MSNBC reported that N. Korea has begun loading fuel into missiles.

[Ilsa]

Will this be Obama's first big test of foreign policy strength?

[bdamomma]

1. South Korea can't be too happy about this.

WTF, like we don't have enough on our plates.

[avaistheone1]

2. I think the timing is interesting in terms of the G20 going on as this news story is unfolding.

[tekisui]

3. NKorea has had the launch date set for April 4-8 for quite a while.

They chose that time frame for a reason.

[avaistheone1]

5. It seems like North Korea always has troubling news when the US experiences troubling times.

[tekisui]

4. Satellite images show it does appear to be a satellite on the tip.

But, it can still ignite something, if it goes off course, or if Japan reacts.

[avaistheone1]

6. I am skeptical because of how we have been tricked by our own goverment before.

In war, some facts less factual
Some US assertions from the last war on Iraq still appear dubious…

Citing top-secret satellite images, Pentagon officials estimated in mid–September that up to 250,000 Iraqi troops and 1,500 tanks stood on the border, threatening the key US oil supplier.

But when the St. Petersburg Times in Florida acquired two commercial Soviet satellite images of the same area, taken at the same time, no Iraqi troops were visible near the Saudi border – just empty desert.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p01s02-wosc.html



You see what I mean.

[cwcwmack]

8. lol

and if it were a nuke it'd have the big red RADIOACTIVE symbol like in the Austin Powers movie?

[tekisui]

12. You think they have a nuke on it?

I don't think anyone thinks that. The point is it looks consistent with how a satellite launch would look. If it didn't have the satellite object on it, then the cause for concern would be greater.

[cwcwmack]

7. just a thought...

If NK ever sends 1 million soldiers south into the DMZ... the US pretty much can't do crap because they're stuck in teh ME quagmire.

[avaistheone1]

9. That's a fact.

[Hippo_Tron]

11. Kim Jong Il doesn't have any reason to send 1 million soldiers south of the DMZ

[Hippo_Tron]

10. No, it won't be, North Korea is always doing something minor to piss us off