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everyone's going nuts! North Korea launched a rocket! OH NOESSSSSSSS!!!
(http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/05/north.korea.rocket/index.html for details, I guess)
Honestly, do people really think there is a missile attached to it and that North Korea is going to attack anybody? Maybe I'm just skeptical at this stage and I frankly don't think a major conflict will break out in the world for a long time, and if it does it will be initiated by a much larger power such as Russia, China, or the United States. Personally, I think they just want to get a satellite up in space, it's a pretty big thing for a country to have a space program and launch a satellite successfully, and fuck it why can't they? It was the same thing with Iran's satellite (launched about a month ago)... big fuss ultimately for nothing.
Just because North Korea is run by a crazy fuck doesn't mean everything the country does is evil and maliciously planned. Let them have their rocket in space!
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
- if their leader wasn't such an insanely megalomaniac freak, just maybe but even the argument about double standards does not hold water in this case
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Its just fear mongering all over again like with saddam and iraq.
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i completely dont agree, they are a crazy fucking country, you should watch a documentary on them and Kim Jong Il is crazy enough to nuke someone.
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if they were testing to get a satelite up into space they wouldnt do tests by launching rockets way towards the east in the direction of the united states would they?
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i wish the US would just nuke them already, and save so much time and money..then give the south koreans more land for development or whatever
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United States12607 Posts
On April 05 2009 15:41 tekushikume wrote:
if they were testing to get a satelite up into space they wouldnt do tests by launching rockets way towards the east in the direction of the united states would they?
Yeah, it's possible - I mean, the rocket would have to have some sort of trajectory as it put the satellite into orbit, and going east over the Pacific seems to make more sense than going west over mainland Asia.
It's really unclear whether the North Korean government's story about the rocket housing a communications satellite is true, but even if is I think it's fair to say that the government's primary objective was to show off its rocket technology. That's not fear-mongering, that's just the most sensical inference based on the past actions and general nature of North Korea's government.
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@TimeShifter....I hope you get banned for that post.
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no one was postulating that there was going to be explosive weaponry attached to this rocket. the point is that they use the same rocket for launching satellites into space as they do for their military missiles.
so while this launch was represented as benign it is also essentially a missile test. the results of this test are directly applicable to their military missile program.
also considering their history you have to admit it is a bit provocative launching a rocket over japan.
i'm not taking much of an opinion on this either way just making some corrections
>> JWD pretty much got it
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On April 05 2009 15:46 JWD wrote:Show nested quote +On April 05 2009 15:41 tekushikume wrote:
if they were testing to get a satelite up into space they wouldnt do tests by launching rockets way towards the east in the direction of the united states would they? Yeah, it's possible - I mean, the rocket would have to have some sort of trajectory as it put the satellite into orbit, and going east over the Pacific seems to make more sense than going west over mainland Asia.
you make a very good point there. i still think that it may have traveled a little too far for a satelite test launch. theres a pretty good sized body of water to the east of north korea and the rocket flew all the way over japan and into the pacific.
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Communications satellite? Who does N. Korea communicate with? And it's not like any of their people can afford mobile phones.
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There is a reason there was a "Space Race" between Soviets and the US during the Cold War. Back then the most common method to drop a nuke was to use Bombers. Thus in the space race, the idea was that if you could launch something into space (ie. Soviet's Sputnik satellite) then you can bring it down on anywhere you like.
Meaning if you could launch a nuke into space, you can bring it down anywhere you like(ICBM)
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On April 05 2009 15:46 JWD wrote:
@TimeShifter....I hope you get banned for that post.
lolol the mods could nuke his posts.
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Bill307
Canada9103 Posts
On April 05 2009 15:58 The Storyteller wrote:
Communications satellite? Who does N. Korea communicate with? And it's not like any of their people can afford mobile phones.
Kim Jong Il is upgrading to broadband.
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On April 05 2009 17:21 Bill307 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 05 2009 15:58 The Storyteller wrote:
Communications satellite? Who does N. Korea communicate with? And it's not like any of their people can afford mobile phones. Kim Jong Il is upgrading to broadband.
Apparently trying to catch the new season of Heroes but it's not streaming fast enough.
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i just want to say....
"nuclear launch detected"
bow
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On April 05 2009 15:44 TimeShifter wrote:
i wish the US would just nuke them already, and save so much time and money..then give the south koreans more land for development or whatever
What the...
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Just another Barginning chip so that they can get enough aid to last through the new years and not have the people in the capital starve to death. They'll show off a new toy in a couple of years and it'll repeat to the point where Kim Jong contracts an STD like Hitler and goes butt fuck mental.
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i think north korea should at least feed its people first
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