More North Korea missile launchers moved: Test launch preparation underway

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seeing as we haven't kept up with Korea lately here is the latest. Is it due to the focus being removed from them in the news or is it a real launch that is going to happen?

The Yonap news agency reports that North Korea moved two missile launchers on Sunday, indicating that preparations for a test launch may be underway.

South Korea's news agency reported on April 21, 2013 that satellite images show that the missile launchers were moved to Wonson and are believed to be for Scud missiles for the east coat.

In addition, intelligence officials told the news agency that seven mobile missile transporter-erector-launchers were placed in Wonsan and the eastern coast of South Hamgyeong Province.

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China Says New North Korea Nuclear Test Possible

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Granny says, "Well den, what say we pull our troops out an' let lil' Kim 'reunify' the peninsula...

US use of 'Sea of Japan' rankles South Koreans
May 16, 2013 — The U.S. and South Korea routinely bend over backwards to compliment one another and extoll the virtues of their partnership. But there’s a bit of semantics that sets South Koreans’ teeth on edge.

South Korea Ministry of National Defense has formally complained to U.S. Forces Korea about a reference in a 7th Fleet press release to the “Sea of Japan.” South Koreans call the body of water east of the Korean peninsula as the “East Sea,” and they bristle at references to the Sea of Japan, which they believe is an outdated designation left over from a dark period in their history when their homeland was a Japanese colony. The reference to the “Sea of Japan” in the 7th Fleet release about the nuclear-powered USS Nimitz aircraft carrier participating in a joint U.S.-South Korea naval exercise earlier this week was eventually changed to “international waters east of the Korean peninsula,” officials said.

Ministry officials - who would not release the letter sent to USFK - said they were pleased with that change, but would have preferred the release made reference to the “East Sea” as an alternate name for the “Sea of Japan.” They added the ministry plans to bring up the sea-naming matter at future policy meetings between the U.S. and South Korea militaries. USFK referred questions about the ministry complaint to the 7th Fleet. Attempts to get a response from the fleet Thursday were unsuccessful.

However, USFK officials have in the past explained that while they recognize how sensitive Koreans are on the subject, American military policy is to follow the designations of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. “This is a long-standing U.S. policy that we apply all around the globe,” a USFK spokesman said about a year ago. “We understand that the Republic of Korea uses a different term.” The U.S. military’s insistence that the internationally recognized “Sea of Japan” designation be used on all maps, plans and correspondence it shares with its South Korean counterparts is one of the few subjects of public disagreement between the two allies.

A spokeswoman for the South Korea Ministry of Foreign Affairs said last year, “We wish that the U.S. used only ‘the East Sea.’ But, if that’s too hard to do, we want the U.S. to at least use both names. “We’ve asked … them about it frequently, and whenever the subject comes up, the problem is still not fixed,” she said. Japanese officials contend the body of water dividing the two countries has been called the “Japan Sea” or “Sea of Japan” for centuries, and it makes sense to name it after their country because the sea laps up against a far greater amount of Japanese coastline than Korean coastline.

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