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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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(Excerpt) Read more at news.naver.com ...


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: onyx
Launch their ICBM, and detonate a nuc couple of hundred miles over uninhabited Pacific.

Now wouldn't that get everyone's attention.
41 posted on 06/17/2006 6:34:25 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry....)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Pre-emptive strikes by USAF fighter jets would put an end to this immediately.

Damn what the MSM/Democrats say....

42 posted on 06/17/2006 6:34:50 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (PENCE IMMIGRATION PLAN BASHERS WILL BE OBLITERATED)
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

I have missed so much this past month, I'll never catch up; thanks for showing me what's going on.


43 posted on 06/17/2006 6:35:20 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Howlin

I love crocs...


44 posted on 06/17/2006 6:36:04 PM PDT by mystery-ak (Army Wife and Army Mother.....toughest job in the military)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Jet, pardon me for being behind, but was there another "test" you all had a thread about?


45 posted on 06/17/2006 6:36:10 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: tet68

You are right. And, if they got worked up the last time then this time the Japanese could really lose it on them.


46 posted on 06/17/2006 6:36:58 PM PDT by hawkaw
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To: TigerLikesRooster

USS Lake Erie, the SM3 test ship, is supposedly somewhere near Hawaii (though I wouldn't be surprised to hear that it's been repositioned).

As of 15 Feb, USS Shiloh was supposed to take up station off Japan "later this year", and she was supposed to have been rearmed with SM3's. According to the Navy, she's supposed to be deployed there in August 2006 - which explains why Kim Jong Il decided to go *now* before the SM3 arrives to ruin his day.

We currently have USS Vandegrift (FFG 48) and USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) in the area, with the capability to datalink to our ground based interceptors at Vandenber (CA) and Fort Greely, AL. We have at least ten ground based interceptors deployed and ready to go. However, mass production is ramping up and we're going to have even more soon.

(None of this is classified, it's all from public web sites and media outlets, and I'm sure Kim Jong Il knows all about this, or he wouldn't try this now.)


47 posted on 06/17/2006 6:37:06 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Well, it's 10: 35 am on Sunday June 18th in N. Korea -- looks like they are 14 hrs ahead of USA PDT, and 11 hrs ahead of EDT.

It's 2 pm in N. Korea 3.5 hrs from now.


48 posted on 06/17/2006 6:37:22 PM PDT by FairOpinion (Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
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To: Howlin

I don't know about crocks or shoes but I may raise my frag.


49 posted on 06/17/2006 6:37:32 PM PDT by cripplecreek (I'm trying to think but nothing happens)
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To: NinoFan
No it doesn't sound good at all. You wonder what this missile is armed with and where it is aimed. This is a prime example of what will happen when weapons of this nature are in the hands of madmen. It's a shame I have to hope for an immediate and decisive retaliation should this missile be fired toward the U.S. or Japan. These nuts are desperate and will do anything for the attention they wish to receive. Not only should we shoot this down but we should retaliate in kind.
50 posted on 06/17/2006 6:37:39 PM PDT by Wiggins
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To: Howlin

You are quite welcome. Godspeed, and bless you and yours.


51 posted on 06/17/2006 6:37:44 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever (Political troglodyte with a partisan axe to grind)
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To: Howlin
What's going on?

No clue. But any breaking news from N Korea makes my antennae spring up.
52 posted on 06/17/2006 6:38:01 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Well this is goig to be an interesting evening/ morning.


53 posted on 06/17/2006 6:38:19 PM PDT by Kakaze (American: a Citizen of the United States of America........not just some resident of said continent)
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To: Howlin

My son is over there at 2nd ID HQ.
I imagine that Kim will do anything to agrandize his image.


54 posted on 06/17/2006 6:38:29 PM PDT by KC Burke
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To: Wiggins
Time to deploy a Trident Attack Submarine off the coast instead.

Do you doubt one or more are already deployed there, just waiting for any kind of credible provocation? The only thing preventing us from "disappearing" NK is world opinion. Kim Jong Mentally-Il had better be damned careful where he points his dong. He could be peeing into a very ill wind.

55 posted on 06/17/2006 6:38:54 PM PDT by Bernard Marx (Fools and fanatics are always certain of themselves, but the wise are full of doubts.)
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To: Howlin
Saturday's Chosun Ilbo with headline
'Taepodong-2 missile loaded with first, second booster rockets'


56 posted on 06/17/2006 6:39:18 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

North Korea prepares to test missile that can reach USA

http://www.mumbaimirror.com/nmirror/mmpaper.asp?sectid=5&articleid=61720062138268126172006213822515


Seoul: North Korea loaded booster rockets onto a launch pad, preparing to test as early as Sunday a missile that might be able to reach the US mainland, media reported.

The reports follow US government warnings that the communist North is accelerating preparations to test a Taepodong-2 missile.

A US government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Friday that a test may be imminent. South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper said intelligence authorities of Seoul and Washington had made the assessment, based on satellite images, that the North had loaded booster rockets onto a launch pad and moved 10 large tanks of liquid fuel close by.

The Taepodong-2 is a three-stage missile, but the warhead section hadn’t been loaded yet, the paper said, quoting an unidentified high-level South Korean government official. South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Choo Kyu-ho couldn't confirm the report.

Japan’s Foreign Minister and the US ambassador to Japan on Saturday called North Korea’s possible missile test a provocative action, and Tokyo urged Pyongyang through diplomatic channels not to proceed with the launch, news reports said.

Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Aso and US Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer met on Saturday evening.

Japan’s concern can be traced back to 1998, when North Korea test-fired a Taepodong-1 ballistic missile over northern Japan, claiming it was a satellite launch. There were reports that Japan had dispatched two Aegis destroyers to the Sea of Japan and Pacific Ocean.


57 posted on 06/17/2006 6:39:55 PM PDT by FairOpinion (Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Sure would be a shame, if it blew up on the pad.


58 posted on 06/17/2006 6:40:31 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: Diogenesis

Okay, going on record predicting that they're going to try to orbit a satellite.


59 posted on 06/17/2006 6:40:39 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster


Good thread. Thanks for the alert.


60 posted on 06/17/2006 6:40:42 PM PDT by onyx (Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
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