North Korea moves rocket onto launch pad, also they appear to be preparing a third nuclear test - Polidicks

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17650344[/url] [quote=BBC News]North Korea has moved into place a long-range rocket for a controversial launch later this month - amid reports it is also planning a nuclear test. Pyongyang says the Unha-3 rocket, which it plans to launch between 12 and 16 April, will put a satellite into orbit. But opponents of the move fear it is a disguised long-range missile test. Meanwhile, South Korean officials say new satellite images suggest the North is preparing to carry out a third nuclear test. The images show piles of earth and sand at the entrance of a tunnel at the Punggye-ri site, where tests of a nuclear bomb were previously carried out in 2006 and 2009, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports. "Recent satellite images led us to conclude the North has been secretly digging a new underground tunnel in the nuclear test site... besides two others where the previous tests were conducted," one unnamed official told the AFP news agency. North Korea has been under close scrutiny by its neighbours and the international community since Kim Jong-un became leader of the secretive state following the death of his father, Kim Jong-il, in December 2011. Pyongyang had agreed in February to a partial freeze in nuclear activities and a missile test moratorium in return for US food aid. But the deal was put on hold last month after the North announced its rocket launch plans. 'Peaceful purposes' Foreign journalists were taken by train to the Sohae satellite station at Tongchang-ri, on the country's north-west coast, to see for themselves the final preparations for the rocket launch. All three stages of the rocket were visibly in position at the launch pad, an Associated Press reporter said from the scene. Station manager Jang Myong-jim told reporters that preparations were on track and fueling would begin soon, without giving exact timings. He said the 100kg (220 pound) satellite is designed to send back images and information that will be used for weather forecasts as well as surveys of North Korea's natural resources, the AP reports. Pyongyang has previously said the launch, for "peaceful purposes", is to mark the centennial of the birth of founding leader Kim Il-sung. But the United States and North Korea's neighbours say it contravenes UN resolutions that were imposed after a similar launch in April 2009. Japan and South Korea have warned they will shoot the rocket down if it strays into their territory.[/quote]

Maybe it will go backwards into the Earth

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It will 'accidentally' land in another country's major city and catastrophically explode.

"Look at us! We are handling dangerous stuff! We could kill stuff with it! Go away or we'll launch it at you!"

[QUOTE=Amaurus;35482505]It will 'accidentally' land in another country's major city and catastrophically explode.[/QUOTE] Or in Pyongyang and they'll claim the south did it.

I hope they set off the nuke just as the rocket takes off, and then roll their tanks over the border as Kim Jong-il's corpse springs back to life, puts on sunglasses and screams AWWWW YEeEAAAAA

In other news, the grass is green. They do this shit all the time to get attention, then do puppy eyes and promise to be nice until they get tons of aid. Either that, or it's to cement Kim Jong-un's place as leader, a sort of dick wave to the North Korean people.

It's all a ruse to keep the west away from their tractor simulation technology!

North Koreans testing the waters, they sons and they daughters are training for American slaughter.

It crashes into Seoul. WW3. :v:

[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;35483743]It crashes into Seoul. WW3. :v:[/QUOTE]More like Korean War: Round 2.

[QUOTE=Joazzz;35485006]More like Korean War: Round 2.[/QUOTE] More like: [img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Amargosa_desert.jpg[/img_thumb]

Can you make the image bigger? I can't see it

Meanwhile, North Koreans starve.

[QUOTE=Joazzz;35485006]More like Korean War: Round 2.[/QUOTE] Do not expect this to last long, the US and SK are leagues farther in war tech than NK now, NK is also a lot poorer and less well fed, not to mention China will probably stay back this time. [editline]8th April 2012[/editline] Also, the Korean war never ended, there is just a cease fire (that has not turned into anything else) so it would technically still be the Korean war.

the nuke isn't a weapon glorious leader required glorious cremation

They'd be very lucky if the engine ignition system even sparked.

Nuke detonates on launch pad.

10 bucks this turns Pyongyang into the world's largest parking lot.

[QUOTE=Big Bang;35491638]10 bucks this turns Pyongyang into the world's largest parking lot.[/QUOTE] 10 bucks? I'll be rich!

[QUOTE=Big Bang;35491638]10 bucks this turns Pyongyang into the world's largest parking lot.[/QUOTE] i will raise you 1 dollar

[QUOTE=Funion;35491694]i will raise you 1 dollar[/QUOTE] Christ man, you're careless with your money!

[QUOTE=Thom12255;35482427]Maybe it will go backwards into the Earth[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RepTEN4J3sU[/media]

What would make it sweeter if it was actually nuclear, then if it crashes or blows up on the pad, then emits a mushroom cloud, we know they have been lying. Hopefully on the pad. I god, laughs will be had.