Posted on 04/04/2009 7:39:33 PM PDT by gaijin
Whodunnit?
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“Missile development in the 1980s
It was in the 1980s that North Korea’s drive for missiles began to pick up speed. In the early years, the Scud-B development effort had progressed slowly due to financial and technical constraints. But the effort got a giant boost in 1985 from the war in the Gulf. Iran, under missile attack from Iraq, was quickly depleting its small supply of Soviet-made Scuds purchased from Libya. In search of a new supplier, Iran turned to North Korea. Tehran agreed to help finance Pyongyang’s missile effort in exchange for technology transfer and an option to buy North Korean missiles once they became available.
Iran s financial help was indispensable. By January 1987, the Koreans were able complete and test-fire their new Scud missile at a site north of Wonsan. The successful test was followed in June 1987 by a $500 million arms deal that included the sale of approximately 100 missiles to Tehran. Pyongyang shipped the first Scud-Bs in July 1987, and also helped Iran set up a Scud production and assembly factory. Iranian financing was so important that Iran received the first Scuds North Korea produced, even before they were deployed in Korea itself. The first 90-100 missiles had been delivered by February 1988. By late 1990, Tehran also had agreed to buy North Korea s production of extended-range Scud-C missiles, which could fly 500 kilometers. Press reports in 1991 claimed that Iran had ordered an additional 200 Scud-B and Scud-Cs.
To fill Iran’s orders and to equip its own forces, Pyongyang was churning out an estimated 8-10 Scuds per month by the late 1980s. At that rate, North Korea could now have over 800 of these missiles operationally deployed or available for export. More recent estimates put North Korea’s production rate at as high as 15 missiles per month, and a September 1996 New York Times story reported that North Korea now had 1,700 Scud missiles in its inventory.”
http://www.wisconsinproject.org/countries/nkorea/nukemiss.html
You've got more than a year on me,"old-timer". ;)
Yep. As soon as they finish up with Kosovo, they'll be right over!
Meanwhile, Obama is busy shelving our missile defense programs to save more money for ACORN.
Of course! I can’t help thinking that Obama might be pissed it did not land on Sarah Palin’s house in Alaska!
Didn’t take long for the axis of evil to exploit our weakness (i.e Chief Community Organizer)
Well, thank you! I am so happy that FreeRepublic has grown and flourished since then.
We have to work hard to help Jim keep it up and running, so we have a reliable forum for news.
Everyone, try to donate as much as you can. If you do not want your name published, you can ask that it be kept secret.
IF things go like we think they are going to go in 2010. The impeachment will start in late January 2011. Keep the faith! Show us your birth certificate, step down or call Bill Clinton for useful advice!
If only we treated the press like the dogs they are.
South Korea already did that— hours ago. (read up thread)
Obama is late on that party of no nothings, do nothing.
More empty threats from the West. North Korea plays a dangerous gambit, calls the bluff and takes the house again.
If the US strategy is to wait for a regime change ala Cuba, that may or may not bring an end to the current stalemate then empty threats are at least a step up from out and out Clintonian apeasement.
Seems like a chickensh*t way to do business.
The Teleprompter hasn't decided what to do.
Cash in an envelope works too!
Oh my GOSH!! I just had a flashback of sitting with my dad’s radio/receiver and listening to something from the “forbidden” Russia. I felt like such a rebel and also laughed at the crazy stuff they would say.
Thanks for posting that! Now I realize that I really was a dork. Between my Tandy computer and radio/receiver, I was a girl nerd. LOL But I did like metal, and wore leather miniskirts, so I was a metal head girl nerd.
“We need to overthrow the MSM.”
I agree! The Tea Parties should be in front of the corrupt American media addys!
gaijin, thanks for a great thread and for translating all that Japanese in realtime for us all.
Where else can you have a thread that scoops every major news organization, intelligently discusses the ramifications involved, and be a class reunion of old time Freepers, all at the same time?
Only on FreeRepublic.
Yep.
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