North Korea Launches "Communication Satellite" Rocket

Mad Ivan writes "The BBC has just reported that North Korea has launched a long-range rocket, which they say is a communications satellite, but that the US and Japan fear may actually be a ballistic missile. Details are still arriving; the rocket passed over northern Japan on its way up."

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Re:Summary is hopelessly wrong...

[FireFury03]

Right, the US is running around making sweeping genocidal threats.

Nope, no one ever said anything about making genocidal threats. Your post said "What's important now is determining the likelihood that an aggressive nation bent on insane policy will use nuclear weapons on their neighbors... oh, wait, that seems to describe North Korea". To which I replied that the US can also be described as being an aggressive nation bent on insane policy. As for the likelihood that the US will use nuclear weapons on their neighbours, I make no comment other than to point out that the US is the only nation in history to drop nuclear weapons on civilian population centres and is still constructing nuclear weapons for themselves at the same time as telling everyone else they can't have them.