NORTH KOREAN MISSILE WARHEAD FOUND IN ALASKA

Korean Times ^ | March 4, 2003 | Staff Report

[ewing]

North Korean Missile Warhead Found in Alaska

The warhead of a long range missile test fired by North Korea was found in the US state of Alaska, a report to the National Assembly revealed yesterday.

According to a United States document, 'The last piece of a missile warhead fired by North Korea was found in Alaska,' former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Nakayama was quoted as saying in the report.

'Washington, as well as Toyko, has so far underrated Pyongyang's missile capabilities.'

[Mr. Mojo]

This smells like total nonsense. Wouldn't NORAD be able to detect any airborne ICBM anywhere in the world?

[Guillermo]

Well since it was Alaska, it was more likely snow that it fell upon than actual soil.

[Quix]

I doubt seriously that it's an issue of our not knowing about it.

I suspect it's an issue of not wanting to own up about it.


. . . for various reasons.

[Squantos]

What they don't say is that it washed up on the beach......When I was stationed in Alaska my EOD team was called out on all kinds of WWII and Korean War era ordnance and the big old glass floats from Japanese fishing nets , mines, ect ect that storms placed above the high tide mark. The Aluetians are a big ole sh*tfilter for the oceans trash.

Just my SWAG on the matter based on my 1st hand experience. Stay Safe !

[MatthewViti]

Sounds about right to me. I see North Korea as a greater threat that needs to be taken care of right away, and in a very swift manner.

[verity]

The Korean Times?

[John H K]

It was hilarious in (mid-January, I believe) when the lamestream media "broke" the Iraqi GPS jammer story in a "OH MY GOD WE'RE SCREWED NOW WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO!" tone when the info had been out on strategypage.com for a month already.

I'm still waiting when the media "breaks" the story of what the ONLY army in the world that vaccinates all its soldiers against smallpox is (Hint: It's not Iraq, and it's not China.) Strategypage mentioned it about six months ago.



ROFLMAO...Rush RIGHT NOW is playing a fake tape of the convo between the RC-135 and the NK aircraft....NK aircraft is demanding food :-)

[mcrommert]

this hasn't been validated by any other news service. It was written 8 hours ago. Guess it is a fake? Could use some info.....

[Quix]

oooooooooooooooooooh

That's rich.

Trouble is, their long range wheelbarrow can do some very big outhouse holes worth of damage.

[Quix]

Wouldn't doubt that.

Could imagine several contingencies wherein they'd have known it was a dummy test warhead and elected to keep quiet about it.

Especially on Billdo's watch.

[Quix]

One might hope but

it would likely have been a vain hope on Dillbo's watch.

[Carlucci]

Wow, we've made it this far and no one has suggested that this is the "object" that NASA saw near the shuttle. This is the missle that shot down the shuttle! [/tinfoil]

[Stefan Stackhouse]

During WWII, the Japanese send a few subs off the US west coast, attached some bombs to some baloons, and send them up. They pretty much all exploded in uninhabited areas, although a couple did start forest fires.

I wouldn't rule out the possibility of the NKs doing something similar, just to make us think their missile capabilities are better than they really are.

[malia]

There's a lot of uncorroborated supposition flying about in this story. --and I agree but---

--- Rep. Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat and co-chairman of the Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation, called for a peaceful settlement of the current confrontation, by offering food, energy and other humanitarian aid to the poverty-stricken country, while urging the North to give up its nuclear ambitions.

---Markey had alot to say.

[hflynn]

The Korea Times states the following on their Website: "The Korea Times observes the Press Code of Ethics and the Standard of Conduct of Newspapermen.". ROFL.

[Quix]

Moderately Interesting run around, it seems to me.

What did you make of it?

[Almondjoy]

We did know about it.. and kept it hush hush.. or tried to at least.

[ewing]

Unless it was GPS jammed off of an offshore boat?

[wireman]

Utter nonsense!