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A US official says a North Korean rocket due to be launched next month may affect an area between Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell is reported to have asked the three countries to condemn the launch.
North Korea says the rocket will take a new southern trajectory instead of a previous route east over Japan.
Japan is readying anti-missile defences around the southern islands of Okinawa, which could be under the flight path.
North Korea says the rocket is intended to put a satellite in space, but the US and others say the launch is a cover for a long-range missile test - a potential delivery system for nuclear weapons.
The launch is expected to dominate a security summit on Monday in the South Korean capital Seoul, which will be attended by US President Barack Obama.
Australia's Sydney Morning Herald said Mr Campbell had briefed Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Friday on the rocket's southward trajectory.
"If the missile test proceeds as North Korea has indicated, our judgment is that it will impact in an area roughly between Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines," the paper quoted Mr Campbell as saying.
"We have never seen this trajectory before. We have weighed into each of these countries and asked them to make clear that such a test is provocative and this plan should be discontinued."
North Korea's last rocket launch in 2009 triggered UN sanctions
BBC Asia analyst Charles Scanlon says Pyongyang appears to be trying to soften the political impact of its planned rocket launch.
It has chosen a new southerly route mainly over open sea, avoiding what is regarded as a more provocative easterly trajectory over the main Japanese island.
North Korea's state-run KCNA news agency said: "A safe flight orbit has been chosen so that carrier rocket debris to be generated during the flight would not have any impact on neighbouring countries."
North Korea has shown a growing mastery of ballistic technology during its three previous long range tests.
However, experts say that none has succeeded in reaching orbit, and debris has fallen to earth at various stages during the launches.
Pyongyang said last week that the launch - between 12 and 16 April - would mark the 100th birthday of its late Great Leader Kim Il-sung.
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'North Korea you better fly it straight don't curve your rocket into other countries.'
Oh my goodness, Homefront.
It'll explode 10 seconds after launch.
[quote]North Korea has shown a growing mastery of ballistic technology during its three previous long range tests.[/quote]
lmao
[I]mastery[/I]
North Korea's just trolling, as usual
[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;35276889]North Korea's just trolling, as usual[/QUOTE]
^This^
Plus, it can't reach Canada... woooo
[QUOTE=Murkat;35276799]lmao
[I]mastery[/I][/QUOTE]
like you'd know?
It will deliver a message of peace to the entire world.
The satellite will be made out of cardboard and rusting iron nails
otherwise, oh my god JC!
[QUOTE=dragonkilla;35277404]It will deliver a message of peace to the entire world.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, if every other country is nuked to pieces peace will exist
[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;35277649]Yeah, if every other country is nuked to pieces peace will exist[/QUOTE]
Pieces will exist
I think it would be really awesome if they managed to put something in orbit.
The trajectory isn't surprising, that's exactly the way you'd want to go to ensure the best performing and most efficient launch possible. That trajectory basically ensures them the highest probability of success.
Oh wait nevermind, I misread the article. The southern route is inefficient and would be more difficult to achieve orbit from. But they're doing that so that they can avoid flying over Japan, which would be the efficient route I talked about.
Basically they're trying to avoid stirring up trouble by quite literally going out of their way to avoid Japan. As far as foreign policy goes, they're not doing anything wrong if their math is correct and the debris will impact the ocean as expected.
When I think of NK, I think of a pot of boiling water with noddles in it...the water starts to boil to the top, and then someone stirs it and it simmers back down..which part of this metaphor NK is I don't know, probably the water and noddles.
[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;35277649]Yeah, if every other country is nuked to pieces peace will exist[/QUOTE]
They are probably evolving throught the phases of having nuclear weaponry.
Step one, "holy fuck we have nukes! NUKES!"
Step two "what if we strike first we make them surrender?"
Step three "holy fucking shit they have nukes too! WHAT IF THEY HIT US FIRST? BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY"
[QUOTE=Daddy-of-war;35278781]When I think of NK, I think of a pot of boiling water with noddles in it...the water starts to boil to the top, and then someone stirs it and it simmers back down..which part of this metaphor NK is I don't know, probably the water and noddles.[/QUOTE]
Noddles?
[QUOTE=Daddy-of-war;35278781]When I think of NK, I think of a pot of boiling water with noddles in it...the water starts to boil to the top, and then someone stirs it and it simmers back down..which part of this metaphor NK is I don't know, probably the water and noddles.[/QUOTE]
And when I think of Kim Jong-un, I think of a fat man willing to eat the very hot noodles.
Just build some T2 Tactical Missile Defense units from Supreme Commander and you're set.
[QUOTE=Dark-Energy;35279400]Just build some T2 Tactical Missile Defense units from Supreme Commander and you're set.[/QUOTE]
I think at this point simply aiming a TV remote at the sky would be enough to knock them off course
Good, it can only strike the very very tip of this country. Thank you god for the superior location Of melbourne
In tge diagram one of the rockets is called " no dong"
Because they are asian
You know what would be hilarious?
If North Korea actually [b]DID[/b] put a peaceful satellite into orbit and made all of the saber-rattling by Japan, the United States and her allies look ridiculous :v:
[QUOTE=ewitwins;35281731]You know what would be hilarious?
If North Korea actually [b]DID[/b] put a peaceful satellite into orbit and made all of the saber-rattling by Japan, the United States and her allies look ridiculous :v:[/QUOTE]
I don't think it's saber rattling when it's a nation that has recently expressed wishes to commit genocide on your people.
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