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N. Korea: Taepodong-2 pointed at waters near Hawaii: report (direct provocation)
Kyodo News ^
| 07/07/06
Posted on 07/06/2006 5:06:10 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Taepodong-2 pointed at waters near Hawaii: report
(Kyodo) _ The Taepodong-2 long-range missile recently test-fired by North Korea was pointed at waters near Hawaii, the Sankei Shimbun reported Friday in its online edition.
Citing government sources in Japan and the United States, the report said Japan's Defense Agency and the U.S. military reached the conclusion after analyzing the missile's path from data collected by Aegis-equipped destroyers and RC-135S electronic reconnaissance aircraft.
The missile was test-fired from its launching site in Musudanri in northeast North Korea early Wednesday local time before landing into the Sea of Japan about several hundred kilometers away.
The authorities decided that the missile was pointed at Hawaii from the angle of its nose cone immediately after the launch and the altitude it has reached, the report said.
The distance between North Korea and Hawaii is about 7,000 kikometers. While Taepodong-2 was widely believed to have the firing range of 3,500-6,000 km, its actual range can be longer, the report said.
It is not clear why North Korea targeted areas near Hawaii, but the sources believe North either wanted to show that the missile's firing range includes the United States, or because Hawaii is home to the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, or because the missile could mistakenly hit a land area if fired toward Alaska, the report said.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: actofwar; axisofevil; bashbush; hawaii; korea; missile; nkorea; northkorea; proliferation; taepodong; taepodong2
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To: eyedigress
We are not going to play games with testing missiles. That's what he wants! Reconnaissance by fire.
101
posted on
07/06/2006 6:27:38 PM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
To: Smartass
You are finding some great graphics - or perhaps making them?
102
posted on
07/06/2006 6:29:02 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
Comment #103 Removed by Moderator
To: TSchmereL
No,No, Thats The USS RONALD REAGAN !
104
posted on
07/06/2006 6:30:58 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
( DO NOT VOTE FOR PEDRO !!! He's a DEMOCRAT......)
Comment #105 Removed by Moderator
To: Lizarde
i don't know, i think while the waters are already stirred he might just go ahead and fire some more. And "significant activity" doesn't sound like missle techs taking their time; it sounds like people in a hurry to do something
106
posted on
07/06/2006 6:33:40 PM PDT
by
jhp
Comment #107 Removed by Moderator
To: cmsgop
It might be the USS Bob Dole.
108
posted on
07/06/2006 6:36:56 PM PDT
by
TSchmereL
("Rust but terrify.")
To: DoughtyOne
No prob.
Common misconception.
Just like people think the "duck and cover" thing was stupid because it won't protect you from a nuclear blast. It wasn't supposed to. It was to protect you from the FLASH and the resultant burns. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we found that many individuals were burned except where the skin was covered even if only by thin clothing. Duck and cover was to protect the eyes and skin from burning.If you were far enough away that was what would kill you fastest. Then after the flash and before the fallout arrived you ran to a fallout shelter.
Not much in the old Civil Defense plan was intended to protect the public from a nuclear hit. They pretty much knew those under the blast were goners and so were written off.
To: potlatch
LOL, nah, that's homemade by me.
I need to practice more.
:o)
110
posted on
07/06/2006 6:37:40 PM PDT
by
Smartass
("In God We Trust" - "An informed and knowledgeably citizen is the best defense against tyranny")
To: pepperdog
The Charlie Brown comes to mind. Ann is on Fox right now I have to take a Teacher break.
To: TSchmereL
Lil' Kim learned how to launch a bomb by watching our Democrats.
112
posted on
07/06/2006 6:40:39 PM PDT
by
TSchmereL
("Rust but terrify.")
To: Lizarde
We are. We'll have to get nuked before Bush will feel confident enough to do something. Hell, they were pointed at Hawaii and NK is still standing...
113
posted on
07/06/2006 6:41:24 PM PDT
by
processing please hold
(If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
To: edpc
of course, costs have gone up since 1960...
114
posted on
07/06/2006 6:43:42 PM PDT
by
Cheburashka
(World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Do we have camera's on our Defense System?
insert johnny carson, "I did not know that!" It's time for the world to speak..This cannot propogate.
To: DoughtyOne
"I've not read up on it lately, but I believe you have to be underground by a considerable distance to be safe these days, on the order of thirty feet or more."
At Ground zero, sure. Five or more miles from a 10 MT airburst, though, just a few feet. It's best to be flat underground, though, you don't want to be "sticking up" into the debris/blast wave.
116
posted on
07/06/2006 6:44:34 PM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: pbrown
We'll have to get nuked before The Democrats will feel confident enough to do something.
117
posted on
07/06/2006 6:45:17 PM PDT
by
usmcobra
(How many ICBM tests does it take before Kim Jung Il is consider a threat? let's find out 1,2,3...)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Funny, I don't hear any outcry from the libs who were protesting the Navy using SONAR near Hawaii, for fear it would upset the whales. I wonder what chia head's nukes will do to the whales.
Meanwhile, from the libs....(cue the crickets chirping)
118
posted on
07/06/2006 6:45:33 PM PDT
by
FrankR
(Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
To: Smartass; ntnychik; devolve; PhilDragoo; bitt
LOL, nah, that's homemade by me Good job, you're doing fine - even headhunting now, lol. I can't remember the first things I made.
119
posted on
07/06/2006 6:46:26 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: coconutt2000; TigerLikesRooster
Frankly, I'm guessing that even if this rocket doesn't blow up (big if) it wouldn't land within 500 miles of its intended target. That's one of the reasons I'm sure that they don't NOTAM these launches. They'd be embarrassed by the size of the area they would have to NOTAM or the miss distance from the area that they picked.
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