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N.Korea Has Eight Medium-Range Missile Pads: NIS(Taepodong-2 is also prep'ed)
Chosun Ilbo ^ | 07/12/06

Posted on 07/12/2006 6:22:49 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

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To: AmericanInTokyo

I'm not too much of a tinfoil guy, but either by design or circumstance it seems like they're bear-baiting us. Might work too.


41 posted on 07/12/2006 7:59:25 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Let us not flinch from identifying liberalism as the opposition party to God.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Interesting insight....a thought I had is, do the NKs think that next battle over there, will be a one-sided effort, dont they realise, that embattled armies shoot back...


42 posted on 07/12/2006 7:59:42 AM PDT by thinking
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Now is the time to resurrect all the liberal quotes of two-three years ago about how NORTH KOREA is the most terrible one on the global block, and that we ought to stand up to it. That will shut some of these lib reporters up.

It won't shut them up... you ought to know them better than that. Down the memory hole!

43 posted on 07/12/2006 8:01:33 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Let us not flinch from identifying liberalism as the opposition party to God.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Seoul is the mother of all stationary targets.

If there's to be a war let it begin THERE! (easy for me to say, eh?)

44 posted on 07/12/2006 8:05:03 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Let us not flinch from identifying liberalism as the opposition party to God.)
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To: thinking

The North Korean army is vastly larger and tougher than Saddam's forces. It would be extremely painful, sanguinary and difficult to destroy it, assuming that China does not intervene again. Kim may be bluffing, but he may be just crazy enough to "try something". In any event, war in Korea is not something that any American president would want to be involved in.


45 posted on 07/12/2006 8:05:33 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
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To: Blue Turtle
Can someone please explain what is going on in this world?

To explain is to show the structure. It might not be the true structure but a structure that appears to be. Pick who you want to do the explaining. Algore? Kim Capone? Some 18 year old moslem with a bomb?

46 posted on 07/12/2006 8:06:13 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: Bean Counter

I think that we probably do not wish to have to shoot down their missle if we can possibly help it, though I'd like to think we gave an airborne (or space borne) laser assist to the taepodong's demise. A big part of this particular chess game is trying to get us to show our cards -- what our capabilities are. We shouldn't do that unless we have to.


47 posted on 07/12/2006 8:09:17 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Let us not flinch from identifying liberalism as the opposition party to God.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

My understanding is that they DO have thousands of tubes, and that they are in hardened caves in the mountains, perhaps not impervious, but not where they can be taken out quickly or before an opening salvo.


48 posted on 07/12/2006 8:11:17 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Let us not flinch from identifying liberalism as the opposition party to God.)
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To: ichabod1

Well, you do have a point.


49 posted on 07/12/2006 8:18:40 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (A few clever bones tossed on gay unions, flag burning & Iraq still don't absolve GWB over BORDERS)
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To: SoftballMominVA
Re #40

I think so. I don't know the coordinates, though. Sorry.:)

50 posted on 07/12/2006 8:19:47 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: ichabod1

depends - do you have kids in the Army over there?

I have.


51 posted on 07/12/2006 8:31:16 AM PDT by rahbert
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To: SoftballMominVA
If you are using Google Earth, and you can put gridmarks in there and plot out the lat. and long. grids (check box found under "View"), well, you can find the Taepodong launch site complete with the shadow of the rocket tower, at approximately the following:

N40Deg 51'21.24" and E129Deg 39'58.5" --or thereabouts....

It is just in the rolling hills, a few miles due northwest of a curving inlet bay on the Sea of Japan/East Sea that looks similar to Monterey (Cal) bay.... to the slight west of this is the range control facility, and to the north of it missile assembly facility.

Regarding the Scud/Nodong sites, one might have a little more difficult time using Google, looking around in eastern Gangwondo Province of North Korea near the port of Wonsan.

Here, this old B/W photo--without missile facilities of course, will help on finding the seaside inlet/bay to then trace up to the launch site a short distance away:


52 posted on 07/12/2006 8:50:15 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (A few clever bones tossed on gay unions, flag burning & Iraq still don't absolve GWB over BORDERS)
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To: SoftballMominVA
On Google Earth, to coordinates of the most obvious (to me anyhow) launch complex is the vicinity of 40 d 51' 04" North 129 d 40' 56" East. I find it interesting to google most any North Korean town and then do the same with any Japanese, South Korean, or other free nation town. The contrast is startling even from above -- where would you choose to live.
53 posted on 07/12/2006 8:54:55 AM PDT by JimSEA (America cannot have an exit strategy from the world.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"...it is likely that the North is trying to find out why the first missile failed..."


54 posted on 07/12/2006 12:31:16 PM PDT by gaijin
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