North Korea crisis: China amasses new anti-warship missiles as WW3 tensions continue

CHINA has built an arsenal of new anti-ship missiles amid continuing World War 3 fears, satellite images of a military base has revealed.

By JON ROGERS

PUBLISHED: 05:47, Thu, May 11, 2017 | UPDATED: 08:07, Thu, May 11, 2017

Sino-US tensions over disputed territory in the South China Sea, along with sabre-rattling from North Korea which is mostly backed by China, have seen tensions in the region rise dramatically recently.

The situation has also been enflamed by US President Donald Trump sending the aircraft carrier the Carl Vinson, along with an armada of warships to the region to undergo military drills in the area.

Images of the Yulin naval base, located on Hainan Island of the hotly disputed islands off southern China close to Vietnam, now appear to show Beijing has stock-piled a range of land-base missile launchers that have the capability of reaching and knocking out the US military vessels.

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Israel-based ImageSat International snapped the images from its Eros B satellite with missiles being deployed on the base’s west side.

Imagery analyst Amit Gur confirmed the new builds are anti-ship missiles.

He said: "The direction in which the launchers are facing leads us to believes these are shore-to-ship missiles."

Mr Gur added that the missiles pictured in the satellite looked to be fully operational and ready to fire.

He added: "They must have concluded renovation work, as the systems are clearly visible.

"We don't just know if they are new systems, or a redeployment of the ones that were stored during the renovation."

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The missiles appear to have been installed on Monday after the base was essentially empty.

While the US has said that the warships are there to put pressure North Korea who has threatened to attack the US with nuclear weapons, China is increasingly worried over the presence of the fleet so close to its own waters.

Although China and the US have been enjoying improved relations lately after a visit to the US by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Mr Trump referring to the premier as “his friend” both sides have remained cautious.

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Satellite image of the Yulin naval base

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US aircraft carrier Carl Vinson which is currently stationed off the coast of North Korea

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Satellite image of China's Yulin naval base

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Chinese surface-to-air missiles on display at a trade fair in 2016

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Chinese President Xi Jinping

China has come under fire for building man-made islands near the Spratly archipelago, smack in the centre of the South China Sea.

But as recently as March 30, its defence ministry insisted that no such islands existed and that any work being done strictly served civilians rather than the military.

(express.co.uk)

In his first interview, the regime's UK ambassador tells Sky his nation will continue ballistic missile and nuclear programmes.

Wednesday 10 May 2017

By Katie Stallard, Asia Correspondent

North Korea's ambassador to the UK has told Sky News his country will go ahead with its sixth nuclear test at the time and place of its leader's choosing.

In his first interview in the role, ambassador Choe Il said his country would continue its ballistic missile and nuclear programmes in spite of intentional warnings against them, and dismissed UN sanctions as having no legal grounds, and no effect.

"In regards to the sixth nuclear test, I do not know the scheduled time for it, as I am here in the UK, not in my home country," Mr Choe said.

"However, I can say that the nuclear test will be conducted at the place and time as decided by our supreme leader, Kim Jong Un."

Video:N Korean ambassador: 'Nuclear weapons needed for peace'

Sky News asked the ambassador whether he was concerned about the prospect of US military action, which President Donald Trump's administration has said is one of the options now being considered.

"If we were afraid of it, we probably would not have started conducting nuclear tests or launching ballistic missiles," the ambassador said.

He added: "We are developing our nuclear strength to respond to that kind of attack by the US.

"If the US attacks us, our military and people are fully ready to respond to any kind of attack."

He said a pre-emptive strike on his country would not be possible because they would turn US assets in the region "to ashes" at the first sign of movement towards an attack.

"The US cannot attack us first," the ambassador said, adding: "If the US moves an inch, then we are ready to turn to ashes any available strategic assets of the US."

Mr Trump has sent what he calls a "powerful armada" led by the USS Carl Vinson to the waters off the Korean Peninsula, where it has been carrying out exercises with South Korea's navy.

However, the White House approach is at odds with the ambition of the new liberal South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who has spoken of his desire to bring "integration, unity and harmony" to the country.

Believing that confrontation has done nothing to stop North Korea from expanding its nuclear arsenal, his desire for warmer ties with Pyongyang has caused some concern.

