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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 12:20 PM Aug 2017

Next target Guam, North Korea says

Next target Guam, North Korea says
By Brad Lendon and Joshua Berlinger, CNN
Updated 11:15 AM ET, Wed August 30, 2017

(CNN)North Korea's launch of a missile over Japan was a prelude to more military operations directed at the American territory of Guam, North Korean state media warned Wednesday.

The country's state-run Korean Central News Agency reported leader Kim Jong Un presided over the dawn launch Tuesday of the "ultra-modern rocket system," the first missile ever fired from the capital Pyongyang.

North Korean officials told CNN in Pyongyang that Kim was "very satisfied with the performance of the missile."

The intermediate-range missile, identified by the North Koreans as the Hwasong-12, flew over Japan, further fueling tensions between North Korea and the United States and its allies, Japan and South Korea.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/29/asia/north-korea-missile-launch-guam-threat/index.html
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Next target Guam, North Korea says (Original Post) workinclasszero Aug 2017 OP
Hwasong-12 at a Glance workinclasszero Aug 2017 #1
Little fucker is insane B2G Aug 2017 #2
Looks like it huh? workinclasszero Aug 2017 #4
They are literally walking their missiles in to Guam one at a time Not Ruth Aug 2017 #3
I'm telling you this all has to do with one thing nobody is reporting Lee-Lee Aug 2017 #5
Wow did not know that workinclasszero Aug 2017 #6
 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
1. Hwasong-12 at a Glance
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 12:23 PM
Aug 2017
Hwasong-12 at a Glance
Originated From: North Korea
Possessed By: North Korea
Alternative name(s): KN-17
Class: Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM)
Basing: Transportable, platform launched
Length: Unknown
Diameter: Unknown
Launch Weight: Unknown
Payload: Single warhead
Warhead: HE or nuclear
Propulsion: Single-stage, liquid propellant
Range: 4,500 km
Status: In development
Status: First appeared April 15, 2017

https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile/hwasong-12/
 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
4. Looks like it huh?
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 12:31 PM
Aug 2017

A madman in NK and a worthless POS conman/white supremacist in the White House.

While a hurricane ravages the gulf coast.

These are dark days for sure.

 

Not Ruth

(3,613 posts)
3. They are literally walking their missiles in to Guam one at a time
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 12:27 PM
Aug 2017

I used to do that with water balloons

 

Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)
5. I'm telling you this all has to do with one thing nobody is reporting
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 12:39 PM
Aug 2017

The Korean Peninsula is in the midst of one of the worst droughts in a century.

North Koreas human and on powered farm system could just barely feed its population on good years. This year they are facing overwhelming crop failure and will have the worst famine any of us have seen in our lifetime unless they get massive amounts of aid.

The last time they faced a famine, not nearly as bad, the Kim regime barely survived.

He is angling for one of two things- to get The US, China, Japan or anyone else to give them massive food aid in exchange for backing down, or to pick a fight that will kill off a lot of hungry mouths and at the same time give him both a boogeyman to blame the famine on and a cause to unite his brainwashed people behind.

This is all about the drought.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
6. Wow did not know that
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 12:45 PM
Aug 2017

Those poor people are starved in good times as it is.

The only fat person in NK seems to be their insane leader going by all the pics I have ever seen from NK.

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