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Subject: Will US attempt to intercept North Korean Missile
reefdiver    6/20/2006 3:26:26 PM
Will the US risk an attempt at intercepting what seems to be an impending test launch of an ICBM? There is talk in the news suggesting US missile defense systems have been activated. The stakes would seem high: if an intercept succeeds, NK will be extremely angry and probably call it akin to an act of war. If the intercept fails, the US will be somewhat embarassed - if not humiliated - and NK will be emboldened. I would suggest the US will not attempt the intercept and simply use a launch as a further indication of NK's provocation and threat to the entire world. Thoughts?
 
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Herc the Merc    RE:Will US attempt to intercept North Korean Missile   6/20/2006 3:27:28 PM
How would u do it reef?? Even the Nkoreans cannot predict its trajectory LOL.
 
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kensohaski    RE:Will US attempt to intercept North Korean Missile   6/23/2006 3:52:12 PM
Incinerate it!
 
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FJV    RE:Will US attempt to intercept North Korean Missile   6/23/2006 4:42:11 PM
Nope
 
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tigertony    RE:Will US attempt to intercept North Korean Missile   6/23/2006 8:23:50 PM
We should!!!. And if successful "Fund the ABM to the hilt" untill "We The People" can destroy all the worlds nuclear missles,and thus make them obsolete, and save us all!!! Have A Nice Evening!!! tigertony
 
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American Kafir    RE:Will US attempt to intercept North Korean Missile   7/5/2006 3:29:57 AM
Does North Korea have the ability to launch missiles that can actually hit something?
 
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PowerPointRanger    Missile sham   7/5/2006 3:42:59 AM
Okay, so this is the second time NK has lauched a missile that it claims can hit the US & the second time it failed. In the immortal words of Johnny Rotten: "Did you ever get the feeling you were being cheated?"
 
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eon    RE:Lil' Kim Batting .000   7/5/2006 9:38:27 AM
The five SRBMs worked as planned- but I think those were ones he bought from the PRC, weren't they? His IRBM went off course and landed in the Sea of Japan 6 min. after liftoff. And the "long-range missile" went wonky at T+15 sec. and was either aborted or just went 'boom' at T+ 41 sec. Right now, Lil' Kim must feel sort of like George Steinbrenner, after the Cleveland Indians pounded his Yankees into snail snot two games running Monday & Tuesday. Now all we need is an ABM system that's half as good at pitching as the Indians' new guy. Cheers. eon
 
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mustavaris    RE:Lil' Kim Batting .000   7/5/2006 10:42:06 AM
Wait for the moment when antiwar-groups attack the missile defence program and say that it´s useless because your enemies cannot even build missiles that work;) Makes me wonder what Pakis and Iranians think now...
 
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FJV    RE:Lil' Kim Batting .000   7/5/2006 3:15:40 PM
Makes one wonder how many technicians Kim will have murdered for this "faillure".
 
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PlatypusMaximus    RE:Lil' Kim Batting .000   7/5/2006 10:27:03 PM
Maybe Mini-Mao did it on purpose. Dude's certifiable. We all laugh and then wake up with L.A. at 50,000 degrees with 700mph winds. Not just us either, Every job in our country is affected by a threatened Japan and S.Korea. It's a shame liberals have got GWB fighting their war. Now wouyld be a perfect time to bomb his capability and cost him cash that he doesn't have. This guy means us serious ill. What are we waiting for?
 
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eon    RE:What Are We Waiting For?   7/6/2006 9:38:54 AM
Permission from Beijing, of course. Ever since the now-no-longer secret colloquy between Henry Kissinger and Mao Zedong in 1972, when we told the PRC that we could "accept" a Communist victory in Vietnam as long as it happened >after< we'd gotten our troops out first, U.S. policy in Asia has boiled down to "Whatever the old men in the Forbidden City want us to do- or not do." Their eventual objective is a Pan-Asian hegemony ruled from Beijing, including the conquest of Taiwan and the "incorporation" of Japan as a Chinese protectorate. (Think the old "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", only run from the other end.) Their eventual targets are Australia and the Indies to the south, and Siberia to the north. And sitting right in the middle as a perfect "deniable asset" to threaten the ROK and Japan with is the "Hermit Kingdom" and its gibbering-dingbat leader. The only alternative is for us to apply the policy of "The first time Lil' Kim launches a missile we even >think< has a WMD warhead, no matter >who< it's aimed at, Pyongyang gets glassed, period." One of the often-overlooked advantages of our present SOTA in weapons is that we can take out the leaders of an enemy power, as opposed to just killing their PBIs in job lots. This, I suspect, wiull be the only practical way of dealing with the Lil' Kim problem. I do >not< expect our oh-so- P.C. allies- or even our own State Department- to agree. Cheers (sort of....) eon
 
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Tiber1    RE:What Are We Waiting For?   7/6/2006 2:07:53 PM
We'd never use our ABM system just for show. What if it missed or didn't even work at all? Better off as a threat then as a public humiliation.
 
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bunkerdestroyer    RE:Will US attempt to intercept North Korean Missile   7/15/2006 1:53:25 AM
Am I one of the few who think that the missile did what it was supposed to? Yeah, they probably are backwards, but think of it: Kim is nuts. He has them fire the missile to see the US/Japan/world reaction, but to ensure he does not not get his as* kicked, he exploded the missile 45 or so seconds after launch. It lands where the other missiles did. It successfully took off, probably in range of their detonating mechanism, and then BLAM. He doesnt get his as* kicked and he gets to see what the world would do. In his eyes, he won. Now, he probably thinks he can get cash/blackmail the world. He was warned not to do it, he did, and nothing of consequence happened. So, if the missile did what it was supposed to do, he won.
 
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