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alp227

(32,025 posts) Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:40 AM Oct 2012

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

cstanleytech

(26,293 posts)

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

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:47 AM

Oct 2012

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

jsr

(7,712 posts)

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

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:48 AM

Oct 2012

LOL.

Socal31

(2,484 posts)

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

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:53 AM

Oct 2012

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.

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

4. And my farts smell like lavender

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 01:21 AM

Oct 2012

Really!

Posteritatis

(18,807 posts)

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

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 01:24 AM

Oct 2012

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.

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)

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

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 01:41 AM

Oct 2012

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

We know it

And they know it.

Suji to Seoul

(2,035 posts)

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

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 04:14 AM

Oct 2012

God damn, I loathe the North Korean government.

David__77

(23,418 posts)

9. There are three million people living in Pyongyang.

Reply to Suji to Seoul (Reply #7)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 05:09 AM

Oct 2012

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

Suji to Seoul

(2,035 posts)

14. I lived in the ROK. In Suwon

Reply to David__77 (Reply #9)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 10:42 AM

Oct 2012

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

Good selective reading there.

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)

12. Yep

Reply to Suji to Seoul (Reply #7)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 09:05 AM

Oct 2012

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.