Asiana Plane in Close Shave as North Korea Launches Missile

Chosun Ilbo Daily News (conservative), South Korea ^ | 6 July 2006 | Chosun Ilbo Daily News, Seoul

[AmericanInTokyo]

A fully-loaded 747-400 here folks. Loaded with South Koreans and Americans--one can imagine. Pretty serious stuff. Especially if we are to expect more of these caustic launches by Kim Jong il.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Bump for all in Chicago (where the flight originated) Tuesday, or for anyone traveling overseas regularly, through these Asian routes.

[MizSterious]

On Fox this morning, a Clinton hack was opining on this. The interviewer asked her about her negotiations with NK when she was working on that project, and she got very snippy--"Let's not talk about what Clinton did, let's talk about how Bush has failed." We can thank the Clintons for this latest mess--along with Somalia, 9/11, and many more messes left for the grownups to clean up.

[Velveeta]

Chicago bump.

[edcoil]

Anyone know if an Environment Impact Report on the sea of japan was filed by the North Korean government prior to the launch test?

[pollywog]

A fully-loaded 747-400 here folks. Loaded with South Koreans and Americans--one can imagine. Pretty serious stuff. Especially if we are to expect more of these caustic launches by Kim Jong il.

My nephew lives in South Korea and had just taken a flight from Los Angeles back to SK on the 4th, that pattern!!!! This is SCARY!!!

[AmericanInTokyo]

I reserve about 80-90% of this blame to the Clinton Administration, re: how it handled it, yes.

[Cinnamon]

the pot-bellied pig, dog-eating great leader is a retard.

[sono]

Time to put em on UN Double Secret Probation - that'll fix em.

/sarc

[Carry_Okie]

South Korea issued no such order, even though it admits it intercepted the North Korean warning to fishing boats as early as July 3. Seoul believes it has done enough by closely watching whether the North would actually fire the missiles and postponing the foreign minister’s overseas trip. In short, the government knew but did not tell the public of the danger ahead.

This is damning. I hope they pay.

[firewalk]

bttt

[AmericanInTokyo]

They (the DPRK) are under strict obligation to notify international civil and maritime authorities of their intended launches, trajectories, launch times and touch down times, elevation, speed, etc, etc. They are under complete abrogation or violation of those basic international agreements. I do think that if your nephew's air route was LAX to Incheon Airport (S. Korea), then the (Sea of Japan) transit for his A/L was much lower latitude-wise, it would seem that he would come into Korea across a lower transverse mid-section of Japan, crossing something like Kyoto or Fukui, or Niigata, or Ishikawa/Kanazawa on the west coast of Japan, over to the central east coast of South Korea (then across S. Korea into Incheon), well away from the trajectory, well south of it. It is the US flights from Chicago or East Coast areas to S. Korea which will take the aircraft(s) much further north (northern Alaska), then down the Sea of Japan, transversing it, and running into the potential touch down areas for these missiles and their 10 minute flights.

Still not very settling, is it.

[hispanarepublicana]

Admitting that I know very little about these missiles that are being launched, and that I know very little about Space Shuttle & its trajectories, descent patterns, etc., is there any chance the N. Koreans would try to mess with the shuttle's return to the atmosphere?

[Constitution Day]

BUMP

[Moose4]

The chance of one of Mr. Ronery's various Dongs hitting a passenger plane or fishing boat in that large area is just about nil--the old "hitting a bullet with a bullet." But, it's a chance that doesn't need to be taken. If that one-in-a-million chance DID happen...

Asiana's a Taiwanese carrier? Or South Korean?

}:-)4

[From One - Many]

Absolutely 100% correct...BTTT

[Moose4]

The missiles being fired are all surface-to-surface missiles. The Nodongs (or Rodongs) are uprated versions of the semi-famous Scud; I don't know what kind of guidance they have, if any, but they're considered short-range (under 1,000 miles). The Taepodong-2 is a very different animal. It's basically a guided ICBM, with a range of several thousand miles. One can assume it's capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, since there's not much use in putting a conventional warhead on a missile that can hit western Alaska from North Korea.

So I don't think there's a threat to the shuttle here.

}:-)4

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>"Let's not talk about what Clinton did, let's talk about how Bush has failed."

Sounds like the party line Clintonista response to anything asked of them by the 7-11 Commission.

[johnny7]

They're circling the wagons again on this one... just like 9/11. You'll notice that when the MSM parades out their endless line of Clinton-hacks to talk on NKorea... NOTHING is mentioned of how they got the bomb in the first place... or of the stiffing they gave Rapists42's. pathetic administration.

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>When it test-fired a Taepodong-1 missile in 1998, the North also ignored that obligation and was given a warning by the UN Security Council.


I guess it's time to ask the all-important question. So what?