Thursday, February 12, 2009

North Korea assembling longest-range missile:

Oh you Know that North Korea is going to launch their long range Missile now !
Warning one of the most arrogant leaders (Dicktater) in the world , is not the way to get what you want out of them !
Their will be a launch ! Hopefully it will fail just like the last one ! but if it is successful ! Welcome to a new world !!!


SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has been assembling its longest-range missile at an east coast launch base and could test-fire the rocket by the end of this month at the earliest, a leading South Korean daily reported on Friday.

South Korean and U.S. officials have warned prickly North Korea not to launch its Taepodong-2 missile, which is supposed to eventually be able to hit Alaska but has never successfully flown. It blew apart seconds after it was last tested in 2006.

North Korea recently transported the first and second stage of the Taepodong-2 to its missile base on a special train and has been assembling the pieces at an indoor facility to prevent spy satellites from watching, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported intelligence sources as saying.

"We assume that they are currently assembling the first and second-stage rockets," the paper, which is South Korea's largest, reported a South Korean government official as saying.
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The missile, thought to be about 36 meters (118 ft) tall, needs to be positioned vertically, sent to a launch pad and fueled. These operations can be viewed by U.S. spy satellites, which can give the outside world a warning several days in advance that a launch is imminent, it said.

If fired successfully, it will likely go over Japan, experts said. Market players expect sentiment to be dampened by any test but the recent rumblings have not had an impact on shares.

North Korea, which tested a nuclear device in 2006, does not have the technology to miniaturize an atomic weapon to mount as a warhead. It also has several hundred ballistic missiles with ranges that can hit all of South Korea and Japan.

1 comment:

kyros said...

I worry about North Korea. Kim Jong Ill thinks he created everything on Earth. He even thinks he created global warming (if it even exists).

How do you negotiate with a mad man?