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China-Japan-Koreas
Pudgy wants a bigger .. missile
2012-12-25
North Korean leader Pudgy Kim Jong-un on Friday called on scientists in the militarist state to develop more powerful rockets, the North's KCNA news agency reported.

"You should develop and launch a variety of working satellites... and carrier rockets of bigger capacity," Kim was quoted as saying at a banquet in Pyongyang honoring the scientists who built the rocket launched on Dec. 12.
A banquet in North Korea. Suggestions for the menu in comments, please...
Suet Face Kim added that the successful launch of the rocket "was the biggest present we dedicated to our great leader Kim Jong-il and a product of painstaking efforts and heroic struggle of our people and Workers Party."

The rocket launch, which fell on the first anniversary of Kim senior's death, is widely seen as a cover to test intercontinental ballistic missile technology.

But Fat Boy the new leader admitted failing to achieve his goal of turning North Korea into a "powerful and prosperous nation" this year, which marks the centenary of nation founder Kim Il-sung's birth. "We will work even harder to fly the red flag of a powerful and prosperous nation atop the mountain of victory as soon as possible," he said.
And then he'll figure out how to feed his people...
He urged the scientists to do their best to bring that day closer, evidently trying to associate progress in missile development with the "prosperity and happiness" of the people.

The banquet was enlivened by a new performing troupe who earlier this year surprised the world with revealing outfits and donning Disney character costumes. Afterwards Kim and his wife Ri Sol-ju personally saw off the scientists, technicians and workers of the missile development program as they returned to their quarters, KCNA reported.

On Saturday, the Workers Party awarded medals and the title of hero to 101 scientists and technicians who took part in the launch, including Choe Chun-sik, the head of the Second Academy of Natural Science.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  Where oh where to begin ...

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US INTELLIGENCE TRACKED MISSLE SHIPMENT TRAVELLING FROM IRAN TO NORTH KOREA | [DailyTech] NORTH KOREA SUCCESSFULLY TESTS ICBM, IRANIAN INFLUENCE SUSPECTED.

* SAME > [StraitsTimes] SOUTH KOREA [DM Official]SAYS NORTH ROCKET COULD FLY 10,000-KMS.

* TOPIX > CHINA [vee Global Times] WARNS JAPAN OF "SEVERE RETALIATION" IFF JAPAN DOWNED SURVEILLANCE PLANE AROUND DIAOYUS | [SCMP.com] CINA HARSHENS TONE TOWARDS JAPAN ON DIAOYUS.

ARTIC > GLOBAL TIMES = WARNS JAPAN THAT APOLOGIES MAY NOT BE ENUFF TO SATISFY THE CHINESE PEOPLE, e.g. PLA shooting down a JSDF aircraft in tit-for-tat = parallel military action agz Japan.

* SAME > [WAPO] DISPUTED ASIAN ISLANDS PART OF "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" THAT COULD RESTRICT CHINA'S NAVY.

The hell you say - just discovering it now, are we???

* SAME > CONGRESS MULLS MISSLE DEFENCE BASE ON US EAST COAST, agz NOKOR'S LRBM Threat as authorized widin the recently approved 2013 NDAA.

The Congresscritters want an official study of Pudgy's strategic threat - MEANWHILE, THE WEST COAST IS LEFT UTTERLY DEFENSELESS AGZ NEW ENGLAND'S "WILD TURKEY" JIHAD!

Milyu-u-uhns + Dilyu-u-uhns of delicious Turkeys were deliberately sacrficed in order to lull/fool mainstream America = Amerikka into a false sense of security for when the final + decisive anti-US War of Turkey Liberation, Global Conquest would begin this past Novemebr 2012!

* DEFENCE.PK./FORUMS > CHINA THREATENS JAPAN WID SECOND-STRIKE MISSLE BARRAGES.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-12-26 00:12  

#3  MMMm, stronger, not neccissarily Bigger.
(Can't spell today, sorry)
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2012-12-25 09:47  

#2  To start, a rocket salad.
Posted by: Grunter   2012-12-25 09:13  

#1  Smaller warhead OR bigger missile, same effect.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2012-12-25 00:30  

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