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North Korea launches unsuccessful missile attempt, says South Korea

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"North Korea has attempted to launch a missile from an eastern coastal city, but the launch appeared to end in failure, according to South Korea.

The statement from South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff on Sunday said it wasn’t clear what kind of missile was involved.

North Korea launched a long-range rocket and conducted two nuclear tests last year, including its most powerful to date, and there have been a slew of shorter range missile firings.

North Korea’s goal is a long-range nuclear missile that can strike the continental United States.

Sunday’s launch comes a day after a huge military parade was held to mark the 105th birthday of late North Korea founder Kim Il Sung."

Source: North Korea launches unsuccessful missile attempt, says South Korea.

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So, it looks like Kim Jong-un ended several days of pageantry and hyperbole with a real downer! Oh well ...
 
Chomsky said:
"North Korea has attempted to launch a missile from an eastern coastal city, but the launch appeared to end in failure, according to South Korea.

The statement from South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff on Sunday said it wasn’t clear what kind of missile was involved.

North Korea launched a long-range rocket and conducted two nuclear tests last year, including its most powerful to date, and there have been a slew of shorter range missile firings.

North Korea’s goal is a long-range nuclear missile that can strike the continental United States.

Sunday’s launch comes a day after a huge military parade was held to mark the 105th birthday of late North Korea founder Kim Il Sung."

Source: North Korea launches unsuccessful missile attempt, says South Korea.

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So, it looks like Kim Jong-un ended several days of pageantry and hyperbole with a real downer! Oh well ...
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Actually, their celebrations are going to go on for the better part of next week. Here's a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_North_Korea. Notice how many there are this week, and how long they last.

This is the time of year, each year, when they act out aggressively. This is the time of year in the recent past when they sink a South Korean Navy vessel with a submarine torpedo attack, fire an artillery barrage at inhabited South Korean islands, and so on.

If an erectile dysfunctioning missile is all they do, we will be lucky.
 
I wonder who the fat boy will have executed over this failure?
 
Chomsky said:
"North Korea has attempted to launch a missile from an eastern coastal city, but the launch appeared to end in failure, according to South Korea.

The statement from South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff on Sunday said it wasn’t clear what kind of missile was involved.

North Korea launched a long-range rocket and conducted two nuclear tests last year, including its most powerful to date, and there have been a slew of shorter range missile firings.

North Korea’s goal is a long-range nuclear missile that can strike the continental United States.

Sunday’s launch comes a day after a huge military parade was held to mark the 105th birthday of late North Korea founder Kim Il Sung."

Source: North Korea launches unsuccessful missile attempt, says South Korea.

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So, it looks like Kim Jong-un ended several days of pageantry and hyperbole with a real downer! Oh well ...
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The failure rate of DPRK missile launches seems to be more than just bad luck. One might think they have a bad case of Stuxnet or something.
 
Chomsky said:
"North Korea has attempted to launch a missile from an eastern coastal city, but the launch appeared to end in failure, according to South Korea.

The statement from South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff on Sunday said it wasn’t clear what kind of missile was involved.

North Korea launched a long-range rocket and conducted two nuclear tests last year, including its most powerful to date, and there have been a slew of shorter range missile firings.

North Korea’s goal is a long-range nuclear missile that can strike the continental United States.

Sunday’s launch comes a day after a huge military parade was held to mark the 105th birthday of late North Korea founder Kim Il Sung."

Source: North Korea launches unsuccessful missile attempt, says South Korea.

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So, it looks like Kim Jong-un ended several days of pageantry and hyperbole with a real downer! Oh well ...
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Some general will be executed with a flame thrower for this one.
 
They don't have the resources as a nation to really follow through with their threats. Most of their people are starving, including would-be experts.

Their role is to be China's guard dog, that's about it. The fact that Trump just deployed some of our people to NK is pretty laughable.
 
Beaudreaux said:
Actually, their celebrations are going to go on for the better part of next week. Here's a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_North_Korea. Notice how many there are this week, and how long they last.

This is the time of year, each year, when they act out aggressively. This is the time of year in the recent past when they sink a South Korean Navy vessel with a submarine torpedo attack, fire an artillery barrage at inhabited South Korean islands, and so on.

If an erectile dysfunctioning missile is all they do, we will be lucky.
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The regime's empirical imperceptive satisfied (they made a good show of it), the threat to other nations minimized. Everyone got something out of this.

