EUA retiram Coreia do Norte da lista do EIXO DO MAL

[Túlio]

Não estou entendendo nada, o quê têm a haver Coréia do Norte e Separatismo Pampeano???

E se o colega é chegado numa...hummmm...cabeça de pacu...(POWS!!!)...é com ele...

[suntsé]

A Corei do Norte esta me saindo aqueles baixinhos marrentos...que gostão de folgar mais não aguentão um tapa!

[bruno mt]

Po Tulio, uma tradição caramba... e eu intendi seu duplo sentido seu....seu....GAÚCHO

[P44]

[P44]

Destroyer Sejong the Great Detects N. Korean Rocket


(Source: South Korean Ministry of Defence; issued April 20, 2009)



The country's first Aegis destroyer, Sejong the Great, proved its might by successfully detecting the launch of a North Korean long-range rocket that was fired off on April 5.

"Sejong the Great had been stationed in the East Sea to monitor North Korea's rocket activities and it successfully detected yesterday's rocket launch," an official said April 6. "This means the destroyer perfectly completed its first mission since its deployment."

Commissioned on December 22, the 7,600-ton destroyer (DDG) had been undergoing tests to check the capability of its Aegis combat system until it was deployed to the East Sea on March 28 after the upper part of the North Korean rocket on a launch pad was exposed.

When the North Korean rocket was launched, there reportedly were Japanese and U.S. Aegis destroyers in the East Sea along with Sejong the Great, as well as an American AGM missile range instrumentation ship. Military official believe Sejong the Great fulfilled its mission as other Aegis destroyers of the U.S. and Japan by successfully detecting the launched rocket.

The South Korean destroyer is equipped with the latest version of the Aegis combat system, 'Baseline (BL) 7.1R (Refresh),' and SPY-ID (V) radar, which can detect and track any flying objects within 1,000 kilometers.

The radar is the latest and most advanced version of the SPY-1 series, and was detrimental in tracking North Korea's long-range rocket this time. The radar is attached on the four sides of the destroyer's bridge and each has 4,350 small radars that work as the eyes of a dragonfly. Each of these small radars discharges radar beams.

The radar can detect any flying objects, including ballistic missiles that fly at a speed of mach 8, within 1,000 kilometers. It can simultaneously track up to 900 targets within 500 kilometers and intercept any target within 170 kilometers.

In addition to the Aegis combat system, Sejong the Great is armed with a 5-inch main gun, the close-range defense system, 'Goalkeeper,' some 120 ship-to-ship, ship-to-air missiles and long-range anti-submarine missiles.

The destroyer, 166 meters by 21 meters, can do up to 30 knots and is said to have the top class anti-ship, anti-air and anti-submarine capabilities.

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[mau_geografia]

Pyongyang tem plutônio para fabricar 6 armas nucleares, dizem EUA
22/04/2009 - 03:41 - EFE

O comandante das forças dos Estados Unidos na Coreia do Sul, o general Walter Sharp, afirmou hoje que Pyongyang possui 800 mísseis e plutônio suficiente para fabricar meia dúzia de armas nucleares, informou a agência sul-coreana "Yonhap".

O general americano disse que a Coreia do Norte conta ainda com aproximadamente 80 mil forças especiais e uma poderosa artilharia, capazes de lançar um ataque surpresa contra Seul, a cerca de 50 quilômetros da fronteira com o país comunista.

Em Seul, o general assegurou que as forças dos EUA estão preparadas para qualquer contingência na península, e destacou a necessidade de uma estreita cooperação entre as forças dos dois países, mesmo depois de a Coreia do Sul assumir o controle total sobre seus militares, em 2012.

A Coreia do Sul recuperou o controle de suas forças militares em 1994, mas o comando em tempos de guerra segue nas mãos dos Estados Unidos.

As duas Coreias continuam em estado de guerra técnica, porque o conflito bélico que ocorreu entre 1950 e 1953 terminou com um armistício e não com um tratado de paz.

Atualmente, cerca de 28.500 tropas americanas estão desdobradas na Coreia do Sul como poder dissuasório diante de um eventual ataque da Coreia do Norte.