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Report: N. Korea May Have Fired Missile
AP Via Yahoo ^ | 5/1/05

Posted on 05/01/2005 5:17:40 AM PDT by Raycpa

Report: N. Korea May Have Fired Missile

1 hour, 20 minutes ago

The U.S. military informed Japan that North Korea may have fired a short-range missile toward the Sea of Japan on Sunday morning, Kyodo News service and national broadcaster NHK reported.

The reports quoted unidentified government sources as saying that the U.S. military informed Japan's Defense Agency of the possible missile launch. The government was attempting to confirm the information, the reports said.

The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo and the U.S. military both refused to comment, and an official at the Japanese Defense Agency said he could not confirm the report. The South Korean defense ministry also said it could not confirm the account.

NHK said the missile was believed to have been fired from the reclusive nation's east coast and to have traveled 65 miles into the Sea of Japan.

Word of the possible test came just days after a top U.S. military intelligence official told a U.S. Senate committee that North Korea has the ability to arm a missile with a nuclear weapon, a potentially significant advance for the communist state.

Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, in testimony on Thursday, did not specify whether he was talking about a short-range missile or a long-range one that could reach the United States.

Two defense officials later said that U.S. intelligence analysts believe North Korea is several years away from being able to mount a nuclear warhead on a missile that could reach the United States from the Korean Peninsula.

North Korea's missile development program has spurred Japan to join the United States in putting together a joint missile-defense system. North Korea startled Tokyo in 1998 by launching a long-range ballistic missile over the Japanese archipelago and into the Pacific Ocean.

Pyongyang has played upon the threat by intermittently test-firing short-range missiles since then.

The Japanese Cabinet in February approved legislation that would allow the defense chief to order the military to shoot down incoming missiles.

Six-nation talks aimed at persuading North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions have been stalled since last June. Washington's top envoy on the issue, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, said on Thursday in South Korea that the North's refusal to return to the talks is a problem but they are still the best way to resolve the matter.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: missile; nknukes; northeastasia; northkorea
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To: Tommyjo

remember when Saddam used to taunt flying into restricting zones? playing war games... where's Saddam now? Dictators around the world always uderestimate our resolve..


41 posted on 05/01/2005 12:04:28 PM PDT by Cinnamon
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To: Raycpa
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, said on Thursday in South Korea that the North's refusal to return to the talks is a problem but they are still the best way to resolve the matter.

And he's the TOP envoy?

42 posted on 05/01/2005 1:04:33 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: blam

33 and LaRue - Viet brands. We drank Black Label,
all that was left after the folks at Long Binh
had their pick.

Any one remember those mobile "Subway" sandwich
vendors and the unknown fillings they used or the
"crunchy" (because of the baked-in grubworms)
"French bread"?


43 posted on 05/01/2005 1:19:52 PM PDT by rahbert
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To: blam

33 and LaRue - Viet brands. We drank Black Label,
all that was left after the folks at Long Binh
had their pick.

Any one remember those mobile "Subway" sandwich
vendors and the unknown fillings they used or the
"crunchy" (because of the baked-in grubworms)
"French bread"?


44 posted on 05/01/2005 1:19:55 PM PDT by rahbert
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To: AmericanInTokyo

ba me ba number one GI!


45 posted on 05/01/2005 1:51:38 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 meant never having to say I was sorry......)
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To: OldFriend

I point you to stories:

`NK Missile Warhead Found in Alaska’
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200303/kt2003030417272311970.htm

North Korea missile test 'brings US within range'
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/11/wkor11.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/06/11/ixworld.html


46 posted on 05/01/2005 2:27:43 PM PDT by BlackjackPershing
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To: rahbert
"Any one remember those mobile "Subway" sandwich vendors and the unknown fillings they used or the "crunchy" (because of the baked-in grubworms) "French bread"?"

Nah. I always ate on the ship. (Merchant seaman)

47 posted on 05/01/2005 4:20:26 PM PDT by blam
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To: BlackjackPershing

The NK missile warhead story is as bogus as they come. It comes from a a dubious South Korean news source. The story rides on the 1998 launch that impacted in the Pacific.


48 posted on 05/01/2005 4:28:56 PM PDT by Tommyjo
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To: ketteringOH

China could care less? How do you figure?


49 posted on 05/01/2005 4:43:51 PM PDT by monkeywrench
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To: ketteringOH

The Chinese care very much and will keep us at bay by dragging us along with the six party talks. The NK only needs to postion a NK ship off our eastern seaboard with a missile of this range ( 65 KM) with a small nuke warhead (less than 10 Kilotons) and launch it to an altitude of greater than 50 to 60 thousand feet. When it cooks off the EMP will fry DC and NYC and Boston.

Yesterday a thread mentioned the Chinese taking Taiwan in 2006. If that is their intent then thye will not truly discourage the NK in any way.


50 posted on 05/01/2005 6:30:56 PM PDT by reluctantwarrior (Strength and Honor, just call me Buzzkill for short......)
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To: ketteringOH

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52 posted on 05/01/2005 7:20:02 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Leo Carpathian

Maybe liitle Kim will suffer an episode of premature ignition!


53 posted on 05/01/2005 10:06:31 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: Admin Moderator

this guy has been all those names?


54 posted on 05/02/2005 7:15:00 AM PDT by CharlieOK1 (See http://www.alisrael.com/tamuz/ for what should happen to Iran)
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To: IslamoCommieObserver

Nuclear technology has progressed since the days of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. Dont know about N Korea but I know Iran's own programme is benefitting from Russian and Chinese assistance, why do something alone first time and risk injury when you have an experienced big brother or two to help you.


56 posted on 05/02/2005 6:06:55 PM PDT by Akula292
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To: AmericanInTokyo
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:-)
57 posted on 05/03/2005 7:50:44 AM PDT by gogogodzilla (Raaargh! Raaargh! Crush, Stomp!)
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To: txradioguy

Thanks for being there. God keep all of you.


58 posted on 05/03/2005 11:13:12 AM PDT by Spirited (God, Bless America ) ;))
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To: txradioguy
(looks outside window at Camp Casey)

My father was stationed there around 1955/56 when he was in the Army, he wasa military photographer.
60 posted on 05/08/2005 6:48:04 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Lutheran, Conservative, Neo-Victorian/Edwardian, Michael Savage in '08! - Any Questions?)
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