Posted on 05/25/2004 7:29:57 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
ping.
Mike
typo on my part in #35. of course my lunch was 10 days ago...not 10 days long...sheesh!
If you include in that a "message to the west" and you have a three-for-one deal.
--Boot Hill
I believe cell coverage is much more limited than that.
--Boot Hill
Thanks
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Marshall McLuhan: "The Medium is the Message". The medium was English, thus the message is "This one's for you"!
--Boot Hill
Actually, the South Korean telephone units (CDMA) are much more preferable in that area for several reasons. They are also less susceptible to NK jamming. The GSM units can go approximately 15 kms, whereas the CDMA's go 18 kms. (The problem here is that Ryongchon is said to be about 25 kms from the border and hence, those towers. I am not sure if this is line of site or what). I think it should only be a matter of time to see if the Korean Worker's Party had out a party circular demanding seizure of both GSM and CDMA units by everyone, in that area. If so, there would be no other explanation for it than there had been an assassination attempt, and cell phone technology had been used. If such a circular can be brought out intact (and reputable), well, there's one smoking gun for sure.
NKoreans probably know as little as we do about the cause. They were moving missiles by train. It blows up. Why? The technicians probably weren't sending a detailed play by play back to Pyongyang at the time. The stuff about the train collision and the hanging wires is probably made up.
Did they misdial for 9 hours????
ROTFLMAO!!! That was good, might work.
I read with interest your report about your ROK contact that suggested that Kim Jong-il had been in far closer proximity to the blast than previously disclosed. It became clear to me very early on, that this was no accidental explosion and that the early reports that claimed the President had passed through the area earlier, could not be coincidental (there aren't any), and that those two facts had to be closely tied.
Thanks for the interesting cell range data, that's about what I expected, about 10 miles (if you're lucky). As to whether Ryongchon is close enough to those Chinese cells, I was not sure about the distance either, so I went to MultiMap.com and got the following map. It looks like Ryongchon (Yongchon) is about 15 km from Anmin, China and about 18 km from Langtou, China. I would think that would place them outside any reasonable expectation of coverage by those Chinese cells.
--Boot Hill
The PCS handsets used in the Spanish attacks utilized the alarm function of the handset as the trigger. The same trigger could have been accomplished with an electronic kitchen timer. The handsets were used because they are a less suspicious device than an electronic timer upon casual observation.
North Korea is probably banning their use to disrupt the coordination of an attack rather than disable a trigger mechanism.
The newspaper need not be a conduit for North Korean dis-information, but simply willing to publish stories that contain a special message that is beneficial to South Korea or one of its allies. I would not be surprised to find that KISS was directly or indirectly, the source for this story, as well as the inspiration for publishing it in English.
--Boot Hill
'Course I imagine any electronics buff can build a simple receiver and transmitter out of used parts (or even from scratch if need be). Hoping this is a sign of desperation on Kim's part and that he recognizes powerful forces within N. Korea want him dead.
Since presumeably only the elite leading cadres
HAD cell phones, this must make for a VERY shakey
Lil Kim!
LOL!
--Boot Hill
Thanks. Somebody told me this disappeared from the Choson in the first few hours after posting (haven't looked yet myself.
Hard to know what to believe at this point with all the rumors flying. Personally, initially it seemed too close in timing (at even nine hours) to be an accident, with the immense amount of security that surrounds pumpkin boy's movements (let's not forget why he travels by rail vice air in the first place). After the first 96 hours, however, with no indications of large purges and limited amounts of international access to the explosion site, it seemed unlikely to be anything other than an accident. I dunno. I guess we will see.....
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