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.
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NK is getting a bit uppity. Maybe we should have some fun and help Japan arm itself..
Perhaps he wants to surrender to the US and get aid, kind of like The Mouse That Roared.
On the link I sent you, the arc originates from Seoul.
I think that's a Jewish missle ;-)
A simplier answer: They can get maximum range with a direct easterly launch, taking advantage of the Earth's rotation to supply a little extra throw. Because the Earth is round, a great circle tangent to east at the latitude of Korea would pass near Hawaii, accounting for the fact that the Earth would rotate about five degrees of longitude during it's flight.
Are you making a joke, and I am just to dense to see it?
Are you implying we'll have to rebuild NK?
That is a FALL OUT shelter.
Fall out shelters were to protect you from radioactive fallout, not a nuclear blast.
Of course, don't we always do that when we win a war?
ROTFLMAO!
direct and overt threat. Let's respond with a special' Tomahawk and end this crap.
When Iranians are involved, the fear is the failures were intentional - Iranians looking for our interference and/or response or some such. Iranians love strategy for it's own sake - when they're involved, nothing is as it seems. That said, the N.Korean failures were most likely incompetence...
yea i heard that too while listening to Hannity and Colmes. I was under the impression these threats to fire additional missles were only the shorter range scud/nodong/T-1, but it sounds like they might be thinking about another T-2 launch and when you take that bit of news with this news about the 1st T-2 launch being direct towards Hiwaii . . . could be a long night
That's why people always want to fight us; they get a free homemakeover ;-)
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