Skip to comments.
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
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 201-220, 221-240, 241-260 ... 381 next last
To: true_blue_texican
Why, yes I have, Charlie Brown. :-)
221
posted on
07/06/2006 7:49:39 PM PDT
by
processing please hold
(If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
To: Tulsa Ramjet
Miss the Armed Forces Do Ye?
To: patton
Thank you.
Love your moniker as well.
223
posted on
07/06/2006 7:51:38 PM PDT
by
processing please hold
(If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
To: patton
Navigation with the Great circle is different than mahtematics.
224
posted on
07/06/2006 7:51:56 PM PDT
by
Mark Koch
(A thitch in time saves nine.)
To: Rembrandt
Air Farce Mind your manners, ground pounder.
Yes, the 135 is still in service.
Not that you trench huggers could tell the difference.
225
posted on
07/06/2006 7:52:16 PM PDT
by
LasVegasMac
(Islam........not fit for human consumption.)
To: olde north church
Fab party glasses and a mixer full of banana daquiris are always good ice breakers!
226
posted on
07/06/2006 7:54:08 PM PDT
by
VanShuyten
(One of my hungry and forebearing friends was sounding in the bows just before me.)
To: FMBass
Riemann or Lesbegue? OR does it even make it difference?
227
posted on
07/06/2006 7:55:11 PM PDT
by
Mark Koch
(A thitch in time saves nine.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Wonder if the Chia head has declared War on us or Hawaii
just hasn't made a formal announcement until one of his rockets is successful.
228
posted on
07/06/2006 7:55:55 PM PDT
by
Gimme
To: DoughtyOne
The prone position isn't required, but generally speaking, your shelter is hard to knock down if it is already "down", as in under the blast wave. That's what I was referring to.
229
posted on
07/06/2006 7:56:22 PM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: usmcobra
I think we have been killing them as they are launched.I wondered about that too -- it's odd all of their attempts failed...
230
posted on
07/06/2006 7:57:00 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(In the future when the war goes badly - Keller (NYT) will be arrested for treason, and executed.)
To: Tulsa Ramjet
maybe, the ABL had a beta test at it, mate. Yes, called "live fire" testing.
231
posted on
07/06/2006 7:57:47 PM PDT
by
LasVegasMac
(Islam........not fit for human consumption.)
To: VanShuyten
And turn that space from snorey to sassy!
232
posted on
07/06/2006 7:59:18 PM PDT
by
olde north church
(Note to Corzine: Segregate Illegal Alien Inmates, Don't Feed Them Unless Native Country Pays)
To: Mark Koch
No not Riemann - Lebesgue (have Mercer on me). Just the Riemann hypothsis.
233
posted on
07/06/2006 8:01:00 PM PDT
by
FMBass
(“Now that I’m sober I watch a lot of news” – Garofalo: From “Treason” by Coulter)
To: RoseofTexas
Enough of the PATTY CAKE pondering by our administration...time to act! Words are cheap, and negotiations won't work with a dictator who literally starves his kingdom! Let the midget king eat TaepoDUNG!
234
posted on
07/06/2006 8:02:25 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: FMBass
Per Widipedia: Intuitively, the lemma says that if a function oscillates rapidly around zero, then the integral of this function will be small. The integral will approach zero as the number of oscillations increases.
235
posted on
07/06/2006 8:03:51 PM PDT
by
Mark Koch
(A stitch in time saves nine.)
To: Frank_Discussion
236
posted on
07/06/2006 8:04:38 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Al Qaeda / Taliban operatives: Read the NY Times, for daily up to the minute security threat tips.)
To: Tulsa Ramjet
The ABL? At the boost stage?
237
posted on
07/06/2006 8:06:17 PM PDT
by
Mark Koch
(A stitch in time saves nine.)
To: Calpernia
Chloe is on sabbatical. I'm thinking Jack Bauer got off that ship headed for Shanghai and headed to NK just in time to screw up Tiny Kim's launch.
I'm sure the Chinese are really miffed over this one. Heard CTU is scheduled back in New York in January, so there is still time to take care of Iran, Cuba, China and Russia.
238
posted on
07/06/2006 8:08:07 PM PDT
by
not2worry
(What goes around comes around.)
To: cmsgop
You should realize that N. Korea doesn't do anything that China doesn't want them to do.
239
posted on
07/06/2006 8:09:29 PM PDT
by
hedgetrimmer
("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Wanna speed it up---let Japan repeal Article 9...nothing else, just REPEAL it..
End of discussion, there is nothing that ChiComms or NorKoComs fear worse than a pissed off, well armed Japan...
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 201-220, 221-240, 241-260 ... 381 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson