NORTH KOREA HAS FIRED SEVERAL SHORT-RANGE MISSILES INTO SEA OF JAPAN

Reuters (excerpt) ^ | May 25, 2007

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RPT-NORTH KOREA HAS FIRED SEVERAL SHORT-RANGE MISSILES INTO SEA OF JAPAN-KYODO

[Darkwolf377]

When do Reid, Pelosi and Clinton start asking “Where are the WMD?” I mean, they’re in the water, you say, but WE don’t see them, did the President just INVENT this story as a pretext for war?

[AmericanInTokyo]

[familyop]

"No one has the resolve to respond.

Oh and by the way - add Myanmar to the list of rogue nations now - they also wanna get nukes now."

The longer we wait, the more interesting the Pacific Rim and Middle East will be. Oh, well. After we allow the Middle East to fire nukes, we'll have the alternative of crossing the oceans with sails and/or steam power. ;-)

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Kyodo update - N. Korea fires short-range missiles toward Sea of Japan

[AmericanInTokyo]

Here is a flash video streaming news report on the North Korean Silkworm(s) launch earlier today, aired from Japan (aired just a little while ago). About one minute in duration.

At this site, Windows Streaming Media, 300k:

http://meta.cdn.yahoo-streaming.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20070525-00000044-jnn-int-movie-001&media=wm300k

[AmericanInTokyo]

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AFP via translation -

ALARM - South Korea confirms shootings of missiles of North

SEOUL - the South Korean services of information confirmed Friday the shooting of several missiles by the North Korea.

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Perhaps they did not get enough food aid from us!

[AmericanInTokyo]

This beauty:

was officially sea-launched by South Korea today, this morning, Asian time, and so the DPRK action may be one of retribution over that AEGIS ROK ship launch.

[AmericanInTokyo]

We will be assured to not do jacksh*t in response.

Bush OR Clinton Administration. No difference. Pyongyang knows it.

Even Chris Hill shuttling to the DPRK with a brief-case of pretty pleases will not stop them now from their charted course.

[expatguy]

The price we pay for appeasement.

[AmericanInTokyo]

This is exactly what we get in return.

I thought the President could screw up no more than the Mexican Border issue, but I was wrong. The DPRK policy is in shambles.

History is full of such cases. It is human nature. Dictators always respond with further provocation when you try to be "nice" to them and "reason" with them--such as our State Department negotiators (as John Bolton points out) have been shamelessly doing in Beijing in fancy hotels and salons with them for the last eight months. And this is what we get. I do not blame Japan for starting off on their own independent road to defend themselves--and we will be hearing more of that out of Tokyo in the next few weeks and months, assuredly.

[hershey]

If you caught Ann Coulter on Hannity last night, she was hilarious. Among other gems she said dems were left wing lunatics, and when Colmes complained, said, “Okay, I’ll go back to calling them traitors.” They had a woman on shilling for Edwards...’young pac for Edwards’ or some such nonsense. They’d played and replayed the long piece of her hero obsessively combing his hair, which the shill had trouble explaining. She was no match for Annie over yesterday’s dems senate vote on Iraq, in which they caved to GW.

[AmericanInTokyo]

And just what does that have to do with this thread on North Korea's actions a few hours ago??? Thanks.

[expatguy]

Can't say I didn't see this coming. Post of mine from 14 April 2007.

"The subject of American's fecklessness and inconsistency is now being quietly debated in diplomatic circles over here in Southeast Asia. Some of our allies are now wondering how a deeply divided America will be able to muster the courage and resolve needed to face the challenges that we collectively face ahead. Some of these countries are now starting to reevaluate their own foreign policy positions now that America's partisian politics has spilt on to the world stage.

Emboldened, our adversaries are now wondering how the situation can be manipulated in their favour, how they can effectively play one side in America against the other while they wait patiently for America to adopt an "alternative foreign policy". We can now expect to see a "lack of motivation" in our negotiations with countries such as Iran and North Korea and a dangerous shift in momentum in countries such as Pakistan.

Divided We Stand, United We Fall

[AmericanInTokyo]

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yeah, I hear that here in Northeast Asia, too.

It is a VERY dangerous situation for the United States. Somehow, we have been taking all the wrong steps over the last year or so, and our enemies as well as our friends know it. Our power is going to diminish exponentially as a result, IMHO.

[saveliberty]

North Korea firing missiles

[expatguy]

Never in my entire life overseas have I seen the United States as low as it is now ~ not one foreign diplomat that I know feels that America can face the challenges ahead in dealing with countries like North Korea or Iran let alone China and Russia (coming soon).

Had lunch with a Eastern European diplomat today, we were talking about Iraq and the WOT ~ and he said to me ~ "You guys can't even defend yourselves from being invaded by Mexico ... what makes you think you can succeed in Afghanistan or Iraq?"

oh well... weakness invites aggression and the world is watching.

[Darkwolf377]

She was no match for Annie over yesterday’s dems senate vote on Iraq, in which they caved to GW.

It's very telling how the dems think going along with GW is a defeat. I mean, you'd think the guy was trying to defeat evil or something... ;)