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North Korea Launches Two Midrange Missiles, Both Tests Fail (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader writes: According to South Korean Defense Ministry officials, North Korea fired two midrange Musudan missiles Thursday, and both missiles appear to have failed. The military cannot confirm exactly when the missile exploded but said it "crashed shortly after it was launched," a Defense Ministry official said. U.S. military officials said the missiles traveled an estimated 200 meters from the launchpad. This past weekend, North Korea launched a ballistic missile from a submarine off the east cost of the Korean peninsula. It only traveled about 30 km, well short of the 300 km range that would be considered a successful test. A little more than a week prior to that launch, North Korea failed to launch an intermediate-range missile on the 104th anniversary of the birthday of the country's 'eternal president,' Kim II Sung.
The Great Leader does not fall short - not when in comes to missiles, height, hair size, stomache size, or any other kind of size. His hands are big too.
Ignore the lies, Great Leader will make North Korea the WINNIGEST country every. They will win so much, you will ask him to stop winning that much. His missiles will fly furthest, his walles will be the biggest.
Wait - am I still making fun of Kim, or Donald? I forget which.
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We laugh, but failures are how one learns how to do things; we had many dozens of rockets fail before we perfected the technology.
Eventually they'll figure it out. Then what? I don't trust that crazy government with ICBMs.
He is allied with China, who is allied with Russia; the Russians have been a major force in both World Wars and the Cold War. While North Korea may be small, it could be the location of a trigger event that will have us all nervous (insert mushroom cloud here).
Little Kimmy Jong Un can't get it up!
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
Yet, we have seemingly no interest in freeing the North Korean people
More an issue between South and North Korea. Of course, we'd help our ally. China, on the other hand, doesn't want the regime to collapse. Millions of refugees crossing the border to deal with. Plus, having a mad dog in the back yard might come in handy.
The thing that I think will bring China around is: When the NORKs get a warhead working and manage to fit it onto a missile, Beijing will be a much easier shot than the USA. And Kim Jong-un is crazy enough to try and blackmail China for aid.
Have gnu, will travel.
Given the way this "country" operates, I'm pretty sure that after each failure heads are rolling, literally. A few more such failures and NK will run out of rocket scientists and missile commanders...