Are we sure that it wasn't set up to be exactly this?

Lutherf said:
The failure rate of DPRK missile launches seems to be more than just bad luck. One might think they have a bad case of Stuxnet or something.
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Stuxnet was for Iran's nuclear centrifuges, as was very manufacturer and model specific, so not, it wasn't that.

Since the DPRK isn't really Internet connection, at least as far as I know / heard, I rather doubt that the same vector would infiltrate the sensitive guidance systems in the same way, if those systems are even compatible, given that they have separate evolution and development.

No, seems far more likely that this particular failure is one of their own rather than being induced from an external source.
 
Chomsky said:
"North Korea has attempted to launch a missile from an eastern coastal city, but the launch appeared to end in failure, according to South Korea.

The statement from South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff on Sunday said it wasn’t clear what kind of missile was involved.

North Korea launched a long-range rocket and conducted two nuclear tests last year, including its most powerful to date, and there have been a slew of shorter range missile firings.

North Korea’s goal is a long-range nuclear missile that can strike the continental United States.

Sunday’s launch comes a day after a huge military parade was held to mark the 105th birthday of late North Korea founder Kim Il Sung."

Source: North Korea launches unsuccessful missile attempt, says South Korea.

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So, it looks like Kim Jong-un ended several days of pageantry and hyperbole with a real downer! Oh well ...
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It was so cool watching the live coverage of the ceremony on CNN this weekend. It really is alternate world. I truly wonder how the people would react if someone just blew the Kim's palace up with him and everyone in it. Would they lash out with more extremists or would there be relief throughout the country? I also wonder what Kim's supporters think of all these fails. Do they even know they are fails.
 
Lutherf said:
The failure rate of DPRK missile launches seems to be more than just bad luck. One might think they have a bad case of Stuxnet or something.
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Andrea Mitchell the long time chief foreign correspondent at NBC and more recently MSNBC said a couple of her sources have said U.S. has the cyber capability to cause this kind of failure. She said U.S. quietly screwed Iran missile tests in the past.

It might have been a nuclear armed submarine missile launch but the belief is that the missile itself was not nuclear armed. The launch apparently occurred at the naval base at Simp'o rather than a rocket facility on land.

This is also a swift kick in the balls to the current dynasty in Beijing. Just the other day CCP Dictators were up on high scolding both sides to chill out and not to do anything. Fact is the only thing Xi Jinping has ever got from Kim Jong Fat is the one finger salute. This is yet another of Kim's salutes.

First reports in anything of this sort always get altered anyhow so more info will be streaming in yet. It's Easter Sunday and VP Pence arrives in Seoul today so let us pray. In the meantime get your combat helmets on because it looks like Potus Trump now knows he can't look to Xi Jinping for anything about N Korea...that Trump is going to have to do it HimSelf. Whatever it is.
 
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Chomsky said:
"North Korea has attempted to launch a missile from an eastern coastal city, but the launch appeared to end in failure, according to South Korea.

The statement from South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff on Sunday said it wasn’t clear what kind of missile was involved.

North Korea launched a long-range rocket and conducted two nuclear tests last year, including its most powerful to date, and there have been a slew of shorter range missile firings.

North Korea’s goal is a long-range nuclear missile that can strike the continental United States.

Sunday’s launch comes a day after a huge military parade was held to mark the 105th birthday of late North Korea founder Kim Il Sung."

Source: North Korea launches unsuccessful missile attempt, says South Korea.

--

So, it looks like Kim Jong-un ended several days of pageantry and hyperbole with a real downer! Oh well ...
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I suspect this had to do with a program that started under the Obama admin that would allow the US to nuetralize North Korean missles soon after launch.
" Left of launch " ? Possibly

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.../asia/left-of-launch-missile-defense.amp.html
 
I suspect China and the US are looking for (or have in place) an assassin, waiting for an opportunity.

I suspect China would be the best bet, as it gives them almost absolute control over the fallout.
 
Tangmo said:
Andrea Mitchell the long time chief foreign correspondent at NBC and more recently MSNBC said a couple of her sources have said U.S. has the cyber capability to cause this kind of failure. She said U.S. quietly screwed Iran missile tests in the past.

It might have been a nuclear armed submarine missile launch but the belief is that the missile itself was not nuclear armed. The launch apparently occurred at the naval base at Simp'o rather than a rocket facility on land.

