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Akita, Iwate prepare for North Korea rocket

National Apr. 02, 2009 - 03:23AM JST ( 9 )

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NuckinFutzApr. 02, 2009 - 02:45PM JST

Obviousely this guy isn't up on the history of North Korean missile technology! They haven't had a launch that WASN'T a complete failure! The odds should be one in a million that some part of the rocket actually achieves orbit!
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some14someApr. 02, 2009 - 02:52PM JST

Japan will either miss the target (failed launch) or miss the opporunity of doing anything (successful launch). My eyes on NHK rather than NK.
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Pump24Apr. 02, 2009 - 04:26PM JST

Bets are on that there will be a total failure within minutes after launch, as usual. NK's continual boasting that this is a communication satellite is tiresome. Meanwhile, keep looking to the skies, chicken little! Something is falling!
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techallApr. 02, 2009 - 04:31PM JST

Kim Jong Il - best rocket-ist
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jeancolmarApr. 02, 2009 - 09:38PM JST

Welcome to Let's Hysteria With Me.

Do you know what is going to happen if North Korea successfully launches its rocket? Nothing. The only thing you have to worry about is if it goes wrong and rocket crud falls on your head. This is a common concern regarding all rocket launches around the world. According to Russian ecologist Mikhail Shishin, for instance, Siberia is badly polluted by boosters that fall into the pristine wilderness--and this is from successful launches. But beyond that there is nothing to worry about.

I worry more about the hysterical reaction to this launch from the Japanese, the South Koreans and the Americans. They have more military power than North Korea and they can do more damage.

North Korea is a badly run family business. It is poor and militarily comparatively weak. It is also fairly inoffensive, its rhetoric notwithstanding. Yes, there is the abduction issue. But that's over. They aren't doing it any more. And Kim Jong Il has admitted that his country did it--which is quite remarkable, when you think about it.

If you compare North Korea to a country like Israel you see both how weak and inoffensive it it. North Korea has nothing like Gaza to answer to.

I say let North Korea launch its vintage sputnik. The intelligent thing to do would be for foreign experts to volunteer their services to see that the launch went off successfully. That way we could be more sure that rocket crud won't fall on our heads. It would also defuse the current hysteria.
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nutsagainApr. 02, 2009 - 09:45PM JST

jeancolmar: A badly run family business'. Love it. Brilliant post.
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smithinjapanApr. 02, 2009 - 11:08PM JST

jeancolmar: You said it! I watched the Japanese news on this tonight and they were practically building shelters!
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OssanAmericaApr. 03, 2009 - 01:20AM JST

Good I hope all of Japan panics and stains their collective underwear. Maybe then they'll wake up to reality and trash that Article 9 and get with the program. If Japan didn't have their lovey dovey peace-no matter what constitution, does anyone think North Korea would dare to shoot anything over it? Of course not. North Korea doesn't have the guts to shoot anything over any country that might actually slap them back.
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tigerguyApr. 03, 2009 - 05:36AM JST

Why can't the asian Hitler aim it in some other direction like up his own a##? I would like to know how and how he became to be such a monster.