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.
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.
“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.
0boooooombi.....I strongly condemn this, and another even more strongly worded condemnation will be forthcoming after our Wednesday night WH cocktail party.
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
I really pity Laura Ling and Euna Lee , the two American journalists that were kidnapped by NK border thugs back in March . Now stuck behind the lines in this whole situation .
Laura’s sister Lisa ling and the entire families of both on Larry King tonite . Just a really sad and frustrating situation . They got too close ! Hell , even SK soldiers have to be Tae Kwan Do experts and be at the ready every second when deployed close to the Panmunjong buildings , otherwise they try to grab them too .
I have to wonder ‘ what the Hell is wrong with those people?’
NK fruitcakes with nukes ....unbelievable
I know Japan has been building up their military but not fast enough in my opinion. If this doesn’t scare Japan into building a strong military nothing will.
Good Afternoon/Evening AiT (your time), thanks for the ping.
While I can certainly appreciate your concern over the results of just bombing the Soongojim out of North Korea, we have to remember that Pyongyang is still in the early stages of obtaining and maintaining a nuclear arsenal.
The U.S. atomic bombs that took out Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not at all mass production devices, they were carefully and meticulously hand assembled, checked, double checked and probably triple and quadruple checked before being shipped off for use by the 509th on Tinian Island.
There was reportedly a third bomb for use in the event the Japanese refused to surrender after Nagasaki, and that bomb too was a hand-crafted special by our boys in Los Alamos.
Why do I bring this up? Because I doubt seriously that North Korea is at the stage where they could deliver a nuclear device to ANY target with reasonable assurance that it would go off as planned, and produce the damage intended. Big difference between a test detonation and actual application in the real world.
Another example of this is to look at North Korea’s missile technology. Their missiles are liquid fueled, not even as advanced as our now ancient Atlas and Titan ICBMs (the last liquid fueled missiles that were in the SAC inventory), the fueling process is delicate, troublesome, and one wrong move and it’s *BLAMMO*. We could chuck a brick at one of those NK missiles during the fueling process and screw them up big time.
Having said all that, IF we had a legal President with the stones of a Ronald Reagan, all they would need to do (IMHO) is to issue a public statement (along with strong private affirmations to Pyongyang) that “any North Korean attack against South Korea and/or Japan will be considered an attack upon the soil of the United States, and America will reserve the right to launch an unrestricted and unlimited retaliatory response upon North Korea, where there will be no targets considered ‘off limits’ (translation: ‘Comrade Chia Pet? We’ll nuke your damn olympic sized pool and water slide and every other little palace you’ve got over there’).
But, as the Iranians saw the obvious weakness in Jimmy STP Carter and seized our Embassy, and as the Soviets exploited that weakness themselves and invaded Afghanistan, the North Koreans (and probably the Iranians too) will make their next moves based on the fact that our pretender to the presidency is so breathtakingly naive and ignorant that any substantial U.S. response to their future aggressions is unlikely.