There is talk among the media that the US hacked the NK missile system and caused the failure...
Maybe you’re not suppose to know some things. This is not the Obama administration.
Any complaints?
I now believe Kushner and Pence were couriers.
Any head of a nuclear state threatening to attack America with a nuke. That could do it.
I have a suspicion that fat boi Kim ordered the launch be aborted immediately after firing.
The fat little doofus is scared shitless.. IMO.
I’m now looking for a provocation that will allow Trump to set off the fireworks. A real provocation or a false-flag... I care not at all.
This crap has to stop before that hermit kingdom has the ability to blackmail the entire planet.
Launching a missile amounted to an unacceptable provocation.
They launched or otherwise attempted to test a missile - and many contend either the Chinese stopped him from doing that, or we did.
“Day of the Sun” came and went, the Norks did not back down, then early Sunday they attempted to launch the missile after all and it was promptly destroyed.
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So what’s the problem? Now Kim Dong-nil doesn’t know if his precious missile failed because of raging incompetence of his engineers (who suffer a rapidly lowering average IQ because he keeps killing off the best), or because pissed-off superpowers wield near-magical* weapons that can invisibly destroy his precious missiles within seconds of launch, an asymmetry of military capability which should give him terminal cognitive dissonance any day now.
(* - “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” A. C. Clarke)
Usually a missile test means the Norks want us to write a check.
I don’t think they’re going to get those checks anytime soon.
If someone interfered & caused this to happen,wouldn’t it have been better to let it gain a little altitude & then turn it back to the approximate target of Pyongyang?
It’s very difficult to build operational ICBMs when the developement and assembly personnel get murdered every time there’s a mishap. It’s hard to train new people and despite popular belief terror does not make people more productive.
U.S. apparently unconcerned...etc...etc...
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Like the pundits say, sometimes what isn’t said has a lot more meaning than what is said.
The fact that we are reportedly (allegedly)’unconcerned’ has my cynicism keyed up to the point that we not only stopped it, but screwed them back a few decades.
Somewhat like my stance on the WMDs in Iraq...
IF BUSH/CHENEY really knew there were no WMDs in Iraq, we would have ‘found’ some.
Not this. What I have feared is a NK missile failure that lands in Japan, especially in a civilized area, or practically anywhere in South Korea. A landing in China would be most unfortunate, and they might even manage one in Russia - Vladivostok isn't that far away. These, I think, would be unacceptable provocations.
A related question is what response will be considered "acceptable" by the parties concerned. I should think regime change would be the minimum. And the last time I recall such considerations in public was with regard to one Saddam Hussein.