Posted on 02/06/2016 5:03:40 PM PST by Nextrush
The Japanese government says North Korea launched what's widely believed to be a long-range ballistic missile on Sunday.
The government said the missile was launched at 9:31 AM Japan time from the western coast of North Korea toward the direction of Okinawa Prefecture.
” U.N. security council.”
A worthless organization.
Correct
Hahaha, I forgot about his manservant..!
Mixed reports...rocket disappeared...either technical fail or orbited successfully
Also of note Japan had intercepts on live tv and did not launch
Hey, with enough thrust....
“Also of note Japan had intercepts on live tv and did not launch”
Did we really think they would?
I’ve got a big field behind the house. Wanna try? Woohoo!
(3rd LD) N. Korea's rocket launch may be successful: official
2016/02/07 12:12
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SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Yonhap) — North Korea seems to have succeeded in putting what its claims to be a satellite into orbit, a military official said Sunday.
“It's presumed that the projectile has entered into orbit,” the official said, indicating that the North's long-range rocket launch might be successful.
He added, however, additional analysis is needed to confirm whether it is normally operating in orbit.
Earlier in the day, the North fired the rocket from its northwest Dongchang-ri launch site in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions, South Korean military officials said.
South Korea's Aegis destroyer radar detected the rocket lifting off at 9:30 a.m. and concluded it was a long-range missile after studying the trajectory, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
After the launch on the west coast, the rocket flew southward, dropping its first stage into the Yellow Sea off the Korean Peninsula at 9:32 a.m. The first stage exploded in midair and splashed down in some 270 pieces, according to the JCS.
Four minutes later, the missile disappeared from the military’s surveillance radar at about the same moment the missile shed its fairing southwest of South Korea's Jeju Island, the JCS said.
The confirmed route so far matches what the North has previously told United Nations agencies.
“South Korea and the U.S. are jointly studying whether the disappearance means the launch was a failure or there were other technical issues,” a JCS official said.
The allies are also examining the location where the second stage of the missile may have fallen, the official said.
Officials said the missile passed through the skies of South Korea without creating any damage.
The communist country has said the launch will put an earth observation satellite into orbit, but the outside world views it as cover for testing an intercontinental ballistic missile. The North is banned from launching a rocket using ballistic missile technology under a series of relevant U.N. resolutions.
Initially, the North proclaimed the rocket would be fired sometime between Feb. 8 and 25, but it advanced the launch window to Feb. 7-14 on Saturday.
It is the sixth long-range missile test by the North in its program to develop nuclear-loaded intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The missile fired on Sunday is believed to have a range of more than 10,000 kilometers, which could reach the mainland U.S.
The North's rocket launch came weeks after it conducted a fourth nuclear test on Jan. 6, prompting the U.N. Security Council to work on a fresh resolution for tougher sanctions against the North.
President Park Geun-hye convened an emergency security meeting to discuss how to respond to North Korea's missile provocation.
Defense Minister Han Min-koo also plans to hold an emergency meeting with United Stages Forces Korea Commander Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti later in the day to discuss a joint response.
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Tiger what’s your analysis on the response, that South Korea, and the U.S. as well the rest of the allies, will be? Will it be the usual response, condemneding, followed by strong sanctions and so forth. Or will be it something different?
2016/02/07 13:09
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SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Yonhap) — North Korea said Sunday it has succeeded in launching a long-range rocket carrying what it claims is a satellite, a move which outside experts say is a cover for testing ballistic missile technology.
North Korea has successfully placed a satellite, named “Kwangmyongsong-4,” into orbit, the North said in a “special” announcement aired on the North's state television station.
The North said the satellite entered into orbit about 10 minutes after the launch, which was directly ordered by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
“North Korea will in the future, too, launch more satellites into the space,” the Korean Central News Agency said in a dispatch.
The satellite is equipped with measuring and telecommunications equipment needed for observing the earth, it added.
North Korea launched a long-range rocket carrying what it claims to be an earth observation satellite at its northwest Dongchang-ri launch site on Sunday morning, the first day of its revised window for a rocket launch between Feb. 7-14.
North Korea had notified U.N. agencies earlier that it would launch the rocket sometime between Feb. 8-25.
Pyongyang has claimed that it has the sovereign right to pursue a space development program. But Seoul and Washington see the move as a test of ballistic missile technology. The North is banned from doing so under a series of U.N. resolutions.
The rocket launch came one month after the North conducted a fourth nuclear test on Jan. 6, prompting the U.N. Security Council to work on a fresh resolution for tougher sanctions against the North.
President Park Geun-hye on Sunday condemned North Korea's missile launch as an “unacceptable provocation” and called on the U.N. Security Council to quickly slap strong sanctions on the North.
The Nork dogs should eat well tomorrow. Nork rocket scientists, not so much.
STRATCOM and USSPACECOM reporting they tracked it into space, which would suggest it was successful.
As for S. Korea, it may pull out of joint industrial complex in N. Korea's Kae-sung, where S. Korean companies manufacture products with N. Korean employees. It was set up more than 10 years ago, when S. Korean government was run by those who favor appeasement of N. Korea. Due to the danger of hostage crisis, when S. Korea attempts to pull out, and other factors, it has been allowed to operate until now, but that could change. Another development could be that S. Korea will approve the deployment of THAAD missile defense system. Due to vehement opposition by Chinese, it has been delayed, but this could also proceed.
General public are pretty upset over N. Korean belligerence and China's complicity. Survey shows that a majority of them favor S. Korea's own nukes. I don't think that it is politically possible, though.
I have favor putting in THAAD as well additional U.S. forces, and more Hardware on the Peninsula.
i know nothing of military strategy or hardware
is it really impossible to take this country out without them being able to use any nukes?
can they deliver these things anywhere?
Now, the question is...what exactly WAS that ‘projectile’ they supposedly orbited? Is it really a satellite, or something much more sinister?
Will it’s orbit ever bring it over, say, the central US?
That’s a very good question.
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