North Korea 'fires missile from submarine'
Source: BBC
North Korea has fired a submarine-based ballistic missile, South Korea's Yonhap news agency says.
The reported test follows an attempted launch last month that South Korea said failed in its initial flight stage.
North Korea, believed to be developing nuclear weapons, is banned by the UN from any use of ballistic missiles.
The latest launch comes after Pyongyang threatened retaliation for joint US-South Korea military exercises that it sees as a rehearsal for invasion.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/37171608
Remember when people made fun of Bernie when he called out NK as a threat?
TheBaculumKing
(102 posts)You actually hit an ocean.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)North Korea on Monday threatened to mount a "preemptive nuclear strike" on South Korea and the United States as the allies kicked off their annual military exercise aimed at countering Pyongyang's potential aggression.
The command and control exercise Ulchi Freedom Guardian, began its two-week run on Monday, involving tens of thousands of South Korean and U.S. forces.
This year's drill came amid unusually heightened inter-Korean tensions following the defection of a London-based North Korean senior diplomat to South Korea.
South Korea and the U.S. "should bear in mind that if they show the slightest sign of aggression on (DPRK's) inviolable land, seas and air ..., it would turn the stronghold of provocation into a heap of ashes through Korean-style preemptive nuclear strike," an English-language statement by the country's General Staff of the Korean People's Army (KPA), carried by the state-run Korean Central News agency, said.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2016/08/485_212418.html
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Purveyor
(29,876 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)Orrex
(63,210 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)Orrex
(63,210 posts)Credit where due!
GP6971
(31,157 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,985 posts)MattP
(3,304 posts)How many more countries will go nucluer with Bolton in charge of our foreign policy?
forest444
(5,902 posts)It was thanks to Dubya's sabre rattling, after all, that North Korea abandoned the 1994 Agreed Framework Jimmy Carter negotiated with the late Kim Jong Il.
Their facilities were under constant UN surveillance for a decade, and in all that time nothing moved - until Lil' Kim tore up the agreement.
The MIC has been ecstatic about the possibility of all-out war with North Korea ever since.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)I don't think people realize how much pull he had/has.
forest444
(5,902 posts)But Iran's Russian-supplied anti-aircraft defenses simply made it impractical (thank goodness).
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)The article says it that the picture was from April.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)ok.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)You should feel free to be more clear in your OPs on such matters.
Maybe include some links to all the people who laughed at Bernie for making such a suggestion.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Maybe you don't remember the pundits panning him when he said this?
But truthfully if you don't remember then I really wasn't talking to you.
I hate to break it to you but the primary is over. Hillary won. Everyone knows this so when Bernie's name is brought up it really shouldn't trigger you like that.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)upon hearing of this, she would've run for an armored vehicle with her head down?
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)He did say North Korea, you are correct.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)And Bernie immediately interjected with that group and I agree with him. That's all I'll say on it and feel free to frame as you wish.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"I hate to break it to you but the primary is over. Hillary won...."
Hence, you making him part and parcel of your OP, yet protesting when others reply in kind.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)judesedit
(4,438 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Bill Clinton, working with the UN, got NK to stop production of any more nuclear materials and shut down the program. They had no bomb and were a few years away from having one. In the summer of 2001, Bush reneged on the part of the agreement that allowed NK to import much more food from the US. Within a year, NK had restarted their nuclear program. In about 3-4 more years, they detonated their first nuclear bomb.
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)where are they getting the hardware and support for these launches?
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)It doesn't require the latest advanced technology.
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)they could manufacture all of the hardware for this. There would have to be channels for smuggling in place, probably sanctioned by China.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)Tupperware is probably more airtight.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)You see? If people all pull together, they can do great things.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)country is so oppressed.
randome
(34,845 posts)Won the Pulitzer Prize. It shows how ugly and scary it is to live in North Korea. If any country "deserves" invasion and nation-building, it would be North Korea, imo.
But that never turns out well, no matter what, does it?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesnt always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one youre already in.[/center][/font][hr]
MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a test-fire of a submarine-launched ballistic missile and declared it "the greatest success" that put the country in the "front rank" of nuclear military powers, official media reported on Thursday.
North Korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on Wednesday which flew about 500 kilometers (300 miles). The South Korean government and experts said the launch showed technical progress in the North's SLBM program.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-idUSKCN10Z2TX?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social
TheBaculumKing
(102 posts)For a missile that size. Hell, a redneck can catch that much with three sticks of dynamite and a six-pack.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)The ghost ships washing up in Japan leads credence to the thinking their fisheries are gone. Those feeble boats are going out well beyond their means.
tenderfoot
(8,432 posts)How will I sleep this evening?