As President Obama and our Prime Minister are in South Korea, North Korea has claimed they will test long range

missiles, (with the potential of being nuclear), next month.

The launch pad is already in place, and the estimated range is very long, estimating an ability to reach Australia.

Lets hope the new young leader is responsible with his new toys.

Great comic spin on the nuclear age Ex. The term "f**kwit" has officially been added to my repertoire.

As to North Korea: AKA Mordor, Outland, or as Lewis Black once opined "the land where those evil monkies from the wizard of oz came from"...

Unless and until China stops backstoping this regime, they'll continue with brinksmanship to get food aid and attention.

For me, the most fascinating place on earth. Orchestrated weeping, brain-washing of children, six-lane highways with no cars, no tourism and citizens have no contact with the world outside ....

I heard they're only doing this launch because the recently deceased Kim wished it.

Good to the "free-agent" who makes the US military industry running from this part of the world.

The Three Stooges(Moe, Larry, and Curly) didn't carry out serious child abduction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megumi_Yokota

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Japanese_citizens

Geeman, NK citizens are brainwashed to hate the US, not China or Japan.

So? Who cares? Ineffectual hatred is less harmful than effectual annoyance. (See "France" for more information.)

Besides, NK citizens are simply brainwashed. Yes, their focus is presently the U.S. but that could change in an Orwellian second. Korea has historically had problems with both China and Japan. One broadcast from the glorious leader and they'll shift targets before you can say "1984."

In Real Politik, America is the target because in the mindset of the North Korean leadership the U.S. can somehow "ordain" legitimacy upon them. In truth, we can't anymore than anyone else can, and as soon as the NK government realizes that are getting most of their rice from China, and Japan is the real pope of Asia, they'll switch....

Being America's friend may have been world's most beautiful thing but if a country once, allows the military bases there, actually trades off with the region's peace. This has been a tragic fact in Asian history where the US has madled the most.

At some extent, the military might and the world wide military bases of the empire of our times has crafted a threat of "world wide war" as her very deterrent that is serving her dire interests world over. Any country who trys to develop it's own deffence from such a threat actually threatens the empire. In this context a responsible country is supposed to keep quiet otherwise be responsible to triger the WW.

AFB, to be termed frivolous by you, is rich indeed.
My source is simply respected journalism.

It's blast-off. No one knows exactly when they're going to launch, although Aljazeera says it'll be in the next 5 days. They'll probably do it on the 15th, when it's the 100th anniversary of the birth of the first Kim (the great one, that is, not the one who imbibed fine brandy while his people starved).

I live in the Phils, and am in some danger. Also, the Phils is having a spat with China. My God - David and Goliath.

Some positive light in all this,
also the Chinese and Russian governments are concerned of DPRK intentions.

How could you possibly get there by any means?

Rocket launched, and blew up 90 seconds later! harmlessly over the sea..

Can someone explain to me the meaning of a banner in an auditorium in NK, "Long Live our Glorious Juche Idea"?

I have had some 'juicy ideas' but don't believe it is the same thing.

...As I said, "Attempted"....

Pakistan's Benz Bhuto brought missile tech from NK. We have upto 5000 km range tested missiles so far. Yeah, still fireworks amoung the intercontinental ones.

Yes, Ghauri scud is cirtainly the one. Bhutto privately paid some hard cash for 90 modules on a single CD. Dr. Q. Khan unvield it when he was alledged for transfering nuclear technology to DRPK in exchange of missile tech. You know Benz Bhutto was quite prowest, I think she was tasked to bring the so called tech and test them in very prowest observations. And yes, they successfully are tested and yet on constant developments. Anyhow, the preparation on ground differs from modular technologies on the papers and quite a science fiction for many countries.

LOL

People like him shouldn't play with fire at all. God punished immediately with the entire bunch of guardian angels. It's scary by the way. Suppose he tries again and succeeds?

To be fair, they did get it half right:


They said they'd launch a missile. Check!

They said it would be "long range". Even allowing for interpretation of what "long range" means: no-go!


Hey, if this were baseball, that's a .500 average.