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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:40 AM

alp227 (20,988 posts)

Isolated North Korea says its rockets can hit U.S. mainland

Source: Reuters

Isolated North Korea has rockets that can hit the U.S. mainland, it said on Tuesday, two days after South Korea struck a deal with the United States to extend the range of its ballistic missiles.

North and South Korea have been technically at war since their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty, and regional powers have for years been trying to rein in the North's nuclear weapons program.

North Korea is believed to be developing a long-range missile with a range of 6,700 km (4,160) miles) or more aimed at hitting the United States, but two recent rocket tests both failed.

Its neighbors fear the North is using rocket launches to perfect technology to build a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the United States.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/09/us-korea-north-idUSBRE89802X20121009

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Isolated North Korea says its rockets can hit U.S. mainland (Original post)	alp227	Oct 2012	OP
We should be scared!!! After all their rockets really do have great range	cstanleytech	Oct 2012	#1
Isolated North Korea says its FAILED rockets can hit U.S. mainland	jsr	Oct 2012	#2
So far their tests have been a failure, I believe there was one earlier this year.	Socal31	Oct 2012	#3
And my farts smell like lavender	jberryhill	Oct 2012	#4
Assuming they're not lying, which they are, that's not much of a threat	Posteritatis	Oct 2012	#5
its rockets might hit U.S. mainland - once	Xipe Totec	Oct 2012	#6
Just try it, Jabba the Kim. Pyongyang would be reduced to ashes in a matter of minutes	Suji to Seoul	Oct 2012	#7
There are three million people living in Pyongyang.	David__77	Oct 2012	#9
I lived in the ROK. In Suwon	Suji to Seoul	Oct 2012	#14
Yep	davidpdx	Oct 2012	#12
He's like a mosquito in a plastic bag.	truthisfreedom	Oct 2012	#8
Bluff	Franker65	Oct 2012	#10
In fairness I think the actual back ground to that	dipsydoodle	Oct 2012	#11
lol	octothorpe	Oct 2012	#18
They are lying sacks of shit	davidpdx	Oct 2012	#13
Well, some of the debris from them might land here	NickB79	Oct 2012	#15
You will die from our super spicy Kim Chi warhead.	Monk06	Oct 2012	#16
Wait.....what?	PD Turk	Oct 2012	#17

Response to alp227 (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:47 AM

cstanleytech (5,494 posts)

1. We should be scared!!! After all their rockets really do have great range

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-13/north-korean-rocket-takes-to-the-skies/3946024

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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:48 AM

jsr (3,526 posts)

2. Isolated North Korea says its FAILED rockets can hit U.S. mainland

Last edited Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:51 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

LOL.

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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:53 AM

Socal31 (1,148 posts)

3. So far their tests have been a failure, I believe there was one earlier this year.

While we are running around in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, and so on, the real threats take a back seat. The threats that teach their children from birth that the US is the enemy, have known nuclear weapons, and are trying to perfect the capability to weaponize those nukes and be able to deliver them to Anchorage or San Francisco.

I am smarter than to think the NK regime is suicidal and would try a first-strike nuke attack against the US mainland, but the funny thing about war is that it is an unpredictable lady.

There are positive signs from the new leadership in NK, but saber-rattling like this is unnecessary.

Instead of talking about REAL threats like this, Obama and the idiot will be talking about the middle east. What a distraction the ME has become. What a waste.

But carry on Americans, you won't read this article. You will instead read about Lohan's 3rd DUI and the iPhone 5.

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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 01:21 AM

jberryhill (30,149 posts)

4. And my farts smell like lavender

Really!

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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 01:24 AM

Posteritatis (17,452 posts)

5. Assuming they're not lying, which they are, that's not much of a threat

If North Korea launched a warhead at the US their entire country would be gone by the time it arrived anyway. It's just chestthumping and playing to the press/public, and anyone anywhere near button-pressing authority knows that.

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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 01:41 AM

Xipe Totec (29,971 posts)

6. its rockets might hit U.S. mainland - once

Before North Korea turns into a pool of radioactive glass slag.

We know it

And they know it.

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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 04:14 AM

Suji to Seoul (1,921 posts)

7. Just try it, Jabba the Kim. Pyongyang would be reduced to ashes in a matter of minutes

God damn, I loathe the North Korean government.

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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 05:09 AM

David__77 (14,218 posts)

9. There are three million people living in Pyongyang.

People are very cavalier in conflating the North Korean people and their government.

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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 10:42 AM

Suji to Seoul (1,921 posts)

14. I lived in the ROK. In Suwon

And if you read, I said "I hate the North Korean Government."

Good selective reading there.

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Response to Suji to Seoul (Reply #7)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 09:05 AM

davidpdx (9,142 posts)

12. Yep

South Korea just got permission to have longer range missiles to hit further into North Korea. Unlike North Korea's missiles these ones will actually hit a target.

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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 04:59 AM

truthisfreedom (17,692 posts)

8. He's like a mosquito in a plastic bag.

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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 05:54 AM

Franker65 (273 posts)

10. Bluff

These guys threaten war every week and make endless boasts. I say don't believe everything you read...they're just bluffing.

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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 07:30 AM

dipsydoodle (33,146 posts)

11. In fairness I think the actual back ground to that

is that the US is only four inches away on a map.

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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 09:59 PM

octothorpe (962 posts)

18. lol

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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 09:07 AM

davidpdx (9,142 posts)

13. They are lying sacks of shit

North Korea couldn't hit a mosquito with their missiles.

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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:43 PM

NickB79 (9,504 posts)

15. Well, some of the debris from them might land here

After we bomb them so hard, bits of their military get launched into orbit.

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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 01:01 PM

Monk06 (5,623 posts)

16. You will die from our super spicy Kim Chi warhead.

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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 07:57 PM

PD Turk (1,090 posts)

17. Wait.....what?

You mean this isn't The Onion?

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