N. Korea: Taepodong-2 pointed at waters near Hawaii: report (direct provocation)

Kyodo News ^ | 07/07/06

[TigerLikesRooster]

Taepodong-2 pointed at waters near Hawaii: report

(Kyodo) _ The Taepodong-2 long-range missile recently test-fired by North Korea was pointed at waters near Hawaii, the Sankei Shimbun reported Friday in its online edition.

Citing government sources in Japan and the United States, the report said Japan's Defense Agency and the U.S. military reached the conclusion after analyzing the missile's path from data collected by Aegis-equipped destroyers and RC-135S electronic reconnaissance aircraft.

The missile was test-fired from its launching site in Musudanri in northeast North Korea early Wednesday local time before landing into the Sea of Japan about several hundred kilometers away.

The authorities decided that the missile was pointed at Hawaii from the angle of its nose cone immediately after the launch and the altitude it has reached, the report said.

The distance between North Korea and Hawaii is about 7,000 kikometers. While Taepodong-2 was widely believed to have the firing range of 3,500-6,000 km, its actual range can be longer, the report said.

It is not clear why North Korea targeted areas near Hawaii, but the sources believe North either wanted to show that the missile's firing range includes the United States, or because Hawaii is home to the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, or because the missile could mistakenly hit a land area if fired toward Alaska, the report said.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

We are not going to play games with testing missiles. That's what he wants!

Reconnaissance by fire.

[potlatch]

You are finding some great graphics - or perhaps making them?

[cmsgop]

No,No, Thats The USS RONALD REAGAN !

[jhp]

i don't know, i think while the waters are already stirred he might just go ahead and fire some more. And "significant activity" doesn't sound like missle techs taking their time; it sounds like people in a hurry to do something

[TSchmereL]

It might be the USS Bob Dole.

[Nik Naym]

No prob.

Common misconception.

Just like people think the "duck and cover" thing was stupid because it won't protect you from a nuclear blast. It wasn't supposed to. It was to protect you from the FLASH and the resultant burns. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we found that many individuals were burned except where the skin was covered even if only by thin clothing. Duck and cover was to protect the eyes and skin from burning.If you were far enough away that was what would kill you fastest. Then after the flash and before the fallout arrived you ran to a fallout shelter.

Not much in the old Civil Defense plan was intended to protect the public from a nuclear hit. They pretty much knew those under the blast were goners and so were written off.

[Smartass]

LOL, nah, that's homemade by me.
I need to practice more.

:o)

 

[eyedigress]

The Charlie Brown comes to mind. Ann is on Fox right now I have to take a Teacher break.

[TSchmereL]

Lil' Kim learned how to launch a bomb by watching our Democrats.

[processing please hold]

We are. We'll have to get nuked before Bush will feel confident enough to do something. Hell, they were pointed at Hawaii and NK is still standing...

[Cheburashka]

of course, costs have gone up since 1960...

[eyedigress]

Do we have camera's on our Defense System?
insert johnny carson, "I did not know that!"

It's time for the world to speak..This cannot propogate.

[Frank_Discussion]

"I've not read up on it lately, but I believe you have to be underground by a considerable distance to be safe these days, on the order of thirty feet or more."

At Ground zero, sure. Five or more miles from a 10 MT airburst, though, just a few feet. It's best to be flat underground, though, you don't want to be "sticking up" into the debris/blast wave.

[usmcobra]

We'll have to get nuked before The Democrats will feel confident enough to do something.

[FrankR]

Funny, I don't hear any outcry from the libs who were protesting the Navy using SONAR near Hawaii, for fear it would upset the whales. I wonder what chia head's nukes will do to the whales.

Meanwhile, from the libs....(cue the crickets chirping)

[potlatch]

LOL, nah, that's homemade by me

Good job, you're doing fine - even headhunting now, lol. I can't remember the first things I made.

[SampleMan]

Frankly, I'm guessing that even if this rocket doesn't blow up (big if) it wouldn't land within 500 miles of its intended target. That's one of the reasons I'm sure that they don't NOTAM these launches. They'd be embarrassed by the size of the area they would have to NOTAM or the miss distance from the area that they picked.