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The site where North Korea plans to launch a long-range rocket has been revealed in images taken by DigitalGlobe, a U.S. commercial vendor of space imagery and geospatial content.
The images, which depict the launch site, were disclosed on Wednesday to coincide with a hearing of the House Committee on Armed Services.
Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs Peter Lavoy said at the hearing that the rocket launch could result in casualties in various countries.
Lavoy said North Korea's plan reflects its lack of desire to follow through on international commitments, forcing the U.S. to suspend its activities to provide nutritional assistance to the North.
North Korea claims it plans to launch the rocket to put a satellite into space, but many nations contend the launch could be used to further its ballistic missile technology.[/quote]
When will they learn...........
Pretty fucking obvious it's not going to be for a satellite. If they can barely get a decent rocket up how do they expect us to think they have a space program that's actually going to produce results?
Wait. Why do north Korea hate everything and everyone again?
[QUOTE=Tomthetechy;35345700]Wait. Why do north Korea hate everything and everyone again?[/QUOTE]
Cause, democracy.
[QUOTE=Tomthetechy;35345700]Wait. Why do north Korea hate everything and everyone again?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=SilverKnight;35345740]Cause, capitalism.[/QUOTE]
The North Korean government is just fucking useless.
[QUOTE=Tomthetechy;35345700]Wait. Why do north Korea hate everything and everyone again?[/QUOTE]
A tyrannical god-complex government.
It's like they want all of their people to keep starving. Didn't they need this food aid REALLY badly?
[QUOTE=MrEndangered;35345778]A tyrannical god-complex government.[/QUOTE]
Well there's that and threatening the fuck out of South Korea, who are a pretty major ally to nato.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;35345751][/QUOTE]
That is not capitalism.
[QUOTE=Viper202;35345845]Well there's that and threatening the fuck out of South Korea, who are a pretty major ally to nato.[/QUOTE]
South Korea alone could kick NK's ass eight ways to Sunday. Don't even get me started how fast their entire country would fall if the US decided to do anything.
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Where's the OP's source?
Where's the source link?
[QUOTE=SilverKnight;35345740]Cause, democracy.[/QUOTE]
actually I'm pretty sure the USSR is the direct cause of North Korea
They're doing it in memory of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung. It still breaches the terms made for the food aid, so it's their fault.
[QUOTE=Marbalo;35346373]Wrong, Japan.
After Japan annexed Korea they literally brainwashed the population and made them believe in the craziest stupidest shit, (that also includes the Juche idea) which in turn spawned the North Korea we know and love today.
Here we go [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule[/url][/QUOTE]
How was it the Japanese who caused that? The very earliest mention of 'Juche' by anyone was by Kim Il-Sung in the 1930s, and it wasn't used to justify any government positions of any state until North Korea began doing so in the 1950s (it was founded in 1948).
[editline]29th March 2012[/editline]
It's arguable that the Japanese occupation fostered a desire for a self-determination based ideology in Korea, but you'd be hard-pressed to say that they directly caused the isolationist state that is North Korea.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;35346408]They don't?
I don't see why is the US and the rest of the world overreacting, they just want a reason to start a conflict, I doubt the NK rocket silo will be used for anything other than launching a scientific satellite[/QUOTE]
What, those North Koreans that defied international sanctions and agreements by developing nuclear weapons? The same guys that caused a big fuss a few years back by running missiles tests to see if they could hit Japan? The same guys that sometimes use South Korean villages as artillery training targets, constantly brainwash their entire populace, and occasionally torpedo SK military ships?
Yeah, they're totally developing rockets for scientific purposes! They want to see what's [i]out there,[/i] man! You guys are just overreacting.
US should just launch operation "NOPE" and mid-way into space, launch a large kinetic missile (They don't explode, they just destroy the rocket with pure force) to take down the NK's missile.
[QUOTE=glitchvid;35352836]US should just launch operation "NOPE" and mid-way into space, launch a large kinetic missile (They don't explode, they just destroy the rocket with pure force) to take down the NK's missile.[/QUOTE]
That would make them (needlessly) very, very angry and would be a very silly thing to do were they to launch a satellite. Shooting down a satellite would just piss them off and NK could spin the issue into proof of American aggression giving them an excuse to attack.
[QUOTE=michaeldim;35352866]That would make them (needlessly) very, very angry and would be a very silly thing to do were they to launch a satellite. Shooting down a satellite would just piss them off and NK could spin the issue into proof of American aggression giving them an excuse to attack.[/QUOTE]
not to mention there's an easier way to make North Korean rockets crash
[sp]by doing nothing[/sp]
what if north korea is actually a golden underground utopia but they all are putting on a front until they can build a fake army so large that the rest of the world doesn't even try to fight. they can rule over the rest of the world and make perfect peace and equality on the planet for the first time ever.
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