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2006-06-18 China-Japan-Koreas

Breaking: N Koreans Ordered To Raise Their Flag At 2PM (1 AM EDT), and Listen to Broadcast

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Today ... we have successfully achieved #2 rank ...in the Axis of Evil. Congratulations....to the little people© who made this possible....Kim Jong...uh... *bang*"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-06-18 00:18|| 2006-06-18 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Now if only we could blow it up with the HalbertonDeathRay right before it launched....

Posted by DarthVader 2006-06-18 00:18|| 2006-06-18 00:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Alas, Babylon...

I hope not.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-06-18 00:38|| 2006-06-18 00:38|| Front Page Top

#4 "North Korean officials denied that the country is preparing to test-launch a missile... Visiting officials from the North told a South Korean lawmaker that concerns over Pyongyang's possible missile test are "unfounded," Japan's Kyodo News agency reported from Seoul.
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Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2006-06-18 01:00|| http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/]">[http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/] 2006-06-18 01:00|| Front Page Top

#5 " . . . concerns over Pyongyang's possible missile test are "unfounded," . . .

Give them a while, then they will be founded.

Proving once again that talk is cheap, and if it gets you what you want, why not use it? Works against most Westerners, anyway.

Posted by grb 2006-06-18 01:07|| 2006-06-18 01:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, we're waiting.

Posted by anonymous2u 2006-06-18 01:30|| 2006-06-18 01:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Nothing on KCNA and CNN.

Posted by 11A5S 2006-06-18 01:45|| 2006-06-18 01:45|| Front Page Top

#8 They got what Kimmmy wanted: Attention.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-06-18 01:51|| 2006-06-18 01:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Not enough pumping capacity. They had to send out for more hamsters.

Posted by PBMcL 2006-06-18 02:01|| 2006-06-18 02:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Odd that they would risk specifying a time.

Posted by 6 2006-06-18 06:06|| 2006-06-18 06:06|| Front Page Top

#11 Maybe they're going to launch on Seoul then announce the festivities. Wouldn't be a test launch then ....

Posted by AzCat 2006-06-18 08:32|| 2006-06-18 08:32|| Front Page Top

#12 According to Fox, the "big announcement" at 2pm had nothing to do with rockets:

There was no mention of a missile in a report from North Korea's state media on a national meeting marking the anniversary of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il starting work in the country's communist party.

Wonder if they were going to launch today, and the rocket didn't behave itself, so they had to go with Plan B.

As a public service, here's a link back to yesterday's thread on North Korean rocketry.

Posted by Mike 2006-06-18 08:47|| 2006-06-18 08:47|| Front Page Top

#13 Another floral gift to Kimmie from the Greater Guineau Bissau Peoples Chapter for the Study of the Juche Idea and Tractor Repair maybe?
Raise your glasses of sour potato milk high and toast Dear Leader!

Posted by tu3031 2006-06-18 10:16|| 2006-06-18 10:16|| Front Page Top

#14 Weather is bad today.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-06-18 10:27|| 2006-06-18 10:27|| Front Page Top

#15 Fairweather Rocketeers Club took a sour potato milk break.

Posted by Inspector Clueso 2006-06-18 10:41|| 2006-06-18 10:41|| Front Page Top

#16 constipation cure from the potato sour milk may be overworking....everyone's "predisposed"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-06-18 11:14|| 2006-06-18 11:14|| Front Page Top

#17 Mmmmm, sour potato milk and hydrazine! Perhaps with a splash of creme de menthe as a catalyst for that exothermic goodness.

Posted by SteveS 2006-06-18 11:48|| 2006-06-18 11:48|| Front Page Top

#18 North Korea was poised Sunday to test-fire a missile after satellite imagery showed fueling had been completed, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
The launch site is on the country's remote east coast and images show the missile is larger and more sophisticated than the one Pyongyang test-fired over Japan in 1998. U.S. experts said it likely has an estimated range of 2,400 miles, the New York Times reported.
Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper reported the government had ordered citizens to raise the national flag and watch television in anticipation of a "message to the people."
The Times said experts suspect the missile would probably carry a satellite, which would enable North Korea to say it was a civilian endeavor and not a military move.
Saturday, the United States, Japan and South Korea called for North Korea to cancel the test and return to six-nation talks aimed at dismantling its nuclear program.

Posted by john 2006-06-18 15:54|| 2006-06-18 15:54|| Front Page Top

#19 Needs more Juche.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-06-18 16:31|| 2006-06-18 16:31|| Front Page Top

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