Posted on 05/06/2009 8:41:31 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Activity at N.Korean Test Sites Intensifies
North Korea has been speeding up construction of a new long-range missile test site in Tongchangri, North Pyongan Province. And vehicles and personnel are busily moving around in Kilju, North Hamgyong Province, where the North conducted an underground nuclear test in 2006, showing signs of preparations for another.
"The North has recently been speeding up construction at the test site in Tongchangri by deploying more equipment and personnel," a South Korean government official said Wednesday. "We expected the North would complete construction sometime late this year, but it now seems that it could be completed several months earlier."
Construction of the test site began eight years ago and was 80 percent complete last September.
South Korean military authorities believe the North could accelerate completion of the test site and test-launch a long-range ballistic missile from there. North Korea on April 29 threatened to conduct a second nuclear test and test an intercontinental ballistic missile, unless the UN Security Council lifts sanctions against it and "apologizes."
The test site in Tongchangri is believed to be capable of launching both ICBMs and satellite rockets, and is much larger and has more up-to-date facilities than the current similar test site in Musudanri, North Hamgyong Province.
Ping!
Blow..them..up.
Don’t worry, Hilaray is all over it. When we cave, she’ll tell us that’s part of the script.
We’re “nice people” again now that the Obamafuhrer is running the entire country. Commies don’t nuke “nice people” do they?
With this US President yeah US would cave
Maybe Little Kim want Lakers ticket
I remember this has been a standard talking point whenever Bush caved to NK, with the advice of Condi. Hitlery can use it, too, I guess.
The NKs are only interested in launching missiles with nuke warheads. They don't give a damn about satellites.
And they are stepping up the pace of their nuke program because they see that the American government is staffed with craven, simpering idiots from the Presidency, the various departments, on down to the Congress.
Well that’s just wonderful. Barry will no doubt send Chia Pet some Stimu-lie money and Chia will still test his nuke.
I’ve always wondered what life would be like for an average North Korean rocket scientist. Would it be more like the life of a successful drug kingpin or more like the live of a protagonist in a Solzhenitsyn novel?
Hope and change, it is working its magic now.
Not only did they step over it under Bush, they are going to step Waaay over it now with Obama in office.
Obama will do nothing.
He will jeopardize millions of Japanese and hundreds of thousands of others, including tens of thousands of Americans, in the northeast Asian region.
And North Korea KNOWS he will do nothing.
Hence they are going forward at the sites as predicted.
This to me is an impeachable offense, for the man swore to protect the US constitution which means against enemies foreign and domestic. We are under direct threat, and only an attack will wake us up at this point.
How about testing both at once?
Thanks for the ping.
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