News : DPRK Launches Missile

[JALU3]

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

N. Korea launches rocket, defying world pressure

By JEAN H. LEE, Associated Press Writer Jean H. Lee, Associated Press Writer – 11 mins ago
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea defiantly carried out a provocative rocket launch Sunday that the U.S., Japan and other nations suspect was a cover for a test of its long-range missile technology.
Liftoff took place at 11:30 a.m. (0230GMT) Sunday from the coastal Musudan-ri launch pad in northeastern North Korea, the South Korean government said. In Washington, the State Department also confirmed the launch.
The rocket flew over Japan and landed in the Pacific Ocean, the Japanese broadcaster NHK said, citing its government.

[NeonSamurai]

Geez I bet the Japanese must be royally pissed about that one. Imagine if the missile malfunctioned and crashed on Japanese soil.

[Torplexed]

Oh goody. The world's foremost extortion state deploying their newest shakedown weapon. :nope: Pay us off or we'll play with fire some more.

[FIREWALL]

It will be a shame if the N. Korean people have to pay for that idiots stupity if the next time something do's go wrong.

[XabbaRus]

Unidentified South Korean official says it looks like it was carrying a satellite.

Wonder if the NKs are thinking of a FOBs type sat. AFter all this will be a low earth orbit sat if they have launched one.

[Jimbuna]

What I would have given to see somebody 'accidentally' shoot it down :DL

If China can't restrain them nobody can :hmmm:

[stabiz]

I vote for putting a huge lid on North Korea. Kevlar, preferably.

[Steel_Tomb]

I'm surprised someone hasn't giving Kim Jong Il a new hole to breath through yet, its nothing less than he deserves... so many people have died under his rule, yet the complete indoctrination of the populus means that he's seen as their "Dear Leader"... what a load of utter BS. Does anyone have a rifle for sale? I feel like hopping on a plane to Pyonyang! :/\\chop

I wonder what the international response would have been if the Japs had shot down the missile? China and Russia would probably start their pro north korean rhetoric condeming them..

[Platapus]

Unidentified South Korean official says it looks like it was carrying a satellite.

Wonder if the NKs are thinking of a FOBs type sat. AFter all this will be a low earth orbit sat if they have launched one.


North Korea is no where close to being able to have an FOB.

Don't understand what the big deal is with this. This was just another demonstration of what North Korea CAN'T do. :har:

Right now, North Korea has a nuclear device (not a weapon) that does not work and a long range rocket that does not work.

I don't think I will be ducking-and-covering for a long time.

[Oberon]

Oh, they launched it alright...straight into the Pacific... :har:

Ocean: 2 Taepongdo: 0

[NeonSamurai]

Japan would have been well in its rights to shoot it down. Heck what they did is practically an act of war. Can you imagine what would happen if they had lobed it over say US soil into the Atlantic.

[Platapus]

It is difficult to launch a satellite without going over someone's country. As Canada and Mexico can attest. There are treaties and international agreements that allow this.

So, no, Japan would not be within its rights to shoot down a commercial satellite rocket.

[Tchocky]

I wonder how this story is being told in North Korea itself.

[Oberon]

I wonder how this story is being told in North Korea itself.

They declared that the satellite launched successfully and it's up there now. That'll be the same that their state radio will be broadcasting inbetween messages of celebration to the Dear Leader.

[Raptor1]

"Our glorious leader's missile has accomplished it's mission and outperformed any imperialist western missile in existence" with an added touch of "Capitalists incapable and too afraid of shooting the missile down", probably

[Max2147]

Every time I read about a new North Korean weapon, I can't help but think of this article: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/n_korea_detonates_40_years_of_gdp

[nikimcbee]

Every time I read about a new North Korean weapon, I can't help but think of this article: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/n_korea_detonates_40_years_of_gdp


nice:haha:

I wonder what would happen if nobody covered (press coverage) these guys? I would put a NK missle launch on the same page as what Britney Spears did. Wait, she already is a front-pager. Nevermind, bad example.

Do you think if the world collectively ignored them, they would ratchet up the retoric?

Give us money, or we raunch missle!
http://nigelparry.com/enginefiles/uploads/kin-jong-il.jpg




:har:
Whatever

[Frame57]

The guy does like wearing those Dr. Evil suits. What a card....

[Platapus]

The guy does like wearing those Dr. Evil suits. What a card....

What a tool is more like it. :har:

The world and North Korea especially will be better off when he dies.

Even his kids Kim Jong-chul and Kim Jong-nam are better than their father.

[Oberon]

What a tool is more like it. :har:

The world and North Korea especially will be better off when he dies.

Even his kids Kim Jong-chul and Kim Jong-nam are better than their father.

Given the fact that no-one has seen him in public for nearly a year it's entirely possible he is already dead :haha:

[Raptor1]

Impossible, our beloved great leader cannot die, he is greater than any mere man and therefore immortal

Any more of your reactionary bickering is hereby banned by decree of the great leader

[Oberon]

Impossible, our beloved great leader cannot die, he is greater than any mere man and therefore immortal

Any more of your reactionary bickering is hereby banned by decree of the great leader

Yes dear leader :salute: Can I eat now? :dead:

[nikimcbee]

Impossible, our beloved great leader cannot die, he is greater than any mere man and therefore immortal

Any more of your reactionary bickering is hereby banned by decree of the great leader

Wait, who died and made you zampolit for subsim.:O:

[Raptor1]

Wait, who died and made you zampolit for subsim.:O:

You dare question the will of our great leader, to whom we owe our very lives on this earth?