A former top diplomat for East Asia described the election of Mr Moon as presenting a "risk of tension and divergence of opinion" between the US and South Korea.

The United States is currently thought to be readying new sanctions in the event of another nuclear test.

But in his interview, the ambassador said his country had been living under sanctions for the last six decades, and more sanctions would make no difference to their nuclear ambitions.

He denied his government's pursuit of nuclear weapons was making the lives of his people harder.

"I do not think our nuclear development has made our people's lives difficult. Our nuclear power is a result of the US' hostile policy against us," the ambassador said.

"Our nuclear power is our sovereign right. It is the only way to protect the peace of the Korean Peninsula and the region."

He claimed UN Security Council sanctions were evidence of a double standard and had no basis in international law.

"The UN Security Council has been sanctioning against us whenever we launch missiles or satellites and carry out nuclear tests," he said.

"As the sanctions do not have any legal grounds, we do not care about them, nor accept them."

Sky News asked the ambassador whether his country would be prepared to stop anywhere short of a deliverable nuclear warhead - whether a formal peace treaty or the protection of China's nuclear deterrent would convince them to suspend their programme and return to negotiations.

"The only way to protect our country is that we strengthen our power enough to suppress any enemy countries," Mr Choe said.

"This is the only way to protect our peace and security. This is a lesson we felt in our bones."

He said his country had learned the lesson of US military interventions elsewhere.

"As you have read in newspapers, the US has been attacking only the weak countries, including Afghanistan and Libya," he said.

"They cannot actually attack the strong countries, although they talk about it.

"We have to have nuclear power. We have shown our strong military power and nuclear power this April. Because of our strong military power, the US could not attack us first."

This was a rare and frank interview, and the bottom line is clear - North Korea intends to continue pursuing nuclear weapons, regardless of the consequences.

(news.sky.com)

Could it be possible that Americans are more concerned about declining standards of morality than most of us initially thought? A very surprising new survey conducted by LifeWay Research has discovered that a whopping 81 percent of Americans agree with this statement: “I am concerned about declining moral behavior in our nation.” If you follow my work on a regular basis, you already know that moral decay is a theme that I keep coming back to time after time. To me it is quite obvious that moral behavior is deteriorating all around us, but I had no idea that so many other Americans were deeply concerned about the exact same thing.

Since so many people agree that we are facing a moral crisis, the solution should be very simple right?

Unfortunately it is more complicated than that, because there is very little agreement about what our moral values should actually be. Once upon a time the Bible formed the basis for morality in American society, but today things are entirely different.

In 2017, our notions of “right” and “wrong” are constantly shifting because they are not based on anything permanent. The same LifeWay Research survey that I quoted above also found that among Americans 35 years of age and younger,less than 40 percent believe that “right and wrong do not change”…

A new study from Nashville-based LifeWay Research found a significant generation gap in how Americans view morality.
More than 6 in 10 of those older than 45 say right and wrong do not change. For those 35 and younger, fewer than 4 in 10 make that claim.

Needless to say, these survey results appear to be quite contradictory. How can moral behavior be “declining” if we can’t even know for sure what is right and what is wrong?

The same survey also found that nearly two-thirds of Americans (63 percent) believe that “implementing laws to encourage people to act morally is not effective.”

To me, this doesn’t make any sense at all. The truth is that all laws are based on somebody’s values, and all laws are designed to get people to act in a certain way or to not act in a certain way.

If laws are not effective, why do our politicians constantly pass more of them? The reason why most of us adhere to the speed limit is because we don’t want the punishment of getting a ticket. I don’t even want to imagine what our roads would be like if those speed limit laws did not exist, and so I am quite glad that they are there.

The government is constantly “imposing morality” upon us, but most Americans don’t seem to like that.

And Americans are increasingly rejecting church as a moral authority as well. Sam Eaton is the founder of Recklessly Alive Ministries, and in his most recent article he noted a recent study that discovered that less than 20 percent of all American adults under the age of 30 “believe attending a church is important or worthwhile”…

According to this study (and many others like it) church attendance and impressions of the church are the lowest in recent history, and most drastic among millennials described as 22- to 35-year-olds.
Only 2 in 10 Americans under 30 believe attending a church is important or worthwhile (an all-time low).
59 percent of millennials raised in a church have dropped out.
35 percent of millennials have an anti-church stance, believing the church does more harm than good.
Millennials are the least likely age group of anyone to attend church (by far).
As I sat in our large church’s annual meeting last month, I looked around for anyone in my age bracket. It was a little like a Titanic search party…

The church in America is already in a state of crisis, and numbers like that should be deeply sobering to faith leaders all over the nation.

