Text Fwd: Prison Labor Help Build Patriot Missiles for Raytheon

* Text Fwd from Bruce Gagnon on March 10, 2011

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Prisoners Help Build Patriot Missiles
By Noah Shachtman

This spring, the United Arab Emirates is expected to close a deal for $7 billion dollars’ worth of American arms. Nearly half of the cash will be spent on Patriot missiles, which cost as much as $5.9 million apiece.

But what makes those eye-popping sums even more shocking is that some of the workers manufacturing parts for those Patriot missiles are prisoners, earning as little as 23 cents an hour. (Credit Justin Rohrlich with the catch.)

The work is done by Unicor, previously known as Federal Prison Industries. It’s a government-owned corporation, established during the Depression, that employs about 20,000 inmates in 70 prisons to make everything from clothing to office furniture to solar panels to military electronics.

One of the company’s high-tech specialties: Patriot missile parts. “UNICOR/FPI supplies numerous electronic components and services for guided missiles, including the Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) missile,” Unicor’s website explains. “We assemble and distribute the Intermediate Frequency Processor (IFP) for the PAC-3s seeker. The IFP receives and filters radio-frequency signals that guide the missile toward its target.”

The missiles are then marketed worldwide — sometimes by Washington’s top officials. Last year, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates pitched the Patriots to the Turkish government last year, a diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks reveals: “SecDef stressed that ‘nothing can compete with the PAC-3 when it comes to capabilities.’”

Patriot assemblers Raytheon and Lockheed Martin aren’t the only defense contractors relying on prison help. As Rohrlich notes, Unicor “inmates also make cable assemblies for the McDonnell Douglas/Boeing F-15, the General Dynamics/Lockheed Martin F-16, Bell/Textron’s Cobra helicopter, as well as electro-optical equipment for the BAE Systems Bradley Fighting Vehicle’s laser rangefinder.”

Unicor used to make helmets for the military, as well. But that work was suspended when 44,000 helmets were recalled for shoddy quality.

Government agencies — with the exception of the Defense Department and the CIA — are required to buy goods from Unicor, according to a Congressional Research Service report (.pdf). And no wonder: the labor costs are bordering on zero. “Inmates earn from $0.23 per hour up to a maximum of $1.15 per hour, depending on their proficiency and educational level, among other things,” the report notes.

Last year, Unicor grossed $772 million, according to its most recent financial report (.pdf). Traditionally, inmate salaries make up about five percent of that total.

Unicor insists that the deal is a good one for inmates — and for the government. The manufacturing work offers a chance for job training, which “improves the likelihood that inmates will remain crime-free upon their release,” the company says in its report. (Some reports suggest that Unicor prisoners are as much as 24% less likely to return to crime.)

The work also keeps the inmates in check, Unicor insists. “In the face of an escalating inmate population and an increasing percentage of inmates with histories of violence, FPI’s programs have helped ease tension and avert volatile situations, thereby protecting lives and federal property,” the company says. “Prisons without meaningful activities for inmates are dangerous prisons, and dangerous prisons are expensive prisons.”

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[국문 번역]Text Fwd: Raytheon's Andover Facility Named IndustryWeek 'Best Plant' 레이시온의 안도버 시설, 산업 주간의 ‘가장 좋은 공장’으로 선정됨

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번역 배경: 미국에서 네번째로 큰 무기 생산/판매 회사인 레이시온은 평택, 군산등, 그리고 일본의 약 12군데들에 이미 설치되어 있는 PAC-3 를 생산하며 현재 일본과 SM-3를 공동 개발하고 있습니다. 우주의 무기와 핵을 반대하는 글로벌 넷워크는 2011년 6월 메사추세츠 안도버에서 연간 회담을 갖는데 아래 번역된 기사는 바로 그 레이시온 사이트에 회사의 홍보선전용으로 올려진 것으로 보입니다. 기사에서 레이시온의 실체를 다 볼 수는 없으나 패트리어트 [PAC-3] 항공및 미사일 방어 시스템을 개발하는 레이시온의 야망을 엿보는데 도움이 됩니다. 레이시온은 우리 나라의 미사일 방어 시스템과도 깊은 관련이 있으므로 연구해야 할 무기 회사의 하나로 생각합니다. 제 자신 짧은 지식이나 같이 공유합니다. 비디오는 꼭 보시길 추천합니다.
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Video: Raytheon-Patriot Air And Missile Defense System (PAC-3) Simulation
비디오: 레이시온의 패트리어트 항공 미사일 시스템 (PAC -3시뮬레이션)



* Video from Bruce Gagnon blog, 'Empire of Island Bases' on Jan. 10, 2011
비디오 출처: 브루스 개그논의 2011년 1월 10일, '섬 기지들의 제국' 블로그로부터

* Image source: Google (World News)
미국 메사추세츠주 안도버의 레이시온 합동 방어 시스템 공장

* Image source: Google (Raytheon9)

'On 11 June 2008, by a unanimous verdict of the jury, the Raytheon 9 were found not guilty of three counts of criminal damage at the Raytheon offices, Derry Northern Ireland on 9 August 2006.'
'2008년 6월 11일, 배심원 만장 일치 평결로 레이시온 아홉명은 레이시온 사무실들에서의 범죄적 손상이란 세 죄목에서 무죄로 결정되었다. 북아일랜드 데리, 2006년 8월 9일'
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* 2011년 1월11일, 브루스 개그논으로부터 아래 전언과 함께

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지역에서 많은 사람들과 공유해주십시오.

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www.raytheon.com 레이시온 기업 사이트 출처(클릭)

Raytheon's Andover Facility Named IndustryWeek 'Best Plant'

레이시온의 안도버 시설, 산업 주간의 ‘가장 좋은 공장’으로 선정됨

TEWKSBURY, Mass., Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IndustryWeek magazine has named Raytheon Company's (NYSE: RTN) Integrated Air Defense Center in Andover, Mass., one of its "Best Plants" for 2010.

메사추세츠 주 튜크스버리로부터: 2011년 1월 6일/PR 뉴스 와이어/ --산업 주간(IndustryWeek) 잡지는 메사츠세추 주 안도버의 레이시온 회사 (NYSE: RTN)의 통합 항공 방어 센터(Integrated Air Defense Center) 를 2010년 “가장 좋은 공장들의 하나로 선정했다.

The annual competition evaluates manufacturing facilities in multiple categories, including quality, on-time delivery, worker safety and focus on continuous improvement, which will increase competitiveness and customer satisfaction.

연간 경쟁은 질, 정시 배달, 노동자 안정, 그리고 지속되는 개선을 포한, 많은 카테고리들에서 제조 시설들을 평가하는데 이것은 경쟁과 고객 만족을 증가시킬 것이다.

"Continuous improvement is an on-going journey for us," said Dan Ryan, vice president of Operations and Integrated Supply Chain at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems. "Our philosophy is everybody, everyday – ideas from across all areas of the operation are essential for us to continue to increase our efficiency and capacity while maintaining our quality."

레이시온 합동 방어 시스템 Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems 내 작전 및 일괄 공급 체인의 부회장 댄 리안은 “계속적인 개선은 우리로선 지속되는 여행이다,” 라고 말했다. “우리의 철학은 작전의 모든 영역들에서 개개인, 일상의 아이디어들이, 우리가 질을 유지하는 한편, 효율성과 능력을 증대시키는데 있어 필수적이라는 것이다.”

Since 2007, the Integrated Air Defense Center has achieved a 6 percent year-over-year increase in productivity and a reduction of manufacturing floor space requirements of 45,000 square feet. One of the center's largest programs is the Patriot [PAC-3] Air and Missile Defense System. In the past two years, it has had a 100 percent on-time delivery and no-customer rejections since 2005. Approximately 4,500 people work at the facility.

2007년이후 통합 항공 방어 센터는 매년 6%의 생산성과 제조 현장에서 필요한 4만 5천 스퀘어 피트 공간을 축소하는 성과를 이룩해냈다. 센터의 가장 큰 프로그램들의 하나는 패트라어트 [PAC-3] 항공및 미사일 방어 시스템이다. 지난 2년간, 그것은 100% 정시 배달이었으며 2005년 이후로는 고객의 거절이 한번도 없었다. 대략 4천5백 여명이 그 시설에서 일한다.

