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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: NavyCanDo
"But on a serious this may be the closet we have been to nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis."

Dear 'ol Kimmy is a nutjob, so we do need to tread carefully - no sense in getting a 100,000 SK's killed in the process of taking out the North if we can help it. That being said, it's also time to push the diplomacy along with the help of an aircraft carrier battle group. Or two. Or three.
161 posted on 07/06/2006 7:16:03 PM PDT by Skywarner (The U.S. Armed Forces... Producers of FREEDOM for over 200 years!!)
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To: H. Paul Pressler IV
Bush has lost his edge imho. He's scared the world will get mad at us. I wish someone would tell him they hate our very existence and salivate at the prospect of lil' Il heaping some damage on us.
162 posted on 07/06/2006 7:16:55 PM PDT by processing please hold (If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
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To: NavyCanDo
For the time being, IMHO, he is probably doing the right thing, with the right approach. I will give him the benefit of the doubt right now.

I am sure they have some interesting things and toys up their sleeves that we are not being told.

163 posted on 07/06/2006 7:17:03 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (A few clever bones tossed on gay unions, flag burning & Iraq still don't absolve GWB over BORDERS)
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To: Skywarner

Kimmee is nuts. Hopefully the CIA will eventually take him out.


164 posted on 07/06/2006 7:17:32 PM PDT by Jille (The truth shall set you free.)
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To: cmsgop

"The more I think about this I come to one conclusion,NK is very close to economic Collapse and the Ill Regime losing all control. Maybe I am wrong.."

I believe you've got it correct. It's desperate extortion, pure and simple.


165 posted on 07/06/2006 7:18:11 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: Jille

His own family will eventually turn on him. If. They can be enticed.


166 posted on 07/06/2006 7:18:12 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (A few clever bones tossed on gay unions, flag burning & Iraq still don't absolve GWB over BORDERS)
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To: Calpernia
Where are our hackers? It would be a blast if someone could hack their system and change the launch coordinates.
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How do you know they didn't?
167 posted on 07/06/2006 7:18:29 PM PDT by Cheburashka (World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
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To: DoughtyOne

Agreed...


168 posted on 07/06/2006 7:19:25 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: patton

"If it was launched from the DPRK, and landed in the NORTHERN sea of japan, this is pure BS."

Obviously you haven't heard of great circle bearings. Do a Google.


169 posted on 07/06/2006 7:19:35 PM PDT by lawdude (Murtha: SPEAK LIES TO THE WEAK!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Good evening.

You know one day, the little ronery chia pet (the great and glorious leader kimmy ill), will get these launches to be successful. Not good, not good at all.

5.56mm

170 posted on 07/06/2006 7:20:08 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Cheburashka

I don't. I thought I was being original.


171 posted on 07/06/2006 7:20:17 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Rembrandt

They don't have an economy. Their people are starving to death. Hell, they ain't even got lights. Some economy.


172 posted on 07/06/2006 7:20:55 PM PDT by processing please hold (If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
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To: Cheburashka; Calpernia
Brad Pitt and Susan Sarandon suddenly have plans in....Chicago...er...Des Moines...er...Springfield, MO....


173 posted on 07/06/2006 7:21:58 PM PDT by bitt (NY Times to New York: Drop Dead!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I remember another dictator who thumbed his nose at the world while he personally shot guns into the air for the world to see. The same dictator kicked out weapons inspectors before his end. He was found in a spyder hole about a year later, was tried and was convicted of war crimes. That dictator was one of three who were running countries that were declared as an 'axis of evil' by President Bush. Given what has happened since 911, I don't think that the president was wrong to declare his 'axis of evil' in this world. Those countries, with their crazy dictators, who would hurt us must be stopped. If they can't listen to reason and can't seem to blend into the world, they must be stopped.......


174 posted on 07/06/2006 7:22:21 PM PDT by eeriegeno
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To: LasVegasMac

Are the Zoomies still using 135's? They were using those way back in the '60's. Still, Air Farce is certainly a better option than joining the Army.

Green Lantern, Navy Ling


175 posted on 07/06/2006 7:22:45 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: greasepaint; AmericanInTokyo

Thanks AIT!

Greasepaint, ping.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1661544/posts?page=147#147


176 posted on 07/06/2006 7:23:12 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: bitt

Is that a picture of it's flight path?


177 posted on 07/06/2006 7:23:19 PM PDT by processing please hold (If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
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To: bitt
I bet you can get a cheap flight to Honolulu now.
178 posted on 07/06/2006 7:23:27 PM PDT by H. Paul Pressler IV
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To: true_blue_texican

I think you dangled your participle, it is the object of what?

:)


179 posted on 07/06/2006 7:23:28 PM PDT by Hilltop
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To: Cheburashka

I'm sure its already being presented as fact on KOS and DU.

"The Bush Administration changed the launch cordinates to point at Hawaii." blah-blah-blah


180 posted on 07/06/2006 7:23:53 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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