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Topic started on 14-9-2003 @ 11:45 AM by energy_wave
Are we gearing up for a confrontation with North Korea?
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Operation Pacific Protector

www.abc.net.au...

The United States, Australia, Japan and France will carry out naval exercises in the Coral Sea off Australia's northeast, to improve their capacity to intercept terrorists and weapons' traffickers on the high seas...
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WASHINGTON (AP)--Dow Jones Newswires
09-05-03 1545ET- - 03 45 PM EDT 09-05-03

Defense officials speaking on condition of anonymity said Friday that the
USS
Nimitz, whose home port is San Diego, and its carrier strike group were
headed
east toward the Pacific, having operated in the Gulf since early April when
major combat operations in Iraq were winding down.

The Nimitz's departure marks the first time since 1997 that the Navy has had
no carrier in the Gulf, whose strategic importance has made it a central
focus
of U.S. naval operations for decades.

The Air Force also has adjusted its presence in the Gulf region

The Air Force also ended its Turkey-based aerial patrols over northern Iraq

The Marines, whose 1st Marine Expeditionary Force joined the Army's 3rd
Infantry Division in toppling Baghdad in April, are rapidly shrinking their
presence in Iraq and should be all but gone soon.

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By Eva Cahen
CNSNews.com
September 05, 2003

The United States along with France, Australia and Japan will participate in
military exercises in the Western Pacific next week in simulations of what
may become real interceptions. The exercise has been named "Pacific Protector.
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story.news.yahoo.com...

TOKYO, Sept. 5 Former President Jimmy Carter, who was credited with defusing
the 1994 North Korean nuclear crisis, warned here today that the current
standoff is the world's "greatest threat."

This paranoid nation and the United States now are facing what I believe to
be the greatest threat in the world to regional and global peace," Mr.
Carter said.

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www.washingtontimes.com...

China's military is quietly building up troops on borders from North Korea
to India by replacing tens of thousands of border police with regular army
forces, a U.S. official said.

About 150,000 Chinese military troops recently replaced People's Armed
Police troops on China's border with North Korea, according to Hong Kong's
Sing Tao newspaper.

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