Raytheon Company, with 2009 sales of $25 billion, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 88 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 75,000 people worldwide.

2009년만 250억 달러치를 팔았던 레이시온 회사는 전 세계 방어, 국토 안보, 그 외 정부주도 시장들 부문에서 전문성을 지니고 기술과 혁신을 이끌고 있다. 레이시온은 88년동안 그 혁신적 역사와 함께, 최첨단 전자, 임무 시스템 통합, 그리고 감지, 효과, 명령-통제-통신-정보 시스템의 영역들에서 그 외 능력들을 제공하는 것과 함께 넓은 범위에 걸쳐 임무 지원 업무들을 한다. 메사츠세츠 월텀에 본부가 있는 레이시온은 전 세계에서 7만 5천여명을 고용한다.


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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau
인간이 날수 없어 지구처럼 하늘을 쓰레기장으로 만들 수 없으니 신에게 감사할 일이다.
~헨리 데이비드 쏘로우

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* Search result on the Korea-related articles from the Raytheon site
레이시온 기업 사이트에서 한국 관련 검색 결과: 아래 링크들 클릭

Raytheon + Korea
레이시온 + 한국

Raytheon
10/21/2009
Raytheon Innovation Supports Korea’s Future Technology Requirements (* Seoul Air Show)
2009년 10월 21일
레이시온의 혁신, 한국 미래 기술 충족을 지지(* 서울 에어 쇼)

Raytheon
March 3, 2008
South Korea Chooses Raytheon's Patriot for Air and Missile Defense Capability Upgrade(*News Release)
2008년 3월 3일
남한, 레이시온의 패트리어트 항공및 미사일 방어 능력 업그레이드 선택(* 보도문)

[국문 번역]Text Fwd: Japan To Move Interceptor Missile Command Post To U.S. Base 일본 자위대 미사일사령부, 미군 공군 기지로 옮김

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Kuwait News Agency쿠웨이크 뉴스 에이전시
January 6, 2011
2011년 1월 6일

Japan to move SDF missile command post to US airbase
일본 자위대 미사일사령부, 미군 공군 기지로 옮김

Kuwait: Japan will move the command post for its missile defense system from a Self-Defense Force facility to a US airbase this year.

쿠웨이트: 일본은 올해, 그 미사일 방어 시스템 사령부를 자위대 시설로부터 미 공군 기지로 옮길 것이다.

Japan's Defense Ministry said the plan will boost the county's defense capabilities, said Japan Broadcasting Corporation, monitored here, on Thursday.

목요일 이곳 [쿠웨이트]에서 모니터된 일본 방송 회사는 일본 관방부가 그 계획이 국가의 방어 능력들을 추진시킬 것이라 말했다고 전했다.

It said the plan will see the Air Self-Defense Force Command in Fuchu, Tokyo move into the compound of the US Yokota airbase in the same city.

그 방송은 그 계획이 토쿄 후추에 있는 공군 자위 사령부가 같은 시 미 요코스카 공군 기지 단지로 옮겨지는 것을 볼거라 말했다.

The shift will begin in March and is expected to be complete within the year, it added.

그 방송은 그 변화가 3월에 시작될 것이며 올해 안에 끝날 것이라고 덧붙였다.

The ministry said the move will help the Self Defense Force improve its speed of detection and response to incoming missiles identified by US early-warning satellites, it noted.

관방부는 그 이동이 미국 조기 경보 위성들에 의해 파악되는 도입 미사일들에 대한 탐지와 대응의 속도를 개선하는데 도움이 될 것이라 말했다.

The ministry also says it plans to spend about 240 million dollars buying ground-based PAC-3 interceptor missiles and deploying them at a SDF base in Okinawa Prefecture, for the first time this year, it added.

관방부는 또한 2.4억 달러치 지대 PAC-3 요격 미사일들을 사서 올해 처음으로 오키나와 자위대 에 배치할 계획이라 덧붙였다.

The ministry is considering deploying the PAC-3 missile system to northern Japan, Hokkaido and Tohoku, but the details of that plan have not been decided, it pointed out.

방송은 관방부가 일본 북부, 홋카이도, 토호쿠에 PAC-3 미사일 시스템을 배치할 것을 고려하고 있으나 계획의 구체적인 세부들은 결정되지 않았다고 지적했다.

Text Fwd: China: Japanese Interceptor Missiles To Threaten Regional Stability

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Global Security Newswire
Japanese Missile Defenses Could Prompt Arms Buildup, China Warns
December 21, 2010

A Chinese diplomat suggested Japan's plan to deploy additional missile defense equipment could threaten strategic stability in Asia and prompt an arms buildup by Beijing, the London Telegraph reported yesterday (see GSN, Dec. 13).

Japan last week unveiled plans to field additional Patriot Advanced Capability 3 missile interceptors and to expedite production of Aegis missile defense warships (see GSN, Dec. 17). Although Tokyo said the deployments were aimed at countering potential North Korean missile strikes, Beijing warned the plan would undermine Chinese defenses.

"Japan's new military investments are going to transform the military balance in the region," the Chinese diplomat said. "China will have no choice but to respond by enhancing its own capabilities."

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu characterized Japan's missile defense plans as "irresponsible."

Analysts expressed concern that an arms race could prompt India and later Pakistan to augment their own missile capabilities.

"China depends heavily on both conventional and nuclear-armed ballistic missiles to offset the technological weaknesses of its armed forces," said Ashley Tellis, an analyst with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "so a more robust Japanese missile defense system is a real threat to its clout" (Praveen Swami, London Telegraph, Dec. 20).

Text Fwd: Japan To Expand Network Of U.S. Patriot Missiles 일본, 미 패트리어트 미사일 넷워크 확장

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Russian Information Agency Novosti
December 11, 2010
Japan plans more Patriot systems to shoot down N. Korean missiles

Tokyo: Japan will deploy a larger network of land-based U.S. Patriot PAC-3
systems to ensure effective defenses against North Korean ballistic missiles, a
draft defense document says.

The White Paper on national defense, an annual revision of the country's basic
defense program, is expected to be adopted by the end of 2010 to reflect the
recent crisis on the Korean peninsula.

Patriot missiles were previously deployed only at three air bases in Japan but in the near future additional systems will be placed on all major Japanese islands, the draft document says.
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Japan is one of the 12 nations that have selected the combat-proven Patriot
system as a key component of their air and missile defense program.

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Reuters
Japan eyes nationwide missile interceptors: report
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Text Fwd: U.S., Japan To Engage In Missile Interception Drills Near China Coas 일본, 미국과 더불어 중국 근해에서 12월 3일 부터 8일간, 미사일 차단 연습 할 것임

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Global Security Newswire
Japan, U.S. to Conduct Missile Interception Drill
November 12, 2010

The U.S. and Japanese militaries are planning to hold a bilateral missile defense exercise early next month simulating a ballistic missile attack on Japan, Jiji Press reported yesterday (see GSN, Nov. 11).

The drills are set to begin on Dec. 3 and last for eight days. They would be staged in waters near the Japanese island territory of Okinawa as well as other areas.

The exercises would involve the simulated detection of a hostile missile, its monitoring by radar and its targeting for elimination, either by a Standard Missile 3 interceptor fired from an Aegis-equipped warship or by the Patriot Advanced Capability 3 system fielded at U.S. and Japanese military bases (Jiji Press, Nov. 11).
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Stop NATO
Japan Seeks U.S. Military Support Against China, Russia
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
November 13, 2010

Stop NATO
Japan Thanks U.S. For Support In Disputes With China, Russia
Russian Information Agency Novosti
November 13, 2010

Text Fwd: Japanese Air Force Tests Anti-Ballistic Missiles In U.S. 일본 공군, 미국에서 대항 미사일 실험

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Raytheon Company
November 10, 2010
Japanese Troops Successful in Patriot Test Firings
TEWKSBURY, Mass. - The Japanese Air Self Defense Forces (JASDF) successfully concluded its annual training exercise at Fort Bliss, Texas.

The exercise included target engagement and successful test firings of the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System in tactical mission configurations. Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) provided operational support for JASDF's Annual Service Practice (ASP).

"It's a great team effort by JASDF, Mitsubishi Heavy Industry (MHI) and Raytheon, focused on mission success," said Sanjay Kapoor, vice president for Patriot Programs at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS)....

