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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: SE Mom

it is going to be a time to remember for him


341 posted on 06/17/2006 8:37:15 PM PDT by KC Burke
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To: Sic Luceat Lux; Peach; onyx; Howlin; Incorrigible; SE Mom; All
Exactly!

Bill Clinton .. your disgraced legacy is calling you ..

Appeasing North Korea: the Clinton Legacy

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If Iraq's nuclear policy in the 1990s constituted a "decade of defiance," Bill Clinton's negotiations with North Korea represented a "decade of delusion."

Evidence that North Korea was violating the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty surfaced within weeks of Clinton's first inauguration.

After a year of inaction allowed Pyongyang to create at least one nuclear weapon, the emboldened Stalinists announced their formal withdrawal from the treaty. It seemed North Korean officials were angling for a payoff. They must have realized they struck the jackpot when Clinton named tough-as-nails Jimmy Carter as his principal negotiator.

Under the final terms of the Agreed Framework approved in October of 1994, Clinton agreed to provide the "Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea" (DPRK) with two light water nuclear reactors and a massive allotment of oil.

The U.S. agreed to ship 500,000 metric tons of oil annually in response to the North's pretense that the energy-starved backwater had developed the nuclear facility to generate power. These shipments have cost taxpayers more than $800 million to date - a bargain compared with the $6 billion spent on constructing the nuclear reactors, which now empower North Korea to produce 100 nuclear bombs each year.

All these measures failed to quell the North's atom-lust.

In August 1998, North Korea lobbed a Taepo Dong 1 missile over Japan.

Four months later, officials refused U.S. inspectors access to a suspected underground nuclear reactor at Kumchang-ni. President Clinton then sweetened the deal by rewarding Kim Jong Il's half-year-long stall tactics with 1.1 million tons of food worth nearly $200 million. Not surprisingly, American inspectors found no signs of wrongdoing at the long-sanitized facility.

Even this seemingly humanitarian food aid turned into a weapon in North Korea's hands. Reports abound that rations have been re-directed to the DPRK's military, the fifth largest in the world.

This is nothing new. Using food as a weapon dates back at least to Stalin. Communist Ethiopia similarly misused international aid in the 1980s. With this in mind, Rep. Benjamin Gilman, R-NY, warned in 1999, "(A)ny food aid we provide to North Korea . . . must be monitored to prevent diversion to the military and the party cadre. Unscheduled, unsupervised visits by American Korean-speaking monitors would assist us in this regard." It didn't happen.

It seems little wonder North Korea has made threats of nuclear conflagration its only functional export industry, besides the weapons themselves. Even as floods and famine emaciated its nearly 22 million citizens, regime leaders in this "worker's paradise" earmarked every available dollar for guns, not butter, in the hope that Uncle Sam would pay their price without demanding accountable disarmament. Their gamble paid off. Clinton's appeasement programs made North Korea the leading recipient of foreign aid in the Asia-Pacific region.

Clinton's policy toward North Korea, a queer amalgamation of Clement Atlee and Alfred E. Newman, has proven disastrous.

The most isolated nation in the world has possessed a nuclear weapon capable of striking the United States (the Taepo Dong 2 missile) since at least 1999. Its modern-day commissars have threatened to use these missiles against America a minimum of three times in 21 months. After kicking UN inspectors out of the Yongbyong facility, the short trip to full nuclear status has been quickly engaged.

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Dear Lord .. protect us .. this is scary .. and one of my sons is in San Diego this weekend.

342 posted on 06/17/2006 8:37:52 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: All

I was going thru the newspapers listed for Japan and Korea, and one(sorry don't know which one) reported that fuel tanks were now on the launch platform. Because Iwas not registered to the newspaper's site, it would not let me go to the full article. But it was dated for Sunday(6-18) so it is current.


343 posted on 06/17/2006 8:38:44 PM PDT by casino66
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To: helen crump

Out pretty late with Andy, weren't you? Hope you didn't wake Aunt Bea. Looks like midnight CDT. Don't know what the delay will be in the translated info reaching us.


344 posted on 06/17/2006 8:39:21 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("So to hell with that twerp at the [WaPo]. I've got no time for him on a day like this." Mark Steyn)
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To: LukeL

Yep, I flew from Frankfurt to Fairbanks, AK over the pole.

Took about 7 hours. Neat trip.


345 posted on 06/17/2006 8:39:30 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: STARWISE

Don't be scared, I'm in Hawaii and if he launches this missle it will see water. He's up to his old tricks. Bush needs to put him in the corner for a time out! (Smile)


346 posted on 06/17/2006 8:39:36 PM PDT by Thumbellina (As I recall, Kerry referred to terrorism as "overrated".)
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To: NonValueAdded

Tonight isn't a great night to accommodate a Taepodong or whatever they're called. I'm on the Left Coast, trying to spy, much lot a lot of old folks did in the 40's.

And my SW frequency book has them blocked out. Grrrr.


347 posted on 06/17/2006 8:39:36 PM PDT by IslandJeff (who drove the red sports car?)
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To: helen crump
The flag raising occurs at Midnight Central. The message from the great leader Kim Jong Il (or whatever commie the party decides to send to drone on TV for hours) will come later.

