And…There it stands. Like a giant middle finger flashed in the direction of the United States…There is stands. An intercontinental 
ballistic missile. In the heart of North Korea. There it stands.
They’re fueling it now. Even as this is being written that missile is being fueled.
They will launch it.
The window for that launch opens tonight and remains open for a few days. It will be launched.
If it flies over Japan, Japan has vowed to shoot it out of the sky and damn good for them.
The North Koreans say it’s to launch a satellite which would help their people but that’s a load of crap and we all know it. No satellite will help the people of North Korea.
This launch is nothing but a test of a missile designed to reach the western United States and it’s a missile which, in the future, can be equipped with a nuke. The idea that a nation, steeped in communism, starving its own people, cut off completely from the outside world where the use of a cell phone can get you jailed or killed, would launch a satellite which would somehow, magically help their people is folly.
Obama has vowed that should the launch be carried out, the United States COULD cease food aid to North Korea.
Obama will feign outrage at the launching of this missile. He’ll talk tough. He’ll cut off aid.
He’ll use it to boost his reelection campaign.
“See how tough I am on foreign policy?” “I cut off the North Koreans!” “I will not allow a rogue nation to dictate to us how we should proceed.” “I will not allow North Korea to blackmail the United States!!”
Liberals will feign outrage at Obama. They’ll cry that cutting off aid to North Korea will only further hurt the people. They’ll cry that discontinuing food shipments is a violation of human rights.
Oh yes…They will cry.
They will cry with all the passion and sincerity mustered by the North Koreans when their nut-job Dear Leader went toes up.
Boo Hoo. Not a wet eye to be seen.
If Obama gets reelected…On November 7th, he’ll either start a backdoor aid program to North Korea through the front door of the United Nations or…He’ll just flat out do it for…Humanitarian reasons.
There are no coincidences.
North Korea promised, just weeks ago, NOT to proceed with missile or nuclear tests.
Hillary applauded them. Liberals patted themselves on the back.
“See? See how diplomacy can work? See how allowing time and space can keep a rogue nation from doing bad things?”
Crap. Nothing but crap.
Having North Korea back down wouldn’t do Obama as much good as having them launch and then being the tough guy. It’s an 
election year after all.
If Obama had any balls, other than the basketballs with his picture on them, he’d make his statement against a North Korean launch NOW rather than later. Later would be the cutting off of aid, which he can work around later one way or the other. That, the cutting off of aid, would be a temporary measure.
Making a statement NOW would be the use of a cruise missile to destroy the North Korean missile, loaded with fuel, on the pad.
That is NOT a temporary measure.
But there it stands. In the heart of North Korea. Like a giant middle finger directed at the United States. A ballistic missile with the capability of reaching our shores.
China wouldn’t like it if we blew up the North Korean missile on the pad. China holds too much of our debt. They’ll demand payment and we’re already broke. The United Nations would condemn us. Anyone who would advocate such an action would have to be a war monger. We can’t be the policemen of the world.
Boo hoo. More fake tears.
In proceeding with this launch, North Korea is already in violation of agreements. They’re already in violation of United Nations resolutions.
Guess what else the North Koreans are doing right now? They’re digging tunnels. Big ones. Just like the tunnels they built for underground nuclear tests before.
Big underground tunnels are, I’m sure, just as valuable in helping their people as the idea of a satellite would be.
With each such step, each violation of existing resolutions and agreements, North Korea is moving towards a war. We have allies in the region. Good allies. Japan and South Korea, both of whom have vowed to fire on the North Korean missile should it veer off course and overfly their air space.
What if it doesn’t veer off course? What then?
It will simply be allowed to fly? Boy…THAT sends the North Koreans a clear message doesn’t it?
Blowing that missile up whether in the air or on the ground will not lead to war. It WILL send a decisive message that their violations of resolutions will not be tolerated. It would also send a clear message to our allies in the region that we will not allow them to be placed in danger by a sawed off little squirt with a nuclear arsenal, a chip on his shoulder and a need to prove he can be as big a bully and pain in the ass as his untearfully departed dear old dad.
If North Korea wants to help their people they would walk away from their nuclear weapons, allow access to the internet and let their people make phone calls. North Korea would invite in the sort of infrastructure assistance they so desperately need. They would invite in agricultural assistance and allow for the education of their people.
Erecting a giant middle finger, in the heart of North Korea, directed toward the very nation which COULD help your people is no way to help your people but, it would help Obama. I’m pretty sure by now, word has filtered down from Medvedev through the Kremlin that once Obama is “reelected” he’ll have a lot more…
Flexibility.
For those who think otherwise…
Drop a hammer and sickle on your foot. Who knows? You might work up a real tear that way.
