N. Korea: Taepodong-2 pointed at waters near Hawaii: report (direct provocation)

Kyodo News ^ | 07/07/06

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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.

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Why, yes I have, Charlie Brown. :-)

[eyedigress]

Miss the Armed Forces Do Ye?

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Thank you.

Love your moniker as well.

[Mark Koch]

Navigation with the Great circle is different than mahtematics.

[LasVegasMac]

Air Farce

Mind your manners, ground pounder.

Yes, the 135 is still in service.

Not that you trench huggers could tell the difference.

[VanShuyten]

Fab party glasses and a mixer full of banana daquiris are always good ice breakers!

[Mark Koch]

Riemann or Lesbegue? OR does it even make it difference?

[Gimme]

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.

[Frank_Discussion]

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.

[GOPJ]

I think we have been killing them as they are launched.

I wondered about that too -- it's odd all of their attempts failed...

[LasVegasMac]

maybe, the ABL had a beta test at it, mate.

Yes, called "live fire" testing.

[olde north church]

And turn that space from snorey to sassy!

[FMBass]

No not Riemann - Lebesgue (have Mercer on me). Just the Riemann hypothsis.

[r9etb]

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!

[Mark Koch]

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.

[DoughtyOne]

Makes sense. Thanks.

[Mark Koch]

The ABL? At the boost stage?

[not2worry]

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.

[hedgetrimmer]

You should realize that N. Korea doesn't do anything that China doesn't want them to do.

[RadioCirca1970]

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...