Prime Minister about 1 1/2 hours ago, with very brief, pissed off, snap press statement.
Posted on 04/04/2009 7:39:33 PM PDT by gaijin
getting details, breaking hard
You’re welcome mojo114.
Good hunting, lots and lots of land, Gulf Coast, good people. I could survive there.
Prime Minister about 1 1/2 hours ago, with very brief, pissed off, snap press statement.
mild earthquake has just hit north of Tokyo, (Gunma Prefecture). what a day.
Sorry, using them as a place marker as it is midnight here.
Got to walk the dog and go to bed now.
Goodnight all.
>>> The Tea Parties should be in front of the corrupt American media addys!
I second that motion!
Or in the U.P. of Michigan?
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I vote for the U.P.
El Gato
Since Nov 15, 1998
Checking In, with this observation:
Obama doesn't have a hair on his a$$.
Excellent.
sorry...it sure ain’t midnight HERE....
I feel for you living in Japan with this garbage going on -- I really do. I remember sitting in Guam just a few weeks after 9/11 when I was active duty. It was just after 1 am, when the ground started shaking so hard I thought the world was coming to an end. I ran to the door of my "dorm room," thinking the 3-story building was going to collapse on me. As I opened the door, I saw blue flashes of lights in the distance and I thought, "Oh hell, the North Koreans fired a damn missile at us, while our focus is on Afghanistan and Iraq." As it turned out, it was only an 7.1 magnitude earthquake, and the blue flashes were transformer exploding on the island. We got lucky that day, because the US could not realistically fight a two-front war in Korea and in Afghanistan/Iraq...
Sadly, living in fear is NOW something anyone within N. Korea's missile strike range will have to deal with. Bush and Condi should have put that fire out a long time ago. But in all honesty, looking backwards, who could have thought a dufus like BHO would have one day become CINC and be the one to inherit this problem?!
FYI, here's the timeline of North Korea's missile program:
Aug. 31, 1998: North Korea fires suspected missile over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean, calling it a satellite.
Sept. 13, 1999: North Korea pledges to freeze long-range missile tests.
June 2001: North Korea warns it will reconsider missile test moratorium if Washington doesn't resume contacts aimed at normalizing relations.
July 2001: U.S. State Department reports North Korea developing long-range missile.
September 2002: North Korea pledges in summit talks with Japan to extend its moratorium on missile tests beyond 2003.
Jan. 10, 2003: North Korea announces withdrawal from Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
March 10, 2003: North Korea fires a land-to-ship missile off east coast into waters between South Korea and Japan.
October 2003: North Korea fires two land-to-ship missiles.
May 2004: North Korea reaffirms its missile moratorium in summit talks with Japan.
May 2005: North Korea fires a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan.
March 8, 2006: North Korea fires two short-range missiles.
June 18, 2006: North Korea vows to increase its "military deterrent" to cope with what it calls U.S. attempts to provoke war.
July 5, 2006: North Korea launches seven missiles into the Sea of Japan, including a long-range Taepodong-2.
July 15, 2006: U.N. Security Council adopts Resolution 1695 demanding North Korea halt missile program.
Oct. 9, 2006: North Korea conducts underground nuclear test blast after citing "extreme threat of a nuclear war" from U.S.
Oct. 15, 2006: U.N. Security Council adopts Resolution 1718 condemning test, imposing sanctions and banning North Korea from activities related to its nuclear weapons program, including "their means of delivery and related materials."
July 14, 2007: North Korea shuts down its main Yongbyon reactor, later starts disabling it.
June 27, 2008: North Korea destroys cooling tower at Yongbyon.
Sept. 19, 2008: North Korea says it is restoring a key atomic reactor.
Oct. 11, 2008: U.S. removes North Korea from a list of states that sponsor terrorism.
Feb. 15: North Korea claims it has the right to "space development."
Feb. 23: South Korea says North Korea has a new type of medium-range ballistic missile capable of reaching northern Australia and Guam.
March 11: North Korea declares satellite launch will take place between April 4-8.
April 5: North Korea launches long-range rocket from its base at Musundan-ri on the country's northeast coast.
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Source: South Korean defense and foreign ministries and presidential office.
BTTT
Very serious day. VERY SERIOUS.
Do they have MIRV technology? Orbit does not necessarily mean a satellite.
Quite a helpful post, thank you.
good post.
Precisely. We will know more before the day is over. North Korea has still made no official announcement. I would imagine in about 3 hours on their 5 p.m. Sunday news, they will have a special announcement on “Kwangmyungsung-2”. This is a direct threat to the US Northern Hemisphere. God save the USA with Barack Obama as “Commander in Chief”. Anyone who voted for him last November should be forced to reflect on this deeply (but they wont, for most of them are not programmed to “think”.)
If we shot that bird down, the norkies would be crying like babies right now. There promised response would be on the plate next. No signs of that happening. I understand our decision to not shoot the bird down, just have trouble with the fact that we told the Norkies that beforehand. Very stupid.
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