And, splashdown…. As I said, their long-range missile program is pathetic. Just because something may be capable of something, doesn’t mean it can. Just look at the US rocket program at the beginning…we failed miserably many, many times. The only difference? We had money. NK is essentially still in the beginning stages of a long range missile program, and they have very little money. It is going to be a looooooooong time before they have a viable long range missile.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/12/world/asia/north-korea-launch/index.html
Howdy token lib
GW Bush was elected in 2000; his election was confirmed by the election officials in Florida, not by the Supreme Court. It turns out that, if the Supreme Court had allowed Florida’s officials to violate Florida law and delay the results by another month, GW Bush would STILL have won. “Progressives” gnashed their teeth, rent their garments, protested in the streets, and launched a hate campaign that continues to this day.
GW Bush was re-elected in 2004 with no room for doubt. “Progressives” rent their new clothes, gnashed their teeth, protested in the streets, and increased their hate campaign which continues to this day.
William Clinton was elected in 1992. No Republican marches, no riots, no vandalism of the White House. Re-elected in 1996; riot count 0, protest count 0. Disagreements, yes. Riots, property damage, Clinton-Hitler analogies by mainstream conservatives, no.
Barack Obama was elected in 2008. Conservative riots: 0. Conservative court challenges: 1 (the birther suit). Conservative vandalism: none.
Okay, if a Republican wins, history suggests that “progressives” are going to respond with immature behavior and likely with property damage. If Obama wins, history suggests that conservatives will respond by protesting peacefully and by operating within the law.
Carrie, there is more to it than simply detonating something at that altitude. In fact, an EM Pulse can be made without a nuke, but that is another story. NK hasn’t been able to launch a satellite yet, and in order to get a payload over our soil 300 miles up is going to take lofting something in orbit and be able to track it in order to detonate it. The new missile can barely reach the US, and that would be on a perfect day. Again, their long range missile program has been nothing more than a harassing thing, not something they can hold the world at risk with.
EM Pulse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse
Shadow, it’s not about detonating a nuclear warhead on our soil.
It’s about detonating a nuclear warhead 300 miles above our soil. Which would shut us down and send us back to the 1800s.
The greatest, strongest country on the planet – brought down by one little missile.
Without electricity, millions in hospitals would die in the first few days. Millions more a few weeks later when their food ran out. Millions more from the riots. Millions more from diseases from the dead bodies, dirty water, spoiled food, and virii that medications can’t be shipped in to cure. Millions more from “take-daily” medications that cannot be replaced running out. More from heat stroke with no air conditioning. More from freezing cold once winter set in.
All from one little missile, set off so high in the air that no one would even know it had happened until their electricity shut off and their cars shut down.
It could be thwarted by our missile defense system… but Obama won’t give funding to finish that system.
Is this really what little Kim is after? Who knows. What we *do* know is that there are plenty of nutty little dictators out there with nuclear capabilities and a grudge against the US. It’s just a matter of time – and our “President” won’t fund our only real defense against it.
It does not take a very large nuke to generate a sizable EM Pulse that could create a lot of havoc in the western United States. The point is, just like under EVERY democrat (Progressive) president we have had bad actors embolden by the belief that America is at that time, nothing more than a paper tiger…History has a way of repeating itself…and another of the historical repeating patterns…The rise and fall of great civilazations…first rot from within, and then, when their rules have run up debts they cannot pay, they first cut funding to defense because the military is not a “constituent.” It is always down hill from there.
I just read about that new rocket. Interesting… I stand corrected. This missile is rather unnerving. And it would be capable of delivering a sizable warhead…even without miniaturization. I guess all that is left to discover is if they are doing implosion experiments.
The TD2 missile is nothing more than a SCUD bolted to a NODONG. Accuracy isn’t it’s strong suit. Neither is capability. To tip it with a nuclear payload would require some serious miniaturization of the warhead. Now we are talking a plutonium implosion device. They have only one reactor, and unless the are getting plutonium from some other source willing to do business with them (and not Iran, their reactor has not been running long enough to produce it), they will never tip that weapon with a warhead like that. Not that the missile isn’t a concern…it is. It’s just that they will never tip it with something small enough to be a threat to the US, nuclear-wise. This also would be the second test since they rebuilt the launch platform that burned up a few years ago during a failed test. They don’t have a great track record with this.
North Korea is nothing more than the whiny little kid in the school cafeteria competing for attention.
The Unha-3 appears to be the upgraded version of the rocket fired by North Korea in 2009. It is the same liquid-fueled three-stage ballistic missile, with a hitting range capability this time greater than 6,700 kilometers. The previous North Korean rocket launched in 2009 went down after a 3,800 kilometer flight – which was enough to fly over Japan. The payload capability could be of up to one tonne, be it a nuclear warhead or a scientific satellite.
The new North Korean rocket is supposedly capable of reaching America’s Alaska, which is exactly 6,000 kilometers away.