Patriot fire unit crews operating Raytheon's Configuration-3 systems conducted numerous missions against various targets during the course of the ASP, which took place from September through November. Approximately 375 JASDF personnel participated in this year's missions.

Japan is one of the 12 nations that have selected the combat-proven Patriot as a key component of their air and missile defense program.

Raytheon IDS is the prime contractor for both domestic and international Patriot Air and Missile Defense Systems and system integrator for Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles. MHI is the prime contractor for Patriot in Japan and manufactures the Guidance Enhanced Missile and related ground equipment for Japan under a license agreement with Raytheon.

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Text Fwd: Missile Offense Funding Grows in Congress

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Missile Offense Funding Grows in Congress

On May 12, the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee voted to increase "missile defense" spending. The subcommittee, which is in charge of oversight for missile defense programs, added $361.6 million to the FY 2011 missile defense budget. This additional funding, combined with President Obama's budget request of $9.9 billion, would bring total spending on missile defense for 2011 to $10.3 billion. Below is a list of the programs that will receive additional funding:

- Airborne Laser: $50 million
- PAC-3: $133.6 million
- AN/TPY-2: $65 million
- Aegis SM-3s: $50 million
- U.S. Israeli Program: $88 million

Further amendments increasing missile offense funding are likely when the full Armed Services Committee meets for markup of the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act on May 19.

This funding comes as social progress in the U.S. is being defunded by the Democrats who run the government.

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Text Fwd: U.S. Military Strategy on the Korean Peninsula and Missile Defense in Northeast Asia (2010.5.9)

* Image source: Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea

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* Thanks, Bruce Gagnon. See the blog.

TRANSCRIPT OF SPEECH AT GN MEETING IN NEW YORK
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U.S. Military Strategy on the Korean Peninsula and Missile Defense in Northeast Asia

Ko Young Dae/SPARK (KOREA)


1. U.S. Military Strategy on the Korean Peninsula

In the 2010 U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), the Obama administration named North Korea along with Iran as a potential target for nuclear preemptive attack, making the Korean peninsula, as it was during the Bush administration, one of the most dangerous regions in the world. This is a violation of the “Agreed Framework between the DPRK and the United States” (October 1994) in which the United States pledged negative security assurance for North Korea, as well as the “Joint Statement” of the fourth Six Party Talks (September 2005). In response to the Obama administration’s new NPR, North Korea declared, “As long as the nuclear threat against us persists, we will continue to develop various nuclear weapons as deterrence and seek to modernize our nuclear weapons.”

Based on the NPR, the US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) takes command of U.S. nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula. Following “CONPLAN 8022” and “OPLAN 8044,” the US STRATCOM designed a new “OPLAN 8010” based on the “New Triad” concept. “OPLAN 8010” uses both high-tech conventional and nuclear war capabilities, including various strategic attacks against North Korea, such as pinpoint attack, bombing of underground military facilities, and cyber wars to paralyze missile and anti-aircraft defense networks. The US STRATCOM’s nuclear war plan on the Korean Peninsula also includes “CONPLAN 8099” in which the Center for Combating WMD takes command. The primary aim of “CONPLAN 8099” is to occupy North Korean nuclear facilities and seize its nuclear weapons. The Center for Combating WMD is the command that leads the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) against North Korea.

The United States also has plans to carry out a war on the Korean Peninsula by executing “OPLAN 5027,” 5026, 5028, 5029, 5030, which are all under the command of the US Pacific Command, the ROK-US Combined Forces Command (CFC), and United Nations Command (UNC). “OPLAN 5027” was developed in 1974 to prepare for nuclear war and “OPLAN 5027-98” adopted the strategy of preemptive strike for the first time. “OPLAN 5027-04” includes the construction of Missile Defense and “OPLAN 5027-06” outlines the strategy of preemptive strike against North Korea’s nuclear and missile facilities.

In anticipation of the transfer of wartime operational control from the United States to South Korea, the two states are currently developing “OPLAN 5012” in place of “OPLAN 5027.” “OPLAN 5012” is a much more offensive plan for nuclear war. “CONPLAN 5029,” which faced opposition from the former Korean government, has now been elevated to an OPLAN. “OPLAN 5029” envisions a military intervention in North Korea in times of internal turmoil, including a natural disaster; such an outrageous plan is in violation of international law. The main goal of “OPLAN 5029” lies in the U.S. desire to seize North Korea’s nuclear facilities and materials for itself, as opposed to by South Korea. “OPLAN 5026” was initiated in December 2002 and completed in July 2003. Its main goal is to execute pinpoint attacks on approximately 700 North Korean targets including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons facilities, and command and control facilities. In this way, “OPLAN 5026” and “OPLAN 5029” under the command of the US Pacific Command and the Combined Forces Command, are designed to complement “OPLAN 8010” of the US STRATCOM.

2. The US MD in Northeast Asia

1) The US MD system in the Pacific Ocean

The MD system that the United States deploys in the Pacific Ocean is aimed at China’s MD and North Korea’s missile system. The Early Warning Radar system which includes the DSP satellite, SBIRS satellite, Cobra Dane Early Warning Radar, SBX (Sea-based X-band) Radar, Aegis BMD Radar, FBX, etc, centers on detecting and tracking long-range missiles or ICBMs aimed at the main land of the United States. In June 2009, to prepare for the event of a long range missile launch from North Korea, the United States ordered the forward deployment of the SBX Radar and the THAAD (Theater High Altitude Air Defense) system in the vicinity of Hawaii. The US Pacific Command also ordered the forward deployment of the Aegis ship, equipped with Standard Missile 3 (SM-3).

2) Japan’s MD system

The United States regards Japan as its most significant international BMD partner. Japan’s MD system is part of the US MD system. Japan’s MD system is being constructed through technical and operative cooperation with the United States. Japan has deployed the US FBX(Forward-based X band) Radar, and has interfaced its 28 ground radar networks with U.S. spy satellites. The principal weapons systems of Japan’s MD are the Aegis BMD system and the PAC-3 system. In January 2008, Japan operationally deployed SM-3 block IA, capable of intercepting long-range missiles. Currently Japan is developing SM-3 block IIA, capable of intercepting ICBMs, and scheduled to debut in 2015. Reversing its previous policy of non-deployment of THAAD, Japan intends to introduce THAAD as a higher tier defense system than a PAC-3. Japan has also deployed its self-developed FPS-XX (L Band) Radar. The FPS-XX Radar is known to have succeeded in detecting and tracking Russian long-range missiles launched from the Sea of Okhotsk

3) South Korea’s MD system

In its 2010 Ballistic Missile Defense Review (BMDR), the United States named South Korea an “important partner.” The BMDR also stated that the United States has been working together with South Korea to “define possible future BMD requirements.” In other words, the United States takes for granted South Korea’s participation in the US MD system. Although the Lee Myung Bak government initially refused to participate in the US MD system, now it has changed its position. This reverses the position maintained by the former Kim Dae Jung and Roh Moo Hyun administrations, which opposed South Korea’s participation in the US MD system for reasons related to South Korea’s technical, financial, and diplomatic relations with Russia and China. The current South Korean government is in the midst of constructing the so-called “South Korean-style MD System” based on PAC-2 Lower Tier Defense and the SM-2 Aegis system.

Further, the South Korean government plans to upgrade PAC-2 to the level of PAC-3 and SM-2 to SM-6, construct K-THAAD by improving Cheolmae-2, construct Early Warning System by importing Green Pine Block-B (whose detection range is 500 km) and AWACS, construct AMD Cell, and thus complete the construction of the so-called South Korean-style MD system. But it is evident that the South Korean-style MD system will be incorporated into and subordinate under the US MD system.

With the planned transfer of wartime operational control from the United States to South Korea, South Korea and the United States plan to interface both of their Armed Force’s C4I through the “Allied Korea Joint Command Control System (AKJCCS)” and integrate and operate both ROK and US Armed Force’s Air and Missile Defense (AMD) Cell. This means that the US MD system and its operations will be at the center of the MD system on the Korean Peninsula.

