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.
It is just a cold eyed advancement of their missile program through testing, and the further they go toward threatening our mainland, the higher the stakes become. The one thing that would stop them is an overwhelming military threat.
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Something is going on internally, because viewed externally, his actions make no sense. The TD-2 was his hole card, and he flipped it in exchange for zilch, in fact for negative value.
Get me booked into a room in the Ewa Wing of the Halekulani, and I'll take my chances poolside!
I wonder who gave the paper the info.
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Our American brothers of Samoan descent in our US Army would be more than happy to open a big can of ugly grease on the North Korean military.
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His aim is bad, but that's not important now....(-;
Just kidding, but I think he wants a one-on-one with the US to shake us down for money and stuff.
He must thing GWB is Clinton.
Two things to note here:
1. Fighter bomber
2. Aircraft carrier
Both can really mess up your day.
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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!
ehmm.. pot-bellied dog-eating great leader? great leader.. you don't rattle sabers in front of a Texan Diamond Back (President Bush) great leader... you just don't. put the toys away.
I glanced at this thread yesterday.
If it flew for 7 minutes, it would have made it much further than the Sea of Japan.
So much misinformation is out there right now.
Recover, refuel, and send them back to chiahead's palace.
Not if he wanted to monitor the reaction and capabilities of US/Japan forces. The next Scud array might carry neutralizing force against tracking so the TD-2 can escape detection in the launch phase.
Feint with the right, hook with the left.
Your do-it-yourself shelter might help against a low yield nuke, but one of the Rusky or Chicom nukes would probably incinerate anyone in it.
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.
Hopefully someone that has studied up on this will come by and address this issue.
I thought that too on the 4th. Why would he idiotically show all his cards, than a thought came...WHAT if this is an SOS by his military to bring the USA in a liberation type situation like Iraq...hmmm, makes you wonder!
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