In article after article I have warned about the exact same thing. We are losing an entire generation of Americans, and yet most churches just continue on with business as usual as if nothing was wrong.

If we keep doing the same things that we have been doing, we are just going to keep getting the same results and church attendance all over America will continue to decline. Here is more from Sam Eaton…

You see, church leaders, our generation just isn’t interested in playing church anymore, and there are real, possible solutions to filling our congregations with young adults. It’s obvious you’re not understanding the gravity of the problem at hand and aren’t nearly as alarmed as you should be about the crossroads we’re at.
You’re complacent, irrelevant and approaching extinction. A smattering of mostly older people, doing mostly the same things they’ve always done, isn’t going to turn to the tide.
Feel free to write to me off as just another angry, selfy-addicted millennial. Believe me, at this point I’m beyond used to being abandoned and ignored.

Perhaps Eaton could have been a bit more gracious in his remarks, but I am telling you that the anger and frustration that you sense in that quote are very real. Whenever I hear from Millennials, the same themes keep coming up over and over again, and it is time for the church to start listening.

Millennials tend to respond positively to authenticity, and they generally aren’t getting it at school, at church or from their government.

Since so many of them lack a solid foundation, a lot of them end up drifting through life without meaning and direction.

So what do we need to do?

We need to get back to the basics, and that means returning to the values and principles that this nation was founded upon. America was founded by strong Christian men and women that believed very strongly in the truths laid out in the Bible.

I have said it before and I will say it again. If we ever want to make America great again, we need to rediscover what made America great in the first place.

In this day and age so many believers are almost ashamed to stand up and say that they are Christians and that they believe that the Bible is the Word of God.

Those that wish to take America away from the values and principles that it was founded upon are very proud of what they believe, and we need to be even prouder of what we believe.

The fate of our country literally hangs in the balance, and so now is definitely not the time to be timid.

