North Korea Sets Date for Launching

[Coventina]

Source: New York Times

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has told international aviation and maritime authorities that it will launch a satellite in early April, the North’s official news agency and a news agency in the South reported on Thursday.

North Korea’s neighbors and Western nations believe the launching is actually cover for testing a long-range missile capable of reaching the American mainland. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has said such a launching would be “very unhelpful.”

The North’s state-run Korea Central News Agency said the country notified the international organizations to “ensure the safety of flights and sea vessels.”

It did not disclose a date. But South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, quoting unidentified government sources, said the North had told the international organizations that the launching would be between April 4 and 8.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/world/asia/12missile.html?ref=asia

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. OK - let's put this into perspective - a tiny country, dependent on others for survival

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is going to attack the most powerful nation on the globe with one or two nukes?

like

North Korea ain't friggen stupid, they know what would happen if they ever even attempted to launch any weaponry toward the USA

Even the dumbest shit-head in the world ain't gonna attack a known gang-controlled area that has tons of guns with a pea-shooter and a sling-shot.

USA, for some reason is paranoid of anyone having their own defense system

They killed our Avro Arrow as tests showed it was faster and more maneuverable than anything the USA had going at the time -

with the help of one of our Prime Ministers of course

The USA has tried to cripple Cuba for over half a century with it's embargo

didn't work - Castro out-maneuvered every president since JFK

USA didn't like Iran, so they had Iraq/Saddam to try to break them

didn't work - so the USA ended up hanging Saddam

and so on -

The USA DESTROYS countries, and tries to mold them into their own design

Obama getting "tough" with China and Afghanistan disappoints me,

and I suspect, much of the World . .

We ARE watching,

very closely

[ohio2007]

2. Japan warns it may shoot down North Korean satellite launcher

Kim is testing Barack and Japan is wise to vocally take matters into their own hands as is the rest of the pacific rim. They can't rely on Obama's military to cover their defense spending shortfalls.

Japan today threatened to shoot down a satellite that North Korea plans to launch early next month if it shows any signs of striking its territory.

Tokyo's warning that it would deploy its multi billion-dollar missile defence system raised tensions in the region after North Korea said that it had identified a potential "danger area" near Japanese territory along the rocket's flight path
The regime told the International Maritime Organisation that the missile would be launched during daylight between 4 and 8 April, and that its boosters would fall into the Sea of Japan – about 75 miles (120km) from Japan's north-west coast – and the Pacific Ocean.Officials in Tokyo said they reserved the right to destroy any threatening object in mid-flight, despite North Korean warnings that it would consider such a move an act of war.
"Under our law, we can intercept any object if it is falling towards Japan, including any attacks on Japan, for our security," Takeo Kawamura, the chief cabinet secretary, told reporters.

Despite repeated assurances from Pyongyang that the rocket is a vital part of North Korea's space programme, other countries in the region suspect the hardware is a Taepodong-2 ballistic missile.

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Last month the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, urged the north to cancel the launch, which US officials say would be in violation of a 2006 UN security council resolution.

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The UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, said a missile or satellite launch would "threaten the peace and stability in the region."

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/13/north-korea-japan-nuclear-missile

China needs to discipline their "red headed closet case step child" if things go bad.

btw, I find it funny how Kims brainwashed minions think the rest of the world lives in stark poverty....
wtf is to become of munchkin land if a severe tobacco induced stroke leaves the dear leader waiting for the heavenly storks to carry him up to heaven