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 wouldn't doubt it. I think maybe we were just preoccupied and overlooked how crazy he is.
Not once.
haha!!!! He is sooooooooooo attractive...
That would be Riemann geometry.
Good job reagan fanatic.
I think you mean Riemannian.
There is no object in this case.
Dang it! Now I know what I should 've said!!
Hey, what type o' dong is that?
That Commie chia pet is messing with my hometown.
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Freeper Alert:
North Korean missile firings = Free Viet Freedom-Fighter CHANH 'Tony' HUU NGUYEN now
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1660427/posts
...'cause, after all, isn't FREEDOM the Right to say "NO" to Communism..?
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Which reminds me, I've gotta start up the daily political limericks again. This topic is as good as any, even though I've done it once. :-)
Cheers!
I don't know what that means, but, it sure looks pretty.
yep.
Big fan of Riemann.
So, do all non-trival zeros of the zeta function have real part one half?
It means that the rampant speculation about rockets on these threads has driven me over the edge. ;)
Anti-petty-dictator Sarcasm TorpedoTM ARMED. FIRE!!
You forget how short those pretty-boys are. Those aren't our eyeballs they're staring at...
Cheers!
Never ending a sentence with a preposition is a rule up with which I will not put.
Err, missing is the air intake and how to stop the incoming radiactive air? This was drawn in the 50's and looks it. We were so naive then (I know. I was there). Our neighbor built a much better and stronger shelter just a few doors away. I know where I'm heading when Kimmo sends the big one. Trouble is, the new owners of the shelter and house above it are gays. What then?
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