NORTH KOREAN MISSILE WARHEAD FOUND IN ALASKA

Korean Times ^ | March 4, 2003 | Staff Report

[Happy2BMe]

Thanks for the super map!

[Rain-maker]

 

 

 

 

[Mr. Mojo]

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

An ICBM attack on U.S. territory, even if the warhead was a dummy, would've been provocation enough for us to annihilate Kim's regime.

[RobRoy]

I'll say, I just had to change my BS meters diaper. I had it installed, "just in case," once the anti-Bush rhetoric started.

Looks like it was a good move.

[Happy2BMe]

"Maybe the Admin. is keeping it a secret so as not to distract from Iraq. The kept the info on N.Korea starting up their reactor secret for a couple of months too. If the American people found this out, they would care FAR more about N.Korea and far less about Iraq."

If this is not just another heavy breather alert, then your take would be my guess also.

At any rate, if N.Korea doesn't have this capability right now, they are doing their best to get it.

[Mr. Mojo]

Unless it was GPS jammed off of an offshore boat?

ICBMs can't be GPS jammed -- they don't have guidance systems.

[jwalsh07]

The proof that this is bs is that Pyonyang is not smoldering.

[DoughtyOne]

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North Korea Missile Warhead Found in Alaska’

The Korea Times
March 04, 2003

By Ryu Jin
Staff Reporter

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

``According to a U.S. document, the last piece of a missile warhead fired by North Korea was found in Alaska,’’ former Japanese foreign minister Taro Nakayama was quoted as saying in the report. ``Washington, as well as Tokyo, has so far underrated Pyongyang’s missile capabilities.’’

The report was the culmination of monthlong activities of the Assembly’s overseas delegation to five countries over the North Korean nuclear crisis. The Assembly dispatched groups of lawmakers to the United States, Japan, China, Russia and European Union last month to collect information and opinions on the international issue.

The team sent to Japan, headed by Rep. Kim Hak-won of the United Liberal Democrats, reported, ``Nakayama said Washington has come to put more emphasis on trilateral cooperation between South Korea, Japan and the United States since it recognized that the three countries are within the range of North Korean missiles.’’

According to the group dispatched to the U.S., American politicians had a wide range of opinions over the resolution of the nuclear issue, from ``a peaceful resolution’’ to ``military response.’’

Doves, such as 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.

Rep. Markey also said the North should return to the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the U.S. should make a nonaggression pact with the communist North.

Hardliners, however, warned that the North’s possession of nuclear weapons will instigate a nuclear race in the region, provoking Japan to also acquire nuclear weapons. Rep. Mark Steven Kirk, an Illinois Republican, said the U.S. might have to bomb the Yongbyon nuclear complex should the North try to export its nuclear material to other countries.

Over the controversy concerning the withdrawal of U.S. forces stationed here, most American legislators that the parliamentary delegation met said U.S. troops should stay on the peninsula as long as the Korean people want, the report said.

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[Faith65]

bump for later read....

[null and void]

That would be news in Alaska. We lose airplanes, people, moose, you name it.

Cheese? Your sister?

[F.J. Mitchell]

The ugliest warhead in Pyongyang is/was on the pencil neck of Kim. Maybe it just floated off his neck and drifted our way and ran out of hot air over Alaska. A little work should turn that Charley Brown shaped head into a unique bowling ball.

[FreeTheHostages]

You got *that* right.

:)

[El Gato]

"Fired when? Found when?"

And found WHERE in Alaska. It's a big place you know. Some parts of the Aleutians are quite close to Japan and Korea. Of course that also happens to be the place we track Russian and Chinese, and presumably N. Korean missle shots from, Shemya, way out near the end of the Aleutian chain. (~174 degrees EAST Longitude, ~53 degrees North Latitude) It's about 2400 miles from North Korea, within range of the latest NK ballistic missles.

[El Gato]

With it coming towards Alaska and impacting there, we would have gone to DEFCON1 and probably returned fire.

Actually that's exactly the direction their last (aknowledged) shot over Japan awhile back would have been heading, so I suppose it's just barely possible some fragment found it's way there. Still it does seem improbable.

[happygrl]

Which missile test ?

When was this part found ?

I think this is old information, if true at all, provided for political consumption.

[judicial meanz]

From what I found,I think this ties to the attempted launch of an orbital vehicle by NK in August of 1998. There was speculation that some pieces may have landed in Alaska.

No one ever said WARHEAD pieces.

Your theory proves correct, Saber!

[Quix]

Based on???

Are you saying it's a government mouthpiece?

Are you saying it's a tabloid bottom to top?

Are you saying because it's foreign, it can't be worth reading?

What are you saying when you say the Korean Times is monkey doo doo?

In my experience, foreign newspapers can have varying degrees of being government mouthpieces as well as authentic, accurate, earnest reporting etc. etc.

[Erasmus]

"Why are the North Koreans so dangerous?

Because they have type O dongs."

[swarthyguy]

One freeper on a thread about the Korean missile tests had hinted at something like this.

Said those reports were incomplete and that a missile may have gone further than was being reported.