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2016-02-07 China-Japan-Koreas
North Korea fires long-range rocket despite warnings
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Posted by Steve White 2016-02-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 It was a three stage rocket that successfully placed a satellite in orbit. If it can do that then it is an ICBM. An ICBM only needs to accomplish a suborbital trajectory.
Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-02-07 00:16||   2016-02-07 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 launch images: https://twitter.com/martyn_williams/status/696191264073474048
Posted by 3dc 2016-02-07 00:30||   2016-02-07 00:30|| Front Page Top

#3 suggest turning off the sound

Posted by 3dc 2016-02-07 00:33||   2016-02-07 00:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Time to get out the erasable red line pencil.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-02-07 09:31||   2016-02-07 09:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Stratcom says it is in orbit.
https://twitter.com/US_Stratcom
Posted by 3dc 2016-02-07 09:37||   2016-02-07 09:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Time for the dreaded Sternly Worded Letter of Doom!
Posted by CrazyFool 2016-02-07 10:12||   2016-02-07 10:12|| Front Page Top

#7 We need the professional demarche writers on this...stat!
Posted by Mugsy Glink 2016-02-07 10:19||   2016-02-07 10:19|| Front Page Top

#8 
rough track of first orbit over the USA
Posted by 3dc 2016-02-07 15:52||   2016-02-07 15:52|| Front Page Top

#9 rough track of first orbit over the USA

Jeez. No chance for mischief there, eh?
Posted by SteveS 2016-02-07 16:06||   2016-02-07 16:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Track missed DC and NYC.
Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-02-07 16:27||   2016-02-07 16:27|| Front Page Top

#11 Detroit, though.

Booyah!
Posted by Mullah Richard 2016-02-07 17:35||   2016-02-07 17:35|| Front Page Top

#12 would a EMP blast over Detroit cause any damage?
Posted by Frank G 2016-02-07 17:37||   2016-02-07 17:37|| Front Page Top

#13 ...Windsor, Ontario would not be amused.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-02-07 17:54||   2016-02-07 17:54|| Front Page Top

#14 Over the Yellow Sea, ECS, Okinawa, + near Northern Philippines - looks like Pudgy's Rocket just test-flighted China + PLA's theaters-of- interest???

* SOKOR + JAPAN view the launch as a COVERT LRBM TEST.

* ASIA TIMES, YONHAP NEWS > AFTER [successful] ROCKET LAUNCH, NORTH KOREA "READYING" FOR FIFTH NUCLEAR TEST!?

* SINA.COM > NORTH KOREA LAUNCH IS PREEMPTIVE MOVE, "COMPLICATES" SITUATION.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-02-07 23:20||   2016-02-07 23:20|| Front Page Top

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