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Russians Prep Missile Defense Battery on Nork Border?

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Guardian:

Russia has placed an anti-missile defence system close to its border with North Korea, in an apparent sign of growing alarm in Moscow at Pyongyang’s nuclear programme.

Russia’s chief of army staff, General Nikolai Makarov, told reporters on a trip with President Dmitry Medvedev to Mongolia the military had deployed its S-400 anti-missile division, a state-of-the-art anti-aircraft system capable of shooting down short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.

The system, stationed in Russia’s far east, would “guarantee” fragments from an errant North Korean missile would not fall on Russian territory, he said. “We are definitely concerned by the conditions under which tests are being carried out in North Korea, including nuclear devices,” he added.

There’s apparently some question regarding the veracity of the claim, and it’s unclear what the S-400 can really do in terms of missile defense, but interesting nonetheless. If true, I guess it means that the Russians are pretty much finished with Pyongyang. I do wonder whether this is connected with North Korea’s more cooperative attitude in the past few weeks…

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