutralize Pyongyang's nuclear capability with overwhelming use of the U.S. Air Force.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15322.htm



North Korea on war footing

The U.N. sanctions against North Korea for its nuclear test are a declaration of war, and the country will "deal merciless blows" if the nation's sovereignty is violated, the North's central government said Tuesday in its first response to the U.N. measures.

http://tinyurl.com/ybaj3k



Pyongyang Vows Merciless Measures

North Korea yesterday rejected the U.N. Security Council resolution imposing nonmilitary sanctions on the communist state for its nuclear test and vowed to take appropriate countermeasures.

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200610/kt2006101717265411990.htm


From Information Clearing House

The United States pressed for a Saturday vote on a Security Council resolution that would impose sanctions on North Korea for its reported nuclear test, but questions from China and Russia on Friday evening cast the timing, and possibly the content, of the document into doubt.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101406Z.shtml