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Japan Activated Air Raid Sirens During North Korea's Missile Test Monday (cnn.com)
"No country should have missiles flying over them like those 130 million people in Japan," the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations said Monday. Though it was only a test, the scene on-the-ground is described by Slashdot reader AppleHoshi:
Our phones went crazy on receipt of an automated alert from the "J-Alert" system. Shortly afterwards, loudspeakers broadcast another alert (there are loudspeakers everywhere in Japan, to warn of earthquakes, tsunamis and typhoons). As normal with any disaster situation in Japan, all of the available television channels immediately switched over to full-coverage mode, with a repetition of what the situation was ("There's a missile heading in the direction of north-central Japan") followed by basic instructions of what to do ("If it comes down in your area, try to extinguish any fires and immediately inform your local police and fire departments").
Shortly before twenty past six we got the news that the missile had over-flown northern Japan and landed in the Pacific, about 1,000 km [621 miles] from the coast of Hokkaido. The "all-clear" was broadcast over the local speakers a short while later. Strange as it may seem, this all had an air of normality about it. Japan gets more than it's fair share of natural disasters, so anyone living here gets plenty of exposure to this same routine. (It's just that the reason is usually an earthquake, typhoon or tsunami, rather than a megalomaniac).
Shortly before twenty past six we got the news that the missile had over-flown northern Japan and landed in the Pacific, about 1,000 km [621 miles] from the coast of Hokkaido. The "all-clear" was broadcast over the local speakers a short while later. Strange as it may seem, this all had an air of normality about it. Japan gets more than it's fair share of natural disasters, so anyone living here gets plenty of exposure to this same routine. (It's just that the reason is usually an earthquake, typhoon or tsunami, rather than a megalomaniac).
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TFS seems to imply that the alert was activated everywhere in Japan. The subtitle on the linked CNN page mentions Northern Japan.
I live in Tokyo, and heard or saw no such alert.
Yep. Too bad we can't trade PDRK political prisoners for ANTIFA members. The latter could live in their utopia.
Strange as it may seem, this all had an air of normality about it. Japan gets more than it's fair share of natural disasters, so anyone living here gets plenty of exposure to this same routine. (It's just that the reason is usually an earthquake, typhoon or tsunami, rather than a megalomaniac).
Which megalomaniac are we talking about here?
So you then agree with Workers World Party, an antifa group that supports North Korea.
Frankly it's hilarious you fascists and communists beat the crap out of each other.
Your dumbfuck discredited, treasonous president goaded Kim Jong Un into this with empty threats and provocations no sane person would engage in.
Why don't you start by kicking your traitor out of the oval office before you tell us about how your fuckups are our problem.
says the decline of American power and influence... for what, a phantom tax break? clean coal? there was a time this talk would label you a commie and anti-American scum.
To be fair, it was easier when there were still real Nazis.
Trying to settle a bet with a friend. Can anyone come up with a reasonable estimate of how many nukes it would take to destroy N. Korea's warhead collection and neutralize their military forces? Would the number and placement have massive long-term health effects in Seoul and the region? Or is it possible the S. Korea and neighbors come away mostly unscathed?
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Trump, a feckless leader, won't do anything.
Trump is too afraid of looking bad. Trump set a line, and Kim Jong Un who is an evil leader with authority Trump only dreams of having, crossed it many times. Trump is barking dog next to Kim. Trump is a coward.
I don't like WWP, antifa or NK. But I can agree with them on that one point. Oh and the basic "fascism is bad" thing, I agree with that too. That's about it though, those guys cross the line for fun and it seems they don't really know what fascism is anyways.
Try to extinguish any fires? Sure, right after I put myself out. Go ahead Kimmy, shoot one over the USA to test our reaction. You'll LOVE IT!
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cuba-United_States_aircraft_hijackings
in the 60's and 70's, the communists left on their own, and were usually treated poorly by the Cuban leaders that they fled to.
Has anyone thought of putting a small thermonuclear device in Dennis Rodman and sending him back over to Pyongyang.
Seoul will take big damage from shelling and maybe even some chemical attacks
... but one of these days, Godzilla WILL be returning.
if North Korea hits some one they will be gone.
They are playing a big game of chicken and no china will not save them
As opposed to the current set of "only white Christians have rights, we can kill the rest of you" torch carrying Nazis?
The headline writer is in the wrong time zone.
Both of them.
