Posted on 01/29/2016 6:34:43 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Speculation mounts of imminent N. Korea rocket launch
AFP
By Thomas Watkins, with Hiroshi Hiyama in Tokyo
Washington (AFP) - Speculation mounted Friday that North Korea is preparing a rocket or long-range missile launch to follow its recent nuclear test, with Japan reportedly ordering its military to shoot down any projectile that threatened its territory.
With existing UN Security Council resolutions banning North Korea from the use of ballistic missile technology, any launch would be a further slap in the face of the international community which is struggling to find a united response to the January 6 nuclear test.
Following a Japanese report that cited government sources as saying a rocket launch could come as early as next week, two US defence officials confirmed ongoing activity at the North's Sohae satellite complex.
"The indications are that they are preparing for some kind of launch," one US official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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What would be wonderful and show the world America is still here would be to shoot that missile down. With what King Obama has done I doubt we have the ability now. Maybe when Trump gets in office he will use these idiots for target practice.
Another red line to be breached with impunity
I wonder when Japan is going to get nucs?
We have the ability ... we don't have the will.
At this rate we’re gonna run out of red crayons.
Simple solution. Tell the fat kid with bad haircut that if the smallest piece of that rocket hits American soil there will be no such place as Pyongyang very shortly thereafter
So how big is the check we write to them gonna be this time?
Japan has at least four Aegis type destroyers. They’re not as equipped as ours but they could easily knock down a missile from NK.
Been said before: "They are only a screwdriver away"
Meaning, I suppose, that all the parts are ready, just some assembly required. They do not "have" them if not assembled, wink, wink.
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