Through the interface of both ROK and U.S. Armed Forces’ C4I, USAFK’s Theater Missile Defense Warning System (TMDWS) will provide the ROK MD system with a range of information, such as TMD’s launching position, launched missile, track, estimated drop area, drop time, etc., which is essential to the operation of the ROK MD. The Joint Tactical Ground Station (JTAGS) of the USFK provides accurate data about DPRK’s ICBMs.
That both South Korea and the United States incorporate and operate Air and Missile Defense (AMD) Cell means that the ROK MD will interface with the US 14th Air Force’s Joint Space Operation Center (JSPOC). In lieu of US STRACOM, the US 14th Air Force will plan and execute the US Air Force’s space operations. In such a scenario, the South Korean MD’s interface with the US 14th Air Force’s JSPOC means that it will be fully subordinate to the US MD system (DSP, SBIRS, Early Warning Radar, etc). In other words, the South Korean MD will become nothing but one part of the US MD.

For instance, if the South Korean MD intends to defend against an intermediate-range missile from China or Russia, it will need to depend on the US MD system, especially for its early warning system.

3. US MD in Northeast Asia Increases the Possibility of Nuclear War in Northeast Asia

Part of the New Triad axis, MD is a means of preemptive nuclear strike. The United States sees MD as part of its extended deterrence. China is the only nation among the nuclear weapons states that has officially declared adoption of NSA and No First Use (NFU) policies. Due to its concern regarding the US construction of MD, China opposes the start of the Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty (FMCT). If the United States strengthens its MD in the Northeast Asian region in order to debilitate China’s nuclear capability, it may encourage China to abandon its NSA and NFU policies and engage in a nuclear arms race.

North Korea has declared that it is willing to give up its nuclear programs and facilities, and even its nuclear weapons. North Korea takes a fundamentally different position from that of other nuclear weapons states. If the preconditions that North Korea outlined are met– namely a Peace Treaty, and the abolishment of the ROK-US alliance and the US nuclear umbrella in South Korea - North Korea’s nuclear weapons can be abolished. But if the US’ MD, with its doctrine of preemptive strike, is aimed at incapacitating North Korea’s missile capability, North Korea will turn to increase its reliance on nuclear weapons, resulting in North Korea’s continued strengthening of its nuclear power and eventually leading to a domino phenomenon of more states going nuclear in Northeast Asia.

The U.S. construction of MD increases the possibility of nuclear first strike and all-out nuclear war and radically shatters international security and prosperity. Let us not forget that the Northeast Asian region includes Japan, which the United States attacked with nuclear weapons not too long ago, North Korea, the Taiwan Strait, and Vietnam, which in the past the United States threatened with nuclear attack. It is only when the US MD system is abolished that we can prevent this world from nuclear preemptive strikes and nuclear war, and the Pacific Ocean can become true to its name.

Text Fw: Propaganda about PAC-3 from Pro-MD organization

*Text Fw from Bruce Gagnon on April 29, 2010

'Here is some propaganda about PAC-3 from pro-MD organization.'

Missile Defense Advocacy Allaince

Missile Defense In The News

Back To news Listing4/29/2010 - Oklahoma Pride

'Air Defense Soldiers with Riki Ellison
In front of Patriot Missile Defense Systems
Ft. Sill, Oklahoma'


Dear Members and Friends,

Last week MDAA had the honor to visit and interact with our nation's men and women in uniform at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; home of the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery (ADA) School. This school teaches all current and soon to be deployed air defense soldiers who are stationed with the 13 Patriot battalions deployed in support of U.S. missile and air defense throughout the world; most prominently in the Middle East and East Asia. Fort Sill runs courses for Patriot operators and maintenance crews ranging in length from 8 to 30 weeks. The ADA school trains approximately 1,500 to 2,000 U.S. soldiers a year, as well as several hundred soldiers from Israel, Germany, Japan, South Korea, United Arab Emirates and other allied nations that have Patriot Air and Missile Defense Systems.

We strongly support and align with the Combat Commanders', General David Petraeus Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and Robert Willard Commander of U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), view on the immediate missile threat and the need of more missile defense assets to protect our soldiers and allies serving in their respective areas of operation; the Middle East and the Far East. Each and every air defense soldier in their command goes through Fort Sill.

Major General David Halverson and Brigadier General Roger Mathews, who oversee the Air Defense Artillery School at Fort Sill, play a critical role in the future of missile defense as well as current war fighting capabilities as they represent the "users" of the systems to the U.S. Army General Staff. The current U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery doctrine is focused on defeating four major evolving threats:
- Rocket, Artillery & Mortars (Used against U.S. forces in Afghanistan & Iraq)
- Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Flying IED capability and UAVs)
- Cruise Missiles (over 70 nations as well as non state actors have them)
- Ballistic Missiles (over 30 nations and growing)

Currently the U.S. Army has four major air defensive systems deployed to address these evolving threats. In addition, the Army is looking to add four more new systems to supplement and replace the current systems in the years ahead. One of the new systems is a constellation of "blimp like" tethered battlefield sensors called JLENS and the creation of an integration system of all the shooters and sensors in the area to effectively defeat threats. Absolutely critical for protection and handling all threats is a "system of systems" which coordinates to use any sensor, any interceptor at any time. This "system of systems" is the most critical component of regional defense outlay.

The ADA school at Fort Sill is responsible for training soldiers to operate and maintain the four major Army Air Defense regional systems deployed today:

- The Patriot System is capable of defending against Short-Range Ballistic Missiles (SRBM), aircraft, cruise missiles and UAVs

- The Avenger System and Stingers are capable of defending against aircraft and UAVs

- The C-Ram System, (Naval Phalanxes and Sensors) is capable of providing early warning of rocket, artillery and mortar fire and engaging them in protection of Forward Operating Bases.

- The Sentinel is a portable, 360 degree radar providing an aerial picture of the battle space

The Patriot System is deployed as a battery that consists of four to five fire units. A battalion is made up of 4-5 batteries. Each fire unit includes down range and up range equipment. Down range equipment is made up of 8 launchers; each launcher is capable of holding four Patriot-2 Missiles or 16 Patriot-3 Missiles. The down range launchers are connected through fiber optic cable and/or electronics to the up range which consists of the 'Big Four'; the radar, the engagement control station, the communication relay, and the power plant. All of the Patriot both down and up range systems are self powered and mobile; they can be put on C-5, C-17, C-130, C-141 transport planes and have an initial capability to be deployed within 45 minutes.

One Patriot battery can defend an area of up to 20-25 square kilometers against short range, tactical ballistic missiles. 40 percent of current Patriot battalions are forward based in regional theaters such as Korea, Japan, Qatar and Bahrain.

In today's world, where the U.S. President has to make monumental decisions on Iran - to prevent Iran from becoming nuclear or to contain a nuclear Iran - a deployed robust missile defense plays a vital necessary factor in these monumental decisions.

On behalf of our membership throughout the nation, we give due respect and gratitude to Fort Sill, Oklahoma for its important part in making our nation and world a safer place.

Respectfully,


Riki Ellison
Chairman and Founder
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance

[국문 번역]Text Fwd: Protest appeal against the Deployment of PAC 3 in Kurume City, Fukuoka, Japan 일본 후쿠오카현 구루메 시 PAC3 배치에 반대하는 항의 호소문

* Image source 자료 출처 : Kouichi Toyoshima and Anatakara.com

“We could not stop deployment of PAC3 to Kurume, but we have got many supports from abroad,
as well as from this country. I, as one of the coordinators of PNET, released a statement yesterday
and a local paper Nishinippon reported about it today.”
( sent by Kouichi Toyoshima on Feb. 25, 2010)

“우리는 구루메시에 PAC3 가 배치되는 것을 막을 수는 없었으나 [일본과] 해외로부터
많은 지지들을 얻었읍니다. PNET 코디네이터의 한 사람으로 어제 성명을 발표했고
지역 신문 니쉬니폰이 오늘 그 것을 기사화했읍니다.”
(2010 년 2월 25일 코우이치 토요시마 보냄)

(Source: Google)

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Fukuoka Prefecture map 후쿠오카 현 지도
(Source: Google)

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* For the related blog, go to HERE.
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Source 자료 출처: Anatakara.com (and also in ad9.org)

Protest appeal
항의 호소문

24 February, 2010
2010년 2월 24일

* By Koichi Toyoshima, Professor of the University of Saga
* 코우이치 토요시마, 사가 대학 교수

We protest against the deployment of PAC3 into the City of Kurume, and urge citizens of the city to stand up for eliminating the dangerous space war machine.

