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BREAKING NEWS — 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 10:30 p.m. EDT Saturday 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.
"We look on this as a provocative act," U.S. State Department spokesman Fred Lash said.
The launch "will prompt the United States to take appropriate steps to let North Korea know that it cannot threaten the safety and security of other countries with impunity," Lash said.
Nothing will be done, saber rattling as usual, then some great economic aid gift will be handed out by the US and the weak west to placate the international "brat". As long as they do nothing else, nothing will happen except loud talk. North Korea has made us blink, now what they do next may be different.
Who cares about those silly Japanese fisherman who got caught in the blast and died a year later from radiation posioning..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigo_Fukury%C5%AB_Maru .( I like to think they died in the name of Freedom and Democracy!...just like I hope to go...their familes should be proud.)
We're allowed to test 20 Nuclear weapon blasts in the Pacific when we want...North Korea is not allowed to test a rocket cause they are "bad"..
Did we have UN approval? .....................Errrrrr....never mind don't answer that.
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I think what we're really worried about is not so much a successful rocket launch as it is what that successful launch means to the rocket technology black-market.
One of the things I liked about Bush was that he could see the big picture, the rest of the world be damned. What I fear now is that the U.S. will look at this rocket launch as "small fish" and turn a blind eye. Meanwhile, rogue nations are secretly buying rocket technology. We need to deal with these fools NOW.
Nothing will be done, saber rattling as usual, then some great economic aid gift will be handed out by the US and the weak west to placate the international "brat". As long as they do nothing else, nothing will happen except loud talk. North Korea has made us blink, now what they do next may be different.
Agreed, and I think Japan blinked the most since they claimed they would intercept the missile if it went over them. North Korea responded with saying it would be an act of war and now that it happened it's obvious which country has the balls.
I think what we're really worried about is not so much a successful rocket launch as it is what that successful launch means to the rocket technology black-market.
One of the things I liked about Bush was that he could see the big picture, the rest of the world be damned. What I fear now is that the U.S. will look at this rocket launch as "small fish" and turn a blind eye. Meanwhile, rogue nations are secretly buying rocket technology. We need to deal with these fools NOW.
What did Bush do to stop N. Korea from producing weapons? Isn't this 2006 take 2? Did N. Korea figure out how to make a long-range missile in the past 3 months?
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