North Korea fuels missile capable of hitting the U.S, readies launch, officials say
 

Kim Jong Il needed some action and attention.. He was getting bored.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapc....missile.reut/

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- North Korea is believed to have completed fueling a long-range ballistic missile capable of hitting the United States, raising the likelihood that it will soon conduct a test launch, U.S. officials said on Sunday.

The United States plans to join Japan in a sharp response if the test goes forward. Washington warned Pyongyang against the test in a message passed on Friday through North Korean diplomats at the United Nations, but there was no response, U.S. officials said.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, said Pyongyang could decide to scrap the launch. But they said that was increasingly unlikely given the complexity of siphoning fuel out of a missile once it has been fueled.

The launch is expected to involve a Taepodong-2 intercontinental ballistic missile with an estimated range of 2,175 to 2670 miles (3,500 to 4,300 kilometers) that could hit the United States.

Pyongyang stunned the world in August 1998 by firing a Taepodong-1 over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean.

White House spokesman Tony Snow, speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation," said that in 1999 North Korea declared a moratorium on missile testing and had signed a memorandum in September 2005, which committed it to pursuing peace and security within the region.

"We certainly hope they're going to continue to abide by their agreement," Snow said.

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso said in a television interview his country would seek an immediate meeting of the U.N. Security Council if Pyongyang went ahead with a test.

He voiced concern about the possibility of a missile landing on Japan, but toned down a remark made in an earlier interview that Japan would automatically regard this as an attack.

"We will not right away view it as a military act," he said.

Aso stopped short of saying what Japan and the United States would do in the event of a launch.

But he said: "The responses will be rather harsh".

Reports of test preparations come as six-country talks on Pyongyang's nuclear programs are locked in a stalemate and attention has shifted to concerns about Iran's atomic ambitions.

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Out of curiosity. If the missle was launched to the U.S im sure we would have an hour minimum before it reached it. Could we not take it down by then?

I like Korean BBQ

Lets send John Kerry, Al Gore and Jane Fonda to disarm them with negotiations.

They are asking for it, those little commie fuckers!

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Wow... nobody saw this coming.

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attack! attack!

But we haven't attacked Iran yet. They have to wait their turn! :Oh crap

If those fuckers send it coming this way, I hope all my children & family are with me & that we're all safe... and I certainly hope our armed forces can take it out... if they're not all in iraq wasting resources...

Sounds like its time to call in Jack Bauer!

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh ...thats the next 24 hours

Sounds like the list of countries Bush wants to bomb just got a little longer...

So when do we invade? I mean we invaded Iraq because they had an evil dictator, suppoedly had WMDs and was a threat to the US. Well all 3 ARE in fact true with N Korea. So why doesn't Bush invade? Why is TALKING the correct move here were it wasn't with Iraq? Please explain, me confused. Same goes for Iran. These countries are part of the "axis of evil" and have WMDs. We need to invade NOW.

So why dont we blast those fuckers right now?

hmm...we shoulda been at them INSTEAD of the mideast LONG AGO

Cuz Bush & everyone else knows that we we're going to kick Iraq's ass.. whereas in Korea, it'd be a little harder.. Nobody is fighting alongside Iraq, (as a nation that is).. wheras in N. Korea, well, other nations could get involved to side with N. Korea..

They aim for LA, miss and hit Vancouver. No biggie, the nuclear device failed to explode.

Statement that follows - Sorry, our bad....

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nice string pulling .... and the sheeps follow .

Considering that ther was never a truce in the Korean War and that N Korea STILL considers itself "at war" with the US for the last 56 years. I mean if the mideast is MORE of a threat then how come we have had 75,000 troops continually deployed at the N Korean/S Korean border since 1953?

Funny how every country is now a threat to the US in bush's term. No, it's not the bush governments' fault. It has to be a global conspiracy of all countries against the US.

Hahahah dong hahahahahahaha

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Maybe they don't have oil....So no need to invade for the 'peace'

Well if anyone is looking for a place to start hosting their websites and servers the Ministry of Data in the UK is now offering hosting and co-location solutions out of a matrix of ex-cold war nuclear bunkers, I even beleive they have a fleet of NBC protected APC's to securely transport clients and data.

I always wonder: The bunker is very safe. However, the cables still have to 'enter' the building. So when you destroy the area around the bunker, the servers are offline too. Or am I wrong?

The reasons US will never attack North Korea:

They got:
15-25 Nukes
High grade biological agents
2,500-5,000 tons stockpile of chemical agents
Long range accurate missiles
1+ million armed forces

They would be able to level South Korea before the US could mass enough troops there.

China would be REALLY pissed.

Ya we should just take over the country of North Korea. Why not, lets take over the entire world because it worked so well in Iraq.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- North Korea is believed to have completed fueling a long-range ballistic missile capable of hitting the United States...

Yeah, and Iraq has weapons of mass destructions :)

wow you better invade them quick

so america is the only country that is allowed to have long range missles

A lot of people mentioned their military standing.

I'll just add another reason we won't be invading them:

North Korean reported oil production: 0 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Darn good intelligence reports that they saw those WMD leave Irak for North Korea !!!!

At this point, those WMD have accumulated so many frequent flyers points that they have a free ticket to anywhere in the USA ....

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