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Breaking: N Koreans Ordered To Raise Their Flag At 2PM (1 AM EDT), and Listen to Broadcast
Yonhap News (via Naver.com) ^ | 06/18/06 | Shin Ji-hong

Posted on 06/17/2006 6:15:31 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

/begin my excerpt

N. Koreans Ordered To Raise Their Flag At 2PM, and Listen to Broadcast

N. Korean leadership ordered its citizen to raise their flag and listen to their (government) communique from TV in the evening, according to Sankei Shimbun (of Japan), quoting Japanese government sources.

The paper said it is paying attention this development because it could be related to the launch of Taepodong-2.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: broadcast; callhansbrix; escalation; flag; herrrrroooooooo; missile; missiledefense; missletestlaunch; mushroomcloud; nkorea; northkorea; proliferation; soronery; taepodong
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To: Amelia

Of course China, Russia and Canada would have first shot at it.


281 posted on 06/17/2006 8:15:32 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Graymatter

How do we know it's test though? If someone points a gun at me, I'm going to assume it's loaded.


282 posted on 06/17/2006 8:15:33 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: muawiyah
I am torn, of course!

Me too. And I live in the bay area!

283 posted on 06/17/2006 8:15:33 PM PDT by null and void (Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others)
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To: Jet Jaguar

If they try for NYC, that would SUCK!!


284 posted on 06/17/2006 8:15:41 PM PDT by Toby06 (True conservatives vote based on their values, not for parties.)
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To: CindyDawg
I guess they don't know that freepers don't sleep:')

So VERY true! I'll never forget when the tsunami hit Indonesia several years ago. I was up late that night and surfing FR. Slowly, slowly reports started coming in from FReepers around the world. I had a radio and a TV on in my office, but it was FR that had the most and updated information. I stayed up all that night and into the next morning reading posts on FR.

285 posted on 06/17/2006 8:15:49 PM PDT by proudofthesouth (Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
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To: Graymatter; Cindy; All
"KPA Air Force Command Warns against U.S. Ceaseless Military Provocations
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- The Air Force Command of the Korean People's Army
released today the following report on the ceaseless military provocation perpetrated
by the U.S. imperialist warmongers: The U.S. imperialist warmongers committed one
more military provocation by infiltrating a strategic reconnaissance plane into the sky
above the DPRK's economic waters on June 16.
At around 8:00 Friday an "RC-135" of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces
illegally intruded into the sky above the waters of the DPRK east of Chongjin,
Hwadae and Riwon and spied on its strategic targets for hours, being refueled in the midair.
The ceaseless illegal intrusions of their strategic reconnaissance planes on spy missions
have created an imminent danger of military clash in the sky above those waters.
The KPA Air Force warns them once again that should those planes persist in their reckless
air espionage despite its repeated warnings, they will not be able to escape the same end as that
of a tiger moth fated to perish in the flames and the responsibility for that will wholly rest
with the U.S. imperialist warmongers."

source DPRK News

also: KarCor's guide to DPRK-related websites

286 posted on 06/17/2006 8:16:19 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: null and void
I live in the bay area!

That explains LOTS!

287 posted on 06/17/2006 8:16:30 PM PDT by Toby06 (True conservatives vote based on their values, not for parties.)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Don't they ever have anything nice to say about us?

North Korea's Korean Central New Agency carried a report Friday saying the North's Air Force Command denounced "the ceaseless military provocation perpetrated by the U.S. imperialist warmongers" in making spy plane flights over North Korean waters.

"At around 8:00 Friday, an RC-135 of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces illegally intruded into the sky above the waters of the DPRK east of Chongjin, Hwadae and Riwon and spied on its strategic targets for hours, being refuelled in the midair," the report said.

It warned: "The ceaseless illegal intrusions of their strategic reconnaissance planes on spy missions have created an imminent danger of military clash in the sky above those waters."

288 posted on 06/17/2006 8:17:10 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL ( **Hunter-Tancredo-Weldon-Hayworth 4 President** I get it, Glenn.)
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To: NonValueAdded; TigerLikesRooster
TigerLikesRooster would be the one to ask. I did look at the Korea Herald as it is the paper I read on KAL and the article there added little to the discussion (part of the article follows):

Seoul officials widely believe the North's move is another saber-rattling campaign to raise its stake in the stalled six-party talks.

The reclusive country fired its long-range missile Taepodong-1 over Japan, which fell into the Pacific Ocean, in August 1998.

Reuters cited U.S. officials as saying that the move seems to be for a real missile test rather than just an attempt to regain U.S. and international attention.