우리는 PAC3를 구루메 시에 배치하는 것에 대해 항의하며 위험한 우주 전쟁 기계를 없애기 위해 시의 시민들이게 일어나라고 촉구합니다.

Today, on Feb.24th, PAC3 was secretly deployed to Kouradai in the City of Kurume.

오늘 2월 24일, PAC3 가 구루메 시 쿠라다이에 비밀스럽게 배치되었읍니다.

This was the very day when we, P-Net, were supposed to have answers from the city authorities to our questions, after they had postponed it. They told us, on the very day of the deployment, that they would not ‘disclose the date of deployment. ‘

이는 우리 P-Net이 우리 질문에 대한 시 당국들의 대답을 그들이 연기했었던 이 후 받기로 된 날이었읍니다. 그들은 배치 바로 그날 우리에게 “배치 일정을 공개하지’ 않을 거라 말했읍니다.

This notification has become their actual refusal to answer our questions.

이 공고는 우리의 질문에 대한 그들의 실제 거절이 되었읍니다.

PAC3 deployment into Kouradai is part of the space militarization once called ‘Star Wars,’ which inevitably would doom the city to one of its established positions. For the City of Kurume to allow this deployment goes against ' The Declaration for Peace and the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons' the city itself adopted.

쿠라다이에 PAC3를 배치하는 것은 ‘우주 전쟁’이라 불리우는 우주 군사화의 일부분으로 그것은 시를 어쩔 수 없이 그 것의 건설된 일 부분으로 이끌고 말 것입니다. 구루메 시가 이 배치를 허락하는 것은 시가 채택했던 ‘평화와 핵무기 폐지를 위한 선언’에 역행하는 것입니다.

We are very disappointed at the content of the reply, almost business-like, having no reference to the issues we have questioned, as if to say that the city will not meddle in what the central
government does, being in obedient compliance with its direction. This attitude tells us that
the Mayor has almost abandoned his duty as head of this municipality.

우리는 마치 시가 중앙 정부의 방향에 복종하는 고분고분함으로 그 하는 일에 간섭하지 않을 거라 말하는 것처럼, 우리가 질문했던 이슈들에 대해서는 언급도 없이 비즈니스와도 같은 내용의 대답을 한 것에 대해 매우 실망합니다. 이러한 태도는 시장이 이 시읍면의 수장으로 그의 의무를 거의 포기했음을 말합니다.

From the reply by Mayor, we cannot see at all whether or not he has considered several messages sent to him from inside and outside Japan, including Prof. Toshihide Maskawa, the Nobel Prize winner for physics, and Mr. Bruce Gagnon, a peace activist in the USA, and Sung-Hee, Choi and Wooksik Cheong , peace activists in South Korea.

시장의 대답으로부터 우리는 그가 노벨 물리학상 수상자, 토시히데 마스카와 교수, 미국 평화 활동가 브루스 개그논, 그리고 한국 평화 활동가, 최성희와 정욱식등으로부터 온 일본 국내와 외국의 몇 가지 메시지들을 고려했는지 안했는지 전혀 알 수가 없읍니다.

As in the messages sent by Korean activists, military buildup can never be progressed without
enhancing regional tension. Additionally, this is the MD system with the overwhelming attack
capability operated jointly by the US forces and JSDFs, with the latter likely to have the
unconstitutional‘ war potential’ to attack its opponent’s soil. Therefore, it is easy to imagine
our neighboring countries may feel threatened.

한국 시민들이 보낸 메시지에 있는 것처럼, 군사적 축적은 지역적 긴장을 강화하지 않고서는 진전되지 않습니다. 게다가 이는 미국 군대와 일본 자위대에 의해 연합 작전되는 압도적인 공격 능력을 가진 MD 시스템으로 [자위대는] 그의 반대자의 땅을 공격할 ‘비헌법적’ 전쟁 잠재성을 가질 가능성이 높습니다. 그러므로 우리 이웃 국가들이 위협받는 것으로 느낄 것은 쉽게 상상이 됩니다.

Now, it is our turn , as citizens of Kurume, Fukuoka, to be asked on war and peace with a
familiar question whether we should accept this deployment, thinking PAC3 could intercept
a missile conveniently coming into its range or we should envision the regional peace by
attaching importance to the process of the détente in East Asia and trust-building in the region.

이제 후쿠오카 [관구] 구루메시 시민들로서 PAC3가 거리내 도달하는 미사일을 요격할 수 있는 것을 생각하며 우리가 이 배치를 받아들일 것인지 우리가 동북아 긴장 완화 과정의 중요성을 부여하여 지역적 평화를 전망할 것인지 전쟁과 평화라는 낯익은 질문을 받는우리의 차례입니다.

This is not only a regional matter but also a question of gravity, transcending the localism,
demanding imagination on our part.

이는 단지 지역적 문제가 아니라 우리의 입장에서 상상을 요구하는 것으로 지역주의를 초월하는 중대한 문제입니다.

Let’s unite the wisdom and action of every one of us, as a resident in this city, one in this prefecture.

이 현의 하나인 시의 거주자로서 우리 각자의 지혜와 행동을 모읍시다.

Koichi Toyoshima, Professor of the University of Saga

코우이치 토요시마, 사가 대학 교수

Coordinator
Kyushu Network of Anti-PAC3 and Pro-Article 9 Movements

코디네이터
큐슈 넷워크 PAC3 반대와 헌법 9조를 지키는 운동

http://pegasus1.blog.so-net.ne.jp
http://stop-pac3.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/

[국문 번역] Text Fwd: No PAC-3 in Kurume City, Fukuoka, Japan! [일본 후쿠오카 구루메시 PAC-3 배치 반대]

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Update : on Feb. 24, 2010 from Kouichi TOYOSHIMA
엎데이트: 2010년 2월 24일, 코우이치 토요시마로부터

'Dear friends,
친구들

According to the website of Ministry of Defense, PAC3 missile was deployed to the Koradai Base in Kurume City.
국방 장관의 웹사이트에 따르면 PAC3 미사일이 구루메시 코라다이 기지에 배치되었다 합니다.

http://www.mod.go.jp/j/news/2010/02/24a.html

This is just the day the Mayor of Kurume City postponed the answer to our questions.
이는 구루메 시 시장이 우리의 질문에 대답을 연기한 날입니다.

We now start our effort to remove this war machine from our city.
우리는 이제 우리의 도시로부터 이 전쟁 기계를 제거하기 위한 우리의 노력을 시작합니다.

Kouichi TOYOSHIMA
코우이치 토요시마

豊島耕一
http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/pegasus/
http://www.geocities.jp/chikushijiro2002/Default.html
http://pegasus.phys.saga-u.ac.jp/
佐賀大学理工学部物理科学科
840-8507　佐賀市本庄町1
phone/fax: +81 952-28-8845'

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* Image source: same as the below link

Bruce Gagnon blog on Feb. 22, 2010 브루스 개그논 블로그
Monday, February 22, 2010 2010년 2월 22일
SPACE AND BASES 우주와 기지들

'We've learned of another Japanese community that PAC-3 "missile defense" systems will be likely deployed in. Called Kurume-City, activists there are now working hard to raise debate about the destabilizing nature of these deployments. I was asked to write a letter to the mayor of Kurume and I immediately did and the letter was sent to the local newspaper and they printed it. In my letter I told the mayor that the PAC-3 is part of the U.S. first-strike attack program now under development that is ultimately being aimed at China as the Pentagon surrounds them.'

‘우리는 또다른 일본 공동체에 PAC-3 “미사일 방어망” 시스템이 배치될 것 같다란 것을 알게 되었읍니다. 구루메시라는 곳에서 활동가들은 이 배치들의 불안정한 성격에 관해 토론을 일으키려 열심히 일하고 있읍니다. 저는 구루메 시장에게 편지를 쓸 것을 요청 받았고 즉시 했으며 그 편지는 지역 신문에 인쇄되었읍니다. 제 편지에서 저는 시장에게 PAC-3는 현재 개발중인 미국 미사일 공격 프로그램의 일부이며 국방부가 그들을 둘러쌈에 따라 궁극적으로 중국을 목적으로 하는 거라 말했읍니다.’

