[ewing]

Developing..

Whoops, so sorry about that LONG RANGE MISSILE found on our soil!!

[areafiftyone]

RUH ROH!!!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Ding ding ding. Here comes the Bullship mobile.

[Calpernia]

Look at this:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep1998/t09171998_t0917asd.html

[KellyAdmirer]

This is waaaaaaaaaay too little news to get excited about. Where in Alaska? Innocuous explanations are perfectly possible. Was it found on the shoreline of one of the Aleutian islands? That would make perfect sense, since North Korea test fires missiles into the sea and the currents run that way.

Of course, if it was a fired missile that came down a few miles from Anchorage, I would be very concerned. ;)

[LADYAK]

Nothing in our local newspaper here in Fairbanks?

[Exit148]

North Korea is hell--bent on getting attention. Is this just another way to get a reaction out of the US?

[Reagan Man]

Korea Times = monkeycrap!

[Calpernia]

Here is an interesting chrono on NK. This came up under that Google search I posted too:

http://www.armscontrol.org/pdf/dprkchron.pdf

[sandydipper]

Give it 2 days and it'll be for sale on eBay.

[shadowman99]

Send it to Drudge, let him verify. I'm at work or I would do it.

drudge@drudgereport.com

[rs79bm]

Things won't change if the U.S. Government doesn't get off their asses and start showing the world why we are a superpower. This bullshit of asking other nations for permission or going to the utterly useless U.N. is hogwash. What a bunch of sh%t. The people we are trying to please by going this route are going to think that way regardless. In the meantime, our enemies think we are weak and defenseless, and have to conjure with other nations in order to be successful. Why do you think North Korea is acting this way, shooting off missiles and starting up Nuclear reactors? Well, they wouldn't if we start a massive troop buildup on their borders are start bombing the sh%t out of their infrastructure. This talk of a "peaceful resolution" to North Korea is absolutely asinine. Do you really want to "chat" with this lunatic and reach a peaceful resolution, which will "essentially" leave him in power? For future administrations to deal with?? (hint, hint, Clinton Administration), or do you want to deal with this lunatic, and remove him from power before it is too late? I think the U.S. Government is making a huge mistake by playing into the hands of our enemies. We have already waited to long to take care of the Iraq situation, and are looking for a peaceful resolution with a communist thug in North Korea. If we don't start acting on both of these fronts soon, we will lose all creditability and G.W.'s approval with go downhill fast. Uncertainty is death, And the U.S. right now does not look like the Superpower that it trully is. I think we need to get our asses in gear, and fast. Time is running short.
Sorry for the rant, and don't worry, I am behind the U.S. 110%, but that's my take on the situation.

[Core_Conservative]

This missle warhead - is probably from one of the test fireings they've had recently. It got disconneted from the main body on impact, and floated through ocean currents to one of the Islands in Alaska. IMHO

[Polycarp]

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200303/kt2003030417272311970.htm

`NK Missile Warhead Found in Alaska¡¯

By Ryu Jin
Staff Reporter

The warhead of a long-range missile test-fired by North Korea was found in the U.S. state of Alaska, a report to the National Assembly revealed yesterday.

``According to a U.S. document, the last piece of a missile warhead fired by North Korea was found in Alaska,¡¯¡¯ former Japanese foreign minister Taro Nakayama was quoted as saying in the report. ``Washington, as well as Tokyo, has so far underrated Pyongyang¡¯s missile capabilities.¡¯¡¯

The report was the culmination of monthlong activities of the Assembly¡¯s overseas delegation to five countries over the North Korean nuclear crisis. The Assembly dispatched groups of lawmakers to the United States, Japan, China, Russia and European Union last month to collect information and opinions on the international issue.

The team sent to Japan, headed by Rep. Kim Hak-won of the United Liberal Democrats, reported, ``Nakayama said Washington has come to put more emphasis on trilateral cooperation between South Korea, Japan and the United States since it recognized that the three countries are within the range of North Korean missiles.¡¯¡¯

According to the group dispatched to the U.S., American politicians had a wide range of opinions over the resolution of the nuclear issue, from ``a peaceful resolution¡¯¡¯ to ``military response.¡¯¡¯

Doves, such as Rep. Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat and co-chairman of the Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation, called for a peaceful settlement of the current confrontation, by offering food, energy and other humanitarian aid to the poverty-stricken country, while urging the North to give up its nuclear ambitions.

Rep. Markey also said the North should return to the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the U.S. should make a nonaggression pact with the communist North.

Hardliners, however, warned that the North¡¯s possession of nuclear weapons will instigate a nuclear race in the region, provoking Japan to also acquire nuclear weapons. Rep. Mark Steven Kirk, an Illinois Republican, said the U.S. might have to bomb the Yongbyon nuclear complex should the North try to export its nuclear material to other countries.

Over the controversy concerning the withdrawal of U.S. forces stationed here, most American legislators that the parliamentary delegation met said U.S. troops should stay on the peninsula as long as the Korean people want, the report said.

jinryu@koreatimes.co.kr

03-04-2003 17:27

[cake_crumb]

Visions of Jimmy 'Da Peanut Man' Carter, grinning that toothy, vapid grin, holding his Nobel Peace Prize for causing a large part of the present mess with NK in one hand...and with the other hand on a chunk of North Korean, long range missile. Maybe he can giggle stupidly and and say 'See! Diplomacy ALWAYS works better than military action, hyuk hyuk!!"

It's the UN's mess. Send Blix back there to finish the job he screwed up years ago. On to Iraq.

[El Sordo]

It's pretty easy to carry anything most anywhere.

[Joe Hadenuf]

And our response is?

[putupon]

That'll finally get the lefties POed when they realize N. Korea can hit ANWR.

[Greek]

Pyongyang, "Crap, I sliced it...."

[#1CTYankee]

N. Korea next movetest-firing missile? Tetsuo Hidaka and Takuji Kawata Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers

Following North Korea's reactivation of a nuclear reactor and the test of a Taepodong 2 missile engine, both of which were revealed Thursday, a government official said Pyongyang's next move would probably be to test-launch a ballistic missile.

The official indicated that recent events are part of a strategy of intimidation on the part of Pyongyang.

It was reported Thursday that a 5,000-kilowatt graphite-moderated reactor in Yongbyon was reactivated and that a Taepodong 2 rocket booster was tested in January at a missile launch site.

On Thursday morning, after the reactivation of the nuclear reactor was reported, Mitoji Yabunaka, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, briefed Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi on the situation.

"Reactivating a nuclear reactor is the least dangerous of (Pyongyang's) three (diplomatic) cards," Yabunaka said.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm

Could this be the one?

[Mr. Mojo]

This smells like total nonsense. Wouldn't NORAD be able to detect any airborne ICBM anywhere in the world?