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2009-06-18 China-Japan-Koreas

NKorea plans to fire missile toward Hawaii

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Posted by Steve White 2009-06-18 09:26|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Well, since Alaska isn't part of the US "homeland", then I guess Hawaii isn't either...

Posted by Spot">Spot 2009-06-18 09:59|| 2009-06-18 09:59|| Front Page Top

#2 there's a "challenge" for O'bama

Posted by George Ebbetle5594 2009-06-18 11:58|| 2009-06-18 11:58|| Front Page Top

#3 I suspect this reporter is more clueless than usual. For example, any missile fired from North Korea East almost has to fly over Japan. Towards Hawaii would be right over Tokyo. However, this missile is being fired from the northwest. So they might as well say that it is targeted to New Guinea.

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-06-18 12:07|| 2009-06-18 12:07|| Front Page Top

On the case.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2009-06-18 13:42|| 2009-06-18 13:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Spot__

HI is a third-world country - not part of US -

on 9/11/01, I was treated to one of our local "Hawaiian Sovreignty" types holding forth about how it was too bad the Americans got hurt, but it was no skin of their nose.

a couple of years ago they raised the age of legal consent - all the way up to 16, over the outraged screams of the locals (male variety of course).

So if Kimmie get's lucky it not like he hit the US or something.

Posted by Black Bart Angeanter7138 2009-06-18 14:44|| 2009-06-18 14:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Might hit Obama's 'typical white' Grandmother.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-06-18 14:53|| 2009-06-18 14:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Well it would have to be a burrowing warhead. However half sister Maya also lives in Hawaii.

Posted by ed 2009-06-18 15:00|| 2009-06-18 15:00|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Besoeker 2009-06-18 15:09|| 2009-06-18 15:09|| Front Page Top

#9 All the enemies are playing up as they see Barry as weak!!!!

Posted by paul2 2009-06-18 16:47|| 2009-06-18 16:47|| Front Page Top

#10 All the enemies are playing up as they see Barry as weak!!!! paul2

Obama is not weak. He is definintely taking it on as his responsibility to destroy America's future. The America that started with British colonies. The same nation, Britain that imprisoned and tortured his grandfather and briefly imprisoned his father in the Kenyan Mau Mau uprising.

Regarding their combativeness against British Colonial Rule and their subsiquent imprisonment by the British, Mrs Onyango said that the combative spirit shown by her husband and her son, Obama's Grandfather and father, during Kenya's bloody independence struggle had passed down through the generations to the future president. "This family lineage has all along been made up of fighters," she said. "Senator Barack Obama is fighting using his brain, like his father, while his grandfather fought physically with the white man." The President of the United States, born according Mrs Sarah Onyango in Mombasa, Kenya.

Posted by Angoluting Jones2958 2009-06-18 16:57|| 2009-06-18 16:57|| Front Page Top

#11 WASHINGTON The United States has positioned more missile defenses around Hawaii as a precaution against a possible North Korean launch across the Pacific, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday. "We do have some concerns if they were to launch a missile to the west in the direction of Hawaii," Gates said.

Gates told reporters at the Pentagon he has sent the military's ground-based mobile missile system to Hawaii, and positioned a radar system nearby. Together the systems theoretically could detect and shoot down a North Korean missile if it came to that.

"Without telegraphing what we will do, I would just say ... we are in a good position, should it become necessary, to protect Americans and American territory," Gates said.

Posted by tu3031 2009-06-18 17:30|| 2009-06-18 17:30|| Front Page Top

#12 GUAM K57 > seems SECDEF GATES has approved the deployment of a US THAAD MislSys to the ALOHA STATE = HAWAII as just-in-case protection agz any NOKOR missle. JAPANESE MEDIA also repors that Nokor's test missle, likely an IMPROV LR TAEPONGDONG-II, may also be flown agz OKINAWA [read, JAPAN] + GUAM, + that CHINA will prob be angered iff any FAILED ENGINE SECTION OF NOKOR'S MISSLE FALLS INTO THE CHINA SEAS???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-06-18 19:53|| 2009-06-18 19:53|| Front Page Top

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