North Korean Missile Raised To Firing Position, Says US Official

An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from CNN: "North Korea has raised at least one missile into its upright firing position, feeding concerns that a launch is imminent, a U.S. official told CNN Thursday. This comes as the world continued to keep watch for a possible missile launch by the secretive government, and a day before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to arrive in the region. In the latest daily tough talk from the North, a government agency is quoted by the state-run media as saying that 'war can break out any moment.'"

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Re:And... it's gone

[Anonymous Coward]

As if an american needs an excuse for a preemptive strike.

You people are an embarrassment to yourselves. You're literally no better than North Korea themselves, you're just bigger and you have the resources to win. You're just as morally bankrupt, you still bully the world into submission, you torture and kill in the name of the state, you still demand one country respect international law while you violate it yourselves. And you have a leader who is such a transparent and ridiculous liar that one wonders why you're taken seriously at all, right up until you set off another one of your toys in the middle east.

I always thought the worst part of a real, live nuclear war would be that no one would win, no one on earth, because we'd all be dead. No, the worst part would be that both sides would equally deserve it for being too arrogant and self-servient to back down. Warmonger fools like you cheerleading for the end of the fucking world.

Re:And... it's gone

[AmiMoJo]

"our arms are ready to fire and the exact coordinates are input to the warheads. Once we push the button, it will be fired, and the strongholds of our enemies will be turned to a sea of flames.''

Are you saying that the US does not have the coordinates of all major cities of its enemies programmed in to its nuclear war-heads? The US can nuke anywhere in the world at the push of a button, as can France, the UK, Russia, China, possibly Israel... Does South Africa have ICBMs?

The official statement from Mr Kim's regime kept up the barrage of inflammatory rhetoric, telling "all foreign institutions and enterprises and foreigners including tourists" in South Korea to "take measures for shelter and evacuation". It added: "The situation on the Korean Peninsula is inching close to a thermonuclear war due to the evermore undisguised hostile actions of the United States and the South Korean puppet warmongers."

Which is exactly what the west is saying too. Official advice to UK citizens is not to visit NK as safety is not guaranteed. I somehow doubt that translation is accurate, by the way, since NK doesn't have thermonuclear weapons, only conventional nuclear ones. The only such weapons that would be in play would be the ones landing on NK cities.