Posted on 07/07/2006 5:47:34 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
N. Korea blocked radio signals 2 days before missile launch: report
(Kyodo) _ North Korea had blocked part of military radio and changed electronic signals two days before it test-fired the Taepodong-2 long-range missile, leading Japan and the United States to raise alert level early, the Sankei Shimbun reported Saturday in its online edition. On Tuesday, a day before the launch, North Korea also cordoned off a triangular area in the Sea of Japan, a move Japan and the United States took as signs of an imminent missile firing, the report said.
Citing several intelligence sources in Japan and the United States, the report said the two countries detected changes in radio signals through data collected by the EP-3 scout plane of the Maritime Self-Defense Force and other sources.
While the two countries secretly convened over the potential missile-firing, the proximity of the cordoned area from the North Korean shore -- about several hundred kilometers -- led them to strongly suspect that the missile would be of shorter range, such as the Rodong ballistic missile, the land-to-ship Silkworm missile, or a Scud missile, the report said.
The sources also said the Taepodong-2 was damaged immediately after the launch, underscoring that the test-firing was a failure. In addition, three of the six other missiles fired Wednesday landed outside the cordoned area, indicating their low precision level, the report said.
Ping!
Interesting. Thanks.
Is this the kind of stuff that should be reported?
One more: Some debris fell near the launch site.
It's a joke that this little clown has gotten so many people up in arms. The man is hated in his own country and if we wanted too we could wipe them out in a matter of days.
It is like Saddam in his last days. Only small number of his cronies and some foreign entities using Kim Jong-il as leverage against U.S. are propping him up. Even patience of some foreign entity is severely tested now.
Nope
NYT must have a branch office
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--Boris
I saw a film that was snuck out of the North. They have people laying dead in the streets and people just walk past them. He must have very little support. I think we have to stay the course and wait him out. One on one talks will backfire just like they did the last time.
Rather than wiping "them" out, perhaps just wiping out the little clown will suffice if he is really so hated in his own country.
Seriously, he can’t live forever and much like Castro in Cuba, it could prove interesting to see what happens when this dictator assumes room temperature.
Rather than wiping "them" out, perhaps just wiping out the little clown will suffice if he is really so hated in his own country.
Seriously, he can’t live forever and much like Castro in Cuba, it could prove interesting to see what happens when this dictator assumes room temperature.
Rather than wiping "them" out, perhaps just wiping out the little clown will suffice if he is really so hated in his own country.
Seriously, he can’t live forever and much like Castro in Cuba, it could prove interesting to see what happens when this dictator assumes room temperature.
Not going to work, he is too young to wait till he dies and besides he will just pass on leadership to some other commie.
You are probably right but though he’s young I understand he has some bad habits and accidents do happen…
The majority of the NK’s do seem brain washed by their dictator as do a lot of Cubans, but after a while even most commies get sick of living with out food, electricity and toilet paper.
Personally, and perhaps it’s wishful thinking on my part, I think as soon as Castro biffs, there will be a big change, a move away from communism and toward a freedom and capitalism and I’m looking forward to retiring there on some golf resort someday….
That explains the reports of our Western Defense bases raising their alert status at that time. Obviously it was not the Shuttle.
Thanks for the ping.
It seems to me, that this article and especially what else the pwoers that be known--could all be used on a very effective psyops move against this insane idiot.
Mock him relentlessly in public media and propaganda broadcasts. Show him up relentlessly and in every loud way possible to be an immature, megalomaniac psychotic brat.
Sooner or later he will have a heart attack of rage or do something so stupid as to compell folks around him to push him over a viewing platform ledge.
He seems exceedingly fragile mentally. Should not be difficult to push him terminally over the edge.
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