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N Korea fires ballistic missile into sea near Japan's territorial waters

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There was a report a low trajectory would make THAAD defense useless. N Korea could be finessing how to hit S Korea, especially US forces where the THAAD will be stationed by flying low.

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It looks more and more like the THAAD sys. deployment is necessary.

Sorry, China, you aren't doing much to rein in your boy.

If they are trying to fly their nuclear bottle rockets low to avoid detection then maybe some more US weaponry and presence N/E Asia is necessary.

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What on earth has North Korea got against the sea. are the fish capitalist running dogs? Are waves nature's way of eroding the socialist motherland? Leave the sea alone, L'il Kim!!!!!!

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North Korean elites in Pyongyang are watching the US elections. It's stealing the limelight. So are the Chinese in SCS. NK thinks they're important too. NOT.

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@Fre Okin

@Speed

The THAAD system can be beaten.

All NK or china has to do is put pop out flaps over the missile, with micro lasers.

When it detects the missile it will time it's speed and "jump" as flaps pop out 2 times within seconds.

The flaps will slingshot it 50 meters in a split second.

Timing is testing to make the flaps pop back out placing it in the same ruff position it was in before it jumped. Jump then jump back into position.

Basic strategy's always get technology, you just got to think of it, and in a war 100drs of them.

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@obliqueweapons

I agree. THAAD is way oversold, just like other super speedy US defensive systems like the Standard Missiles. Once they go up, their very high speed become a liability as they cannot easily maneuver against the incoming missile as the THAAD missiles will break up from very high G force.

China could help Kim with a rudimentary maneuverable ballistic missile to evade THAAD by milliseconds, with very high speed Chinese microprocessors. N Korean engineers will be able to calculate the expected time THAAD will fire once they launch their missiles and make a predetermined maneuver in milliseconds, so THAAD will miss the N Korean missiles by a hair, perhaps 50 feet or so. It will be very close, but no kinetic kill.

This will be China's reward for S Korea and US for installing THAAD at her doorstep. If the N Korean test a few more missiles towards the expected THAAD deployment area and their trajectory indicate maneuverability, then THAAD is as good as useless.

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Since Japan claims 10,000,000 kms of the pacific ocean as its exclusive economic zone, I would take this news with a pinch of salt.

Fear mongering by the militarists.

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There was a report a low trajectory would make THAAD defense useless. N Korea could be finessing how to hit S Korea, especially US forces where the THAAD will be stationed by flying low.

Don't forget that besides the THAAD in theater, Japan has the Aegis defense system and PAC2 and upgrading to PAC3 for missile defense as well.

Sanctions against NK obviously don't work. It's going to take China getting more involved in the discussions for NK to stop playing these games.

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Dad! (USA), Kimi is throwing things at me again!!

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@Yubaru

The blame fall squarely on America. Seriously, why are US presidents so stuck up? Why can't they be more humble and put a call to Kim and give him a little Respect? Kim have literally being begging for respect but US spurned his overture and play right into China's hand. If you don't talk to your enemy As Equal, he is more likely to throw a tantrum and this is exactly what Kim do. Obama talk to Raul Castro and establish diplomatic relation with Cuba. What is holding him up with N Korea? Afraid US will have no further purpose in Asia and forced to downsize the Pentagon?

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Rodong

My missile's lower than yours!

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Which Japanese soldier will decide on his or her own judgement to launch an anti-missile missile at one of Kim's Rodong missiles to defend their country?

By the time the warning goes back to Kasumigaseki, they find all the committee members, assemble them, discuss it, and make a decision; the missile would have landed.

Do they have practical ROEs? (Rules of Engagement)

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NK could never win a war... under the subservience and grovelling I bet the NK generals know that too. Only the brainwashed North Korean populace will believe in a victory over American backed SK or Japan. These missiles are their way of saying: "Yoo-hoo! Snotty little kid next door wants attention!"

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Fre Okin i agree. what harm could it do to talk?

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@Thunderbirds yep they would never win.

We can also stop NK from flattening Seoul with artillery rounds.

$1 - $3 billion dollars worth of laser weapons, would shoot down 2,000 - 5,000 rounds a min. 1 hour 350,000 rounds a hour......That means NK can't flatten Seoul anymore.

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North Korea wants to talk only with US because NK considers South Korea and Japan as beneath them.

But SK and Japan and China all want a seat on the table because they believe no peace would truly hold unless they're part of it.

So the US insists that any talks should be a 5-party talk.

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[ Just five days before Japan surrendered, US officials Dean Rusk and Charles Bonesteel were given the task of delineating the US occupation zone in East Asia. Without consulting any Koreans, they arbitrarily decided to cut Korea roughly in half along the 38th parallel of latitude, ensuring that the capital city of Seoul would be in the American section. Rusk and Bonesteel's choice was enshrined in General Order No. 1, America's guidelines for administering Japan in the aftermath of the war.

And so, a rushed decision made by junior US government officials in the heat and confusion of World War II's final days has resulted in the seemingly permanent creation of two warring neighbors. More than sixty years and millions of lives later, thisl division of North and South Korea continues to haunt the world, and the 38th parallel remains arguably the tensest border on Earth. ] http://asianhistory.about.com/od/northkorea/f/Split-North-And-South-Korea.htm

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@Fre Okin

Yep 50 meters was a lol "but" it would miss it.

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They were likely aiming for the US but fell a bit short. Better to apply the 'missile money' to agricultural initiatives.

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EEZ is no territorial water. In other word, the missile dropped in international water.

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@fre okin - your comment made me laugh.... do you know what THAAD stands for? Terminal HIGH ALTITUDE area defense so yeah, it was not made for low altitude targets low the ones you claim defeat the system. The system was not made for those, other systems which the koreans have are made for low altitude. chinese microprocessors? if anything you should call them us or european microprocessors since the chinese steal everything and cant create any technology. the best warplanes china had are cheap copies of russian and us planes. if the chinese could really defeat the system then they wouldn't be so scared of it and continue to complain the deployment in korea. dont be scared, its an area defense systen, its not made to strike china so relax.

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People keep laughing, it is only going to take one serious incident for it to stop being funny.

Rocketry is serious stuff.

You remember how important this was to both the US and the Soviet union after WW2?

NK is being allowed to develop very dangerous technology.

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@psyops ether way it will be a miss if it jumps....flaps.

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its time to remotely return them back not hard to redirect one even a school kid can do it with a computer

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Japan should fire some missiles back.

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