[Jet Jaguar]

Preparation for NK Missile Test [Possible range: over 9,000 miles.]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1650396/posts

[Amelia]

I stand corrected.

[Toby06]

If they try for NYC, that would SUCK!!

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

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."

[Howlin]

Hm....

[bnelson44]

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

[CaliforniaRepublican]

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).

[LukeL]

We never think of going "up and over" all projections usually show a missile moving east to west.

[Quix]

What a sobering, graphic, . . . . .

uhhh, welll, graphic.