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The BBC is reporting that North Korea has fired another missile:
North Korea has fired a missile eastwards from its capital, Pyongyang, towards Japan, media reports say.
Japan said that the missile likely passed over its territory and has warned residents to take shelter, local media report.
South Korea and the US are analysing the details of the launch, the South's military said.
Al Jazeera reports:
The projectile was launched at 6:57am (21:57GMT Thursday) and flew over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido before falling into the Pacific Ocean - 2,000km east of Cape Erimo, said Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga.
"Japan protests the latest launch in the strongest terms and will take appropriate and timely action at the United Nations and elsewhere, staying in close contact with the United States and South Korea," Suga told reporters.
South Korea's defence ministry said the missile travelled about 3,700km and reached a maximum altitude of 770km - both higher and further than previous tests.
Just more saber rattling? Another step in escalation? What's next?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Whoever on Friday September 15 2017, @01:59AM (7 children)
Would we invade now that they have nukes? It's much less likely. Win for NK.
Do they really know that we don't want to invade them? Is the war over? Does the US run military exercises near to them? Perhaps the USA has sent mixed messages for 30 years.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Friday September 15 2017, @05:04AM (5 children)
Invasion hasn't been on the table for a long time. When they kept to themselves, they weren't really even on the radar. The one and only reason anyone is talking about them or gives a rats ass about them now is the saber rattling.
Invasion still isn't the preferred option. A single bullet coming out of nowhere looks pretty good though. A lot of countries that might have officially deplored such an action last year now realize they are in range for a nuke...
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 15 2017, @09:31AM (4 children)
It wasn't for Iraq either. Until we got a chimpanzee in charge with a grudge. I don't think we can trust the current orangutan anymore than the chimp.
And now I'm going to get in trouble with animal rights groups for that comparison.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 15 2017, @01:59PM (3 children)
Saddam wasn't firing ICBMs over our allies. He wasn't testing nuclear weapons. He was a monster, but he wasn't actually threatening anyone, especially after we kicked his ass out of Kuwait in the 90's.
Kim is firing ICBMs over our allies and testing nuclear weapons. He has made specific threats against our allies and us. It has been verified he has the capability to follow through. Do we wait until he goes on a bender and in a fit of pique launches an ICBM armed with a hydrogen bomb at Tokyo? At Seoul? At Guam?
I still say it's on the Chinese to put down the rabid dog on their doorstep. They can install a different China-friendly puppet who doesn't want to have nuclear weapons or threatens to drag China into a devastating war with all of China's best customers. I don't think anybody but Kim Jong-un would have a problem with that scenario. It would probably wind up winning China a lot of points on the international stage. We all might feel sad about the plight of the North Korean people in passing, but if they like living in an open-air prison that's their right.
But I say the clock has run out for China to do what they ought to do. If they won't do the right thing for them and for everybody, then the rest of us must.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 15 2017, @08:09PM
AND look what the USA did to him. The USA lied about WMD and killed him. Similar for Gaddafi in Libya. And take a good look at those countries now, are their people better off? I could list more countries like Iran and Afghanistan.
The USA was and is trying to do similar stuff to Assad in Syria. And for what? I can see the gains for Israel but for the USA?
The right thing for everyone is for the USA is to just fucking back off and stop pointing a gun at Kim's head. Then he'll be less likely to use his nukes. He AND at least some of his top brass know if NK uses nukes offensively they are screwed. Kim isn't fat because he's been living a Spartan lifestyle. Do you think he really wants to end the good times for himself?
Look at it from his point of view. The only reason why Kim is trying to get a nukes AND prove he can use them is because Kim desperately needs some insurance against the provably Evil and Deadly US Regime.
The North Korean regime is far more evil than the USA but it's a lot weaker. If the USA wasn't so keen on regime change NK wouldn't have been in such a hurry to get nukes.
Go learn from history and stop believing your own country's propaganda. You are the bad guys. Not the worst but pretty bad. Go look at how many democracies the USA has overthrown and the motives.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @06:00PM (1 child)
evidently, the US had Kuwait horizontally drill into Iraq oil to trick/force Saddam to retaliate as a pretext to invade.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @02:04PM
And eight days before the invasion the US ambassador conveniently said this to Saddam:
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/23/world/confrontation-in-the-gulf-us-gave-iraq-little-reason-not-to-mount-kuwait-assault.html?pagewanted=all&mcubz=1#p[IamIam],h[IamIam] [nytimes.com]
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Saturday September 16 2017, @01:25AM
Give Seoul a 1 month evacuation order. Build tent cities 10 miles out of Seoul. Spread them out, way out. Make damn sure dinky penis Kim knows what is happening.
When it's time for the shit to hit the fan close the roads into Seoul at 4 AM, nobody gets in. You didn't evacuate? Sux2bu.
Now hit as many of their artillery positions as possible, make sure Pyongyang is devastated, make sure their science research sites are devastated, and make sure anything that looks hinky is devastated. I'm guessing we can nail 90% of their artillery positions, so we're good.
My ducks are not in a row. I don't know where some of them are, and I'm pretty sure one of them is a turkey.