North Korea apparently suffers missile launch failure on founder’s birthday
Source: Japan Times
A senior U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the official wasnt authorized to speak publicly, said the U.S. Strategic Command systems have detected and tracked what officials assessed as a failed North Korean missile launch.
We strongly condemn North Koreas missile test in violation of U.N. Security Council Resolutions, which explicitly prohibit North Koreas use of ballistic missile technology, the official said. The North American Aerospace Defense Command said the missile launched from North Korea did not pose a threat to North America. The Souths Defense Ministry said it wasnt immediately known whether the missile fired Friday morning was a short-range or midrange missile. <snip>
Friday is the birthday anniversary of the late Kim Il Sung, the current leaders grandfather and the nations founder. North Korea has occasionally used such celebrations to stage nuclear or missile tests that outsiders consider provocations.
Read more: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/15/asia-pacific/north-korea-suffers-missile-launch-failure-founders-birthday-seoul/#.VxDHmXChQgI
Now that's embarrassing...
Orrex
(63,224 posts)Don't feel bad, Kim Jong-Un!
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)iandhr
(6,852 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)When it comes to little Kimmy, the Chad Vader version might be more apropos (good series, by the way)
Divernan
(15,480 posts)and three generations of relatives of those executed will be put into the mass slave labor camps in North Korea, where they will be systematically starved and worked to death. People are executed for uttering a single criticism of any of the Kims. This level of failure and international humiliation will require multiple people be held responsible for embarrassing Kim Jong Un. That country is an unbelievable nightmare. North Korea was a topic last year for a book review/study group to which I belong - and it was beyond chilling and horrifying - truly a descent into madness there.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)gordianot
(15,245 posts)North Korea is allowed by its only ally China to exist in a state of perpetual threat. Granted this is mostly bluster but the day is coming when the technology works and that excuse does not work. When it is too late expect big regrets by those who let this happen for political advantage.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Nitram
(22,877 posts)cynzke
(1,254 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)I have no doubt that the nut will execute a couple engineers to make his point.
dembotoz
(16,832 posts)just reroute a plane full of H1B visas who think they are going to work at disney and instead work for kim joke uuuuck
fine print in the contract
sofa king
(10,857 posts)For fifty years now there has been a rumor that the United States built a fatal flaw into its ICBM guidance system chips, then let the Soviets steal it.
Since the Soviets didn't fully understand how the system worked, but needed a guidance system right away, they copied the deadly flaw and put it in their own ICBMs, which gave the US the option to terminate any Soviet launch we didn't like.
North Korea's program is a similar one, based upon theft of intellectual property and reverse engineering, only now one is dealing with billions of traces on a chip instead of thousands, all the easier to hide a fatal flaw.
The rumor has made it into numerous thriller books (a recent example is Breakpoint, by Jon Harris), which suggests there may be a grain of truth to it.
JesterCS
(1,827 posts)Love Ahkmed the Dead Terrorist ( easy guys, it's Jeff Dunhams character )
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)Nasty place to live