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* For more on the opposition movement against the PAC3 in Kurume city,
see:
구루메시의 PAC3 반대 운동에 관해서 더 많은 사항은 여기를 참고하시길 (일어/영어)

http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/pegasus/

http://www.geocities.jp/chikushijiro2002/Default.html

http://pegasus.phys.saga-u.ac.jp/

Anatakara.com

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* Below is from Anatakara.com

http://stop-pac3.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/2010/02/pac3_c57c.html

http://stop-pac3.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/files/koukaisitumon.pdf
Feb. 16, 2010
2010년 2월 16일

Toshinori Narahara, Mayor of the City of Kurume

토시노리 나라하라, 구루메 시장께

Japanese ruling coalition and the Ministry of Defense are going to deploy PAC 3 to
JASDF Kouradai Sub Base in the City of Kurume, Fukuoka, in February after the previous PAC3 deployments in SDF Bases in Ashiya and Tsuiki also in Fukuoka.

일본 지배 연합정부와 국방부는 2월에 후쿠오카 구루메시, 일본 자위대의 쿠라다이 하부 기지에 PAC 3를 배치하려 하는데 이것은 역시 후쿠오카에 있는 아시야와 추이키의 자위대 기지들의 PAC 3 배치에 이은 것입니다.

The deployment of PAC 3 is part of the US Missile Defense system. Deployment of the
MD system, which is called ‘the shield for preemptive strike,’ further enhances missile crises.

PAC 3 배치는 미국 방어망 시스템의 일부분입니다. “선제 공격을 위한 방패’라 불리는 MD 시스템의 배치는 미사일 위기를 더 심화시킵니다.

In the past, Russian government even said that if the US MD system was to be deployed in
the eastern Europe, then Russia would attack it. Considering this, PAC3 deployment to Kouradai Sub Base would oblige citizens of the city to live under a situation where they might suffer possible war disasters, their wish for peace and maintenanceof the Article 9 trampled over.

과거에 러시아 정부는 미국 MD 시스템이 동유럽에 배치된다면 러시아는 그것을 공격할 거라고 까지 했읍니다. 이를 고려할 때 쿠라다이 하부 기지의 PAC3 배치는 시의 시민들을 가능한 전쟁 재난으로 어쩔 수 없이 고통을 당할 상황 아래 둘 것이며 시민들의 평화와 헌법 9조 유지를 위한 염원은 짓밟힐 것입니다.

Seen in its right perspective, PAC3 flies only 20km, and has no proven effect without enough
numbers of confirmed successful hitting cases in realistic tests. In the current world situations
where many peoples are faced with difficiulties, how can we tolerate our hard-earned money
being spent on this kind of incomplete weapon system?

제대로 보면, PAC3는 단지 20 km 를 날 뿐으로 실제 실험들에서 확인된 성공적 명중의 충분한 사례들이 없는 등 증명된 효과가 없읍니다. 많은 이들이 어려움에 직면한 현재 세계 상황에서 우리가 어떻게 어렵게 번돈을 이 불완전한 무기 따위에 소비하는 것을 참을 수 있단 말입니까?

The issue of PAC3 deployment not only concerns locals but also lives and ways of living of all
the citizens in a broad sense. However, the Ministry of Defense requested the municipalities
designated for the deployment that they refrain from announcing the details until after the
planned PAC3 deployment to Ashiya and Tsuiki SDF Bases (and partly to Kasuga ) were over,
and indeed they were brought in to those places without our knowledge of its coming into
the bases. These posture of the Ministry of Defense toward local citizens ominously remind us
without fail of the detestable secrecy practice of hiding military information during the WW2
under the then military rule in Japan.

PAC3 배치 이슈는 지역민들 뿐만이 아니라 더 넓은 의미에서 모든 시민들과 삶과 생활 방식에도 관심을 둡니다. 그러나 국방부는 배치가 지정된 시의 시읍면에 아시아와 추이키 자위대 기지들에 (그리고 카수가에 부분적으로) PAC3 배치가 끝날 때까지 세부들을 알리는 것을 삼가하도록 요청했으며 실제로 그것들은 그 지역들에 온다는 것을 우리가 모르는채 들여져 왔읍니다. 지역 시민들을 향한 이러한 국방부의 자세는 영락없이 일본 군사 지배하 2차 대전 당시 군사 정보들을 은폐하는 혐오스런 비밀 행동들을 음울하게 연상시킵니다.

For these reasons above, we oppose the scheduled deployment of PAC3 to Kouradai Sub Base.
We request that the Mayor of the City of Kurume agree to our statement and answer sincerely
to our questions below.

위의 이러한 이유들로 우리는 쿠라다이 하부 기지의 예정된 PAC3 배치에 반대합니다. 우리는 구루메 시의 시장이 우리의 성명서에 동의하며 아래 우리의 질문들에 성실하게 답변하길 요청합니다.

(1) Whether or not you are agree to the forthcoming deployment of PAC3 to Kouradai Sub Base

(1) 당신께서 쿠라다이 하부 기지에 예정된 PAC3 배치에 동의하는지, 하지 않는지 알려주시기 바합니다.

(2) Whether or not you have received so far any previous notice from the Ministry of Defense
regarding the purpose, volumes, date of the above-mentioned deployment. If you have,
whether or not you have an intention to disclose to the public the information on the date of
the notice and how it has come to you ( such as in a document or so).

(2) 당신께서 국방부로부터 위에 언급된 배치의 목적, 양, 일시등과 관련해 지금까지 사전 공지를 받은 적이 있었는지 아닌지 알려주시기 바랍니다. 받으셨다면 당신께서 대중들에게 공고 일자등에 대한 정보및 그것이 어떻게 당신께 왔는지 밝힐 의사가 있는지 묻고 싶습니다. (문서등의 양식으로 말입니다.)

(3) In case the Ministry of Defense contacts the City of Kurume as to when they are carrying out
the above-mentioned deployment, whether or not you disclose the information to the public.

(3) 국방부가 구루메시에 연락, 어느때고 그들이 위에 언급된 배치를 들여올 경우, 당신께서 대중에게 정보를 밝힐 의사가 있는지, 없는지 묻고 싶습니다.

( Incidentally, the Ministry of Defense issued a document to the related municipalities which said that those municipalities were supposed to refrain from announcing the deployment dates to the public. To our question regarding this document, the spokesperson of the Ministry has said, ‘ the legal legitimacy of the document is not clear, so the disclosure of the deployment date is up to the decision by the municipalities.’)

우연하게도 국방부는 관계된 시읍면에게 문서를 공고했는데 그것은 시읍면들이 대중에게 배치 일정을 알리는 것을 삼가하도록 되어있다고 말하는 것이었읍니다. 이 문서에 관한 우리의 질문에 대해 부서의 대변인은 ‘문서의 적법성[시읍면에 알릴]은 분명하지 않으므로 배치 일정 안내는 시읍면의 결정에 달렸다고 말했읍니다,’)

We would like to ask you to answer these questions in the form of a document till Feb.22nd.

우리는 당신께서 이 질문들에 문서 양식으로 2월 22일까지 답변해 주시길 요청하고 싶습니다.

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source: Anatakara.com

* Bruce Gagnon's below letter was translated in Japanese and loaded in the local newspaper.
[아래] 브루스 개그논의 편지는 일본어로 번역되었으며 지역 신문에 실렸다.

Dear Mayor:

친애하는 시장님:

It has come to my attention that the PAC-3 missile systems are soon to be deployed in Kurume-City.

PAC-3 미사일 시스템이 곧 구루메 시로 배치된다는 것이 저의 주의를 끌게 되었읍니다.

The PAC-3 systems are part of the U.S. first-strike attack program aimed at China.　For some years the U.S. Space Command has been computer war gaming a first-strike attack on China, set in the year 2016.

PAC-3 시스템들은 중국을 향한 미국의 선제 공격 프로그램의 일부입니다. 몇 년동안 미 우주 사령부는 2016년을 가정, 중국에 대한 선제 공격 컴퓨터 전쟁 게임을 해왔읍니다.

In that computer war game the U.S. trys to destroy the 20 Chinese nuclear weapons that are now capable of hitting the west coast of the continental U.S.

그 컴퓨터 전쟁 게임에서 미국은 미 대륙 서부 해안을 현재 명중할 수 있는 20개의 중국 핵 무기들을 파괴하려 시도합니다.

