DPRK LAUNCH --overflying Akita Prefecture, Japan

japanese news ^

[gaijin]

getting details, breaking hard

[April Lexington]

Back in toon years, because I knew all their crowd. I sent money orders.

Its horrifyingly worse now. Better send gold coins (but wipe your fingerprints off first before you mail the envelope!).

[shoutingandpointing]

“WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama says North Korea missile launch further isolates nation.”

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Riiiiiiiiiiigghhhhhht. . . . And that would be isolated from whom? And they should care why? /s
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“Missile Collaboration Between North Korea and Iran Goes Back Years
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
By Patrick Goodenough, International Editor

(CNSNews.com) – Iran has denied reports that Iranian missile experts are cooperating with North Korea as it prepares for its anticipated long-range missile flight, but the two regimes are known to have a long record of collaborating in the missile field.

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The last time North Korea fired missiles, in mid-2006, the Security Council passed a condemnatory resolution. Three months later Pyongyang tested a nuclear device.

The planned launch comes just two months after Iran launched a two-stage, liquid-fueled rocket, the Safir-2, successfully putting a small satellite into orbit. In doing so it not only joined the exclusive club of nations boasting that ability but also, according to experts, demonstrated significant progress towards an intercontinental ballistic missile capability.

North Korean officials reportedly witnessed the Iranian launch, and a Japanese newspaper reported this week that a 15-strong Iranian team is now in North Korea, where they are expected to observe the early April launch.

The Sankei Shimbun said the Iranians, including senior officials from the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group, had been in North Korea since the beginning of March.

The Tehran-based entity, which is responsible for Iran’s ballistic missile program, has been listed by the U.S., British and Japanese governments for proliferation activities, and since as early as April 2000 has been subjected to U.S. sanctions for cooperating with North Korea in violation of missile export controls.

The Iranian Embassy in Tokyo issued a statement calling the Japanese report “politically-motivated” and denying any missile or military cooperation between Iran and North Korea.

But as long ago as the early 1990s, missile collaboration was underway. When North Korea in May 1993 tested its medium-range Nodong missile, Iranian experts attended, according to media reports at the time. Iran subsequently developed the Shahab-3, testing it in 1998 and 1991 with North Koreans this time reportedly observing.”

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http://www.cnsnews.com/public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=45885

[ScoochDude]

I have a feeling we’ll really miss times like those in the next 4 years.

[autumnraine]

Penelope, the loose nuts are the talking heads to people. I wish I had an answer, but I don’t.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Our eventually being attacked by North Korea will be shown, in the history books, to be a failure which has roots in both Republican and Democrat Preidential Administrations, and a State Department career bureaucracy which largely stayed intact through all of these presidencies, and got us to this point today. No, you can certainly chalk me up as no fan of MADELINE ALBRIGHT, BILL RICHARDSON, BILL CLINTON, CONDI RICE, GEORGE W. BUSH, CHRISTOPHER HILL, HILARY CLINTON, BARACK OBAMA, when it comes to appeasement of North Korea over the last 15 years, setting the stage for their ever increasing threat. The whole rotten bunch is equally worthless in my book.

The only people who made sense in my book were Congressman Duncan Hunter and Ambassador John Bolton. THESE ARE THE REAL HEROES WITH THE CLARION CALL FOR US TO GET OUR ACT TOGETHER IN EAST ASIA or suffer extreme consequences.

Now this jerk at the State Department tonight says that "after the dust up of the missile dies down, we need to get back to "long term" work." The idiot does not even realize that HE has one long term objective (appeasement and surrender and neutralizing us), and North Korea has a completely different long term objective: missile reach and mounting a nuclear device and threatening downtown Los Angeles with impunity.

I swear these idiotic, naive, de-testicularized people in D.C. will be the death of us yet.

Probably the only people who can step in now and save us will be the Joint Chiefs of Staff and US military pledged to The Constitution, not defeat and surrender.

[Helen]

Jim’s Free Republic has been my stabilizer for many years.

Actually, there are quite a few older who are still around. A lot of them do more lurking than posting, as do I.

[mojo114]

I will repeat your statement.

“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.”

[roses of sharon]

I think FR needs to have a “meet up” place in case of emergency.

Maybe the somewhere in the Caribbean? Or in the U.P. of Michigan? LOL

[tina07]

http://www.tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www..this one? saw someone else post this...

[combat_boots]

“SK summoned top military commanders to their posts. to stay ready against any possible provocations accompanying the launch.

3 minutes ago from BNO Headquarters”

Hmmmm. You can see NK on apprach to Seoul. Don’t know now, but for quite a while, the people of NK were eating grass, while their military was well fed.

I remember when the LT was hacked up in the DMZ and what that mess was. Feels like Ozzie & Harriet compared to now.

[ScoochDude]

Same here. I’m a professional lurker. I retired my flame suit after the a$$ burned out at the turn of the century. Loss of civility turned me off.

[razorback-bert]

There were three others from Arkansas, who posted things we knew and we really did worry about being found out.

I often worried that I gave too many clues.

[justa-hairyape]

One commentator saying "AMERICA DOES NOT HAVE THE MONEY ANYOMORE TO GET INTO THIS"

It was not our money to begin with. Japan has been one of the large buyers of US debt. But in the new world order where Trillions rule the day, someone appears to be betting on the Chinese and Russian horses. Japan, Taiwan, Georgia, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia and Israel have all been sold down the river.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Yeah, you and everybody else!

[ScoochDude]

I nominate Texas.
That is a good idea, though.

[Revel]

Glad you liked it. Those were not such bad days for us in the US. There was hope. We were still free. just look where things are now.

[gargoyle]

...Classified by the BeelzObama admins, Maybe, the aliens will take care of us and see the errors of our ways, and, if not, can I thumb a ride???

[AmericanInTokyo]

Can you guys please all start a thread on "the good old days at FR" somewhere else, and unhijack and let this thread revert back to the subject of: NORTH KOREA LAUNCH.

Thank you.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Our sitting TOTUS just told Old Europe that WE are the problem in the world! That is something I never thought I’d live to see.

[autumnraine]

Someone posted a thread today about the Wolverine movie being leaked.

I said I know I”ve been thinking too much about my childhood and the apprehension along with current fears when I read about an XMen character and immediately think about Red Dawn.