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N. Korea: Kim Jong-il hides himself underground for fear of US F-22 Raptors
Korea Times ^ | 01/02/11

Posted on 01/02/2011 1:38:29 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

01-02-2011 13:36

Kim Jong-il hides himself underground for fear of US F-22 Raptors

North Korean leader hid himself in an underground bunker for nine days during the South Korea-U.S. joint military exercise off the west coast from Nov. 28 to Dec. 1 last year for fear of F-22 Raptors of the U.S. Air Force, the Joongang Sunday magazine reported.

The F-22 Raptor is a fifth-generation supermaneuverable fighter aircraft equipped with stealth technology. The U.S. aircraft carrier George Washington participated in the joint exercise.

A defense ministry official said on condition of anonymity that Kim hid to protect himself from an attack by the F-22 Raptors, called an “air dominance fighter,” which participated in the exercise, according to the report.

Another official said, “F-22 Raptors, accompanied by in-flight tankers, were on standby in mid-air over the Korean peninsula during the joint exercise.”

Their mission was to attack should North Korea retaliate by flying MiG jet fighters, he added.

F-22s takeoff from U.S. air bases in Guam and Alaska or the Kadena Air Base in Japan.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airstrike; f22; kimjongil; nkorea
The fear of American airpower: it runs in the Kim family.
1 posted on 01/02/2011 1:38:36 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...

P!


2 posted on 01/02/2011 1:42:56 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Why am I reminded of this?

yitbos

3 posted on 01/02/2011 1:48:27 AM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

"hey noodle twister",..........BOOM

4 posted on 01/02/2011 1:48:45 AM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Very little has been written about the brutal going-over that the B-29’s gave NK during the war.


5 posted on 01/02/2011 1:48:59 AM PST by sinanju
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To: TigerLikesRooster

When Li’l Kim is hiding under the bed, why don’t the generals just bolt the door to his lair and weld it shut?

Probably because at this stage of the game no one really wants his job anymore. He had to reach back to his youngest son after all.


6 posted on 01/02/2011 1:51:37 AM PST by sinanju
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To: TigerLikesRooster; BufordP

At this rate, Li’l Kim will continue to be “so ronery.”


7 posted on 01/02/2011 2:31:17 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (up)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Just send up some MiG-15's...

8 posted on 01/02/2011 3:05:48 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." CS Lewis)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

So Kim has been hiding inside an all-metal tin can, wearing those crazy polyseter suits. Must all be very electric.

They can probably track him by magnetometer.


9 posted on 01/02/2011 4:14:09 AM PST by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

It’s called projection: if he had the means to kill his opponents, he would.


10 posted on 01/02/2011 4:19:25 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Socialists are to economics what circle squarers are to math; undaunted by reason or derision.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Soooo,
Has Little Kim been talking to Quadafy?


11 posted on 01/02/2011 5:36:53 AM PST by Joe Boucher
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To: sinanju
I remember reading about General LeMay’s handiwork north of the 38th. 80 cities and about 20 percent of the population were lost.
12 posted on 01/02/2011 5:48:55 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

He has nothing to fear. Obama is in charge and won’t do a damn thing.


13 posted on 01/02/2011 6:46:24 AM PST by rfreedom4u ("A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.")
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To: rfreedom4u

OH COME ON NOW !! OBAMA IS A Hawk !!


14 posted on 01/02/2011 7:39:29 AM PST by Pedrobud
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To: Pedrobud

OH COME ON NOW !! OBAMA IS A Hawk !!

Yep. A chicken hawk.


15 posted on 01/02/2011 7:42:37 AM PST by rfreedom4u ("A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.")
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Kim Jong-un wanted to go into the bunker too, but he couldn’t fit through the doorway.


16 posted on 01/02/2011 7:48:04 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

North Korean leader hid himself in an underground bunker for nine days................................................. The real truth is that the shipment of porno survived the train wreck and he has thousands of new DVDs to watch.


17 posted on 01/02/2011 8:23:52 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (The candidate they smear and ridicule the most is the one they fear the most.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Don’t forget maybe he got black market copy of True Grit and King SPeech you know how he love those movies

LOL!


18 posted on 01/02/2011 8:25:52 AM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: TigerLikesRooster
As well it should. Airpower has proven to be the great equalizer against conventional weapons in the field. Just ask the Iraqi armor units, if you can find anyone who survived.
19 posted on 01/02/2011 10:06:23 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Pretty convincing evidence, we should make build a lot more F-22 Raptors.

Just saying.


20 posted on 01/02/2011 10:11:30 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (McCarthy was Right.)
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