{"id":17161,"date":"2013-04-01T12:56:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T16:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=17161"},"modified":"2013-04-01T12:56:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T16:56:55","slug":"u-s-moves-destroyer-off-korean-coast-as-rhetoric-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/04\/u-s-moves-destroyer-off-korean-coast-as-rhetoric-worsens\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Moves Destroyer off Korean Coast as Rhetoric Worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/fitzgerald.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17162\" alt=\"fitzgerald\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/fitzgerald.jpg?resize=320%2C239\" width=\"320\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h3 id=\"pagesub\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">No Changes in North Korean Military Mobilization<\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>by Jason Ditz<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Though the White House conceded that the rhetoric coming out of North Korea has not been followed with any significant changes to their mobilization, the US continues to deploy military hardware in the Korean Peninsula, raising the stakes in a war of words.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Starting with nuclear-capable bombers flying along the frontier between North and South Korea, the<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/03\/31\/us-ups-ante-with-stealth-fighters-for-drills-near-north-korea\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">US added F-22 stealth fighters<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000;\">over the weekend and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worldnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/03\/31\/17543980-us-navy-shifts-destroyer-in-wake-of-north-korea-missile-threats?lite\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">has now deployed the USS Fitzgerald, a heavily armed destroyer,<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000;\">off the Korean coast.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The USS Fitzgerald\u2019s primary use has been its radar systems, and it has long been part of the US Navy\u2019s missile detection\/defense system. This is the justification of the deployment; North Korea has threatened to launch missile strikes against the US mainland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Yet realistically North Korea\u2019s missile systems are nowhere near as advanced as advertised, and<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/03\/31\/north-korea-lacks-technology-to-carry-out-war-plans\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">experts say they couldn\u2019t even theoretically<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000;\">launch the sort of attacks they have threatened. Thus the Fitzgerald, assuming it is used for anything at all, would see its deployment off the coast primarily as a platform for launching missiles against North Korea, rather than defending against the largely illusory threat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/04\/01\/us-parks-destroyer-off-korean-coast-as-rhetoric-worsens\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Changes in North Korean Military Mobilization by Jason Ditz Though the White House conceded that the rhetoric coming out of North Korea has not..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,21,189,97,119],"tags":[322,197,226,266],"class_list":["post-17161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-international","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-war","tag-democratic-peoples-republic-of-korea","tag-imperialism","tag-imperialist-war","tag-republic-of-korea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/fitzgerald.jpg?fit=320%2C239&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}