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 5/11/2017 12:11:29 AM
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	How to Prepare for a Nuclear Blast in the Wake of Tensions With North Korea by Inside Edition 4:29 PM EDT, May 8, 2017 The world is on edge as North Korea threatens America with a nuclear attack, and many are imagining the unthinkable. "It’s what you do in the first 5 to 10 minutes after a bomb goes off that's going to save your life,” radiation safety expert Andy Karam told Inside Edition. “After an explosion, there's gonna be fallout and that fallout is gonna be intensely radioactive. If you're outside, that can kill you.”If you are half-a-mile from the epicenter of the explosion and have the knowledge on what to do, it's possible to survive a nuclear blast. If you can get inside and put 20 to 30 feet between you and the fallout, that distance will save your life. He demonstrated to Inside Edition that if you run to the basement of a building and get as close to the center, as far away from the exterior walls and roof as possible, you may have a shot. The location is “the furthest distance from the fallout that is coming down outside,” he said. During the Cold War, American citizens were instructed to “duck and cover” in the event of a nuclear blast, and that advice still holds true today. “If the building is shaking, you should get down and protect yourself from falling debris or flying glass from the window being blown in,” he said. You should then check for radiation exposure in your hair, shoulders, nose, and mouth to see if any hazardous material may have been inhaled. A Geiger counter can detect how much — if any — fallout is on you or near you. There are also certain steps you can take if you believe you may have been exposed. “If you think that you are contaminated, brush your clothes off before you go inside or immediately afterwards and then change your clothes and wash your hair off in the sink or in the shower,” he said. As you shower, bend your head forward so the fallout doesn't get into your eyes or mouth. Experts also recommend having an emergency kit at hand with bottled water, energy bars and a hand crank radio so you can listen to news broadcasts and find out when it’s safe to go back outside. Karam said that you should be in basement for about a day or two “until the radiation decays and it’s safe to leave.” (insideedition.com)
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	In his first interview, the regime's UK ambassador tells Sky his nation will continue ballistic missile and nuclear programmes. Wednesday 10 May 2017 By Katie Stallard, Asia Correspondent North Korea's ambassador to the UK has told Sky News his country will go ahead with its sixth nuclear test at the time and place of its leader's choosing. In his first interview in the role, ambassador Choe Il said his country would continue its ballistic missile and nuclear programmes in spite of intentional warnings against them, and dismissed UN sanctions as having no legal grounds, and no effect. "In regards to the sixth nuclear test, I do not know the scheduled time for it, as I am here in the UK, not in my home country," Mr Choe said. "However, I can say that the nuclear test will be conducted at the place and time as decided by our supreme leader, Kim Jong Un." Video:N Korean ambassador: 'Nuclear weapons needed for peace' Sky News asked the ambassador whether he was concerned about the prospect of US military action, which President Donald Trump's administration has said is one of the options now being considered. "If we were afraid of it, we probably would not have started conducting nuclear tests or launching ballistic missiles," the ambassador said. He added: "We are developing our nuclear strength to respond to that kind of attack by the US. "If the US attacks us, our military and people are fully ready to respond to any kind of attack." He said a pre-emptive strike on his country would not be possible because they would turn US assets in the region "to ashes" at the first sign of movement towards an attack. "The US cannot attack us first," the ambassador said, adding: "If the US moves an inch, then we are ready to turn to ashes any available strategic assets of the US." Image:A ballistic rocket being tested by North Korea last June Mr Trump has sent what he calls a "powerful armada" led by the USS Carl Vinson to the waters off the Korean Peninsula, where it has been carrying out exercises with South Korea's navy. However, the White House approach is at odds with the ambition of the new liberal South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who has spoken of his desire to bring "integration, unity and harmony" to the country. Believing that confrontation has done nothing to stop North Korea from expanding its nuclear arsenal, his desire for warmer ties with Pyongyang has caused some concern. A former top diplomat for East Asia described the election of Mr Moon as presenting a "risk of tension and divergence of opinion" between the US and South Korea. The United States is currently thought to be readying new sanctions in the event of another nuclear test. But in his interview, the ambassador said his country had been living under sanctions for the last six decades, and more sanctions would make no difference to their nuclear ambitions. He denied his government's pursuit of nuclear weapons was making the lives of his people harder. "I do not think our nuclear development has made our people's lives difficult. Our nuclear power is a result of the US' hostile policy against us," the ambassador said. "Our nuclear power is our sovereign right. It is the only way to protect the peace of the Korean Peninsula and the region." Video:What should we do about North Korea? He claimed UN Security Council sanctions were evidence of a double standard and had no basis in international law. "The UN Security Council has been sanctioning against us whenever we launch missiles or satellites and carry out nuclear tests," he said. "As the sanctions do not have any legal grounds, we do not care about them, nor accept them." Sky News asked the ambassador whether his country would be prepared to stop anywhere short of a deliverable nuclear warhead - whether a formal peace treaty or the protection of China's nuclear deterrent would convince them to suspend their programme and return to negotiations. "The only way to protect our country is that we strengthen our power enough to suppress any enemy countries," Mr Choe said. "This is the only way to protect our peace and security. This is a lesson we felt in our bones." Video:The view from the China-North Korea border He said his country had learned the lesson of US military interventions elsewhere. "As you have read in newspapers, the US has been attacking only the weak countries, including Afghanistan and Libya," he said. "They cannot actually attack the strong countries, although they talk about it. "We have to have nuclear power. We have shown our strong military power and nuclear power this April. Because of our strong military power, the US could not attack us first." This was a rare and frank interview, and the bottom line is clear - North Korea intends to continue pursuing nuclear weapons, regardless of the consequences. (news.sky.com)
