New N. Korean (nuke?) Missiles Said to Threaten U.S.(West coast)

[papau]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-korea-north-missiles.html

New N. Korean (nuke?) Missiles Said to Threaten U.S.(West coast)
By REUTERS

Filed at 11:42 a.m. ET

BERLIN (Reuters) - North Korea is deploying new land- and sea-based ballistic missiles (the R-27) that can carry nuclear warheads and may have sufficient range to hit the United States, according to the authoritative Jane's Defense Weekly.<snip>

It said communist North Korea had acquired the know-how during the 1990s from Russian missile specialists and by buying 12 former Soviet submarines which had been sold for scrap metal but retained key elements of their missile launch systems.

Jane's, which did not specify its sources, said the sea-based missile was potentially the more threatening of the two new weapons systems.

``It would fundamentally alter the missile threat posed by the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) and could finally provide its leadership with something that it has long sought to obtain -- the ability to directly threaten the continental U.S.,'' the weekly said.

Apart from targeting the United States, South Korea or Japan, cash-strapped North Korea might seek to sell the technology to countries that have bought its missiles in the past, with Iran a prime candidate, the article added.<snip>

[johnnie]

1. Fear

Fear fear fear fear fear fear fear fear fear

[judge_smales]

2. boy,

doesn't this all sound familiar?

[geek tragedy]

4. Jane's has much more cred than the CIA & aWol & F.U. Cheney

N. Korea has threatened Japan by launching a missile over it--I have little doubt they'd LOVE to be able to buzz one over Los Angeles.

The Dear Leader was a scary kook when Clinton was in office. He hasn't changed.

[geek tragedy]

3. N. Korea is the best argument for missile defense eom

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. and the best argument against

would be that it doesn't work.

[geek tragedy]

8. I agree that it was completely a fiasco against an arsenal like that

that belonging to the US or USSR/Russia.

But, knocking down one or two missiles is something that is probably more technically feasible.

That said, the Korea problem needs to be resolved anyway. Withdrawing troops from the region and letting the two Koreas settle things like sovereign states (what a shocking concept) would be a good start.

[msanthrope]

5. Well, that's still no reason to have bilateral talks with NK, is it?

Sarcasm

[saracat]

7. Ignore it. It might be based on current intel.We have to wait

at least three years for it to germinate before we check it and this is too real a threat to pursue prior to an election!

[AndyTiedye]

9. Setting us up for the "October Surprise" in San Francisco

Would there still be enough Democrats left in California to win the state?

[Dem2theMax]

12. I suggest we try to vote early!

Just in case, you know. lol.

Down here in San Diego - we'd be a good target, what with all of our military bases, aircraft carriers, airports, and those nuclear power plants sitting about half an hour away as the crow flies.

Oooooh, I'm scared.

NOT.

[AndyTiedye]

14. Would Our Already-Mailed Absentee Ballots Still Count...

...if we were :nuke:ed before Election Day?
Assuming they could dig the ballots out of the rubble.

Is an absentee ballot that is validly cast still valid if
the voter dies before Election Day?

I am somewhat :scared::scared::scared: they'll pull a

too-bad-how-sad-SF&LA-got:nuke:ed-by-NK
:nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke:
Oh lookie.. California's a red state now :-(

[shamanstar]

13. setting the groper up

to look real nice like rudy did after 9/11... then in a few years, arnold the hero can become president.

[Massacure]

10. What the hell happened to pre-emptive strikes?

Tell me Mr. Bush!!!

[daleo]

11. Jane's is part of the establishment

They can lie too.

[customerserviceguy]

15. Maybe so

but North Korea is dangerous. I wish it were simply a matter of South Korea sharing their material wealth with the North, but as was pointed out elsewhere on this thread, their leader is a nut job. I really feel for all the people in the North who are starving.

[tpdecm20]

16. nk is a much bigger threat then iraq ever was

[Algomas]

17. It's the oogy-boogy man now for you lefties...

Enron and Arnold just wasn't enough punishment. CA is the first place that came to mind when we began talking October surprise.
Could they be that evil???