And I don't think the great noble leader will just be saying that he so ronery....
348 posted on 06/17/2006 8:40:14 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
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To: helen crump

I don't know cdt but it is scheduled to launch at 1 am est.


349 posted on 06/17/2006 8:40:42 PM PDT by Dosa26
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To: varina davis

What does Bookmark mean?


350 posted on 06/17/2006 8:41:30 PM PDT by Thumbellina (As I recall, Kerry referred to terrorism as "overrated".)
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To: All

Australian article on this: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/prepare-for-launch-north-koreans-asked-to-raise-flags/2006/06/18/1150569199556.html


Prepare for launch? North Koreans asked to raise flags
June 18, 2006 - 12:53PM

The North Korean leadership has told its people to raise the national flag at 2pm (1500 AEST) on Sunday, in what may be a sign that Pyongyang will go ahead with a missile launch test, a Japanese government official was quoted as saying.

Japanese daily Sankei Shimbun also quoted the Japanese official as saying that the North Koreans had been instructed to monitor television and other broadcasts for a "message to the people".

South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted diplomatic sources in Seoul as saying on Saturday that a missile test - expected to be that of a Taepodong-2 ballistic missile with an estimated range of 3500km-4300km - could come as early as Sunday or Monday.

Meanwhile, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported satellite photos showed tens of fuel tanks at the launch site in North Korea, and there was a possibility the missile may have already been fuelled, citing diplomatic sources in Washington.

"But, we cannot say this for sure," one unidentified source was quoted as saying by Yonhap, regarding the fuelling of the missile.

Other countries have urged North Korea to halt preparations for a test-launch of a long-range missile.

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso has warned North Korea if it launched a missile that dropped on Japan, Tokyo would regard it as an attack on the country.

"If it is dropped on Japan, it will complicate the story. It will be regarded as an attack," Aso said on a Fuji TV program.

"The possibility is not zero of a missile dropping on Japan. That's why we are worried," said Aso.

A Japanese news report said Tokyo and the US may seek an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council if North Korea fires a long-range missile.

Tokyo and Washington agreed on Saturday to ask the Security Council to get involved if the North test-fires a missile, Kyodo News agency reported from New York, citing unnamed diplomats from several countries including Japan and the US.


351 posted on 06/17/2006 8:42:04 PM PDT by KJC1
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To: KC Burke

My somewhat common sense approach is that more than likely this will be a non-event(minus the spin in N. Korea). However...given that it is North Korea....you just never know.

Anyone else care to take a shot at what the actual sequence of events will be?


352 posted on 06/17/2006 8:42:44 PM PDT by mimmson
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To: TigerLikesRooster

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/24/060524223540.skj1r6yx.html


US tests ship-based defense system against short-range missile
May 24 6:35 PM US/Eastern

An interceptor missile fired from a US warship destroyed a short-range target missile in its last few seconds of flight, the US Missile Defense Agency said.

"It was the first sea-based intercept of a ballistic missile in its terminal phase," the agency said.

The USS Lake Erie, an Aegis cruiser that has been modified for missile defense operations, used a Standard Missile-2 Block IV missile to intercept a short range ballistic missile off Hawaii, the agency said.

The goal of the test was to show that the target missile could be destroyed in the last few seconds of flight either with a direct hit or with a blast close enough to knock it down.

"In today's test, the threat missile was completely destroyed by the combined effects of these two mechanisms," the agency said.

The US military has a ground-based missile defense system, the Patriot Advanced Capability-3, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range missiles. But it has no ship-borne capability.

A Pentagon report this week highlighted the threat to US aircraft carriers and surface warships of China's ballistic missiles.


353 posted on 06/17/2006 8:43:36 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: KJC1; Howlin

Great find, thanks. When it comes to Breaking News, FR is the place to be!


354 posted on 06/17/2006 8:43:58 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("So to hell with that twerp at the [WaPo]. I've got no time for him on a day like this." Mark Steyn)
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To: STARWISE

The appeasing monkeys.

Hang tight SW..your son is safe- it's actually Japan that should have it's eye wide open..and I'm sure they do!


355 posted on 06/17/2006 8:44:06 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud Mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Thumbellina

Bookmark is so that you can find where you left off of a thread.


356 posted on 06/17/2006 8:44:09 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever (Political troglodyte with a partisan axe to grind)
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To: Thumbellina

You bookmark a thread so that when you log in at a later time, you can go directly to your ping page and pick up the thread immediately where you left off previously.


357 posted on 06/17/2006 8:44:19 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: KJC1

It's kinda interesting that these dictators feel a need to announce everything they do loudly. I guess it's a way to announce their vast power to their citizens.


358 posted on 06/17/2006 8:44:20 PM PDT by cripplecreek (I'm trying to think but nothing happens)
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To: Jet Jaguar

"We hate to guess what sort of dreadful result would be brought about if the missile is actually test-fired."

What is that suppose to mean?


359 posted on 06/17/2006 8:44:26 PM PDT by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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To: DCPatriot

Oh, ok thank you.


360 posted on 06/17/2006 8:44:53 PM PDT by Thumbellina (As I recall, Kerry referred to terrorism as "overrated".)
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