America could stop doing wargames in North Korea's backyard twice a year.
What am I thinking? What's a few million civilian deaths in determining which psychopathic government are the biggest assholes?
I think he means hard-edged storm troopers vs. today's doughy keyboard kommandos.
What's the point of scaring everyone with this? If it's a missile test, it would have been announced beforehand to anyone who cares to listen. If it's a real attack, then there's no point telling people to put out fires started by the missile. I suspect there's a political reason they're doing this, maybe to get the public riled up to join a US-led coalition agains NK, or maybe just for more defense budget.
for attention. I think they may be in trouble, this series increasingly provocative tests are their last gasps of cry for help.
First there was "Dress-down Friday", and now there's "Missile Test Monday", apparently, at least in North Korea, according to Slashdot.
Well, when you consider the possible impact either country can have on your life, you'll notice that the potential influence NKor has is negligible.
Yes, it sure is the worse government. But then again, the recent storm (or whatever it was) in the US was certainly also worse than the hail we had here yesterday, yet the latter did damage my car while the former didn't really affect me.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
So the people marching with swastikas and shouting "Heil Hitler", "blood and soil" and etc aren't Nazis?
I'll think I'll take this chap's opinion over yours.
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Lump them together with the "only black lives matter" idiots and sell the rights on pay per view.
Whoever loses
We win
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
"No country should have missiles flying over them like those 130 million people in Japan," the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations said Monday.
Reaching orbit is going to be damn hard for any country not located next to a huge ocean.
And finding an orbit that doesn't involve flying over any country is going to be even harder.
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Four words: nuclear fallout, prevailing winds.
The only solution is to tighten up the screws on China and let them take care of North Korea (peacefully or not).
If Japan, South Korea, and the US made it clear they would start punishing Chinese exports (e.g., via tariffs), China would have an incentive to take care of this.
In addition, the US could also pursue military deployments to Taiwan and the tiny disputed islands in the Sea of Japan (maybe a radar station here in there) arguing that they are necessary in order to counter the threat. These are likely to upset China quite a bit.
I just do not see China taking a hit on its bottom line in order to save North Korea. If we tighten the screws on China, they will figure out a way to take of this problem for us.
Arguably, Clinton should have never allowed China in the WTO without a solution for North Korea
Yep. Too bad we can't trade PDRK political prisoners for ANTIFA members. The latter could live in their utopia.
An authoritarian dictatorship where the people are indoctrinated to a glorification of the state in order to disguise their own impoverishment?
I'm pretty sure that's...actually fascism.
The fact is, El Grande Trumputin and his followers would love to make everything in North Korea happen here.
Private profit, public exploitation.
WTF is ''more than it is fair share'' supposed to mean?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Bomb away. Whoever loses, the rest of the world is a better place.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The fact is, El Grande Trumputin and his followers would love to make everything in North Korea happen here.
Private profit, public exploitation.
Wow, you are so incredibly deluded. I would be scared as hell to live anywhere near YOUR reality (which is pretty f'ed up).
Would NK freak out if Japan decided to shoot down the warhead? Technically it's flying over their territory. Does that set a bad precedent?
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
Many people would like the sort of set up Un has. I'm almost certain that trump is one of them.
Many of the people who follow trump enjoy the idea of putting a boot to someone's face but cry like babies when they're the face and not the boot.
We're all humans we just have a more robust set of checks and balances built into our society than North Korea does.
The fact is, El Grande Trumputin and his followers would love to make everything in North Korea happen here.
Private profit, public exploitation.
Wow, you are so incredibly deluded.
Let's see, fake photos of himself in all his grandiose infrastructures. Documented history of fraud and exploitation. Vituperative scorn for anybody who opposes him. Great need for continual praise and affirmation. Exactly how is ANY of this NOT an accurate description of Donald Trump? And what would his followers not love, if exactly what Trump tells them to want? Do they not want to capriciously punish with vindictiveness their enemies? Do they not want anybody who opposes them to be ruthlessly crushed? Do they not want to make others pay for their demands?
I would be scared as hell to live anywhere near YOUR reality (which is pretty f'ed up).
That is the reality you live in. Enjoy your world.
And... fat, ignorant Bible-thumpers still aren't National Socialists, no matter how effectively the retards have bought into the new narrative. Thanks for playing, though!
In case of nuclear war, there's no "rest of the world" where to hide in.
Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.