NKorea threatens US; world anticipates missile

[Dr Strangelove]

[QUOTE=Patroklos;5626232][quote]I'm not convinced NK could take SK at this point.

This has been the obvious case for 50 years or so.



A vessel like that is probably making 18-20 knots, thats only 480 miles a day. For reference it normally takes a USN ship doing around 20 knots two weeks to cross the Atlantic. We are not cruising around in WWII era rusting POSs like NK though.

Well, it's about 4700 miles from Koreea to Myanmar, so 10 days is about right.

?At 20 knots a ship travels about 550 miles/day. It's only 3500 miles from NYC to Southhampton, so it should take less than 7 days for a ship traveling 20 knots to cross the Atlantic.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Why doesn't MPAA go file charges on their ass? No, better to jack with someone over 20 something songs.

The truth is that everybody in the MPAA thinks Kim Jong-il is a douchebag but nobody has ever had the guts to say so to his face.

[SlowwHand]

Are they hiring? I'll tell him.

BTW, I have an idea on what I want to do to you. In "Blazing Saddles". Strap you to a missle.

[Wezil]

Well, it's about 4700 miles from Koreea to Myanmar, so 10 days is about right.

According to the article posted by Sloww this would be day 10.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Are they hiring? I'll tell him.

BTW, I have an idea on what I want to do to you. In "Blazing Saddles". Strap you to a missle.

Hell, no need for that. Just go "Dr. Strangelove" on me - I'll gladly ride the missile and save you the trouble!

[Dr Strangelove]

Hell, no need for that. Just go "Dr. Strangelove" on me - I'll gladly ride the missile and save you the trouble!

Wahoo! Wahoo! Wahoo gang! Alinestra just offered to ride my missle!

[Dr Strangelove]

According to the article posted by Sloww this would be day 10.

So by now the ship should either be in Singapor or Myanamar, unless it was actually going somewhere else. I wonder why no news? Could Michael Jackson be more important than the run up to the Second Korean War?

[SlowwHand]

Getting pissy with Japan now.

NKorea warns of shooting down Japanese spy planes

9 hours ago

SEOUL (AFP) — North Korea warned that any Japanese plane entering its airspace would be shot down for spying, as recent surveillance suggests Pyongyang may be preparing to fire more missiles.

"The air force of the Korean People's Army will not tolerate even a bit the aerial espionage by the warmongers of the Japanese aggression forces but mercilessly shoot down any plane intruding into the territorial air of the DPRK (North Korea) even 0.001 millimeter," the air force said in a statement.

It said a Japanese AWACS aircraft made a long shuttle flight into airspace between the cities of Wonsan and Musudan-ri on Friday morning.

Similar aerial espionage was committed the previous day, it said.

The North used Musudan-ri for its three previous long-range missile launches, in 1998, 2006 and on April 5 this year.

North Korea will likely fire short- or mid-range missiles in waters off its east coast from which it has banned shipping, a senior South Korean government official said Wednesday.

The North has warned foreign ships to stay clear of an extensive area for 16 days starting Thursday because of unspecified military exercises.

Yonhap news agency, quoting a government source, said the communist state would probably fire Scuds with a range of up to 500 kilometres (312 miles) or ground-to-ship missiles with a 160-kilometre range into the Sea of Japan, or East Sea.

Washington has said it is prepared for the possibility that the North could also fire a long-range missile towards Hawaii, perhaps on July 4, US Independence Day.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Isn't 0.001 of a millimeter the same as a micrometer?

[Heraclitus]

The SI is strong with this one.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Yes, now tell me what "BSH" measures and I'll give you a cookie.

[SlowwHand]

What is that avatar supposed to mean? That's new. What?

[Alinestra Covelia]

It's a reference to the bloody hand of Texan the Ineluctable, a famed mass murderer in the South, who went to bed each night after drinking cocktails made from the tears of San Antonio orphans. Legend had it that his hand moved extremely slowly, but hit you extremely hard when it did connect.

Also he was a Commie so he wasn't all bad.