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NK Missile found in Alaska

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  1. rimrocker

    rimrocker Member

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    This is wierd and doesn't make sense... according to a "US Document?'' Strange.
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    http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200303/kt2003030417272311970.htm

    `NK Missile Warhead Found in Alaska¡¯



    By Ryu Jin
    Staff Reporter
    The warhead of a long-range missile test-fired by North Korea was found in the U.S. state of Alaska, a report to the National Assembly revealed yesterday.

    ``According to a U.S. document, the last piece of a missile warhead fired by North Korea was found in Alaska,¡¯¡¯ former Japanese foreign minister Taro Nakayama was quoted as saying in the report. ``Washington, as well as Tokyo, has so far underrated Pyongyang¡¯s missile capabilities.¡¯¡¯

    The report was the culmination of monthlong activities of the Assembly¡¯s overseas delegation to five countries over the North Korean nuclear crisis. The Assembly dispatched groups of lawmakers to the United States, Japan, China, Russia and European Union last month to collect information and opinions on the international issue.

    The team sent to Japan, headed by Rep. Kim Hak-won of the United Liberal Democrats, reported, ``Nakayama said Washington has come to put more emphasis on trilateral cooperation between South Korea, Japan and the United States since it recognized that the three countries are within the range of North Korean missiles.¡¯¡¯

    According to the group dispatched to the U.S., American politicians had a wide range of opinions over the resolution of the nuclear issue, from ``a peaceful resolution¡¯¡¯ to ``military response.¡¯¡¯

    Doves, such as Rep. Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat and co-chairman of the Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation, called for a peaceful settlement of the current confrontation, by offering food, energy and other humanitarian aid to the poverty-stricken country, while urging the North to give up its nuclear ambitions.

    Rep. Markey also said the North should return to the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the U.S. should make a nonaggression pact with the communist North.

    Hardliners, however, warned that the North¡¯s possession of nuclear weapons will instigate a nuclear race in the region, provoking Japan to also acquire nuclear weapons. Rep. Mark Steven Kirk, an Illinois Republican, said the U.S. might have to bomb the Yongbyon nuclear complex should the North try to export its nuclear material to other countries.

    Over the controversy concerning the withdrawal of U.S. forces stationed here, most American legislators that the parliamentary delegation met said U.S. troops should stay on the peninsula as long as the Korean people want, the report said.
     
    #1 rimrocker, Mar 4, 2003
  2. Pole

    Pole Lies, damn lies, stats, and peer reviewed studies
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    The Aleutian Islands drop WAY down towards the Southwest. When people have been talking about Korean missles hitting the US West Coast, I've been wondering if this is what they reall mean. I'm not sure on distances, but I'd bet a missle would have to travel more than twice as far from Korea to hit California as it would have to travel to hit one of the Westernmost Aleutian Islands.
     
    #2 Pole, Mar 4, 2003
  3. Mulder

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    It's around 6000 miles from Seoul to Los Angeles via Airplane so it can't be much farther from Pyongyang to L.A via missle.
     
    #3 Mulder, Mar 4, 2003
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    Are those gutless Alaskans going to take this, or fight back like men?
     
    #4 johnheath, Mar 4, 2003
  5. Deckard

    Deckard Blade Runner
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    Did you ever see the flick, "The Mouse that Roared"? :D

    Seriously, is this report a joke? :confused:
     
    #5 Deckard, Mar 4, 2003
  6. A-Train

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    I don't think that many people would care if Alaska got blown up...
     
    #6 A-Train, Mar 4, 2003
  7. Wakko67

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    I WOULD!!

    Wait.....wait....You said Alaska. I thought you said Nebraska.

    Eh either way. I guess you're right


    BTW It's funnier if you imagine Chief Wiggum's voice.
     
    #7 Wakko67, Mar 4, 2003
  8. Supermac34

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    I'm not so sure there is a doomsday device...besides, it wouldn't work anyways. :)
     
    #8 Supermac34, Mar 4, 2003
  9. PhiSlammaJamma

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    I believe that Alaska was occupied in WWII, but nobody ever talks about it.
     
    #9 PhiSlammaJamma, Mar 4, 2003
  10. glynch

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    Did you ever see the flick, "The Mouse that Roared"?

    Great Peter Seller's flick.

    In the movie some little piddly ass country declares war on the US so it can be conquered and the US will occupy it and redevelop it.

    It's been many years, but I believe that is the flick you're referring to.
     
    #10 glynch, Mar 4, 2003
  11. A-Train

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    That's because the people that occupied it were the only ones there!
     
    #11 A-Train, Mar 4, 2003
  12. PhiSlammaJamma

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    Glynch. That is funny. Probably could work if they played their cards right.
     
    #12 PhiSlammaJamma, Mar 4, 2003
  13. Deckard

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    Yes, it is. Sellers played several roles. Really hilarious satire.
    I had this mental image of a bunch of Alaskans grabbing a fishing boat and going off the "attack" North Korea. It would probably be more likely if it was Texas! :D
     
    #13 Deckard, Mar 4, 2003
  14. Molotov Cocktail

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    A. This is strange, none of this was reported in the news up here.

    B. johnheath, I guaran-damn-tee you that if NK messed with Alaska, they would get b****-slapped back down, based on our heavy military ties and the fact that most residents have their own private stockpiles of dynamite and other major explosives, not to mention assault rifles. God I love living in this state! :D
     
    #14 Molotov Cocktail, Mar 5, 2003
  15. Molotov Cocktail

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    Well, considering the economic ties that H-town has with Alaska, it would probably hit the Lone Star State harder than you might think.

    Plus, I sure as hell would care!
     
    #15 Molotov Cocktail, Mar 5, 2003
  16. Molotov Cocktail

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    Dutch Harbor/Unalaska was bombed by the Japanese, and Attu and Kiska Islands were occupied. The US military kicked them back out in June of 1944.
     
    #16 Molotov Cocktail, Mar 5, 2003
  17. Molotov Cocktail

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    To be honest, based on independent citizens and civilian firepower alone, Alaska and Texas are the two states that you would NOT want to mess with.
     
    #17 Molotov Cocktail, Mar 5, 2003
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    Lastly, on a slighly different note, a couple weeks ago a group of anti-Iraq war were protesting at a red-light here in Fairbanks. I didn't think nothing of it, drove on to the next light, and saw a group of pro-war protesters. It cracked me up.
     
    #18 Molotov Cocktail, Mar 5, 2003
  19. rocks_fan

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    Regarding Pole's distance question, it's especially telling when you consider that they may have fired it on a polar course, seeing as how many transpacific flights fly north over Alaska rather than an equatorial route. the Earth's not quite spherical shape and curvature makes that route actually shorter than going equatorial. So going N. Korea to California by way of Alaska may acutally be shorter than N. Korea-California by way of Hawaii. I'm not sure (I read it in a book somewhere, probably a Tom Clancy novel) if the geometry works out, someone with some actual math skills can refute or affirm. If my assertion is true and the pieces were as far as the missles could go, it's still substantially short of the West Coast. Hawaiians might want to start packing up if things go bad, however.
     
    #19 rocks_fan, Mar 5, 2003
  20. DaDakota

    DaDakota Arrest all Pedophiles
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    The Mouse that Roared is also a play, I was Count Mountjoy in the high school production of it.

    Very funny play, and movie...

    DD
     
    #20 DaDakota, Mar 5, 2003
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