Posted on 03/29/2013 12:17:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
You know the rule by now: If the headline asks the question, the story most likely provides the less exciting/sensational/terrifying (in this case, definitely the third) answer. From the very Telegraph article that Drudge links to:
Despite the increasingly belligerent rhetoric and new images emerging from the North Korean regime, analysts believe its missiles are not capable of striking targets as far away as the US mainland and are not, as yet, capable of delivering a nuclear payload.
North Korea's state-media announced earlier today that Kim Jong-un has ordered his missile units on standby to strike the United States and South Korea. The bluster was accompanied by a photo containing a not-so-secret (or believable) message: a chart over Kim Jong-un's shoulder showing a "U.S. mainland strike plan." NK News took a closer look at the chart and discovered what appears to be the reclusive nation's public wish list: Hawaii, Washington, D.C., Southern California (Los Angeles or possibly San Diego), and Austin, Texas. The first three make sense given geography and politics; no one seems to have any clue about how that last one made it on.
Given how unpredictable Kim Jong-un has already proved, the latest threat isn't entirely being brushed off by the international community. Still, the Pentagon doesn't appear to be very worried. "The United States is fully capable of defending itself and our allies, Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. Catherine Wilkinson told reporters in Washington today. "North Koreas bellicose rhetoric and threats follow a pattern designed to raise tensions and intimidate others."
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For sure. LOL.
Death to all misplaced apostrophes!!
///Give me a plane ticket to Seoul and an M-14 and I’ll solve the problem within a week of arrival.I’ll just pick off every one of the dozen...or so...fat turds that I see in the capital and one of thems *bound* to be him.I mean...how many *fat* turds can there be there country? ///
If you did that, you’d make South Korea really mad, and us look like idiots.
While they can put a small payload up and have intercontinental capability, it doesn't look like they have a physics package small enough to send the distance.
I have no doubt they are working on that.
One thing is certain: it isn't wise to underestimate a madman, he might be as capable as he says.
“While they can put a small payload up and have intercontinental capability, it doesn’t look like they have a physics package small enough to send the distance.”
I agree...an ICBM is not the same as a three stage orbital rocket. But if a country can make it to orbit, then they can DEFINITELY land something pretty big here - since it takes a lot less energy to launch a suborbital rocket. But, yes, there is a lot more to it - from guidance, to re-entry, to triggering. But they are well on their way, at the very least.
Check my earlier post and you'll see that I understand that the fat turd to whom I referred is in *North* Korea.I failed to make that clear originally because I can spell Seoul and not the other capital.
Right. And if drugs were legal, criminals wouldn't be making tens of billions of dollars from American drug users - just as they don't from American users of the mind-altering drug alcohol.
Drug using Americans have the blood of many thousands of murdered Mexicans and others on their hands
Takes two to motivate and provide resources to murderous drug criminals: users, and a War on Drugs. Supporters of the latter have no less blood on their hands than the users do.
Legalization would lead to taxation of the drugs and then again illegal end runs around the law
That has happened very little if at all with the addictive mind-altering drug alcohol; the evidence is against you.
These people have blood on their hands
As do supporters of the War on Drugs, which like Prohibition before it is a necessary component in motivating and providing resources to murderous drug criminals.
and because of the health profession I work in with the constant exposure to the drug and alcohol crowd, Ive become sick and tired of seeing the families they have ruined, their own health they have ruined, and seeing the waste they have made of their lives!
I'm glad to see you acknowledge that alcohol is right there in the mix (it's more than some pro-drug-war FReepers do). Should we ban the addictive mind-altering drug alcohol?
Our founding fathers recognized that our civic freedoms and God given rights are dependent upon a populace who were individually and INTERNALLY governed to a large degree by a faith in God and adherence to Judeo Christian principles.
Our founding fathers also never claimed that laws could make a populace moral.
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