Posted on 02/23/2009 6:32:06 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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Don’t worry our improved image in the world and the outreach to Moslems and Hilary’s sell out to the Chinese are solving all these problems.
Nuclear weapons and missiles are nothing, just ignore them.
http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/politics/2009/02/24/0505000000AKR20090224093100014.HTML
Summary:
N. Korean Space Technology Commission announced on Feb. 24, “ ‘Galaxy 2’ rocket is under stepped-up preparation to launch experimental communication satellite ‘Kwang-myung-sung 2’.”
It added, “The preparation is under way at East Sea Launch Station, Hwa-dae, N. Hamkyung Province.”
Sun-Tzu pointed out that the victorious strategist achieves his aims without having to resort to warfare.
Cheers!
Maybe they gearing up for missile launch
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/dprk/no_dong-imagery-2009.htm
2009/02/24 11:48 KST
(LEAD) N. Korea says it is preparing to launch ‘satellite’
By Kim Hyun
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) — North Korea said Tuesday it is preparing to launch a “satellite” from its northeastern coast in a statement that follows weeks of intelligence reports suggesting it was ready to test a long-range missile.
“Full-scale preparations are underway at a satellite launch site in the Hwadae County, North Hamgyong Province, to launch satellite ‘Kwangmyongsong-2’ on rocket ‘Unha-2,’” said an unnamed space committee official.
North Korea did not say, however, when the launch would take place.
“If this satellite is successfully launched, the space science technology of our country will take another major step for the nation to become an economic powerhouse,” the official of the Korea Space Technology Committee said in a statement carried by the North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
North Korea claimed on Monday last week — leader Kim Jong-il’s birthday — that its planned satellite launch is part of its sovereign right to “space development.
“One will come to know later what will be launched in the DPRK,” the KCNA said. DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the North's official name.
The North made a similar claim after launching a rocket, “Kwangmyongsong-1” in 1998, saying it succeeded in putting a satellite in orbit. The U.S. later concluded it was a failed satellite launch, as Pyongyang had not yet mastered the required solid-fuel technology.
Despite the failure, the launch marked North Korea's first attempt to fly a three-stage rocket and led the Bill Clinton administration to initiate missile talks with Pyongyang.
North Korea has recently sharpened its coercive diplomacy amid rising tension with South Korea and stalled nuclear negotiations with the United States.
well if they space fly like they drive look out below
Park a few CLG's along the "boundary" of the international waters -- (Time for a little Pueblo payback!)
Monitor the countdown in real time--
At T-11 seconds--
Squeeze off three (3) of our finest interceptor missiles...
Guided and programmed to intercept their little boototle-rocket just as it clears 15,000'--
High enough for all to see...
Close enough for all the debris to land on their little punkin' heads!
A piece of cake...
Let’s shoot it down...
The Aegis SM-3 is not capable of boost-phase intercept, only midcourse. Thus it wouldn’t be able to shoot anything down while it was over North Korea.
I saw pictures of their “soldiers” who are defending the border. They look like they are 11 years old.
BTTT
It's just-a pipe dream....
Would be quite the sight to see the bottle-rocket fizzle -- Courtesy of the red-white-&-blue...
Have a good one
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