North Korea Goes Forward with the Launch

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EasyCo506

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090405/ap_on_re_as/as_nkorea_missile

I must say I'm surprised. I thought they'd drop it at the last second, but they went ahead with it.

Any thoughts on what might happen?
 
I love the smell of global thermonuclear war in the morning. It smells like... (pyrrhic) victory.

Honestly though, nothing will happen. North Korea has been playing the same game for decades, they just don't seem to notice that all the other players think they're a **** and don't want to play anymore.
 
I say someone should have/should shoot it, just to tick them off.
 
Why wasn't it shot down anyway? I tought USA and Japan had warned them that if they launched, they would fire. With other words, they have in North Koreas eyes "proven" that they won't interfere.
 
Dunno, I guess it didn't fulfill the requirements for them to shoot it down:

Liftoff took place at 11:30 a.m. (0230 GMT) from the coastal Musudan-ri launch pad in northeastern North Korea, the South Korean and U.S. governments said. The multistage rocket hurtled toward the Pacific, reaching Japanese airspace within seven minutes. Warships did not activate interceptors because no debris appeared to hit its territory, officials in Tokyo said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30035197/
 
pesja said:
Why wasn't it shot down anyway? I tought USA and Japan had warned them that if they launched, they would fire. With other words, they have in North Koreas eyes "proven" that they won't interfere.

Washington said they wouldn't interfere in a press conference last week. Japan said it would only use it's defense shield if Japan was directly threatened by an attack or peices of the rocket. Since it buggered before it could be overly threatening to Japan, no countermeasures were enabled.
 
North Korea beaten South Korea, if what the Russians and North Koreans say about the orbit is true.

pesja said:
Why wasn't it shot down anyway? I tought USA and Japan had warned them that if they launched, they would fire. With other words, they have in North Koreas eyes "proven" that they won't interfere.

Japan don't have the balls, NK made a bold statement about returning Japan the same favour if it was shot down.
 
FrisianDude said:
Isn't Japan quite capable of handing N-Korea's ass back to it? On a pretty little platter?
Very capable, and the US would back them.  :lol:  What kept Japan from interfering was a little thing called their constitution.  They've got a very restrictive one, they do, and so attacking it, unless it threatened their land, was impossible.
 
If I were them I'd just give up and go make a dictatorship somewhere out of the spotlight so as to be less embarrassing.
 
They believe the real aim of the launch was to test long-range missile technology, specifically the Taepodong-2.
I read that as "type o' dong". And I suppose a rocket is a type o' dong, yes?

:razz:
 
They already used war with North Korea as the plot of the last James Bond movie that had Pierce Brosnan, IIRC.
 
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