N. Korea update

10-25-17   President Trump departs for a tour of Asia next amid heightened tensions with North Korea over its nuclear program. He will visit Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. During the 12-day trip he is likely to pressure the region's leaders — one avenue could be by threatening to withhold valuable trade deals — to help curb North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/10/25/how-many-missiles-north-korea-test-before-end-year/797701001/
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10-24-17   The U.S. Air Force is preparing to deploy its first combat-ready squadron of F-35A stealth fighters on its inaugural overseas tour.  The radar-evading jets—America’s newest, but also glitch-prone—will join a growing stealth strike force slowly assembling around North Korea.

There are hard limits on what that strike force can accomplish as the regime of North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un continues to pursue long-range atomic weaponry.
Twelve F-35s and around 200 airmen from the 34th Fighter Squadron—whose home station is Hill Air Force Base, near Ogden, Utah—will join 100 or so personnel from the Air Force Reserve Command’s co-located 419th Fighter Wing and travel to Kadena Air Force Base on the Japanese island of Okinawastarting in early November, the Air Force stated.   “We’re headed to Japan,” the 419th Wing announced.  The deployment is scheduled to last six months.  https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-sends-stealth-jets-into-north-korean-crisis

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6-23-2013  http://www.nate-thayer.com/global-trail-of-dead-scientists-price-of-illicit-pyongyang-syria-weapons-collaboration/
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May 2011     

  Tae-Sung Missile Factory, prime center in N. Korea:
http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/716134/13620249/1313028417477/KPAJ-2-05.pdf?token=9feUqBdoz0BowKGniE1mD0dLcwE%3D
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