"The North Koreans have been working on it for a while without much of a let up ... We think they are speeding up," a U.S. official was quoted as saying.

U.S. satellites reportedly spotted a missile on a flatbed truck and sighted many people possibly assembling missile components at the Musudan-ri launch facility in the northeastern town.

There have been signs since early May that North Korea was preparing to test a multiple-stage Taepodong-2 missile.

South Korea, Japan and the United States issued strong warnings.

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said yesterday the North's missile test would threaten Japan's security and violate a moratorium agreement with Tokyo.

The South Korean government relayed its concern Thursday to the visiting North Korean delegation in the southwestern city of Gwangju. The delegation was attending a joint inter-Korean celebration marking the sixth anniversary of the summit between the two sides in 2000.

Lt. Gen. David P. Valcourt, the commander of the Eighth U.S. Army, warned yesterday a missile test by the North would make regional and global impacts beyond the Korean Peninsula.

On Wednesday, U.S. national security adviser Stephen Hadley warned it would be a "bad idea" if Pyongyang tested. In case of a missile launch, Washington is considering referring North Korea to the U.N. Security Council. Seoul is reluctant to agree to this referral despite its principle to cooperate with the United States on the issue.

Google Earth shows much of N Korea seemingly as an armed camp. More military than anything else from the overhead shots.

289 posted on 06/17/2006 8:17:25 PM PDT by JimSEA (America cannot have an exit strategy from the world.)
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To: Toby06

They don't have anything that will reach any further than the west coast, if that. The articles I've read have referred to Alaska, when talking about a missile aimed toward the US.


290 posted on 06/17/2006 8:17:35 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: Jet Jaguar; Amelia

Hm....


291 posted on 06/17/2006 8:17:35 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: do the dhue

A man's reach should exceed his grasp...


292 posted on 06/17/2006 8:19:03 PM PDT by null and void (Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others)
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To: Toby06

Sometimes there are advantages to losing all of our industry in Michigan. Nothin to hit here but WalMart and McDonalds. LOL


293 posted on 06/17/2006 8:19:10 PM PDT by cripplecreek (I'm trying to think but nothing happens)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

It would be fun if this momentous event was an announcement by NK state media that Kim is dead.


294 posted on 06/17/2006 8:19:21 PM PDT by txrangerette ("We are fighting al-Qaeda, NOT Aunt Sadie"...Dick Cheney commenting on the wiretaps!!)
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To: Peach

Well, as for this West Coaster, I'm gonna have another rum and coke, then keep a close eye on the news. If they launch towards CA, I'll worry. Aside from that, I'm crossing my fingers that we, or Japan blow this P.O.S missle out of the air just for the sake of entertainment.

On second thought, screw all that! Bush should call a press conference and let NK know that if a single scrap of that missle comes within comes within 12 miles of a populated allied country or the United States or any of its' vessels out in the open ocean, we will launch a full scale tactical nuclear strike on North Korea before the first piece of it hits the ground.

I bet you Ol' Kim Jung Il would be getting a call from Bejing within ten seconds of the speach.


295 posted on 06/17/2006 8:19:24 PM PDT by Greenpees (Coulda Shoulda Woulda)
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To: CindyDawg
"They may just be playing with us."

I just read where the Japanese say they have sent two warships out here off the coast and say they will shoot it down if launched. That ought to 'warm' things up a bit, huh?

296 posted on 06/17/2006 8:19:25 PM PDT by blam
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To: Toby06
How do you retaliate with a nuke in NK without also nuking SK and china?

I donno if we have em...neutron bombs at high airburst? Nuc dets are messy no matter how you do it.

297 posted on 06/17/2006 8:20:46 PM PDT by Dosa26
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To: dawn53

I believe NK would launch over the Pacific to hit the US; not over the Atlantic. That's why Japan is pretty concerned.


298 posted on 06/17/2006 8:21:07 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL ( **Hunter-Tancredo-Weldon-Hayworth 4 President** I get it, Glenn.)
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To: JimSEA
Washington is considering referring North Korea to the U.N. Security Council.

Yeah, that'll scare the hell out of them.

299 posted on 06/17/2006 8:21:12 PM PDT by processing please hold (If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

The launch -- expected to involve a Taepodong-2 missile with an estimated range of 3,500 to 4,300 km (2,175 to 2,670 miles) -- could come as early as this weekend, U.S. officials said. Other experts have said the missile can travel as far as 6,000 km.

http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-06-17T104414Z_01_SEO348298_RTRUKOC_0_US-KOREA-NORTH-PLATFORM.xml

That is not 9,000 miles


300 posted on 06/17/2006 8:21:32 PM PDT by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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