Report: N. Korea May Have Fired Missile

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Ned


I remember growing up when the USSR was the enemy. We did practice air raid drills in school, built bomb shelters and generally had fear of a nuclear war. But that faded in 1990. But the fear is almost back.

I don't want it to be back, do you?

I never felt better about the world after the fall of the USSR. I don't think the world is a safer place after that either. Maybe the US needs someone to say "watch out mother ****ers."

I would rather there would be a war now than later when they could hit us with a nuclear strike.

Uh no - no ****ing way. That's stupid.

[Ned]

Ted, unless something is done, it is just a matter of time. Dear Leader is just waiting until he has the threat to take out LA and SF before he launches his attack. I take that blustering dictator seriously.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Kidicious

Uh no - no ****ing way. That's stupid.

No it is not, and you know it.

It was a major reason for the war in Iraq. We had genuine fear that Saddam was developing nukes.

[Ted Striker]

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[Agathon]

Ted, unless something is done, it is just a matter of time. Dear Leader is just waiting until he has the threat to take out LA and SF before he launches his attack.

Why would he want to ensure his own annihilation? This man has permanent access to unlimited amounts of money, cognac, and gorgeous swedish sex slaves.

Perhaps he's mad, but no-one is mad enough to give up that.

[Ted Striker]

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[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Ned
I would rather there would be a war now than later when they could hit us with a nuclear strike.

Will all the warmongers like you be sent as the first wave? If so, I fully support it.

In other words, walk the talk.

[Ted Striker]

[Sprayber]

I think the communists on the board have more responsibility towards being on the front line of any attack on N. Korea than people like Ned. It's they who continue to let a psychopath use Communism as a front for a bizzare and dangerous regime. Of course that would require a little backbone rather than internet ramblings so I don't expect much

[Ted Striker]

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[DRoseDARs]

Jeez, even South Korea, Japan, and the WH are yawning, unlike some people here pissing all over themselves and others...

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBBDU4388E.html

South Korea Plays Down Significance of Missile Test by North, Says Not Nuclear-Capable

By Soo-Jeong Lee Associated Press Writer
Published: May 1, 2005
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea on Monday played down the significance of a North Korean missile test the day before, saying it involved a short-range missile without nuclear capabilities and warning against linking the issue to a dispute over the North's atomic ambitions.

North Korea apparently test fired a missile into the Sea of Japan on Sunday, raising new fears about Pyongyang's nuclear intentions just days after a U.S. intelligence official said the secretive Stalinist state could arm a missile with a nuclear warhead.

"The missile that North Korea recently fired is a short-range missile and is far from the one that can carry a nuclear weapon," Deputy Foreign Minister Song Min-soon told South Korea's Yonhap news agency. "This isn't a case to be linked to the nuclear dispute."

Concerning reports that Washington warned allies that Pyongyang might be ready to carry out an underground nuclear test as early as June, Song said South Korea had not received such a warning. Song is South Korea's top envoy to the nuclear dispute.

Six-nation talks - involving the United States, two Koreas, Russia, China and Japan - aimed at persuading North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions have been stalled since June.

South Korean officials have said they have not detected any signs that Pyongyang is preparing for a nuclear test.

News of the test launch first appeared in Japanese media, which cited U.S. military officials as having informed the Japanese and South Korean governments of Sunday's test launch, which took the missile about 65 miles off the North Korean coast.

Later, White House chief of staff Andrew Card said there was an apparent test.

"It appears that there was a test of a short-range missile by the North Koreans and it landed in the Sea of Japan. We're not surprised by this," Card said on CNN's "Late Edition." "The North Koreans have tested their missiles before. They've had some failures."

In Japan, a Defense Agency official said on condition of anonymity Monday that Tokyo believes the missile only flew an extremely short distance and would not pose an immediate threat to Japan's national security.

The missile is believed to be a Russian-made SS21 with a range of 75 miles, or an upgraded version of the Silkworm, which has a 63-mile range, Japan's national Asahi newspaper said.

On Thursday, Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told the U.S. Senate that the North Koreans knew how to arm a missile with a nuclear weapon - a potentially significant advance for the communist state.

He did not specify whether he was talking about a short-range or long-range missile.

North Korea has test fired short-range missiles many times. In 2003, it test fired short-range, land-to-ship missiles at least three times during a period of heightened tension over its nuclear weapons program.

Sunday's test, however, occurred at an especially worrisome time as the North appeared to have resumed efforts to move forward with its atomic weapons program. South Korean officials said last month that Pyongyang had recently shut down a nuclear reactor, possibly to harvest more weapons-grade plutonium.

North Korea shocked the region in 1998 by test-firing a Taepodong-1 missile over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean. The North said it was an attempt to put a satellite in orbit.

U.S. and South Korean officials are more concerned about a possible North Korean test of a Taepodong-2 missile, which analysts believe is capable of reaching parts of the western United States, though there are widespread doubts about its range and accuracy.

AP-ES-05-01-05 2240EDT

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
You made a big stretch and a stawman there, but, okay.

You like to pick on Ned but the hyporcracy of the other side escapes you? How is that?

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Sprayber
I think the communists on the board have more responsibility towards being on the front line of any attack on N. Korea than people like Ned. It's they who continue to let a psychopath use Communism as a front for a bizzare and dangerous regime.

This doesn't even make any sense.

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