Preparation for NK Missile Test [Possible range: over 9,000 miles.]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1650396/posts
I stand corrected.
If they try for NYC, that would SUCK!!
"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."
Hm....
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
Launching a missle across the pole has much less range than launching the same missle toward the east. This is due to the earth's rotation, which is close to a 1000 mph eastward at Korean latitudes. (That is why most sattellite launches are toward the east).
We never think of going "up and over" all projections usually show a missile moving east to west.
What a sobering, graphic, . . . . .
uhhh, welll, graphic.