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They were busy ranting about how they were going to kill us all. I know we were distracted the last few days. Has NK used the busy news period as an opportunity to back off?
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)Never hoid of em.
jsr
(7,712 posts)Renew Deal
(81,801 posts)And keep his buzz cut fresh.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)"New rules: Dear Leader is always pronounced ping pong game winner, even if he's really not... also buy better paddles..."
onehandle
(51,122 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)But for sme reason we all stopped paying attention. In my case I stopped posting here.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)I don't know why they'd bother, at this point, but whatever.
Brother Buzz
(36,212 posts)neverforget
(9,433 posts)(Reuters) - North Korea has moved two short-range missile launchers to its east coast, apparently indicating it is pushing ahead with preparations for a test launch, a South Korean news agency reported on Sunday.
South Korea and its allies have been expecting some sort of North Korean missile launch during weeks of heightened hostility on the Korean peninsula.
An unidentified South Korean military source told the South's Yonhap news agency that satellite imagery showed that North Korean forces had moved two mobile missile launchers for short-range Scud missiles to South Hamgyeong province.
"The military is closely watching the North's latest preparations for a missile launch," the source said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/21/us-korea-north-idUSBRE93K01Z20130421
Renew Deal
(81,801 posts)Instead of giving this info to the press, just pretend they don't exist, at least in the media.
neverforget
(9,433 posts)I'd love to see them treated as a child who throws a temper tantrum but these guys are nuts.
joshcryer
(62,265 posts)The media was bored and didn't have much to rant about so they focused on North Korea. Then we had back to back disasters which no doubt I expect the media wish were timed a bit further apart because now things will go back into a lull and people won't care too much about invoking NK again.
NK is still posturing, but it's all small time nonsense.
You said what I wanted to say, but much better
Brother Buzz
(36,212 posts)jaysunb
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rug
(82,333 posts)And there's that, too.
pinto
(106,886 posts)Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)...and then, when things die down, let's fucking ratchet it up again."
I think they're actually going to launch sometime in the next 72 hours. In fact, from my understanding of the types of rockets they had fueled and ready to go, they may have de-fueled/refueled them just to buy some more time. These type of rockets apparently don't just sit on the launch pad forever, waiting for someone to press a button.
PB
DeadEyeDyck
(1,504 posts)upi402
(16,854 posts)Pays the private jet fuel bill I guess.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)Still incredibly absurdly hyperbolic bullshit, of course, but the "we shall march on a road of bones and then grind the bones into flour to make capitalist bread for our glorious people's army to grow fat on forever" campaign was flagging for awhile.
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)Welcome to the US media and for the most part our Congress