http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_KOREAS_NUCLEAR?SITE=OHCIN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

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"Report: NKorea may fire missile toward Hawaii By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press Writer AP Photo AP Photo/Lee Jin-man Buy AP Photo Reprints SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea may launch a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday, as Russia and China urged the regime to return to international disarmament talks on its rogue nuclear program. The missile, believed to be a Taepodong-2 with a range of up to 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometers), would be launched from North Korea's Dongchang-ni site on the northwestern coast, said the Yomiuri daily, Japan's top-selling newspaper. It cited an analysis by the Japanese Defense Ministry and intelligence gathered by U.S. reconnaissance satellites. The missile launch could come between July 4 and 8, the paper said. While the newspaper speculated the Taepodong-2 could fly over Japan and toward Hawaii, it said the missile would not be able to hit Hawaii's main islands, which are about 4,500 miles (7,200 kilometers) from the Korean peninsula. A spokesman for the Japanese Defense Ministry declined to comment on the report. South Korea's Defense Ministry and the National Intelligence Service - the country's main spy agency - said they could not confirm it. Tension on the divided Korean peninsula has spiked since the North conducted its second nuclear test on May 25 in defiance of repeated international warnings. The regime declared Saturday it would bolster its nuclear programs and threatened war in protest of U.N. sanctions taken for the nuclear test. U.S. officials have said the North has been preparing to fire a long-range missile capable of striking the western U.S. In Washington on Tuesday, Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it would take at least three to five years for North Korea to pose a real threat to the U.S. west coast. President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak met in Washington on Tuesday for a landmark summit in which they agreed to build a regional and global "strategic alliance" to persuade North Korea to dismantle all its nuclear weapons. Obama declared North Korea a "grave threat" to the world and pledged that the new U.N. sanctions on the communist regime will be aggressively enforced. The independent International Crisis Group think tank, meanwhile, said the North's massive stockpile of chemical weapons is no less serious a threat to the region than its nuclear arsenal. It said the North is believed to have between 2,500 and 5,000 tons of chemical weapons, including mustard gas, phosgene, blood agents and sarin. These weapons can be delivered with ballistic missiles and long-range artillery and are "sufficient to inflict massive civilian casualties on South Korea." "If progress is made on rolling back Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions, there could be opportunities to construct a cooperative diplomatic solution for chemical weapons and the suspected biological weapons program," the think tank said in a report released Wednesday night. It also called on the U.S. to engage the North in dialogue to defuse the nuclear crisis, saying "diplomacy is the least bad option." It said sanctions won't resolve the problem on their own, and military force is not an option. In a rare move, leaders of Russia and China used their meetings in Moscow on Wednesday to pressure the North to return to the nuclear talks and expressed "serious concerns" about tension on the Korean peninsula. The joint appeal appeared to be a signal that Moscow and Beijing are growing impatient with Pyongyang's stubbornness. Northeastern China and Russia's Far East both border North Korea, and Pyongyang's unpredictable actions have raised concern in both countries. After meetings at the Kremlin, Chinese President Hu Jintao joined Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in urging a peaceful resolution of the Korean standoff and the "swiftest renewal" of the now-frozen talks involving their countries as well as North and South Korea, Japan and the United States. "Russia and China are ready to foster the lowering of tension in Northeast Asia and call for the continuation of efforts by all sides to resolve disagreements through peaceful means, through dialogue and consultations," their statement said. The comments - contained in a lengthy statement that discussed other global issues - included no new initiatives, but it appeared to be carefully worded to avoid provoking Pyongyang. In remarks after their meetings, Medvedev made only a brief reference to North Korea, and Hu did not mention it. © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Learn more about our Privacy Policy. "

Russia and China are behind disarming North Korea...this is a grave day in North Korea..

This was posted less than 10 minutes ago, I haven't seen any other sources yet.




[Edited on June 18, 2009 at 2:33 AM. Reason : .]

6/18/2009 2:32:04 AM

bout fucking time

6/18/2009 2:32:56 AM

the plot thickens

6/18/2009 2:33:00 AM

YOU GONNA GET FUCKED UP SON

and by son, i mean n. korea

6/18/2009 2:36:39 AM

DO IT

WE'VE GOT 49 MORE

6/18/2009 2:36:53 AM

least bad

6/18/2009 2:36:56 AM

when it turns out that after we nuke them that the missle was really just a kite with "MiSAL" written on it im sure you fruitcakes are going to be as pissed at obama as you were bush right


p.s ITT N Korea gets smushed and flushed down the toilet in a kleenex

6/18/2009 2:37:44 AM

you know that was your 27,000 post?

6/18/2009 2:38:27 AM

OMG 6,600

6/18/2009 2:38:58 AM

yep

6/18/2009 2:39:11 AM

what an absurd comparison...

6/18/2009 2:39:17 AM

Quote :

"KOREAN MISSILE CRISIS"

6/18/2009 2:39:45 AM

Let's just hope this is incorrect "intelligence" and NKorea is just bluffing. Though with all the recent (May 27th) missile tests, it looks like they aren't fucking around.

6/18/2009 2:46:15 AM

its put up or shut up time for nk

although from what i read the other day they are at least like a week from fueling a rocket that could reach the us

[Edited on June 18, 2009 at 2:49 AM. Reason : .]