[Jimbuna]

You dare to question the accuracy, reliability and truth of the North Korean news/propaganda Ministry :o

[nikimcbee]

You dare to question the accuracy, reliability and truth of the North Korean news/propaganda Ministry :o

Oh yeah! How dare you, Mr Buna, to wear that red dress and cheap rouge make-up in this thread!:nope: Atleast wear a prada or something, sheesh.

An Mr. Raptor, how dare you bring that Prussian riff raff sig of yours in here, when everybody knows that the Russian army of the 18th century really runs the world; so there!

HA-rumph!

:haha:

[TDK1044]

With multiple US Birds up there with electromagnetic pulse capability, should it 'accidentally' stray into an unwanted orbital position, it'll become just another piece of space junk very quickly. :DL

[Raptor1]

Oh yeah! How dare you, Mr Buna, to wear that red dress and cheap rouge make-up in this thread!:nope: Atleast wear a prada or something, sheesh.

An Mr. Raptor, how dare you bring that Prussian riff raff sig of yours in here, when everybody knows that the Russian army of the 18th century really runs the world; so there!

HA-rumph!

:haha:

Enough of your disruptive counter-revolutionary nonsense

You are hereby sentenced to death by the People's Court of Justice

(And I was just about to replace that sig anyway :O:)

@TDK, Are there EMP-equipped satellites? Do you have a source for that?

[Jimbuna]

Oh yeah! How dare you, Mr Buna, to wear that red dress and cheap rouge make-up in this thread!:nope: Atleast wear a prada or something, sheesh.





http://www.amazing-animations.com/animations/men37.gif

[Task Force]

Now that North korea has finished with the missile... Can I play with it.:D

[FIREWALL]

It is difficult to launch a satellite without going over someone's country. As Canada and Mexico can attest. There are treaties and international agreements that allow this.

So, no, Japan would not be within its rights to shoot down a commercial satellite rocket.



hey ! dumb ass where is the treaty with japan ?

[FIREWALL]

Japan would have been well in its rights to shoot it down. Heck what they did is practically an act of war. Can you imagine what would happen if they had lobed it over say US soil into the Atlantic.


Or any World power,:up: NO EMOTICION.

[FIREWALL]

Now that North korea has finished with the missile... Can I play with it.:D


I want to see how you want to play with it when it lands on your country and kills alot of innocent people.

[Sea Demon]

With multiple US Birds up there with electromagnetic pulse capability, should it 'accidentally' stray into an unwanted orbital position, it'll become just another piece of space junk very quickly. :DL

Oh boy. Just what we need. More space junk. :dead:

[FIREWALL]

With multiple US Birds up there with electromagnetic pulse capability, should it 'accidentally' stray into an unwanted orbital position, it'll become just another piece of space junk very quickly. :DL



I'll sleep better that YOU know what your talking about. :roll:

[NeonSamurai]

It is difficult to launch a satellite without going over someone's country. As Canada and Mexico can attest. There are treaties and international agreements that allow this.

So, no, Japan would not be within its rights to shoot down a commercial satellite rocket.

Not exactly, you generally need permission or a test treaty in place to lob things through a country's Airspace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspace), and countries do have the right to shoot things down that enter that airspace (which is why spy planes can be blown out of the sky). This is partly why nearly every space fairing nation has launch facilities that launch eastwards over an ocean (the other being so stages and other debris end up in the ocean and not on another country). Also North Korea is a rogue nation, and one can never be sure what they are launching. Given all of that Japan would have had the right to shoot it down. Since the first stage had a chance of hitting Japan, we know that it was defiantly not in outer space when it passed over Japan (and never reached LEO or better since it crashed in the ocean not long after).

[baggygreen]

Someone posted on the first page a photo of Kim from team america.

What would be more appropriate given the world's response would be one of hans Brix! "we will be very very angry with you, and we will write you a letter telling you how angry we are".:rotfl:

[Oberon]

Someone posted on the first page a photo of Kim from team america.

What would be more appropriate given the world's response would be one of hans Brix! "we will be very very angry with you, and we will write you a letter telling you how angry we are".:rotfl:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiJRcLtsuq4

[Kapitan_Phillips]

It didnt crash by itself.

I phasered it from orbit.

http://i43.tinypic.com/2z72zv6.jpg

[baggygreen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiJRcLtsuq4
Thanks oberon. That made my day!! nearly wet myself tho

[Oberon]

It didnt crash by itself.

I phasered it from orbit.



Illogical, such an action would contravene the Prime Directive.

It is, much more logical to come to the conclusion that it was this gentleman who, in fact, altered the rocket...

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/5651/garyseven.jpg

[Jimbuna]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoohmwkba-0&feature=related

[Oberon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkRNIxH0k-8

:yeah:

[HunterICX]

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/812/i27msoronery01.jpg

So Ronery...


HunterICX

[Max2147]

A nice message from our good friends at the North Korean Ministry of Unintentional Comedy at the bottom of this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7991151.stm

"A recent report in North Korea's communist party newspaper said Mr Kim was "choked with sobs" that the money spent on the launch could not be used for the people's basic needs - but added that they would understand."

[SteamWake]

The irony of the fact that this missle test takes place even as Obama lectures on disarming nukes is not missed on me.

[Oberon]

A nice message from our good friends at the North Korean Ministry of Unintentional Comedy at the bottom of this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7991151.stm

"A recent report in North Korea's communist party newspaper said Mr Kim was "choked with sobs" that the money spent on the launch could not be used for the people's basic needs - but added that they would understand."


:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

He was probably more choked with sobs that the DPRK is currently broadcasting Juche propaganda to fish :haha:
That's a terrifying thought, and perhaps explains a lot about the decline in fish stocks... :hmmm:

[Kapitan_Phillips]

I wondered how long it'd take for Obama to get mentioned.