Posted on 05/25/2007 1:51:34 AM PDT by HAL9000
RPT-NORTH KOREA HAS FIRED SEVERAL SHORT-RANGE MISSILES INTO SEA OF JAPAN-KYODO
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When I see news like that from North Korea, I immediately wonder what the Iranian leadership is up to.
They're protesting the US military operations off the coast of their ally Iran?
N. Korea fires short-range missiles toward Sea of Japan
TOKYO, May 25 KYODO
North Korea fired several short-range missiles toward the Sea of Japan on Friday morning, sources close to Japan-U.S. relations said. ==Kyodo
Perhaps it is time President Bush to test some of our missiles by launching towards N. Korea.
The Japanese government says North Korea conducted missile tests on its Eastern and Western seaboard on Friday morning. The government says the missiles are likely short-range rather than longer-range ballistic weapons, although the number and type of missiles fired has not yet been confirmed.
Lil Kim should be careful when shooting rockets - someone might shoot one back at him.
Building Nuclear Weapons!
Oh and by the way - add Myanmar to the list of rogue nations now - they also wanna get nukes now.
Yeah, I saw that - getting tight in that area.
It’s like Psych 101. Basic physiology. Stimulus-response.
You read any sentence with the word “missile” in it, and they start harping about Iran.
Just like if you hit their knee with a rubber hammer. Pavlov’s dogs did the same stuff.
Last time I checked, N. Korea ain’t got enuff electric to come up with a decent drive-in, much less a thermonuclear device.
Perhaps Kim Jong-il is having a little tantrum over the slowness in recovering his $25 million.
Have a look at this from a few days ago, if you haven’t already seen it. Western Europe could be in for interesting times.
S. Korea, U.S. verifying reports on test of new N.K. missile in Iran: source
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834307/posts
(4,000 kilometer range)
Burma with nukes? Sendin the Chindits.
Divertion? I was thinking if Iran was to start an offensive strike would or could N. Korea be involved?
...from the past few days.
HS. Korea, U.S. verifying reports on test of new N.K. missile in Iran: source
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834307/posts
(4,000 kilometer range)
UN files scathing report on Iran
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1838903/posts]
[Wouldn’t allow IAEA to visit certain sites.]
The N. Korea-Iranian shell game continues. Which silo is the nuke under.
That would NEVER happen.
Kim Jong il knows he has outlasted George Bush up until now (it was a rough first four or five years) and will continue to outlast Bush in the final 18 months of capitulation and appeasement that the Bush Administration has incontrovertibly morphed into.
This is the fruit born of those ill labors at the so-called Six Party Talks.
When do Reid, Pelosi and Clinton start asking “Where are the WMD?” I mean, they’re in the water, you say, but WE don’t see them, did the President just INVENT this story as a pretext for war?
At this site, Windows Streaming Media, 300k:
http://meta.cdn.yahoo-streaming.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20070525-00000044-jnn-int-movie-001&media=wm300k
ALARM - South Korea confirms shootings of missiles of North
SEOUL - the South Korean services of information confirmed Friday the shooting of several missiles by the North Korea.
Perhaps they did not get enough food aid from us!
was officially sea-launched by South Korea today, this morning, Asian time, and so the DPRK action may be one of retribution over that AEGIS ROK ship launch.
Bush OR Clinton Administration. No difference. Pyongyang knows it.
Even Chris Hill shuttling to the DPRK with a brief-case of pretty pleases will not stop them now from their charted course.
The price we pay for appeasement.
I thought the President could screw up no more than the Mexican Border issue, but I was wrong. The DPRK policy is in shambles.
History is full of such cases. It is human nature. Dictators always respond with further provocation when you try to be "nice" to them and "reason" with them--such as our State Department negotiators (as John Bolton points out) have been shamelessly doing in Beijing in fancy hotels and salons with them for the last eight months. And this is what we get. I do not blame Japan for starting off on their own independent road to defend themselves--and we will be hearing more of that out of Tokyo in the next few weeks and months, assuredly.
If you caught Ann Coulter on Hannity last night, she was hilarious. Among other gems she said dems were left wing lunatics, and when Colmes complained, said, “Okay, I’ll go back to calling them traitors.” They had a woman on shilling for Edwards...’young pac for Edwards’ or some such nonsense. They’d played and replayed the long piece of her hero obsessively combing his hair, which the shill had trouble explaining. She was no match for Annie over yesterday’s dems senate vote on Iraq, in which they caved to GW.
"The subject of American's fecklessness and inconsistency is now being quietly debated in diplomatic circles over here in Southeast Asia. Some of our allies are now wondering how a deeply divided America will be able to muster the courage and resolve needed to face the challenges that we collectively face ahead. Some of these countries are now starting to reevaluate their own foreign policy positions now that America's partisian politics has spilt on to the world stage.
Emboldened, our adversaries are now wondering how the situation can be manipulated in their favour, how they can effectively play one side in America against the other while they wait patiently for America to adopt an "alternative foreign policy". We can now expect to see a "lack of motivation" in our negotiations with countries such as Iran and North Korea and a dangerous shift in momentum in countries such as Pakistan.
It is a VERY dangerous situation for the United States. Somehow, we have been taking all the wrong steps over the last year or so, and our enemies as well as our friends know it. Our power is going to diminish exponentially as a result, IMHO.
North Korea firing missiles
Had lunch with a Eastern European diplomat today, we were talking about Iraq and the WOT ~ and he said to me ~ "You guys can't even defend yourselves from being invaded by Mexico ... what makes you think you can succeed in Afghanistan or Iraq?"
oh well... weakness invites aggression and the world is watching.
It's very telling how the dems think going along with GW is a defeat. I mean, you'd think the guy was trying to defeat evil or something... ;)
Failure, abject failure, of the Clinton and Bush Administrations.
I think this is the "it" that possible candidate Fred Thompson is referring to when he says he tours the country and talks to the people and they "know something is not right out there". I think people can sense it. You and I, as Freepers, being stationed and/or otherwise finding ourselves currently in different parts of Asia, but both picking up the same unmistakeable message about our waning power because of policy f-ups, is a cause of great concern. North Korea's actions today only feed that wider impression.
Yes, we have wandered onto a foolish course of appeasement over the last year. I hope that we can soon return to a wiser course soon.
North Korea fired some missiles again!!!
It’s really saddening to contemplate the consequences to date of our abandonments of allies and haste to get friendly with certain un-friendlies over the past few decades.
I caught that. The dem’s name is Jane Fleming. To me, she is hard to listen to. Dems Laurie Schwartz and Kirsten Powers I can handle better.
Ann cracks me up. When I saw Ann against Jane I said “Tear her up Ann”. I’m always talking to the TV.
(Screen shot from NHK TV tonight in Tokyo)
one of the top North Korean negotiators, iwas sitting down and talking with the Chief US Negotiator Chris Hill just today in Manila, over how to better North Korean-US relations. At the same time, today, Friday, they launch the missiles. I have heard no outrage or protest from Washington as of yet, the missiles were launched at least 10-12 hours ago into the Sea of Japan.
Can our foolishness and the results it precipitates, be any more apparant!?
They’re probably getting a little long in the tooth by now, and without Wingate and his toothbrush to lead them, it wouldn’t be the same anyway.
I get a feeling that North Korea is Iran's missile test site. Also, you are right in that the Navy being off Iran must make them nervous. I could see them asking NK to give the USN a reason to move east
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