6/18/2009 2:46:44 AM

it's North Korea is about to get sprayfarted with missiles time.

6/18/2009 2:49:09 AM

A war begun because of an overestimation of intent and capabilities..? what is your fucking think-machine busted or something

6/18/2009 2:49:30 AM

yeah north korea is def another iraq

6/18/2009 2:50:08 AM

nah. iraq had oil, NK is just an all around dump.

6/18/2009 2:53:01 AM

Hey! At least we'll get to test out that laser beam into space thing!! STAR WARS IRL FTW!!!

6/18/2009 2:56:20 AM

North Korea doesn't have half of the shit they claim they have. Sprayfart the entire country with nuclear juice. Knock out the bad people, and clear out the ones so brainwashed they don't know reality from eating on regular basis.

Queue the "they're people too" folks. Yes they are, but they lost the ability to think for themselves decades ago. I don't have any illwill towards them, but cutting the tail off only yields a new tail.

6/18/2009 2:57:10 AM

Many More Sources:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,527020,00.html
http://en.rian.ru/world/20090618/155282803.html
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2009/06/17/north-korea-may-launch-missile-toward-hawaii-in-july/
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090617/NEWS08/906170374/Hawai+i+warned+of+missile+threat

Or here for all: http://news.google.com/news?q=North+Korea+Missile+Hawaii&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=k1B&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=vuY5Svv7OsGMtgeV6bTiDA&sa=X&oi=news_group&resnum=1&ct=title



[Edited on June 18, 2009 at 3:06 AM. Reason : .]

6/18/2009 3:05:17 AM

you're thinking of iguanas, not koreans

6/18/2009 3:05:27 AM

in early july...

6/18/2009 3:05:47 AM

Did you want only a few days notice instead? This is what we have "intelligence" for.

6/18/2009 3:08:03 AM

ok guy well i'll guess will wait and see what happens...hopefully its not a giant let down

6/18/2009 3:08:53 AM

Fuck it. My bitch ex is stationed there with her 2 bastard kids.

Hope she wills me the money that she owes me.

6/18/2009 3:18:35 AM

I'm not sure I would trust any military intelligence about NK coming from Japan. Just the other week they were bitching about SK and America keeping them out of the loop on NK since they have limited surveillance capabilities themselves.

6/18/2009 3:33:40 AM

yeah i seem to remember them raising the alarm over all grades of crazy shit. remember during the olympics they announced jong ill's death like twice

6/18/2009 3:39:00 AM

^^Serious? If I were Japan I'd probably make up some story about NK firing a missile at the USA so I could get the nerd to do my homework for me while I partied with Spuds Mackenzie at the beach.

6/18/2009 7:54:48 AM

slow news day or "holy shit, is that a missile?"

YOU DECIDE.

6/18/2009 8:09:51 AM

Time to call in Stephen Segal to go kill the entire north korean army.

6/18/2009 8:11:39 AM

Quote :

"TYPO DONG MISSILE"

6/18/2009 8:12:38 AM

because the last time an Asian country attacked Hawaii, it worked out so very well

6/18/2009 8:13:35 AM

i slipped up and stopped living in fear for a moment

back to the grind

6/18/2009 8:26:04 AM

hey cool chris

what's the haps

what are we gonna do about these north korean guys, huh

6/18/2009 8:26:39 AM

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"Time to call in Stephen Segal to go kill the entire north korean army."

Last I heard he wasn't currently employed as a chef anywhere, so he's probably a bit rusty.

6/18/2009 8:33:15 AM

hawaii is like the giant pacific push button for an all american ass whooping

6/18/2009 8:38:12 AM

Quote :

"norks is a pretty cool guy...eh flires missles and doesn't afraid of anything"

6/18/2009 8:42:13 AM

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"hawaii is like the giant pacific push button for an all american ass whooping"

lololol

6/18/2009 8:47:53 AM

we would get slaughtered if we tried to invade them.

those crazy fucks have been digging in for 50+ years, and all they do is learn how to fight and defend from teh time they are 5

6/18/2009 8:58:15 AM

^yeh

a massive air strike is required to do anything to NK. ya gotta send intel guys/spec ops in to locate them and call in coordinates for the MOABs

6/18/2009 8:59:59 AM

^^ that should make burying them significantly easier with bunker busters

[Edited on June 18, 2009 at 9:00 AM. Reason : ^]

6/18/2009 9:00:06 AM

^^^ bombing them doesn't require an invasion

^ yeah

[Edited on June 18, 2009 at 9:00 AM. Reason : carats]

6/18/2009 9:00:18 AM

6/18/2009 9:08:19 AM

TaepodongaDONK

6/18/2009 9:08:25 AM

ha I thought that said TWW Exclusive in the corner and I was about to give you mad photoshop props

6/18/2009 9:11:04 AM

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"the missile would not be able to hit Hawaii's main islands"

yawn

6/18/2009 9:14:42 AM

I've got a bunch of solutions for this one...

COVERT OPS

NAVY SEALS

TERMINATE KIM JONG IL WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE

WIPE ASS WITH NORTH KOREA

6/18/2009 9:25:05 AM

Like they could even hit something at that range....

6/18/2009 11:25:50 AM

set em up

6/18/2009 11:27:32 AM