But a few of the Chinese nuclear weapons are not destroyed in the first attack by the U.S. military and China then fires them in a retaliatory strike. It is then that the PAC-3 and Aegis destroyer based missiles are used to take out China's retaliatory strike.

그러나 약간의 중국 핵 무기들은 미국 군대의 첫번째 공격에 의해 파괴되지 않고 그러면 중국은 보복 공격으로 그 남은 핵무기들을 발사합니다. 그러면 그 때가 PAC-3 와 이지스 구축함에 기반을 둔 미사일들이 중국 보복 공격을 제거하려 사용될 때입니다.

It is very clear that your city will be now be drawn into the middle of the nuclear arms race. Your community will become a nuclear target as well.

그러면 당신의 도시가 핵무기 경쟁의 와중으로 끌어들여질 것이 분명합니다. 당신의 공동체는 핵 명중 대상이 또한 될 것입니다.

I would hope that you would speak out and say that you do not want your city to become
a base for the U.S. first-strike attack program.

저는 당신께서 발언하여 당신의 도시가 미국 선제 공격 프로그램을 위한 기지가 되는 것을 원하지 않는다고 말씀하시길 희망합니다.

In peace,

평화로,

Bruce K. Gagnon 브루스 K.개그논
Coordinator 코디네이터
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
우주의 무기와 핵을 반대하는 글로벌 넷워크
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
globalnet@mindspring.com
http://www.space4peace.org
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/ (blog)

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* source: Anatakara.com

* 'Prof. Masukawa received the 2008 Nobel Prize for
Physics along with Prof. Makoto Kobayashi
(Wikipedia: 益川敏英)'
'마수카와 교수는 마코토 고바야시 교수와 함께 2008년 노벨 물리학상을 받았다.'

Space militalization goes against the spirit of the Article 9
우주의 군사화는 헌법 9조의 정신에 거스른다.

— A Japanese Nobel laureate asks mayor to consider well
_ 일본 노벨 수상자, 시장에게 잘 고려할 것을 요청

http://pegasus1.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2010-02-18　


Toshinori Narahara, Mayor of the City of Kurume

토시노리 나라하라, 구루메 시 시장님

Dear Mayor Narahara,

친애하는 나라하라 시장님,

I would presume you have been very committed to your work for the city.

저는 당신께서 시를 위해 매우 사명감을 갖고 일해오셨다고 추측합니다.

Recently I have heard that PAC3, the ground-based interceptor system is soon to be deployed in the City of Kurume.

저는 최근에 지대 요격 시스템인 PAC3 가 구루메 시에 곧 배치될 거라는 것을 들었읍니다.

It is well known that PAC3 is part of the so-called Missile Defense system, operated along with SM3, which is launched on the Aegis-outfitted destroyers.

PAC3 가 이지스 구축함에 장착되는 SM3 와 함께 이른바 미사일 방어 시스템의 하나로 작동되리라는 것은 잘 알려진 사실입니다.

Considering this, I cannot help but say that PAC3 is part of what constitutes, in the excuse of ‘ defense,’ a system of waging war from space, all of which used to be called ‘Star Wars.’

이를 고려할 때 저는 PAC3가 ‘방어’란 구실아래 우주로부터 전쟁을 수행하는 시스템인 ‘우주 전쟁’이라 불리는 총체를 구성하는 일부라고 밖에 말할 수 없읍니다.

This kind of space militarization will never contribute to peace, and also it runs counter to the spirit of the Article 9 in our constitution. From my standpoint with which I am opposed as a scientist to the utilization of science and the militarization of space, I am gravely concerned about this situation.

이러한 우주의 군사화는 결코 평화에 기여하지 않을 것이며 또한 우리 헌법의 9 조의 정신에 역행하는 것입니다. 과학의 [악]용과 우주의 군사화에 반대하는 과학자의 제 위치에서 저는 이 상황을 무겁게 우려합니다.

I would like to ask you from the bottom of my heart for the full and deliberate consideration on
accepting this scheduled deployment in the light of your responsibility as mayor for protecting
the safety of the citizens.

저는 당신께 제 마음으로부터 시민들의 안전을 보호하는 시장의 책임이란 면에서 예정된 배치에 관한 완전하고 신중한 고려를 구할 것을 부탁드리고 싶습니다.

Sincerely yours,

성심으로

Toshihide Masukawa
Prof.of physics
Kyoto Sangyo University

토시히테 마수카와
물리학 교수
교토 산교 대학




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関連　related article: 久留米市民より公開質問状　—高良台へのPAC3 配備を目前にして

(任意参照)
ノーベル賞受賞者たち、オバマ大統領へミサイル防衛システム配備に反対と警告
http://www.space4peace.org/bmd/laureates%20warn%20obama.htm
5 July 2009 2009년 7월 5일
Nobel Laureates Warn Obama Against Missile Defense Deployment
노벨 수상자들, 오바마에게 미사일 방어 배치에 반대해 경고하다.

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* source: Anatakara.com

Japan PAC-3 deployment map
일본 PAC-3 배치 지도

(source as in the link. English added on image)

Click for image for larger view
이미지를 클릭하시면 크게 보임

2006/9 嘉手納（沖縄　米軍) 　Kadena. Okinawa, US' MD
2006년 9월 카데나, 오키나와 미국 MD 배치

2007/3 入間（埼玉） 　 Saitama
2007년 3월 사이타마
　　　
　 同/11 習志野（千葉） Chiba
2007년 11월 지바

2008/1 武山（横須賀） 　Kanagawa
2008년 1월 가나가와

　 同/3 霞ヶ浦（茨城） 　Ibaragi
3월 이바라기

　 同/5 浜松 （静岡） 　Shizuoka
5월 시즈오카

2009/2 岐阜、 　　　　 Gife
2009년 2월 기푸

　　 /６　白山（三重） 　 Mie
6월 미에

　　 /８ 饗庭野（滋賀） Shiga
8월 시가

　　 /１０ 芦屋(福岡） 　　Fukuoka
10월 후쿠오카

　　 /12　 築城(福岡） 　 Fukuoka
12월 후쿠오카

　　　　　 高良台（福岡） Fukuoka

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이미지를 클릭하시면 크게 보임

* The above Images and English captions were thankfully provided, with the solidarity messages,
by Makiko Sato on Jan. 17, 2010, For more, see HERE.
위의 이미지들과 영어 캡션들은 연대 메시지와 함께 2010년 1월 17일
마키코 사토에 의해 감사히 제공되었읍니다. 더 자세한 내용은 여기를 클릭

Makiko Sato has also translated the article: ‘Pentagon Wants South Korea In Missile Shield System’
and ‘United States, Stop the Enforcement [of South Korea] to Join the MD System!’ see HERE.
마키코 사토는 '미 국방부는 미사일 방패 시스템에 한국을 원한다'와
'미국, 남한에게 MD 시스템을 참여하길 강요하지 말라! 를 번역했다. 여기를 클릭.

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[국문 번역]Text Fwd: THE SWORD AND THE SHIELD 칼과 방패

Aegis destroyers launching SM-3 "missile defense" systems

SM-3 "미사일 방어 "시스템을 발사하는 이지스 구축함들

Army Ground-based "missile defense" interceptors

육군 지대 "미사일 방어" 요격기들

* Image source: same as the below link

Bruce Gagnon blog 브루스 개그논 블로그
Thursday, February 04, 2010 2010년 2월 4일
THE SWORD AND THE SHIELD 칼과 방패

The latest word is that Romania will be hosting the U.S. Army's ground-based "missile defense" systems. Russia is not pleased with these developments.

가장 최근에 들리는 이야기는 루마니아가 미 육군의 지대 “미사일 방어” 시스템들을 들여올 것이란 얘기입니다. 러시아는 이 개발들에 기쁘지 않습니다.

News that the U.S. is also about to deploy a PAC-3 missile battery in Poland led Russia's ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, to recently state: "Do they really think that we will calmly watch the location of a rocket system, at a distance of 60 km from Kaliningrad?"

미국이 폴란드에 PAC-3 미사일 배터리를 또한 배치하려 한다는 뉴스는 러시아의 나토 대사 드미트리 로고진으로 하여금 최근 이렇게 말하게 했읍니다: “그들은 우리가 칼리니그라드에서 60 킬로미터 떨어진 곳에 로켓 시스템을 위치하는 것을 조용하게 보리라고 정말 생각하는가?

