Posted on 07/06/2006 5:06:10 PM PDT by 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.
I am sure they have some interesting things and toys up their sleeves that we are not being told.
Kimmee is nuts. Hopefully the CIA will eventually take him out.
"The more I think about this I come to one conclusion,NK is very close to economic Collapse and the Ill Regime losing all control. Maybe I am wrong.."
I believe you've got it correct. It's desperate extortion, pure and simple.
His own family will eventually turn on him. If. They can be enticed.
Agreed...
"If it was launched from the DPRK, and landed in the NORTHERN sea of japan, this is pure BS."
Obviously you haven't heard of great circle bearings. Do a Google.
You know one day, the little ronery chia pet (the great and glorious leader kimmy ill), will get these launches to be successful. Not good, not good at all.
5.56mm
I don't. I thought I was being original.
They don't have an economy. Their people are starving to death. Hell, they ain't even got lights. Some economy.
I remember another dictator who thumbed his nose at the world while he personally shot guns into the air for the world to see. The same dictator kicked out weapons inspectors before his end. He was found in a spyder hole about a year later, was tried and was convicted of war crimes. That dictator was one of three who were running countries that were declared as an 'axis of evil' by President Bush. Given what has happened since 911, I don't think that the president was wrong to declare his 'axis of evil' in this world. Those countries, with their crazy dictators, who would hurt us must be stopped. If they can't listen to reason and can't seem to blend into the world, they must be stopped.......
Are the Zoomies still using 135's? They were using those way back in the '60's. Still, Air Farce is certainly a better option than joining the Army.
Green Lantern, Navy Ling
Thanks AIT!
Greasepaint, ping.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1661544/posts?page=147#147
Is that a picture of it's flight path?
I think you dangled your participle, it is the object of what?
:)
I'm sure its already being presented as fact on KOS and DU.
"The Bush Administration changed the launch cordinates to point at Hawaii." blah-blah-blah
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