North Korea Launches a Missile

[angrysoba]

Who knows? For fifteen minutes Japanese citizens were in great fear with sirens going off and being told via urgent TV and text messages to hunker down in a sturdy basement in a sturdy building.

Fact is, it was probably too high for the Japanese to shoot down, and some say it would be impossible to shoot these down anyway. If so, North Korea now knows Japan has no defence.

Obviously the Dear One is a maniac and is trying to provoke the USA (what if it had gone in the direction of Guam?) and Japan, knowing it is protected by Russia and China.

Japan have Patriot anti-missile missiles which may or may not be useful against Scuds (I have heard that they were actually pretty ineffective in the Iraq War of 1991 but maybe they have improved since then). The missiles that North Korea are firing here are not likely to be hit by anything Japan has.

 

[cullennz]

Who knows? For fifteen minutes Japanese citizens were in great fear with sirens going off and being told via urgent TV and text messages to hunker down in a sturdy basement in a sturdy building.

Fact is, it was probably too high for the Japanese to shoot down, and some say it would be impossible to shoot these down anyway. If so, North Korea now knows Japan has no defence.

Obviously the Dear One is a maniac and is trying to provoke the USA (what if it had gone in the direction of Guam?) and Japan, knowing it is protected by Russia and China.

Would imagine it is what it is

Nth Korea is as usual peeved off by the Ulchi Freedom Guardian, which to me seems to have no reason to still happen apart from to provoke the short insane one with the silly haircut.

So they are having their own "pretend play fight" to show how awesome their toys are as well.

Takes two to tango and all that

 

[Trebuchet]

Der missles go up; who cares where dey come dun;
Dat's not my department; says Kim Jong Un.

 

[theprestige]

Except it literally is his department.

 

[angrysoba]

Would imagine it is what it is

Nth Korea is as usual peeved off by the Ulchi Freedom Guardian, which to me seems to have no reason to still happen apart from to provoke the short insane one with the silly haircut.

So they are having their own "pretend play fight" to show how awesome their toys are as well.

Takes two to tango and all that

Excuses, excuses!

 

[cullennz]

Excuses, excuses!

Never said it wasn't a stupid reason.

Just seems to me to be the obvious

Perhaps the yanks could explain why they still have their pointless willy waving exercises when all it achieves is winding up a nutbar with a massive arsenal.



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[angrysoba]

Never said it wasn't a stupid reason.

Just seems to me to be the obvious

Perhaps the yanks could explain why they still have their pointless willy waving exercises when all it achieves is winding up a nutbar with a massive arsenal.



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Why does the United States and South Korea have joint military exercises in preparation for defence against a possible attack by North Korea?

I think to ask the question is to answer it.

Now, what has that got to do with flying a missile over Japan?

 

[Belz...]

Who knows?

No, you mean "I don't know". If you don't know, don't pretend to know. There is no reason why NK would strike Japan out of the blue like this.

 

[cullennz]

Why does the United States and South Korea have joint military exercises in preparation for defence against a possible attack by North Korea?

I think to ask the question is to answer it.

Now, what has that got to do with flying a missile over Japan?

Because he is a nutter who gets wound up by the US doing pointless exercises that are only done to wind him up. I think they got the message the last year and the year before and the decade of years before.........

Can you not see a circular thing happening here?

Maybe making the pretend play fights a few years apart or toning it down a bit might help.

Have no fear. The rest of the world won't think the US is wimpy for pandering slightly to the psychopathic meglomaniac

Just being the bigger man and all that



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[Vixen]

No, you mean "I don't know". If you don't know, don't pretend to know. There is no reason why NK would strike Japan out of the blue like this.

Please point out where I 'pretended' anything.

So you pretend to know what goes on in the mind of Kim JungUn?

You don't know what the knob intended, either.

ETA: My comment about 'missing' was tongue in cheek. It is wearying when one has to explain a quip.

 

[smartcooky]

You really think they meant it to hit?

With NK's rocketry in the state it is (they still have regular launch failures) it is not beyond the bounds of possibility for it to have suffered an engine failure late in the boost phase and fall out of the sky onto Hokkaido.

 

[ddt]

Der missles go up; who cares where dey come dun;
Dat's not my department; says Kim Jong Un.

Except it literally is his department.

It was a joke by Trebuchet.



(Tom Lehrer: Wernher von Braun)

 

[Belz...]

Please point out where I 'pretended' anything.

Right here:

Crumbs. There's a missile from North Korea headed for North Japan.

Update: It's missed!

Of course you'll find a way to deny it.

ETA: My comment about 'missing' was tongue in cheek.

Called it.

 

[Hellbound]

Japan have Patriot anti-missile missiles which may or may not be useful against Scuds (I have heard that they were actually pretty ineffective in the Iraq War of 1991 but maybe they have improved since then). The missiles that North Korea are firing here are not likely to be hit by anything Japan has.

They have. I worked with a Patriot unit after the war, and the discussion came up. There were two primary problems with the system during the war.

First, the software wasn't completely updated for the anti-missile work. It didn't actually identify the missiles automatically (it was originally designed for anti-aircraft, not missile defense), so basically you had to fire at any radar traces. That got fixed.

Second, Sadaam's SCUDs had been modified for range. Basically, they were cut in half, and a larger fuel tank stuck in the middle. This made them weak in the center. The Patriot is a proximity missile; it doesn't impact the target, but explodes into fragments when it gets close. The problem here was that this tended to blow out the weaker grafted part of the SCUD, leaving the relatively intact front and rear sections. Because of issue 1, they would show up as radar traces as well, and generally were also engaged.

 

[Henri McPhee]

That Kim Jong un is a psycho. it might end up with Japan testing a ballistic missile over North Korea.

 

[ddt]

Except it literally is his department.

On a more serious note, of course it's Fatty's department and it is utterly irresponsible - to put it mildly - for him to launch a missile over a densely populated area of a neighbouring country. As smartcooky rightly noted, there have been enough failure of previous NK missiles that this one landing on Hokkaido instead of flying over it was a real possibility.

That Kim Jong un is a psycho. it might end up with Japan testing a ballistic missile over North Korea.

I have more trust in the senses of the Japanese government that they don't stoop to the level of Kim Jong-Un or, for that matter, the current inhabitant of the White House.

 

[Vixen]

Right here:



Of course you'll find a way to deny it.



Called it.

Oh dear. I am still having to explain a throwaway one liner. When I said it was headed for North Japan, the context is obviously 'headed in the direction of it.

The fact there was a major alert in Japan indicates no-one knew within that 15-minute window where exactly it would land.

 

[Vixen]

On a more serious note, of course it's Fatty's department and it is utterly irresponsible - to put it mildly - for him to launch a missile over a densely populated area of a neighbouring country. As smartcooky rightly noted, there have been enough failure of previous NK missiles that this one landing on Hokkaido instead of flying over it was a real possibility.
I have more trust in the senses of the Japanese government that they don't stoop to the level of Kim Jong-Un or, for that matter, the current inhabitant of the White House.

Gives more meaning to the song, 'Hey Fatty -Boom-Boom'.

 

[Belz...]

Oh dear. I am still having to explain a throwaway one liner.

Yes, I'm sure you'd rather people not correct you on your mistakes, but that comes with posting on the internet.

Even I get it once in a while (but rarely).

 

[Vixen]

Yes, I'm sure you'd rather people not correct you on your mistakes, but that comes with posting on the internet.

Even I get it once in a while (but rarely).

OK, OK. When I said North Korea launched a missile at Japan and it missed, I was being deadly serious.

You can have the last word.