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Japan: North Korea launches 'missile'
NHK World ^ | 2/6/2016 | NHK

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Japan
KEYWORDS: bhoasia; dprk; japan; korea; launch; launches; missile; nkmissilelaunch; nkmissiles; nknukes; nkorea; norks; northkorea; pyongyang; republicofkorea
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To: hoagy62
For now, it appears that their satellite is an object with some telemetry and transmitter attached. Since I am not an expert, I can't give an definite answer.

Give them some time and they will put a nuclear device on it, and it can be launched to anywhere in U.S.

61 posted on 02/06/2016 9:29:57 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: McGruff

If it went over Okinawa, it was not a failure. Now if they could bring the wreckage over the main islands, Japan would probably lose it’s mind.


62 posted on 02/06/2016 9:48:33 PM PST by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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To: Nextrush
This is what Iran will be doing soon as well.

Rogue nations build A-Bombs and they build missiles that can carry warheads.

North Korea did all this after the Clinton administration “prevented” them from obtaining a bomb.

Iran will do the same after the Obama administration “prevented” them from obtaining a bomb.

The UN will condemn, the US will condemn and then, it's back to business as usual...

63 posted on 02/06/2016 9:56:58 PM PST by Netz
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To: Nextrush

My opinion? We should have shot it down. Period. Screw them!


64 posted on 02/06/2016 10:13:59 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

—North Korea will in the future, too, launch more satellites into the space,—

As President Pachysandra, I’d shoot every one of that twerps missiles down! Every one. And if they have something up there now that goes over us? Destroy it! Screw that little fat fart!


65 posted on 02/06/2016 10:28:54 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Kim Jong-un watching the missile going up:


66 posted on 02/07/2016 1:47:28 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AdmSmith; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; endthematrix; ...


In this image captured on Feb. 7, 2016 from the North's Korean Central TV Broadcasting Station, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un signs an order the previous day to launch the "Kwangmyongsong-4" satellite. North Korea said in a special broadcast it has succeeded in placing the satellite into orbit. The rocket launch is widely viewed as a disguised ballistic missile test.(Yonhap) (END)


This image, captured on Feb. 7, 2016 from the North's Korean Central TV Broadcasting Station, shows a document signed the previous day by the country's leader Kim Jong-un authorizing the launch of the "Kwangmyongsong-4" satellite. North Korea said in a special broadcast it has succeeded in placing the satellite into orbit. The rocket launch is widely viewed as a disguised ballistic missile test. (Yonhap) (END)


In this image captured from the North's Korean Central TV Broadcasting Station, senior anchorwoman Ri Chun-hui reports in a special broadcast on Feb. 7, 2016 that North Korea has succeeded in placing the "Kwangmyongsong-4" satellite into orbit. The rocket launch is widely viewed as a disguised ballistic missile test. (Yonhap) (END)

67 posted on 02/07/2016 1:59:56 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

S. Korea’s spy agency says N. Korea is preparing for fifth nuclear test. (Article is due soon.)


68 posted on 02/07/2016 2:41:53 AM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AdmSmith

North Korea is preparing for its fifth nuclear test, the South’s intelligence services have said, as cited by Yonhap agency. The news come hours after Pyongyang claimed it had successfully put an earth observation satellite into orbit.

Earlier the agency reported that the South Korean military found suspected fragments of the North’s rocket.

The metal object believed to be a part of the rocket’s fairing (the nose cone which houses the payload) was discovered southeast of South Korea’s Jeju Island by a navy ship, an official from the country’s Defense Ministry said.

Yonhap cited a Seoul lawmaker, who said the North has the technology for an intercontinental ballistic missile.

“The satellite is presumed to weigh 200 kilograms, two times heavier than the satellite launched in 2012,” the lawmaker said, after being briefed in a closed-door session by the National Intelligence Service. A proper satellite usually weighs at least 800 to 1,500 kilograms, the agency wrote.