This is also a swift kick in the balls to the current dynasty in Beijing. Just the other day CCP Dictators were up on high scolding both sides to chill out and not to do anything. Fact is the only thing Xi Jinping has ever got from Kim Jong Fat is the one finger salute. This is yet another of Kim's salutes.

First reports in anything of this sort always get altered anyhow so more info will be streaming in yet. It's Easter Sunday and VP Pence arrives in Seoul today so let us pray. In the meantime get your combat helmets on because it looks like Potus Trump now knows he can't look to Xi Jinping for anything about N Korea...that Trump is going to have to do it HimSelf. Whatever it is.
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Well, before we get all excited let's see what Xi does. If there's nuke residue from this launch we may see a certain little dictator suffer an unexpected act of god.
 
chuckiechan said:
Isn't laser targeting invisible?
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If we've got a laser that can take out a missile it's not a matter of public record. While I'm quite sure we've been working on a laser since the 80's my understanding of current anti-ICBM tools is that we're still dealing with kinetic weapons. It would, however, be quite cool if we did have a laser that could take out an ICBM.
 
Chomsky said:
Now that's interesting!

It would also be a good way to embarrass an enemy like this, or perhaps the enemy wouldn't even know what occurred.
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There isn't much left after a failure to analyze. I hope they think we did it. Whatever it is I hope it doesn't end up being blabbed on Wikileaks!
 
It okay! It otay! We just check reaction to missire failure by tloops. Every ting good, you yankee imperialist dog, you. Ha Ha! We okay. You not so good.
 
Lutherf said:
Well, before we get all excited let's see what Xi does. If there's nuke residue from this launch we may see a certain little dictator suffer an unexpected act of god.
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The current dynasty in Beijing remains completely shut out from the halls of power in Pyongyang. So is god. He's not welcome in Beijing either. It's so bad Beijing can't get a Chinese mouse into the building.

One suspects South Korean intelligence could manage it but then again why would they want the sudden instability. Beijing doesn't want a nuclearized Korean peninsula but neither does anyone want instability of the leadership in Pyongyang. What happens if the regime collapses. Beijing just moved two more PLA divisions to the N Korea border just in case. Nobody wants just in case.

I'd say if the N Korean general staff hasn't ditched fatboy by now they aren't ever going to do it and probably can't. The longshot would be on the model of the uniquely successful Captain's Revolt in Portugal in 1974. A slew of junior army officers got it together to dump the dictator Salazar to include his dumbstruck generals to turn Portugal around completely. Restored democracy right up to the present. No one would expect democracy in N Korea under any circumstance but a movement by junior officers in the army would be about it in N Korea as the generals there to the last one seem as bad as Jong Fat Himself.

Impossible to say.
 
I've been praying that whatever that Kim Jong Nutcase decided to do during this week would be thwarted.

He is being pushed into a corner losing support from President XI of China.

When despots are pushed into a corner hard telling what they will do.

In a statement, the US military said: 'U.S. Pacific Command detected and tracked what we assess was a North Korean missile launch at 11:21 a.m. Hawaii time April 15.
'The launch of the ballistic missile occurred near Sinpo.
'The missile blew up almost immediately. The type of missile is still being assessed.
'U.S. Pacific Command is fully committed to working closely with our allies in the Republic of Korea and in Japan to maintain security.'

I am thankful for the U.S, Armada which was sent to the Korean Peninsula. Even if Kim the nutjob managed to launch a missle whether it at the Armada, South Korea or Japan,..... I believe it would have been shot down immediately.
 
The failures are adding up....which means that who ever is running this show is not doing a very good job of it.
 
Kim is the only fat guy in Korea, so a lipo powered army is out!

Will lipo fat and liquid oxygen power a rocket?
 
ModerateGOP said:
It was so cool watching the live coverage of the ceremony on CNN this weekend. It really is alternate world. I truly wonder how the people would react if someone just blew the Kim's palace up with him and everyone in it. Would they lash out with more extremists or would there be relief throughout the country? I also wonder what Kim's supporters think of all these fails. Do they even know they are fails.
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They only know what the government tells them. It's not like they have a free press or anything.
 
Dittohead not! said:
They only know what the government tells them. It's not like they have a free press or anything.
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Sounds a lot like "We only know what the "Experts" tell us", which much of the time is wrong and way too often is a lie.
 
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