Posted on 06/17/2006 6:15:31 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Are we dead yet? I got busy doing something else and didn't notice.
If IJ can't, i will:
Apparently, NK TV flashed a message to all North Koreans to raise their flags at 2pm Korean Time (11pm Pacific) and stand by for a message from the government "shortly".
As of now (0100am Pacific), nothing yet.
Lil' Kim had a serious bout of Small Manonitis today, it seems.
I got to tell y'all, being in Seattle...and within the supposed range of this thing...I'm just a LITTLE nervous.
Fox Radio news reporting 3 hours after the time North Koreans were told to tune into a special broadcast. According to the correspondent, the only thing showing on NK t.v. was an old movie. I wonder what it was? My guess, something with the 3 Stooges.
Perhaps they will test a nuke
The nice thing about ballistic missiles is that the trajectory is pretty predictable. NORAD et al would have a pretty damn good idea of where it would come down within a minute or two of launch. The US ABM capability is not flawless, but I would be willing to bet that they could wax an errant ballistic missile if they had to, particularly given warning.
Of course, if it came to that North Korea would receive some decisive punishment. Mr. Ronery is certifiable, but I don't know if he is delusional enough for that.
Constipation has delayed the announcement.
They're not gonna fire a nuke at America. Even if they tried it wouldn't make it.
A top secret Special Forces reconnaissance team has managed to get out some video of the launch of new North Korean missile which took place at 0100 ET:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=77L3DFxX2lQ&search=rocket%20failurehttp://youtube.com/watch?v=77L3DFxX2lQ&search=rocket%20failure
Thank you, and I think he IS delusional enough to try it.
I remember a person, early in this thread, who asked if this was just an exercise on the part of a nutty lonely man. He or she was shouted down harshly. The shouter called a him/her a "dipshit" if I remember right.
Funny.
OKey dokey. Thanks. As you were.
Thanks, guess I wait till morning and see what this is all about. That is unless it hits Ca!
Goodnight,
Thanks, wish he had a bout of suicide mania.
Goodnight, it's been a long day!
As a general principle, I agree with that. The only caveat is that Mr. Ronery is a bloody whackjob. That said, I'm not sure that his lieutenants would be nutty enough to go through with it even if he is. Insanity is not particularly infectious, though the 9mm brain hemorrhage is surprisingly virulent on occasion.
Even if they tried it wouldn't make it.
Agreed. As I said, our ABM capability is still pretty marginal in all likelihood, but it is not entirely flacid either. I am pretty damn sure we can splash a random 1960s era ICBM if we really needed to. I fully expect that we have Aegis assets sitting offshore that know a thing or two about ballistic missiles.
TOKYO - North Korea is unlikely to test-fire a long-range missile on Sunday despite reports that a launch is imminent, Jiji Press news agency said, quoting senior officials of Japan's Defence Agency.
"There won't be a launch today," one was quoted as saying without elaborating.
Defence Agency chief Fukushiro Nukaga separately said the agency had not observed" any particular change" which would indicate an impending launch, Jiji reported.
http://nationmultimedia.com/worldhotnews/read.php?newsid=30006724
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