The North Korean satellite was launched on a “carrier rocket” that blasted off from the Sohae Space Center in Cholsan County. The KCNA news agency said the satellite entered its preset orbit nine minutes and 46 seconds after lift-off at 9:09am Korean time.

http://www.onlinepublishingcompany.info/content/read_more/complexInfobox/site_news/infobox/elements/template/default/active_id/15493


69 posted on 02/07/2016 2:47:03 AM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: dp0622
I just finished making a correction to my post #174 in the "Trump Vows Forward Motion on Gay Equality" thread from last night.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3393338/posts?q=1&;page=177#177

70 posted on 02/07/2016 2:47:16 AM PST by Mr Apple ( NO TO SAME SEX MARRIAGE)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

On January 6, the North Korean government announced that it had successfully carried out its first underground test of a hydrogen bomb. Until now, this claim has not been independently verified and many international experts have cast doubt on it. So what was the bomb that was tested? It appears to have produced a yield that was larger than that of any previous North Korean nuclear test. As I write, North Korea has not announced whether this was a plutonium or uranium device, but the information we have about its nuclear program offers some clues.

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/02/04/north-koreas-mystery-bomb/


71 posted on 02/07/2016 2:58:12 AM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AdmSmith
Looked at a Korean article on this subject. The wording is that N. Koreans are making preparations so that they can conduct the test anytime they want.

They must want S. Korea to have its own nukes. They keep egging on S. Koreans.

72 posted on 02/07/2016 3:02:19 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: AdmSmith
Wasn't it a nuke with its yield boosted by some H-bomb component?
73 posted on 02/07/2016 3:04:19 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster
They keep egging on S. Koreans.

That's exactly what's going on. I'm not surprised they'd do that.

74 posted on 02/07/2016 3:21:15 AM PST by Mr Apple ( NO TO SAME SEX MARRIAGE)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Yes, according to the article above:

Hecker estimates that North Korea currently has enough fissile material for eighteen bombs, with the capacity to produce six or seven a year. So far the North Koreans have tested four devices, the first three of which certainly used plutonium. The first test, in October 2006, produced a one kiloton explosion.

More likely, the North Korean bomb was what is known as a “boosted device.” It is initiated by a fission explosion, which causes fusion with the production of very energetic neutrons that cause more fission. (These “fission-fusion-fission” bombs are known as three-stage boosted devices.) This enhances the ratios of the yield to weight and volume of the device. The bombs can be made lighter, which makes them ideal for putting on missiles.

As Albright has noted, the January 6 test occurred about seven hundred to eight hundred meters below a mountain, as opposed to the three hundred fifty meters of the previous test. Thus one might conclude that the North Koreans were expecting a high yield.

75 posted on 02/07/2016 3:22:04 AM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

From NK in English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK3oDX9m9AY


76 posted on 02/07/2016 3:28:09 AM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: Netz

What you left out of it was that the Republicans get angry and condemn, too, but do nothing about the problem as well.

The deal with Iran that Republicans and their supporters condemn was fully enabled with the Republican Corker Bill which raised the threshold for stopping the deal to 2/3 of the Senate enabling a lot of Republican and even some Democrat Senators have a show NO vote and allow the deal to go through.

I hear Rush Limbaugh the Iran deal was enabled to life the sanctions and allow companies like our own Boeing do business with Iran. Other companies will benefit as well because the Republicans thought enabling them to do business with Iran was much more important than Iran developing nukes.

The “Israel Lobby” will continue to support Senators who supported the deal with YES votes as well as Corker Bill supporters even as the whine and moan about all the ‘military industrial complex” companies doing business with Iran.


77 posted on 02/07/2016 3:52:08 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS: REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; SunkenCiv; ETL
Lee (Cheol-woo of the ruling Saenuri Party) said South Korea presumed that North Korea has introduced key parts of a long-range missile from Russia, though he provided no further details.

The North's missile launch came a month after it carried out its fourth nuclear test. The U.N. Security Council has been working on a resolution for sanctions on the communist country.

Lee also said North Korea is preparing to conduct a fifth nuclear test at any time.

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2016/02/07/0200000000AEN20160207007251315.html

78 posted on 02/07/2016 4:02:41 AM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AdmSmith

That is new. I thought that their dealing with Russia regarding rocket hardware is way back in the past. So Russia decided to help out N. Korea recently? I wonder why.


79 posted on 02/07/2016 4:13:57 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

For the same reason that they worked together in the Sony Hack

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/12/18/sony-hack-timeline-interview-north-korea/20601645/


80 posted on 02/07/2016 4:19:08 AM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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