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 5/11/2017 4:41:41 PM
	81 Percent Of Americans Are ‘Concerned About Declining Moral Behavior In Our Nation’ May 9, 2017 by Michael Snyder Could it be possible that Americans are more concerned about declining standards of morality than most of us initially thought? A very surprising new survey conducted by LifeWay Research has discovered that a whopping 81 percent of Americans agree with this statement: “I am concerned about declining moral behavior in our nation.” If you follow my work on a regular basis, you already know that moral decay is a theme that I keep coming back to time after time. To me it is quite obvious that moral behavior is deteriorating all around us, but I had no idea that so many other Americans were deeply concerned about the exact same thing. Since so many people agree that we are facing a moral crisis, the solution should be very simple right? Unfortunately it is more complicated than that, because there is very little agreement about what our moral values should actually be. Once upon a time the Bible formed the basis for morality in American society, but today things are entirely different. In 2017, our notions of “right” and “wrong” are constantly shifting because they are not based on anything permanent. The same LifeWay Research survey that I quoted above also found that among Americans 35 years of age and younger,less than 40 percent believe that “right and wrong do not change”… A new study from Nashville-based LifeWay Research found a significant generation gap in how Americans view morality. More than 6 in 10 of those older than 45 say right and wrong do not change. For those 35 and younger, fewer than 4 in 10 make that claim. Needless to say, these survey results appear to be quite contradictory. How can moral behavior be “declining” if we can’t even know for sure what is right and what is wrong? The same survey also found that nearly two-thirds of Americans (63 percent) believe that “implementing laws to encourage people to act morally is not effective.” To me, this doesn’t make any sense at all. The truth is that all laws are based on somebody’s values, and all laws are designed to get people to act in a certain way or to not act in a certain way. If laws are not effective, why do our politicians constantly pass more of them? The reason why most of us adhere to the speed limit is because we don’t want the punishment of getting a ticket. I don’t even want to imagine what our roads would be like if those speed limit laws did not exist, and so I am quite glad that they are there. The government is constantly “imposing morality” upon us, but most Americans don’t seem to like that. And Americans are increasingly rejecting church as a moral authority as well. Sam Eaton is the founder of Recklessly Alive Ministries, and in his most recent article he noted a recent study that discovered that less than 20 percent of all American adults under the age of 30 “believe attending a church is important or worthwhile”… According to this study (and many others like it) church attendance and impressions of the church are the lowest in recent history, and most drastic among millennials described as 22- to 35-year-olds. Only 2 in 10 Americans under 30 believe attending a church is important or worthwhile (an all-time low). 59 percent of millennials raised in a church have dropped out. 35 percent of millennials have an anti-church stance, believing the church does more harm than good. Millennials are the least likely age group of anyone to attend church (by far). As I sat in our large church’s annual meeting last month, I looked around for anyone in my age bracket. It was a little like a Titanic search party… The church in America is already in a state of crisis, and numbers like that should be deeply sobering to faith leaders all over the nation. In article after article I have warned about the exact same thing. We are losing an entire generation of Americans, and yet most churches just continue on with business as usual as if nothing was wrong. If we keep doing the same things that we have been doing, we are just going to keep getting the same results and church attendance all over America will continue to decline. Here is more from Sam Eaton… You see, church leaders, our generation just isn’t interested in playing church anymore, and there are real, possible solutions to filling our congregations with young adults. It’s obvious you’re not understanding the gravity of the problem at hand and aren’t nearly as alarmed as you should be about the crossroads we’re at. You’re complacent, irrelevant and approaching extinction. A smattering of mostly older people, doing mostly the same things they’ve always done, isn’t going to turn to the tide. Feel free to write to me off as just another angry, selfy-addicted millennial. Believe me, at this point I’m beyond used to being abandoned and ignored. Perhaps Eaton could have been a bit more gracious in his remarks, but I am telling you that the anger and frustration that you sense in that quote are very real. Whenever I hear from Millennials, the same themes keep coming up over and over again, and it is time for the church to start listening. Millennials tend to respond positively to authenticity, and they generally aren’t getting it at school, at church or from their government. Since so many of them lack a solid foundation, a lot of them end up drifting through life without meaning and direction. So what do we need to do? We need to get back to the basics, and that means returning to the values and principles that this nation was founded upon. America was founded by strong Christian men and women that believed very strongly in the truths laid out in the Bible. I have said it before and I will say it again. If we ever want to make America great again, we need to rediscover what made America great in the first place. In this day and age so many believers are almost ashamed to stand up and say that they are Christians and that they believe that the Bible is the Word of God. Those that wish to take America away from the values and principles that it was founded upon are very proud of what they believe, and we need to be even prouder of what we believe. The fate of our country literally hangs in the balance, and so now is definitely not the time to be timid. (endoftheamericandream.com)
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
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