Emergency Webcast: "Nobody will Survive this War"
Channel: Pastor John J. DeHart
Date: 2013-08-06

News Update | On April 3 2013, Chinese officials called for calm in Korea as Washington announced that it would deploy missiles and more troops to East Asia, the island of Guam, Australia and the West coast of the US territory amid a crisis over North Korea's nuclear program. 

Washington has been enhancing its military ties and alliances throughout the region to contain and encircle China. In this sense, the target of the US deployments is not only North Korea but mainly China. In fact, USA Today already mentioned the training shift towards the Asia-Pacific region at Dyess in an article published in August 2012. The article added that the new strategy, which was announced in January 2012 by President Barack Obama, sought to "counter the rising power of China". 

Moreover, during a recent meeting of Obama with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Washington, the US president announced the sending of more US warships to the area of the Malacca Strait, a waterway that connects the Indian and Pacific Oceans and is critical to Chinese energy imports and trade. 

Warmongering Senator John McCain of Arizona has also used the Korea crisis to attack China. "Chinese behavior has been very disappointing, whether it be on cyber security, whether it be on confrontation in the South China Sea, or whether it be their failure to rein in North Korea," he said. 

For his part, James Hardy, the Asia-Pacific editor for Jane's Defense Weekly - also thinks that Washington "is using the existence of this crisis as an excuse to ramp up its missile defenses in Asia." He pointed out that this move is related to Washington's plans for hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region. 

For its part, China is logically concerned by the deployment of these military systems near its borders. Chinese leaders have also seen the deployment of missile defense systems as a threat for their country. They have openly criticized the US for announcing a large increase in its anti-missile interceptors based in Alaska. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei warned that "strengthening anti-missile systems will intensify antagonism". 

Both China and Russia oppose the US deployment of these systems in Asia and Europe, which are not mainly aimed at Iran and North Korea, as Washington claims, but at undermining Chinese and Russian nuclear capacity. The ability to destroy missiles would allow the US to launch a "first nuclear strike" against China or Russia while avoiding a retaliation attack against its territory. As a response, Moscow and Beijing have already started to develop their military capacities, including the manufacture of new state-of-the-art nuclear missiles being capable of overcoming any anti-missile defense system. - http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/...