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Report: N. Korea May Have Fired Missile
AP Via Yahoo ^ | 5/1/05

Posted on 05/01/2005 5:17:40 AM PDT by Raycpa

Report: N. Korea May Have Fired Missile

1 hour, 20 minutes ago

The U.S. military informed Japan that North Korea may have fired a short-range missile toward the Sea of Japan on Sunday morning, Kyodo News service and national broadcaster NHK reported.

The reports quoted unidentified government sources as saying that the U.S. military informed Japan's Defense Agency of the possible missile launch. The government was attempting to confirm the information, the reports said.

The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo and the U.S. military both refused to comment, and an official at the Japanese Defense Agency said he could not confirm the report. The South Korean defense ministry also said it could not confirm the account.

NHK said the missile was believed to have been fired from the reclusive nation's east coast and to have traveled 65 miles into the Sea of Japan.

Word of the possible test came just days after a top U.S. military intelligence official told a U.S. Senate committee that North Korea has the ability to arm a missile with a nuclear weapon, a potentially significant advance for the communist state.

Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, in testimony on Thursday, did not specify whether he was talking about a short-range missile or a long-range one that could reach the United States.

Two defense officials later said that U.S. intelligence analysts believe North Korea is several years away from being able to mount a nuclear warhead on a missile that could reach the United States from the Korean Peninsula.

North Korea's missile development program has spurred Japan to join the United States in putting together a joint missile-defense system. North Korea startled Tokyo in 1998 by launching a long-range ballistic missile over the Japanese archipelago and into the Pacific Ocean.

Pyongyang has played upon the threat by intermittently test-firing short-range missiles since then.

The Japanese Cabinet in February approved legislation that would allow the defense chief to order the military to shoot down incoming missiles.

Six-nation talks aimed at persuading North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions have been stalled since last June. Washington's top envoy on the issue, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, said on Thursday in South Korea that the North's refusal to return to the talks is a problem but they are still the best way to resolve the matter.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: missile; nknukes; northeastasia; northkorea
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1 posted on 05/01/2005 5:17:40 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Raycpa
North Korea's missile development program has spurred Japan to join the United States in putting together a joint missile-defense system.

I have not heard the rats complain recently about the missile-defense system. Wonder why?

2 posted on 05/01/2005 5:19:57 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Raycpa; All

(looks outside window at Camp Casey)

Didn't see nothing fly this way.


3 posted on 05/01/2005 5:21:53 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng Bn ...K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: Strategerist

ping


4 posted on 05/01/2005 5:23:43 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: Raycpa
This is the second time they have fired a missile in that direction.

Much ado about nothing, IMO.

They think that they can intimidate Dubya, and they think wrong.

5 posted on 05/01/2005 5:25:17 AM PDT by OldFriend (MAJOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH.....INSPIRATIONAL)
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To: txradioguy
Where is Camp Casey?

Just in case, keep your head down! Stay safe!

6 posted on 05/01/2005 5:25:31 AM PDT by mathluv
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To: mathluv

"Where is Camp Casey?"

Oh 'bout 30 miles south of the DMZ.

Trust me I'm staying low.


7 posted on 05/01/2005 5:27:43 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng Bn ...K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: txradioguy

Thanks for the info - and do watch that head --- and the rest that is attached to it.


8 posted on 05/01/2005 5:28:40 AM PDT by mathluv
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To: txradioguy

Seeing your tagline, I am sorry for your recent loss. Stay safe.


9 posted on 05/01/2005 5:31:40 AM PDT by Jackknife (No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.-MacArthur)
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To: The Drowning Witch

ping


10 posted on 05/01/2005 5:32:06 AM PDT by Jackknife (No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.-MacArthur)
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To: jakkknife

Thanks Jack I appreciate that.


11 posted on 05/01/2005 5:32:33 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng Bn ...K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: txradioguy

Today is a May Day, be alert,..Semper Fi


12 posted on 05/01/2005 5:33:34 AM PDT by Cvengr (<;^))
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Forgot about that. Good point.

Wonder if they did this as part of the "celebrations"?


14 posted on 05/01/2005 5:44:34 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng Bn ...K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: txradioguy
For ALL you do.............

......this Bud's for you.

Be Safe!

15 posted on 05/01/2005 5:46:07 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: DoctorMichael

Thanks Doc....that's a cure for just about all that ails me over here! :D


16 posted on 05/01/2005 5:47:24 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng Bn ...K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: Raycpa
China told Kim Jung Il to fire the missile and rattle the Japs cages. Kimmie probably got some Chinese movie stars in return

kimmie2.jpg

17 posted on 05/01/2005 5:50:44 AM PDT by dennisw (2ยข plain)
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To: Raycpa
NHK said the missile was believed to have been fired from the reclusive nation's east coast and to have traveled 65 miles into the Sea of Japan.
 
Not to downplay other threats (Seoul, a bomb delivered to a U.S. port via ship), but this is the kind of stuff that makes me very cynical when I hear about NK's ability to fire a missle to our west coast.
Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

18 posted on 05/01/2005 6:07:47 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: seamole

Mabee time for another accident in HK?


19 posted on 05/01/2005 6:12:04 AM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeePeee!)
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To: Cvengr

FEN Radio would broadcast "Condition Orange"in Tokyo and all us American kids were supposed to stay home.


20 posted on 05/01/2005 6:12:46 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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