Posted on 08/30/2009 4:51:20 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Russia deploys missiles along border with North Korea
Tony Halpin in Moscow
Russia has put defences on alert along its border with North Korea amid tensions over possible new missile tests by the secretive Communist regime.
The Kremlin ordered troops to deploy Russias most advanced missile defence system, the S-400, to intercept any threats from North Koreas nuclear programme. General Nikolai Makarov, the head of the Russian army, said that a mobile battery of 32 surface-to-air missiles had been put into operation in anticipation of any Korean tests.
We are taking these preventative measures as a security guarantee against faulty launches of the missiles and to guarantee that fragments of these missiles never fall on Russian territory, he said. We are concerned by the fact that the site in North Korea where it carries out its nuclear tests is located quite close to the Russian border.
A senior Russian senator said that use of the S-400 system could not be ruled out, but he rejected any comparison between Moscows actions and the decision by the United States to build a missile defence shield in Eastern Europe. The US argues that the shield is necessary to deter attacks by rogue nations such as Iran and North Korea, but Russia has denounced the plan as a threat to its national security.
Mikhail Margelov, chairman of the Federation Councils International Affairs Committee, said that the US was responding to non-existent dangers, while Russia was defending against the emergence of real sources of threat.
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Or maybe when the rest of the world starts to retaliate, they don't want those missiles crossing their border...
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