September 11, 2009

China’s aircraft carrier-killer ballistic missile reported ready for testing

China’s efforts to develop a conventionally armed long-range ballistic missile to kill U.S. aircraft carriers is well advanced and a flight test of the new system is expected in the near future. A report by former Pentagon China specialist Mark A. Stokes states that the DF-21 medium-range missile being developed for anti-aircraft carrier attacks is part of a strategic effort to allow carrier battle groups to remain more than 2,000 miles from China, so that Beijing can conduct operations against Taiwan without intervention by the U.S. (FULL STORY)
China's DF-21 ballistic missile [ZOOM].       

Unrest shifts to Beijing: Hu Jintao faces the music at major Central Committee meeting

Poor Hu Jintao! At least in cocktail circuits in Beijing, the Chinese president and commander in chief has emerged as the highest-level victim of those bizarre syringe stabbings supposedly perpetrated by Uighur separatists against Han Chinese in Urumqi, the capital of the restive Xinjiang Autonomous Region (XAR). While Chinese authorities have, as usual, blamed “separatists, terrorists and religious extremists” for this latest outbreak of violence in the XAR, the real storm is brewing in the Chinese capital, the venue for a plenary session of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee.  (FULL STORY)
Chinese President Hu Jintao talks with military officers of the Xinjiang military area command in Urumqi, on Aug. 22.    AP/Xinhua, Ju Peng
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N. Korea's ominous disclosure: 'Extracted plutonium is being weaponized'
N. Korea rolls out incentives for foreign investment as sanctions loom
U.S. specialist changes his assessment of N. Korean nuclear program
Top Chinese intelligence official on quiet visit to France

  INSIDE  NORTH  KOREA
Report: August halt in the succession propaganda for Kim Jong-Un, Kim Jong-Il's youngest son and heir-apparent, tied to his purge of 'devoted' officials
South Korea-Japan ties seen improving as opposition party takes power in Tokyo
S. Korean answers the North with space launch attempt using Russian booster
S. Korea restricts its Christian missionaries after complaints from Islamic governments

 
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