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N. Korea May Have Fired Up To 12 Missiles(6 confirmed, additonal 6 being investigated)
Chosun Ilbo ^
| 07/05/06
| Yoo Yong-won
Posted on 07/04/2006 9:42:42 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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Mr. Yoo is a veteran military affairs correspondent. It seems that there are indeed more than six. A lot of decoy fireworks. Show of force? Prevent possible interception by MD systems? Or both?
To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; OahuBreeze; yonif; risk; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; ...
To: TigerLikesRooster
Listening to Mad Madeline Albright pontificate by phone on Larry King tonight is enough to make a healthy man barf up his dinner! She is one pathetic arrogant fool.
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posted on
07/04/2006 9:45:09 PM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Scientists Are Itching to Blame Poison Ivy's Effect on Global Warming)
To: beyond the sea
They got it right when they mistook Albright for the maid. That is what she should have always been.
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posted on
07/04/2006 9:48:02 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Taepodong-2 blew up mid-air over East Sea, 40 seconds after its launch, turning the test into a failure. Did it have help "blowing up"? Or did it blow up all by itself? I.e., did we shoot it down?
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posted on
07/04/2006 9:48:11 PM PDT
by
hsalaw
To: beyond the sea
Re #3
After this crisis is resolved, there will be many who will go down in flames. Maddy is on the top of the list. She has been completely had by Kim Jong-il.
To: TigerLikesRooster
The thing I dislike the most about this on-going series of stories is that here we are twelve hours after the event and we're still trying to get a count of launches. I would have thought we had sufficient resources to figure that out.
OTOH, we also learned something about the state of their capabilities: with the entire world watching, they only barely got the only interesting flight launched... that's not terribly unusual, but I do wonder if there isn't a sudden need for a replacement missile program head (literally) in the PRK.
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posted on
07/04/2006 9:49:20 PM PDT
by
alancarp
(NASCAR: Always turning left, but can never keep up with the Liber-commis.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
they just want that famous UN writing campaign and economic incentives
they see Iran getting paid for building nukes the chicom proxy wants to get paid as well
Iran has all those incentives coming nin com po wants his change as well
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posted on
07/04/2006 9:49:48 PM PDT
by
Flavius
(Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: hsalaw
Re #5
It will take time to find out exactly what happened. Days, weeks, or months? I do not know.:) I would not rule out interception by some means.
To: TigerLikesRooster
It appears to me that Kim is trying to provoke an international incident for propaganda purposes..
Seemingly threatening acts calculated to trigger a response..
Then Kim can claim "innocence" in his actions, as there was no real threat...
Kim can also claim victim status with possibly the U.S. as the bullying aggressor..
Public relations and International politics may then be leveraged in N. Korea's favor..
Possibly such a leverage could be used in future six-party talks..
Just a wild guess, but it sort of fits with past behaviours..
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posted on
07/04/2006 9:51:16 PM PDT
by
Drammach
(Freedom... Not just a job, it's an adventure..)
To: hsalaw
Their paranoia would not have dared taken a chance that we would have recovered an intact launch vehicle: once the test was deemed a failure, their range-safety crew (or equivalent) would have destroyed the missile.
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posted on
07/04/2006 9:51:39 PM PDT
by
alancarp
(NASCAR: Always turning left, but can never keep up with the Liber-commis.)
To: alancarp
Re #7
I heard the story that there have been some heated discussions among N. Korean senior military figures on their rocket's capability. Apparently, they weren't entirely sure that it will fly.
To: TigerLikesRooster
I jusat watched a great rocket ship go by...the ISS with Space Shuttle Discovery docked on. It was very bright as it cruised past the North Star. God Bless America!
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posted on
07/04/2006 9:54:09 PM PDT
by
vger
(freeping since '97!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Re #5
Any idea how far from an international border the launch site for the ND2 is?
To: TigerLikesRooster
My 2 cents worth: we would have not done anything to that launch unless there was a direct threat to the US. If for no other reason than this: the best way to learn of the enemy's capabilities is to watch it perform for as long as possible.
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posted on
07/04/2006 9:54:36 PM PDT
by
alancarp
(NASCAR: Always turning left, but can never keep up with the Liber-commis.)
To: Drammach
Re #10
They only have one main script, which they use again and again.:)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Whoops, not ND2 but rather the Taepodong-2.
To: TigerLikesRooster
I just watched a great rocket ship go by...the ISS with Space Shuttle Discovery docked on. It was very bright as it cruised past the North Star. God Bless America!
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posted on
07/04/2006 9:56:29 PM PDT
by
vger
(freeping since '97!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Albright is despicable.
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posted on
07/04/2006 9:56:44 PM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Scientists Are Itching to Blame Poison Ivy's Effect on Global Warming)
To: hsalaw
Them, us; it blowed up real good either way.
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posted on
07/04/2006 9:58:41 PM PDT
by
steveegg
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