Posted on 06/01/2009 11:17:32 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
Breaking on Yahoo News in Japan (link).
Begin my translation:
Yonhap News reporting out of South Korea on Tuesday afternoon local, North Korea is preparing for a possible intermediate range misssile (or missiles) launch from its southern central Gangwon Province from the Kittaeryung area.... The South Korean military command has revealed this to Korean parlimentarians today. These intermediate range missile has the potential to any part of the territory of Japan. (Rodong Missiles) ....They previously had a range of 1300 kilometers, but since have be revised to have a range of 3000 kilometers. ....North Korean fired six missiles toward Japan (Sea of Japan) from this Kittaeryung range, one after the other, in July 2006.
This is completely separate from the other new provocations they are starting, with another potential long range ICBM launch from the complex at Dongchangri on the West Coast that they are said to be preparing (of course on heels of their long range ICBM test on 5 April from Musudanri (Northeast Coast), then their underground nuke test last week, and finally a number of barrages of intermediate missiles in the aftermath of their underground test at Kilchu (Northeast Coast area, not far from Musudanri).
Ping!
Will this require a third letter from the U.N., or can they just add a P.S. to the second letter going out for the upcoming ICBM launch?
New DPRK activity detected by South Korean military, passed on to their lawmakers in sesssion earlier today.
To quote another Freeper, they are trying to rattle Obama's cage to see if he gets the squirts. I am totally convinced.
this is also a second launch site, is that right?
Good luck, and I hope Japan is ready to announce that she is a nuclear power by Friday 1700 this week.
We need to bomb their missile sites and their nuclear weapon sites. We took out Saddam and got Libya to give up nuclear weapons, now we need to do the same for North Korea.
What’s amazing is North Korea was able to develop their atomic weapons and delivery systems in the few months since Obama took office.
I would like to see us donate some of our smaller nuclear missiles to Japan or put some Ohio Class Subs in the sea of Japan.
“SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea was preparing to launch a medium- and a long-range missile, following up on its nuclear test last week, amid moves by Kim Jong Il to anoint his third son as heir to the world’s first communist dynasty, reports and experts said Tuesday.
South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported the North was preparing to launch a medium-range missile from a base on its east coast. The North has also transported a long-range missile to a base near China in the west, officials confirmed.
Yonhap did not say when the medium-range missile, possibly a version of the Rodong series, might be launched, but said it was being readied at the Anbyon base. It cited a South Korean lawmaker briefed by defense officials as its source.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090602/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_nuclear
Stay safe.
THIS one is for short or intermediate range rockets, to hit South Korea or particularly Japan (with the modified versions). It is in the southern, eastern section of North Korea, north of the DMZ.
0boooooombi.....I strongly condemn this, and another even more strongly worded condemnation will be forthcoming after our Wednesday night WH cocktail party.
(2nd LD) N. Korea preparing to test medium-range missile on east coast
By Sam Kim
SEOUL, June 2 (Yonhap) — North Korea appears to be preparing to test-fire a medium-range missile on its east coast, a South Korean lawmaker said Tuesday after being briefed by top defense officials.
The lawmaker, who declined to be identified, also confirmed the officials believe that the North has transferred what appears to be its longest-range ballistic missile to a launch site in the west.
“We've been briefed that an intercontinental ballistic missile was moved to Dongchang-ri last week” from a munitions factory near Pyongyang, the lawmaker said.
The legislator visited the Ministry of National Defense in Seoul earlier Tuesday along with other members of the parliamentary national security committee for a meeting with Minister Lee Sang-hee.
The lawmaker also told several journalists North Korea was preparing to test-launch a medium-range missile at a base in Anbyeon, Gangwon Province.
The province is shared by the Koreas, which remain technically at war after the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce. North Korea fired six short-range missiles on its east coast last week after conducting its second nuclear test on May 25.
“North Korea may go ahead with simultaneous launches,” the lawmaker said, declining to comment on the estimated range of the missiles or when a launch might be likely.
North Korea is believed to have about 800 missiles, including ones capable of reaching a U.S. military base in Guam, which is about 3,000 kilometers from the communist country.
Intermediate-range ballistic missiles have been deployed but still need to be tested, according to South Korean defense officials. The North has completed the testing of its Rodong missiles capable of flying 1,300 kilometers.
North Korea conducted its first nuclear test in October 2006, prompting the U.N. to pass a resolution banning the country from further atomic and missile testing.
and we have the Hussein as prez...
That is precisely why we cannot/could not attack them.
I know. I know. That is the great irony.
Iraq did NOT have the technology or capabilities to this level, therefore we WERE able to attack them. The irony is the one who needs the attacking the most avoids it for the same reason, the one who can get his ass whupped is generally lower on the nuke food chain.
Also, I don't recall anybody in Pyongyang trying to off Papa Bush, whereas Iraq had this up their sleeve in Kuwait as I recall--so we can also discount revenge in order to move on Pyongyang. There has been a lot of lethargy and lack of motivation (not to mention attention and concentration and just place established POLICY) for the last 20 years to just let this thing in North Korea fester and grow, like a huge cancerous grapefruit sized grown on the back of Kim Il Sung's neck. Now what?
Sounds like Kim is Il is making quite the show before he hands over the reins to Kim Jong Un, the 25-year old youngest son.
Kim Jong Il formally names youngest son as successor
North Korea’s Worker’s Party, the country’s token parliament and cabinet were notified of the succession soon after the country’s second nuclear test, according to sources quoted by the Yonhap news agency and two Seoul newspapers. There were conflicting reports over whether foreign embassies had also been notified.
The news seems to confirm what has become increasingly clear for the past few months – that, after a serious illness last summer, 67-year old Kim Jong Il is preparing for his family’s continued rule of North Korea’s 25 million people, after he is gone.
It is a wish to offset the atmosphere of insecurity and uncertainty created by this transition, many North Korea watchers believe, that has led Mr Kim Snr to put on recent displays of confidence and strength, including last week’s underground nuclear test.
yitbos
William Kristol thinks we should bomb North Korea to show them they can’t laugh in our face and at the rest of the international community. I trust his judgment, he’s usually right.
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