The deployment of SM-3, with several times the reach of the Patriot, on land and sea (the SM-3 will soon be converted to be deployed on land like the PAC-3) in the same Baltic Sea neighborhood will only makes matters more dangerous.

패트리어트 미사일 도달 [거리]의 3~4배가 넘는 SM-3 (SM-3는 PAC-3 처럼 육지 위에 배치되도록 전환될 것입니다) 를 같은 발틱해 이웃의 육지나 바다에 배치하는 것은 문제들을 더욱 위험하게 만들 뿐입니다

These same Army Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) systems are going to be deployed in Taiwan as the U.S. continues its military encirclement of China. U.S. PAC-3 systems have already been deployed in Japan and South Korea.

이 같은 육군 패트리어트 선진 능력-3, Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) 시스템들은 미국이 중국을 군사적으로 봉쇄하는 것을 계속함에 따라 대만에도 배치될 것입니다. 미국의 PAC-3 시스템들은 이미 일본과 남한에 배치되어 있읍니다

The Standard Missile-3 (SM-3), now deployed in the Persian Gulf and soon to be permanently based on Navy Aegis destroyers in the Baltic, South China, Mediterranean and Black Seas, has a range of 500 kilometers but can be enhanced for longer distances. The missile was used by the U.S. Navy to destroy a satellite 130 miles above the Pacific Ocean in February of 2008 in a test viewed by Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. "The satellite was unlike any target the system was designed to go after....The satellite was in orbit rather than on a ballistic trajectory. Also, the satellite was traveling at incredible speeds," Mullen said.

현재 걸프만에 배치된 스탠다드 미사일 3(SM-3)는 발틱, 남중국, 지중해, 그리고 흑해의 해군 이지스 구축함들에 곧 영구히 배치될 것이며 500 킬로미터 사정 거리를 가지나 좀 더 긴 거리로 향상될 수 있읍니다. 그 미사일은 미 해군이 2008년 2월 태평양 해양으로부터 130마일 상공의 위성을 파괴하는 것에 사용되었는데 그 실험은 미 합참 의장인 마이클 멀렌 제독에 의해 보아졌읍니다.
“ 그 위성은 그 시스템이 원래 추구하기로 고안된 여늬 다른 명중 대상들과 달랐읍니다…그 위성은 탄도 궤도에 있기 보다는 [천문] 궤도에 있었읍니다. 또한 그 위성은 믿을 수 없는 속도로 여행하고 있었읍니다. “ 라고 멀렌은 말했읍니다.

Translation: the SM-3 also has "anti-satellite" (ASAT) weapons capability. That means the Pentagon can use the Aegis-based missile to knock out Russian or Chinese satellites as part of a first-strike attack.

번역: SM-3는 “대항-위성 anti-satellite (ASAT)” 무기 능력을 또한 가집니다. 이는 미 국방부가 첫번째 공격의 일환으로 러시아와 중국의 위성들을 쏘아뜨리기 위해 이지스에 기반한 미사일을 사용할 수 있다는 것을 말합니다.

The official authorization of Patriot transfers to Taiwan - the missiles are produced by Raytheon Company headquartered in Massachusetts, whose former vice president of Government Operations and Strategy William Lynn is now Obama's Deputy Secretary of Defense - resulted in China's vice foreign minister, He Yafei, saying "We believe this move endangers China's national security." Luo Yuan, senior researcher with the Chinese Academy of Military Science, added "The U.S. action gives China a justified cause to increase its national defense expenditure, to enhance the development and purchase of weapons, and to accelerate its modernization process in national defense....China did nothing to threaten the U.S., why should the US challenge our core strategic interests?"

대만으로의 패트리어트 미사일- 이 미사일들은 메사추세츠에 본부가 있는 레이시온 회사에 의해 생산되는데 그 회사의 정부 작전과 전략 [위원회의] 부사장이었던 윌리엄 린은 현재 오바마의 국방 차관보로 있읍니다-이전을 공식화한 것은 중국의 외교 차관 히 야페이가 “이러한 움직임은 중국의 국가 안보를 위험하게 하리라고 믿습니다.” 라고 말하는 것으로 결과지어졌읍니다. 류오 유안, 중국 군사 과학 아카데미의 선임 연구원은 덧붙였읍니다. “미국의 행동은 중국으로 하여금 국방 지출을 늘릴 정당한 명분을 주고 무기 개발 구매를 향샹시키며 국방 현대화 과정을 가속화시킵니다…. 중국은 미국을 위협할 아무것도 하지 않았읍니다... 왜 미국은 우리의 핵심 전략 이익에 도전해야 한단 말입니까?

Deputy Secretary of Defense Lynn delivered a speech in Washington, DC on January 21, where he demanded that Congress "put the Defense Department on a permanent footing to fight both low-intensity conflicts to maintaining air dominance and the ability to strike any target on Earth at any time....The next air warfare priority for the Pentagon is developing a next-generation, deep-penetrating strike capability that can overcome advanced air defenses."

국방 차관보 린은 1월 21일 수도 워싱턴에서 연설을 했는데 그 곳에서 그는 국회가 “국방부로 하여금 영구히 발을 딛고 공중 지배를 유지하고 언제라도 지구의 어떠한 목표물이라도 맞출 수 있는 능력을 갖게 하여 양쪽의 저강도 전쟁들을 싸울 수 있도록…. 국방부의 다음 공중 전쟁 우선 과제는 선진 공중 방어들을 극복할 수 있는 차세대, 깊게 뚫는 공격 능력을 개발하는 것이다.”

The new Prompt Global Strike system is designed to accomplish just those objectives.

새로운 즉각적 전지구적 공격 시스템은 단지 그러한 목표들을 성취하도록 고안되었읍니다.

So the strategy is clear. Surround Russia and China with mobile "missile defense" systems whose job is to take out their retaliatory capability after a U.S. first-strike against their nuclear weapons. Russia and China then build counter-measures to the U.S. missile defense systems and then the Pentagon in return counters with the new "global strike" systems that are today under development.

그래서 전략은 명확합니다. 러시아와 중국을 이동할 수 있는 “미사일 방어” 시스템들로 봉쇄하는 것인데 그것들의 일은 미국이 그들의 핵무기에 첫번째 공격을 한 이후 그들의 보복적 능력을 없애는 것입니다. 러시아와 중국은 미국 미사일 방어 시스템에 대항해 대처 방안들을 짓고 미 국방부는 오늘날 개발 중인 새로운 “전지구적 공격” 시스템들로 대항할 것입니다.

All this means one thing - an extended arms race with Russia and China which will mean huge profits for the weapons industry and the very likely reality that no effective arms control treaties will be negotiated during this administration. Why would Russia and China negotiate to seriously reduce their nuclear arsenals when the U.S. is surrounding them with missile defense and building new global strike systems?

이 모든 것들은 하나를 의미합니다- 무기 산업을 위해 거대한 이윤이 될 러시아와 중국과의 연장된 무기 경쟁과 이 행정부 기간동안 어떠한 효과적인 무기 통제 조약들도 협상되지 않을 현실말입니다. 미국이 미사일 방어망과 새로운 지구적 공격 시스템으로 러시아와 중국을 봉쇄하려 하는데 왜 러시아와 중국이 그들의 핵병기를 심각하게 축소하려 협상하겠읍니까?

The U.S. war state (supported and funded by Democrats and Republicans) has become a pariah on this planet. You can dress it up nice with a smiling Obama but in the end one has to judge the U.S. by its deeds.

(민주당과 공화당에 의해 지지되고 기금을 받는) 미국의 전쟁 상태는 이 지구상의 부랑자가 되었읍니다. 당신은 미소짓는 오바마와 함께 멋지게 입을 수 있으나 당신은 행동으로 미국을 판단해야 할 것입니다.

(Parts of this were written by Rick Rozoff in a piece called U.S. Extends Missile Buildup From Poland And Taiwan To Persian Gulf)

(이 글의 부분들은 릭 로조프의 ‘미국이 폴란드와 대만으로부터 페르시아만까지 미사일 건축을 확장한다’ 란 글에 쓰여 있읍니다.