So Korea is Fueling up To Launch Dis Weekend?

[Stymi]

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/ynew...730722&lang=en

[BradH]

I hope it lands on Sarah Palin

[DJMishap]

Originally Posted by BradH

I hope it lands on Sarah Palin

pfffffffa hahahaha ahahahaAHAHAHAHAHA!

[emphatic_apparatek]

Out of all of the current political issues going on right now, this is the one Ive been following the most. I'm really interested to see what will happen when they launch it and if we will invade or if south korea will invade. North Korea has already threatened to shoot down any planes flying in their airspace... I bet our troops end up over there pretty soon.

[BradH]

No one is going to invade. However, we have several Aegis anti-ballistic missile ships in the area, and Japan has deployed their missile defense system as well.... so that shit might get shot down.

[Stymi]

Originally Posted by emphatic_apparatek

Out of all of the current political issues going on right now, this is the one Ive been following the most. I'm really interested to see what will happen when they launch it and if we will invade or if south korea will invade. North Korea has already threatened to shoot down any planes flying in their airspace... I bet our troops end up over there pretty soon.

mines as well, North Korea is not being cocky for nuttin. Scary stuff.

[johnny861]

wow

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...040200600.html

N. Korea Ratchets Up Threats as It Readies Missile for Launch

TOKYO, April 2 -- Amid reports that it is fueling a missile for launch as soon as this weekend, North Korea escalated threats on Thursday against a worried neighbor, warning it would attack "major targets" in Japan if Tokyo shoots the missile down.

North Korea has shifted MIG-23 fighter jets to its east coast, near the missile launch site, according to South Korean media reports.

In London for the G-20 summit, President Obama criticized the launch on Wednesday as a "provocative act" that would violate a U.N. resolution and trigger a response from the U.N. Security Council. The leaders of Japan and South Korea agreed in London that the launch, if it occurs, should be addressed by the Security Council.

The three countries have dispatched ships with anti-missile systems to monitor the launch, which they describe as a test of a long-range ballistic missile that could fly as far as the western United States. North Korea is trying to miniaturize nuclear warheads to fit atop its growing arsenal of missiles, U.S. intelligence officials have said.

North Korea says the missile is part of a peaceful research effort to put a communications satellite into orbit.

Based on satellite photographs, experts say the missile appears to be carrying a satellite payload. No country has said it would try to shoot it down, unless it poses a threat.

But North Korea, judging from its near-daily warnings of retaliation and war, is growing increasingly agitated -- at U.S. surveillance flights, foreign ship movements and threats of U.N. sanctions.

In what it called an "important report," North Korea's official news agency said Thursday that "Japanese reactionaries, the sworn enemy of the Korean people, are perpetrating the most evil doings over North Korea's projected satellite launch for peaceful purposes."

Last week Japan ordered land- and sea-based anti-missile systems to destroy debris from the North's missile, if it fails in flight and falls on Japan. The announced flight trajectory of the missile takes it high over northern Japan, but the likelihood of anything dropping from the sky and hitting the country is quite remote, Japanese officials say.

North Korea, though, says Japan is being reckless. In its warning on Thursday, it said that if Japan intercepts the missile, "the Korean People's Army will mercilessly deal deadly blows not only at the already deployed intercepting means but at major targets."

North Korea has about 200 mid-range Nodong missiles that are capable of striking nearly every part of Japan, according to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo.

Citing U.S. military officials, CNN said Wednesday that North Korea has begun to pump fuel into the missile, a process that means it could be launched within three or four days. Officials in Japan and South Korea would not confirm the report.

Among the many threats that it has issued in recent days, North Korea has said it would walk away from talks with the United States and four other countries over ending its nuclear program if its missile launch is criticized in the U.N. Security Council.

Although it is one of the poorest countries in Asia, North Korea has made itself into the "greatest supplier of missiles, missile components and related technologies" in the developing world, according to a 2008 report for the U.S. Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute.

It has sold missiles to Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, Libya and Yemen -- and received hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, Calif.

North Korea warned Monday that it will interpret as a "declaration of war" any move by South Korea to join the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative, a multi-nation effort begun during the Bush administration to intercept shipments of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction by countries such as North Korea.

The warning might backfire. South Korean government officials said Thursday they were leaning toward joining the anti-proliferation group. For nearly six years, South Korea has declined a U.S. invitation to participate.

[Stymi]

damn....i can see tha snowball rolling down tha hill.

[2dj's1cup]

maybe this will spawn another M.A.S.H series...

[PETA]

Originally Posted by emphatic_apparatek

Out of all of the current political issues going on right now, this is the one Ive been following the most. I'm really interested to see what will happen when they launch it and if we will invade or if south korea will invade. North Korea has already threatened to shoot down any planes flying in their airspace... I bet our troops end up over there pretty soon.

Yes, North Korea is testing Obama.

We already have troops in SKorea. Not enough to matter. Enough that KJI knows if he attacks the south and captures our troops that we'll engage - they're hostages of a sort.

No one's invading anyone. I'd be impressed if Obama ordered the missile shot down once it left NK air space though.

Originally Posted by Stymi

mines as well, North Korea is not being cocky for nuttin. Scary stuff.

Indeed, it is a prelude to negotiations where KJI promises much in exchange for $$, luxury goods and loosening of sanctions. We'll give and he won't. Then it'll start all over again a year or two later.

[johnny861]

True... homie gotta get paid to keep furnishing those fancy glasses and pimp haircuts of his...

[Funkenstein]

Secretary of Defense please step up and play your role and Mr. President as well.

[PETA]

Originally Posted by johnny861

True... homie gotta get paid to keep furnishing those fancy glasses and pimp haircuts of his...

Can't recall where I read it but apparently one the favored gifts to high ranking party members is 4 wheelers... KJI does have style... kinda Roy O meets Mao

[Keith P]

Originally Posted by Stymi

mines as well, North Korea is not being cocky for nuttin.

yeh they are. Kim Jung Illin just wants attention.

[BigBallinColin]

the whole Korean peninsula issue is such a legacy of ridiculousness that I just think some kind of lets just figure it out and move forward.